Cold Wind

Ok here is another song from a different member of the Tulsa Guitar Society. This guys name is Pete Astor. This is a song we recorded called Cold Wind. This CD should be available soon but I wanted to share some Contemporary Acoustic guitar music with you. This is also more along the lines of what I do. This is pete's second CD.

Pete is playing everything on this track. He is a gifted performer and it was great recording him. We had a good time doing these songs.

http://soundcloud.com/marcus-curtis/cold-wind

Very talented guitarists and very nicely recorded.  

This is a beautiful tune and recording.  I felt that he was in the room with me.  You guys are having too much fun in Tulsa.

Harmony! At ease. Peace

daryl1968 Thank you sir

Old55 Thanks for the kind words

tbosco Kottke is one influence there are some others too. Thanks for listening.

Lynn I don't know if you can have too much fun but we are really having a blast.

Eko I am using an AKG c1000 s The reverb is the sonitus reverb. I am using a phase cancellation trick with the buses and the reverb. Kind of a strange process for just two guitar tracks. I tried a whole new approach recording this and it seemed to work well.

Maxbackstrom yes peaceful.... we will try to raise the roof with the next two songs..lol

Mike_Mccue yes less is more with this one. too much could ruin it.

tbosco


cool!  another c1000s fan!

Those are great mics. It is my go to mic for acoustic guitar.

I like the guitar sound, very spacious but also intimate.

Lovely performance and recording... very impressive... Great work Marcus...

GuitarHacker Thank You I Hope you have a great Saturday!

Malcolm Thank you for taking the time to listen

Mike Thank for the comment that is what I was shooting for

notnat Thanks bud, I appreciate your comments

The Band19

Well for starter we used my guitar not his. He has an Ovation. It is ok, but it does not sound as good as my guitar. The tone and quality of the instrument make a huge difference. Which is one reason I replace the strings often when recording.

This was just two guitar parts. I recorded them in stereo but used two seperate mono tracks for each part. This is what I did to record each guitar part. I used an AKG c 1000s condenser mic. I plugged that into an Art Tube Studio V3 preamp. That went into my vs-100. Then I plugged into the acoustic electronics that are built into the guitar. I ran that through an Art Tube MP studio preamp.

The guitar that was used is a Takamine it has cool tube electronics that sound incredible. It is not like other acoustic electronics. It requires 4 double a batteries and it runs the signal through a tube. 

So now I recorded 2 separate mono tracks for each guitar part. One with a mic and one using the acoustic electronics. This gave me 4 tracks total for both guitar parts.

When it came time to mix I used a solo button then applied EQ for each track using the analyser and my ears. Then on the first guitar part I panned the mic track full right and the guitar electronics part full left. On the second guitar part I panned The Mic track full left and the acoustic electronic track full right. Then everything was routed through a master bus.

I then grouped the faders for the acoustic electronics part and lowered the volume a little.

Now it was time to apply some reverb so I used a phase cancellation trick with the buses. This how I did it. I created two buses. I named them reverb 1 and reverb 2 I put the Sonitus reverb in the first bus and used the Aux acoustic guitar preset. I changed the output to stereo and set the decay time to 1.5. I turned the volume fader for dry all the way down even though the dry mute button was on.

I control clicked and dragged the reverb in the other bus and double checked the settings to make sure they were all the same as the first reverb bus. I went back to each acoustic guitar track and routed one send through reverb 1 and another send through reverb 2. both reverb buses were routed to the master. So each acoutic guitar track was using both sends. Now everything was set up and now it's time for phase cancellation.

I put the Cakewalk channel tools plug on one of the reverb buses. ( it does not mater which one you use) I turned off the input mode and the delay mode. I turned on swap, L, and R

This canceled the reverb effect all together so I could no longer hear it. The I went into one of the reverbs (it does not mater which one) and turned the delay time up to 2.0 I grouped both reverb bus faders and lowered the volume.

What happens here is the initial part of the reverb cancels out and all you hear is the tail end of the reverb. This is a great way to add incredible reverb sounds to vocals and solo instruments. I have tried this trick with delays and modulation effects as well.

I use Ozone 5 on the master bus and then export. I know it is a long process for just two guitar tracks but I am getting great results. Wait until you hear the title track of Pete"s new CD. 

Sounds great, it's always a pleasure listen to people who can play an instrument like that. Thanks for your detailed description of the reverb trick - I read about something like this before and wanted to try it out, but forgot to bookmark it.

eko my friend would love to hear some of your tunes. I will keep watch for when you post one.

Paulo. I think this reverb trick sounds the best on vocals. It is just incredible when you hear what it does to a vocal track. Thanks for listening to the song

Chasmcg. Thank you for listening. After hearing your tune today I am already wanting more!

Really nice stuff Marcus.

Eric Thanks for listening and commenting

Tim thank you sir

Daryl C I love the hunt for a new instrument. I am up to 13 string instruments $3,000.00 should be plenty for a really nice guitar. Thanks for commenting

Very beautiful playing and mix.  Reading your description of how you mixed it shows how very far I have to go in that department.  :)

Beautiful...and much nicer than the thoughts I have about cold winds.  :)