Quack the Solo - Headphone Mix

WARNING: This sounds awful through speakers - - this is why its bad to mix with headphones - but it was late.

Well, after two weeks of bending and warping the strings are now soft enough to play. Lets see what this strat can do. Howbout a Solo?

This is, like the others, all one take. No synths were used. This is one guitar and one man. What you hear is what I heard when playing it. The ending is by far my proudest moment yet in any of the songs (If you can hear it - its pretty buried) I have made. Its whats happening in the background thats important, with the base line. No tricks were used.

This is a headphone mix. It really looses a lot of the subtleties on speakers unless. Play as loud as you can stand it in the headphones. I am still working on the eq to try to bring some of those subtleties more forward if I can, and move the quacks back.

The song is part 4 in the Sinbad saga... its called "The Wave"... this is just a really bad experimental improv, but I think its cool.

SISW-The Wave

Shad, I’m not a big into quack, although I’ve been accused of being quackers. I’d have to say, this tune really quacks.

Ducky - you nailed it. Hammer ons and pulls. The synthy sustain was a combination of effects within Free Amp. Yes, directly into the box. The ll amp will not likely see the guitar again. And you are right, I went splashing with the ducks.

Tom - Thanks, it quacked me up doing it.

Larry - Yeah, I was having fun seeing what a single guitar can do. When I learn more about balancing the sounds out it should get progressively better. Its too bad the stuff that was really interesting was so deeply buried. I find the harmonics this thing can make to be remarkable.

The song bites, I know, and the timing is pretty bad (I was not really planning on recording anything for "public consumption" but this turned out better than I thought). I am going to redo this today - tone down the hammers and try a few other things. I will use a metronome (or perhaps lay down a drum track) and get the timing a lot better.

At least my fingers are not hurting as much. This song was remarkably tiring to play... my muscles are not used to these movements at all...

Thanks for humoring me guys.

Dang, Shad, can't get it play beyond 0:27..sounded nice up till then though..

Shad,
Very cool auto-wah type sound there. Very clean sound, I like that a lot. That makes for a nice interlude/solo type thing. Keep up the good work!

Got it Shad..nice job! Phaser, compressor, touch of chorus?

ORIGINAL: foxwolfen

WARNING: This sounds awful through speakers - - this is why its bad to mix with headphones - but it was late.

Never mind the Quacks it was the sampled Herring Gulls that threw me, I thought I'd left the front door open and actually went to check muttering "them pesky birds never sleep" only to find that all was silent when I took my cans off and the door was firmly shut.

Oh no, does this mean that the voices in my head are real too...

I'm sure I heard seagulls before...