Greensleeves

Christmas song #3

Greensleeves 

http://www.soundclick.com...84&songID=11227453


 enjoy it.

Oh man...the Herb monster kicking up some gain?! Absolutely loved this brother! Really nice job here bro. Subjective comment or two if I may? Drums sound a little high endy to you by chance? Cyms and snare seem a little bright to me on this end. Another thing I'm hearing is like a HAAS effect or something on the drums making them so big it's kinda stopping your pans from coming through...like you know that "full left/right" thing going on? I hear all the drums coming from both sides simultaneously...like a stereo effect. If that's what you wanted...that's cool...it just seems like...hmmm how can I explain it...let me try to draw it up. Here's what your soundstage sounds like to me.

Left((((((((((((((((((DRUMS)))))))))))))))))))<<<MUSIC>>>((((((((((((((((DRUMS)))))))))))))))))Right

Like your drums are taking up the entire stereo field outside of your music....music in the middle. Make sense at all and can you hear it? Of course there are no rules....but normally (unless again, this was by choice) it's the other way around. We have our drums pretty much in the middle of the field with pans etc, and our music bed surrounds them. The way you have it now, in my opinion, due to the stereo spread, it makes the drums have less of an impact and sort of makes the kit sound a bit separated or disconnected from the mix to me. It's not a bad thing, honest...everything is completely audible...it just sounds a bit strange to me with the kit spread out like that.

Guitars....incredible tone brother. I've not heard too many gainy type tones from you...but whatever you used on this...that's a definite keeper. Great playing too...nice warm tone, melodic phrasing, great harmonies...I really enjoyed seeing you go for a more rocked up vibe. You do all the other stuff killer too which I always look forward to in your tunes, but this was a nice change being a bit more rocked up. The bass guitar sat in there really well...nice bottom holding everything together. Really good job on this Herb, thanks for sharing brother. Hopefully my comments don't upset you...the mix is fine really, just some little things that I noticed on this end that I felt you might want to know. :)

-Danny

Yeah, the guitar, keys, and bass are superb. Gotta admit, the hi-hat and snare are top-endy to the point of distraction.
Reign those in, and you have a killer track here.

Scotty:  my signal chain is the same as always..... SG into the POD.  i just used the rectum-fryer setting to play through.  The last lick was a tribute to you... I have three guitars in harmony. 

Danny: drums seem to be my Achilles heel.... I'm glad you liked the gain cranked up.  I appreciate the comments. 

BOTR :  

Robert: Glad you like it

BIABD: that's good ....right?

Very nice Herb. This is a good song to rock out on.

I'm not even gonna ask about the 'rectum fryer' setting. I'm just going to assume it's a POD thing. :)

Hi Herb,

Very cool version of this tune.  Your guitar tone/playing are excellent, as always.

Mix sounds fine on my cheap laptop.

Nice take on this tune Herb. 

Got to agree about the drums. 

What are you using.  If you where using Superior drummer it sounds to me like the individual kit parts have been panned one way but the overheads are paned in the opposite way and bleed is active.  This could of course be total furry ear syndrome.

Herb, Nice work, cymbals are a little shrill but otherwise really good. I am always a sucker for harmonized guitar solos, yours are no exception. You sound like Walsh and Felder. Regards

The drums in this IIRC are generated by Real Band.  I didn't do anything different to them to give them more stereo separation or anything..... 

I went looking for the original Sonar file on this tune to dig in a bit..... but in the time I had.... I could not find it. I know it's there, it's probably got a different name than Greensleeves....  

Wookie, Terry, Mark & guitarpima..... thanks for listening.... 

Edit: I think one of my projects for the new year, or maybe this years end is to re-organize my files into a better system and place them all in the storage and back up drives like they're supposed to be.....I got lazy this year and they are scattered all over the place. 

I did this as a heavy piece on my Christmas CD... buy you "out-heavied" me.  Nicely done.  This is such a great rock-type tune anyway.  Very cool.

I might roll-off the high end on the 2:18.  Do you have the volume knob on your guitar rolled back a tad?  That often helps with high gain.

Daryl

Mike.... I love the POD...maybe cause I'm lazy.

Daryl.. probably wide open..... I'll check on future tunes

Reece..... thanks..... when are you gonna do some new music..... I was thinking about that today..... It's been a while....

Thanks for the tribute, Herb!

Beagle.... can't wait to hear them

Scotty.... don't get a big head now.... it's the last closing licks...


Rimshot... thanks

Ihanson... thanks.... I think for next year.... I am going to attempt something along the lines of a TSO Christmas tune..... big gnarley synths.... guitars with flames coming out the speakers, huge drums..... 

or... maybe I do some more acoustic stuff.... it's easier.