HEY YOU - Pink Floyd cover

  EDIT - Updated to version with vocals. Used a mix of MIDI and live playing, tried to do the original sound justice as best I could.

Thanks for listening,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOv9jBZVhc


For those who prefer, here is a higher quality 320k VBR Mp3.  Right Click > Save As:

http://www.streetboardzamericas.com/HEY-YOU.mp3

Much appreciated and valid observations which may be (time permitting) addressed as the vocals are added. It would require some recording since the intro guitars are all MIDI. I'm currently enjoying some of your tutorial videos and learning a thing or two more. :-)

nice job so far. 

Nice sound up to it needs the vocals.  The picked guitar is too good, to on the beat, needs some more feel.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks guys. I'm obviously no Mason, Gilmour, Waters and Wright nor do I have their gear to play with, but I did try to recreate the notes and the tempo as closely as I could while adding a few elements to make the mix a bit more modern.

Of course it isn't going to match exactly, like the acoustic strumming might be a little tighter on mine but that's something I went after through multiple takes as it's more my style to keep everything as tight as I can. This song is also very intricate and was a great one to work through as I learned new things about songwriting, which is really my focus these days above and beyond getting the technical points of the mix spot on.

Hi Pat, no problem. Hi Lynn, I copied this over from my older thread of the instrumental version and edited it appropriately:

The majority came from an old EWQL sample compilation called Colossus. Samples used from that include Acoustic God along with a couple of Washburn acoustic samples, Fretless bass and Silvertone bass samples, suitcase Rhodes and sub sonic bass mod. There is a Hammond Organ patch from B4. There were some patches from Spectrasonics Omnisphere that I can't recall (sorry) for some of the "worms ate into his brain" ambiance, and also probably 8 tracks of AniMoog iPad in the same place. I can't recall which of those were used either as I was just going through the patches and only stopped to record when I found one applicable. There are also some SFX in there of my own design made with various items like salt granules and paper through a distortion pedal and pouring salt (trying to enhance the radio static sound in the worms epilogue.)

Drums were addictive drums, I can't say what each drum was offhand, but it was not a preset kit. Ran those through a doubler effect to widen the sound stage.

The live acoustic guitar is a Takamine G Series recorded through a Shure SM57. Electric guitars are a 87' Jackson strat body and an Ibanez Mike Mushok Baritone guitar, both played through a MESA Rectifier Recording Preamp then run through Redwirez convolution impulse files (and a great little app called "iFace" which makes using those impulses a whole lot easier.) Preamp/audio interface is a MOTU 828MKII. I think that about covers everything that was used.. in addition to a ton of effects and stomps.

Thanks Sean.  My library of sounds is very limited. I like hearing where people come up with things.  Appreciate the effort in sharing it.  And look forward to the vocal version:-)

Man I love Floyd-Nice Job

Was all of the MIDI, Im kinda stuck on the Bass?

Cant wait to hear it finished, but I can do with out as well. When its Floyd Im good either way

Pulse never leaves the DVD Player

Here is a breakdown of what was programmed with MIDI instruments and what wasn't:

Main acoustic guitar line (opening riff and throughout) = MIDI
All Bass = MIDI
Keyboards and synth throughout = MIDI
Acoustic guitars strummed throughout = MIDI and live recording mixed
Acoustic guitars during ""it was all just fantasy" section = live recording
Electric guitars throughout = live recording
Sound effects = MIDI and live recording mixed
Drums = MIDI
Orchestral bits & Piano = MIDI