A little guitar instrumental

Wow, really nice!!! If anyone else posted this, I would have found it very soothing and relaxing. However, since this is one of yours I find myself bracing for the 200bpm jackhammer to hit me upside my head. Oh wait, here it comes! Even when it picked up it was still rather subdued by your standards.

This really shows your versatility! I loved the lead tone and phrasing and of course the manic arrangement.

Pretty, I love the Rhodes. Not what I expected :-) 

It gets cooking pretty good there in a few places after 2:06 :-) I don't know how you guys can do that.

whew....round the 3:00 mark she just kicks....wow

love it...King of the theatrics round here you are matie....

great..and I mean GREAT job!!

A++

Hi Mark,

Great tune and outstanding playing. Love the transition into the shredding section.

My favorite parts come towards the end, though...from @3:40 on...great stuff!

 Outstanding skillful playing, really enjoyed.

this is the first time i ever listened to your tunes. i listened to memories, then skipped down to isle of the dead mmx + 1984. really good. fast. old metallica feel on those two.

Cool I like this one you did , had a great sound to it  . Your guitar playing sounded great .

Enjoyed your song .

Radio

I liked this and guitar playing is excellent.

My only crit is I thought the guitar tone could use some tweaking in the beginning.  It's is a metal tone and when your rocking out it fits like a glove but the slower parts I think could be a little "warmer".  As well as in the last 30 seconds there is some harmonic distortion there, I think I would have like to hear a cleaner pure overdriven sustain, more amp driven then effect driven.  Just an observation.

The the playing is just damn fine, and it's a very nice tune.  Some excellent melody in there.   Very emotional piece and I like that.

Daryl

Nice one Mark nice one.

Hints of Jeff and Garry cool.

Thanks for sharing.

WOW!,
Love it.  Beginning, Middle and End.  The shreding part caught me off guard.  Seeing I'm not that familiar with your work I didn't expect the song to go in that direction.  The guitar is without question awesome.  Nothing shabby about the backing instruments either (Bass, Keys, Drums)
 
Nice work!

Whew! I thought you were goin' soft on us there, then you came back in and totally redeemed yourself! :)

I love a good jam like this. Stuff like this says more than words sometimes.

I see you have it tagged as 'satriani'. I bumped in to him in the parking lot of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville years ago. That's all I have to say about that. Maybe he was having a bad day. :)

wow - very many thanks to you all for the extremely kind words! this is kinda weird cos for me, this isn't really that great a song! the timing is out in places, the lead is almost out of tune, the mix was hurried and i could have played around and got some better rhythm tones...but hey, i won't knock it!

Just to answer a couple of queries -

Philip - the guitars (and bass) are all DI'd thru Guitar Rig. The initial phased/chorus'd tone was played thru my Vypyr and i added some fx in GR, but all the rest were just all GR. Nothing too exciting to say, really, they all started as presets close to the sound i wanted and i tweaked 'em a little. No fx other than a little Channel Tools on the stereo tracks for pan, and the lead went thru a buss with Nomad Factory's Studio Channel on it. Only other FX used were the BBE sonic maximiser and Bootsy EQ on the bass and Magnetic on the drums. No verb on this, all the verb comes from GR or the recorded samples. it really was a simple and quick mix, just a little automation on the volume of the lead and drums.

LPMike - interesting point about the fast vibrato - it's not something i've thought about, but yeah, it could be a little slower i guess. will have to practise that!

McCueMike - the cymbal swells are all just eighth/sixteenth notes in the step sequencer with a volume swell (again in the SS) - i programme all the drums for all my tracks using this method, although it takes time i find it really is the easiest way of doing it, especially altering velocity...

Daryl - you have it right, now i can't hardly listen to it! funny enough, the opening part is with the volume control on my guitar turned down to almost nothing - there is NO visible waveform in Sonar! LOL. Played on the neck pup of my Washburn (it has Seymour Duncan, either a 59 or Custom Custom, not sure which bucker is in which position!), but i agree needs a little more woody sound there. and certainly at the end, but i guess i listen to too much Dream Theater, i love the way Petrucci uses those higain leads over acoustic/piano or choirs...

anyhow, thanks again one and all!

PS just so you know, you can download any of my tracks in Soundcloud by clicking on the little down arrow to the right of 'add to set'.

Pretty awesome, Mark.

Let me ask you: when you are recording dry into GR, are you also playing thru an amp?

Nice track and mix, played very well by every one. I thought the bridge came a bit to soon and it took away from the listening sound. Great playing.
 
 
 
 
 
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Cheers, Terry
 
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Cheers for the further comments.
Adji - yeah i need to somehow get a better cleaner but still overdriven tone from GR.

James - i don't split the signal, it's just monitored thru GR4 and Sonar. not sure how, cos even at 128 samples the RTL is around 10ms on my Audiofire...i can get it lower at 64 samples but it's not as stable like that, that puts the RTL down to around 8ms i think (must have a significant safety buffer)

Josh - hey bro it'd be an honour to collab with you. i know there's the thing with Bobby but i'd find it hard to put some riffs forward for that as i tune to C standard; once i get a 7 string it'll be a lot easier. so yeah, you know where to get me!