Hi folks, here's a new Nettlesmith song;
 
https://soundcloud.com/nettlesmith/day-of-the-dead
 
Tim Wilkinson - vocals, acoustic guitar, tambourine
Ed Kocol - bass
Me - the other stuff and mix
 
Day of The Dead - Tim Wilkinson
 
I am the revenant come callin’
At the tail-end of the day
Down the mountainside I’m crawlin’
Robbin’ graves along the way
 
On the day of the dead, on the day of the dead now
 
My heart’s a votive cut from skin
My skull’s a murderer’s grin
Stoned ‘n stripped, beaten n’ whipped
No way to tell if I was breathin’
 
On the day of the dead, on the day of the dead now
 
Trippin’ across the power line
Switchin’ my point of view in time
Choosin’ life instead
On the day of the dead
 
Mother Mary wash away my pain
Dig up my bones and set me free again
 
On the day of the dead, on the day of the dead now
 
Trippin’ across the power line
Switchin’ my point of view in time
Choosin’ life instead
On the day of the dead
 
I am the revenant come callin’
At the tail-end of the day
 
 
 


 
 
 
 

Thanks so much for allowing me in on this project Jyemz.
 
And please thank Tim for me too.

Wow. You really know what yer doin'.
 
Ultra pro.

Feel like sharing some mix/production details?
 

Beepster
Feel like sharing some mix/production details?
 

 
Thanks very much Beeps!
 
OK..vocals were through a Rode NT-1 with a tempo delay added from the Nomad Factory plugs
Acoustic guitar (Dave King Dreadnought) was a mix of a DI track and a Rode NT-1 mic-ed track. Tim strummed with his thumb only to get that soft spooky sound.
Electric guitar was my LP through Digitech RP-55, various patches.
Drums are AD2.
Tim played a real tambourine into the Rode.
2 reverb busses, both Protoverb, one short decay for vocals and acoustic ( a touch on the bass too), another with a long decay for sends from the drums,  trem guitar, harmonics, power chords and the short lead guitar break.
Master bus has just a Sonitus compressor.
Ed sent me two bass tracks, one DI, one amped, I used both but favouring the amped version, a little compression on both (Nomad Factory again)
 

Wow. That's a surprisingly simple set up.
 
Thanks. Gonna have to try some of that (particularly the reverb buss stuff).
 
:-)

bapu
Thanks so much for allowing me in on this project Jyemz.
 
And please thank Tim for me too.

Thank you Ed, bass is splendid.

Beepster
Wow. That's a surprisingly simple set up.
 
Thanks. Gonna have to try some of that (particularly the reverb buss stuff).
 
:-)

 
I don't have a lot of gear, or plug-ins  I always remember Paul Russell talking about using two or more reverb busses with varying rooms and decays to get a depth of sound, been trying that ever since.

Tim's voice is just so damn cool.  He has a Paul Rodgers, classic rock voice.  I kept expecting some sort of break out, the song has latent suspense and it felt like it needed to be resolved.  Anyways, really enjoyed this one.

Because of my roots as an almost exclusively live musician I always thought I hated reverb so it's taken me a long time to a) realize EVERYTHING I had played live up until that point actually WAS dripping in reverb/delay... just the naturally occurring kind and b) start to fully understand the complex role it plays in recorded materials.
 
Therefore I've kept all reverb shenanigans extremely minimal (but slowly adding more and more as I get used to it and how it reacts to certain sounds). At this point I am at the stage where I consistently have "Room" reverb bus with every active track "sent" to it (then I fiddle with the levels on each send by ear) and now started to do some MILD "FX" reverb on specific instruments.
 
I've been working myself up to a 2 reverb scheme like you describe but just haven't crossed that threshold yet.
 
It's amazing how stubborn sonic/tonal prejudices can be. lol
 
This however definitely is pushing me over the edge to start introducing a second verb and/or delay buss... and I guess I better bloody well start reading more again so I ain't just amplifying teh suck as opposed to sprinkling around little nuggets of awesome.
 
Cheers.