A tribute to steive

Nice stuff there Jimmy. This woulda been really smoking with bass & drums. You need to check out Jamstix for drums.... www.rayzoon.com get the free demo & check it out.... add some bass or collab the bass... this is smooth.

Nice tone on the guitars......what kind of mic are you using on the mesa?

HERB Thanks for so many things in this case the kind words and info. I'll check that out. I ran direct. no mike used. I used a mesa
boogie Quad preamp. allthough I have a few fender guitars the guitar
used here is a cheap ol tele copy (or at least started out that way)

It had a neck the size of a football bat. but had large frets. I took a
wood rasp to the neck and cut it down to the thickness of about an inch.
smoothed and beveled the sides and frets.

Put in a mddle pickup and five way switch. Locking tuners seem to
effect the sound too ( more solid?) Strat style headstock means more
mass at the neck also.

Its been a while sense i recorded it (actuasly years) But i think i
used my 3 pickup fender tele for the chords and this one for lead.

I'd say my mesa/boogie aint even been turned on in a year. Herb
I see around this site that you have quite a good reputation.
After checking out your stuff I see why! And when you said you want
to here some of mine i got motivated to start posting.

I've got soanr 8 and should get "with the times" useing something
like jamstix like you say.

Allthoug the methode i use for drums now is very hard and a
lot of work i still prefer it. every little part of the drums is on a
seperate track again a lot of work but easy to edit.

I go so far as sometimes even puting the kick on two tracks and
change the parts that fall on the 1/8th beat. I've done that with
high hat too.

Through the years I've worked on and tweaked my drums samples
to the point where i actually depend on them. Bass? I've been using
my own sampled bass too. But i got my 72 p bass out of the closet
and layed down a bass track for "egavary" sounded very nice. He
aint hearded it yet.

So I might start using it again don't know yet?
Again Herb I thank you so very much for our comunication. maybe
I'll now come out of the closet and show what I'm made of.

Thanks man jimmy

Very pretty and emotional tune. Nice tone on those guitars! The chorus fx sounds just right on this. I like this as is. It carries well on it's own merit. Now, where's my lighter??

Very pretty and emotional tune. Nice tone on those guitars! The chorus fx sounds just right on this. I like this as is. It carries well on it's own merit. Now, where's my lighter??

Ihansen

You know all the right things to say :) I hope you find your lighter.

Thanks jimmy

Hey herb would you send me a pm. I dont know if im receiving
and dont know how to send an mpg file to someone

jimmy

Sounds great! Always loved them hendrixy double stops. nice feeling!!

Rockyrose

You know what double stops sre? wow so cool. feels so good here
someone use that term. You don't hear many double stops these days.

Thanks
jimmy

Wow! What a gorgeous sound right off the bat.....love the rthym guitar...and the solo really is reminiscant of Beck...I really like this just the way it is, don't really miss drums or bass...it has a more intimate feel this way, and all the great rthym guitrar nuances come thru really nice.

Very nice.

I too would like to hear some tasty drums and bass with this. Some well placed and very much in the background strings could add to this as well.

Yes, this is very beautiful and full of emotion and very well played.

The first time someone told me my piano stuff needed bass I was like 'huh?' but I totally agree now. Drums too. This would be beautiful fully produced, but it's very very nice the way it is.

Hey Jimmy! Good to hear you picking up the instruments and making some songs! I like the feel of this tune. The lead tone is fantastic man! It's so clear and hits the right frequencies and everything. How did you mic that and what are your settings? :)

Wow I've had more than one post ask what mike I used?

Its a german made telefunken 3000 dollar tube mike. No just kidding!

Its a mesa boogie preamp ran direct into the interface to
the computor. No amp or mixer or mike just direct.

I set the preamp up so that it had just a touch of ovedrive
actualy it was clean on a soft note as I struck the note harder
it would go into overdrive. then if i just hammered a note it'd
go into a more "singing sound"

Guitar volume was set full on and left there. no compression.
I used a thumb pick which of course is hard and thick so when
I'd hammer a note it would send a strong signal to the preamp.

Pickups might have helped too maybe they distorted. dont know.
but i can say this the pickups are cheap ol single coils. you
know? so cheap they dont even have magnets as pole peices

the kind where the magnet is a bar under the pickup

Thanks for the kind words

jimmy

Very nice! If you don't want bass or drums on this, it works great as it is. But I have to tell you, as a bass player, I found myself really wanting to play along.

John