The Open Road

A bit of summer fun:

The Open Road

I recently got the Ra sample set and thought I'd take it out for a test ride... on the open road.

The basses, guitars and sax are real, percussion is Stylus and the rest is Ra.

Ed - you play sax?? If I knew that I didn't remember... it's really good.. Is that an electric fretless or an upright bass? It sounds great! Really nice mix...

Btw what is Ra??

Dave

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Great tune, and the mix sounded smooth on my monitors.

ed - good to hear from you again! the guitars on the right seem just a mite hot (the lead early on and the acoustic). bass playing is sublime as usual. overall the balance is great and the song moves right along. you definitely have multiple gifts for musicianship, engineering and production.

Really liking the chord progressions and transitions in this Ed. Nice unexpected turns and changes with a gentle leading, nicely crafted. Instruments all sound great to me, nice interplay and turn-taking, sort of brings to mind a school of dolphins or something where different critters jump and take the lead for a while .. Bass is stellar in this, really liking that volume swell guitar too, nice touch. I could probably go on for a while .. great stuff Ed, well done.

Mark - Thanks!

Dave - Yeah, I bring out the sax every once in a while. The main bass line is the upright, there's a fretless bass that comes in at 1:28 for a little while. Ra is a sample set from East West / Soundsonline - It was on sale a while back.

Tom - Thanks, yep, it starts and ends with the bass for me.

Doug - Thanks, good to know the mix translates well.

Jeff - Thanks, there's even a Chinese Erhu in there for the Beijing crowd.

Jack - Yep, I'm hear the guitar a little hot now. I've been focusing on getting a clear and open sound; have to know what parts to leave out.

Robby - Yeah, I like to jam. Thanks

Bill - I do like to come up with odd chord changes and then try to come up with a line that flows over / connects them. Great images, thanks!

Larry - I was mixing an Indian Dholak beat with a bossa nova; kind of like how that turned out, it did allow for some angular playing.

Top drawer stuff this Ed, just lovely. So relaxed and cool...bass is impeccable as usual, but there are some lovely lead guitar lines too. And sax...phew!

Bass lines on this remind me of John Giblin, another great fretless player.

Hi Ed,
very nice
sounds wide open , like a road that leads some place I want to go to
real interesting arrangement...... nice instrumentation
well recorded, well played, excellent mix

Kenny

Great job laddy!!...start to finish....wonderful!

Nice fun summer road trip song for sure.

Well done.

Cheers
Shad

Clean crisp tracks, sound so good. Sounds very professional and well put together.

Ed, it sounds wonderful. Very creative use of so many different instruments. I like how you let the cymbol ring on the end. Very nice work.

Nice to hear another ed song - it's been a while! nice job all around, nicely balanced mix, nice guitar sounds. really love the sax on this - it shines!

great job!

Real nice Ed.

I'm liking the ambience on this - a hint of Breverb maybe.

Also, from a technical engineering point, the high frequencies sound well-developed. I'm liking the nice open, airy feeling to this.

Jeff

Ed - This is so excellent, great feel and mix. This totally reminds me of something like Viktor Krauss' "Playground" from his Far from Enough CD. All to say that it's an excellent song. I love the feel of this song, great 'space' as I like to say. Great playing.