Line In The Sand feat. Spacey, Robby, SteveStrummerUK, Ohgrant, Bapu & Son (Jason)

This would sound a lot better with a album cover that I could stare at while munching popcorn.



I really like the whole up time feel of this. When the harmonica comes in it all just feels like a big bowl of jelly beans. It just feels right.

I like the harmonies a bunch to.


Thanks for sharing.

best regards,
mike

it's ok, but my contribution was better... lol, nice to hear something was rescued from this! would have loved to hear it sans steel guitar, but there ya go. great vox and BV.

Not Bad

Actually its pretty good.



Nice guys, good to here the Spacey on acoustic.

What drum package Ed?

Bapsi- no steel guitar? no faux country stringed-instrument? hmm, will have to relisten on the DAW tomorrow...

Dappa1


Was this done in Sonar X1??? 

I know I recorded my bass part in X1. Srummy used X1 too. Not sure about Robby. Michael stated below he used X1. Grant is probably a yes too. My son Jason did his parts into my X1c.


All the mixing and mastering was done in X1c. 

Bottom line is it's 99.44/100ths percent X1c to be sure.

Really a great job here on the song writing, the mix, and the performances... Really good IMNSHO. Thanks for everything Ed, Spacey and Phil.

Awesome job, it's amazing how people so far apart can put a song together so well, like they were in the same room.  Great song all around.

That's the "thing?" About music?

It finds it's level... It's like water? You can try to keep it out? Just try? Water will find its level... It will find it? It will not be kept out? 

And as such? 

One can write a song? And it may seem nothing, or not much? But under the right circumstances? Water will find its level... Try to stop it? Good luck. 

bapu

Dappa1


Was this done in Sonar X1??? 

I know I recorded my bass part in X1. Srummy used X1 too. Not sure about Robby. Michael stated below he used X1. Grant is probably a yes too. My son Jason did his parts into my X1c.


All the mixing and mastering was done in X1c. 

Bottom line is it's 99.44/100ths percent X1c to be sure.
 
 

I take it that no plug ins were used...you just used it as a recording and mastering agent????

bapu

Dappa1

bapu

Dappa1


Was this done in Sonar X1??? 

I know I recorded my bass part in X1. Srummy used X1 too. Not sure about Robby. Michael stated below he used X1. Grant is probably a yes too. My son Jason did his parts into my X1c.


All the mixing and mastering was done in X1c. 

Bottom line is it's 99.44/100ths percent X1c to be sure.

I take it that no plug ins were used...you just used it as a recording and mastering agent????

I have about twelve 32bit bitbridged plugins and about fifteen 64bit plugins in this project. Ranging from Cakewalk, Nomad Factory, UAD, Sonitus, IK Multimedia, Steven Slate FG-X even some Waves plugs. Vsti's were four instances of Kontakt, and three instances of EZDrummer. Nothing was frozen.

jamesyoyo


Nice playing, guys, great job.  This is close to what I imagined in my head when I first heard it, but was unable to produce with the tracks and format (everybody's in!) that was the project's parameters.

I will say this: the song is cool, the instrumentation is cool, but the mix left me wanting a bit: there does not seem to be a main musical element to key in on, and the parts are too distinct to blend together in a nice mélange that would underpin the fine vocals of the notoriously banned Robbie. ;)

Though the mexican flavor of the intro just brought one thing to mind: where are the castanets?!?

James, that is what was different than what I was going to do before you were brought in. ( I am very glad that
you agreed to give it go and hope that if it is tried again that you would produce it).
I was going to use only ONE part submitted for each instrument that I felt was closest to the feel.
 
I feel that is my fault that it failed. I had never tried an "experiment" such as this and really didn't have the details worked out.
I do believe there is a lot going for this type of project. Very interesting and major fun. I hope maybe it can be tried
again in a way that is not so....hard for the producer. ADDITION- Don't read anything into this...I mean exactly what I
said. I was very glad James took on the role...I could not have handled it. Way over my head to produce a project
like it may have been. I thought bringing him onboard for that AND his ideas was a perfect move.
 
But not all was lost....far from it.

Bapu called me and demanded that I listen to this song.

So I listened to it. 

It's a song. I've heard songs before and I know what they sound like so I wasn't really too surprised. 

This one too sounded like a song. 

All songs sound pretty much like a song in my honest opinion. 

I've heard hundreds of thousands of them - plus this one  

Yes Ed was correct when we called me. He did indeed post another song in the song forum. I know. Because I listened to it. It sounded like a song to me. In conclusion, I agree with Ed that it's true about his post of the new song. 

Another nice collab and a sweet song.  Ya'll did excellent.....Especially love the harp, violin and Robby's vocals.  Drums sound waaaaay too compressed.

All in all a fine job.

@Bub - The piano choice was concious. I was not after an "up front" piano. See detailed explanation below.
@LpMike75 - Thanks for stopping by
@bandontherun19 - Thank you for gracing us with your stellar abilities
@Janet - Thanks for listening
@amateur - with the internet, we're really just a click away. Thanks for listening
@james & spacey - you two should get a room and duke it out?
@MetalTek - Thanks for the word of encouragement
@Mooch - maybe
@Bob Oister - radio ready? WOW! That's a compliment for the permanent record book. Thanks.
@No How - Thanks for the listen and the compliments. Can we argree to disagree on the drums?
@vechung - Thanks for the kudo's. I tried that middle section without that crunchy guitar and felt it was too empty.

spacey

jamesyoyo


Nice playing, guys, great job.  This is close to what I imagined in my head when I first heard it, but was unable to produce with the tracks and format (everybody's in!) that was the project's parameters.

I will say this: the song is cool, the instrumentation is cool, but the mix left me wanting a bit: there does not seem to be a main musical element to key in on, and the parts are too distinct to blend together in a nice mélange that would underpin the fine vocals of the notoriously banned Robbie. ;)

Though the mexican flavor of the intro just brought one thing to mind: where are the castanets?!?

James, that is what was different than what I was going to do before you were brought in. ( I am very glad that
you agreed to give it go and hope that if it is tried again that you would produce it).
I was going to use only ONE part submitted for each instrument that I felt was closest to the feel.
 
I feel that is my fault that it failed. I had never tried an "experiment" such as this and really didn't have the details worked out.
I do believe there is a lot going for this type of project. Very interesting and major fun. I hope maybe it can be tried
again in a way that is not so....hard for the producer.
 
But not all was lost....far from it.

I think the next project is to write a song, have a good singer record it, and then just sendout the vocals and see what people come up with.