Daryl and I both love this Proclaimers song which was highlighted in the movie Benny & Joon.




Soundcloud Link ---> (I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles 
Remix updated 2:30PM (PST) September 5, 2012. Raised lead vox and pumped the RMS a tad. 




Production Notes:
Clean Electric (right) - MIDI Sequenced through RealStrat/Amplitube Fender
Distorted Electric (mid-right) - MIDI Sequenced through RealLPC/Amplitube Fender
Bass - MIDI Sequenced through Cakewalk SI-Bass, Fingered Bass Guitar 
Drums - MIDI Sequenced - EZDrummer MetalHeads though Nomad Factory Magnetic II
Organ, Power Chord Guitar, Backing Vocals - Daryl Greenway 
Acoustic Guitar (left, Line 6 JTV-69 '59 Martin), Tamboring, Lead Vocal - Ed "Bapu" Kocol
Sequenced tracks clean up & edit - Daryl & Bapu
Mixed and Produced - Bapu (with Daryl's handy suggestions)

That was a great cover!

Holy hell there's a lot of midi stuff going on there!

If you wouldn't have mentioned it, I would never have guessed any of it was midi ...

The vocals were really good too!

I listened to it on headphones and laptop ... it's a good mix, it sounded good on both. Don't have the Yammy's hooked up at the moment so I couldn't listen on the big guns.

I gib it a fumbs ub!

Oh ... BTW ... what did you use to record this? X1, S1 ... ?

Bub,

Daryl and I both use X1.

I think for he most part if one uses MIDI one should mention it (especially when it's good MIDI).

I considered doing a live bass but since the song it self is basic pop rock and the CW-SI-Bass sounded so good I just left it.

Now if we were going to steer away from the original arrangement we prolly would not have used much MIDI.

bapu

Daryl and I both use X1.

Sweet.

I think for he most part if one uses MIDI one should mention it (especially when it's good MIDI).

I agree. I mention it too, and I also mention if I used anything pre-done off the net. A couple of Christmas songs I posted, I leached the midi drum track out of another tune on the net. Some of that Jazz stuff is very hard to do if you aren't in to Jazz.

I considered doing a live bass but since the song it self is basic pop rock and the CW-SI-Bass sounded so good I just left it.

I really like SI-Bass. I've used the SI-Strings too. I've been layering it with the strings on my Korg X5. It's old, but some of those analog sounds are great. I've been layering the Strings and Piano on it with SI-Strings and Tru-Piano's. 

Now if we were going to steer away from the original arrangement we prolly would not have used much MIDI.

Glad you didn't. This is really good!

Gotta hit the hay. G'night.

Bub.

I like Daryl's voice. 

He did them vocals nice. 

great cover! made me reminisce about when i was just a pup & that video w/ the twins was on mtv in the 80s. 
you captured the spirit of the tune wonderfully. the alternating stereo pans of the 'da-da-da-da' parts are very cool. 

nice job on this :) 

Watched the original duo at the Cambridge Folk festival coverage on the TV here a couple of days ago.

Not a bad cover.

Thanks for sharing

nice work gents! 






but where are the monkeys?

Cool Cover, Guitars sound a little thin-ish compared to the original but it still works. Nice job.

Nice work guys. Don't think I know the original, but this one kiks. Production is quite tight and crips.
Nice vocs. I do think the lead voc could come up a tad.

Ed, does the SI bass give you ANY velocity control? Everytime I've tried it, there is NO velocity (soft to loud) at all.
I'm thinkin maybe it's my controller.

Great work.