**UPDATE** Dance The Night Away Featuring Robby on Vox (Van Halen Cover)

Sounds pretty good Mark.
For me, I could use a bit more grit with the patch.

Nice job of capturing the VH vibe.  Having the ability to do this at any hour of the day is invaluable in regard to the Podfarm.  Well done.

Bruce - Thanks for the comment.  I think/hope I will get a more gritty full sound with tweaking the mix here and there.   I think there is enough distortion for Eddie's style but it is lacking the mix placement, and of course, Eddie's playing;)
 
Robby - Thanks for the listen, I actually played this one on my Les Paul;)  No kidding.   Now if I had your pipes I would be in business with a real cover song.
 
Lynn - Thank you for the comment.   Loving the Podfarm so far, it is so verstile with the clean sounds too.    I am working on a Jazz/Rock verison of Stardust so hope to post that pretty soon.
 
Danny - That is a compliment coming from you.  Look forward to hearing your VH posts...   This is probably one of the easier VH songs which is why I picked it.     I usually do like to put my spin on things but I don't really feel like I can improve anything on Eddie's rendition so just copied it pretty much as best I could.  I was a huge VH fan growing up, when VH 1 hit in 1977 I had just picked up my first guitar and started lessons.  Probably listened to all their albums through Fair Warning hundreds of times.  So those songs are engrained in my brain and tough to deviate from.   I get what you are saying though.  This little exercise was more of an experiment to see if I could approximate the sound.  I stumbled across the Whole Lotta Love preset in Podfarm 2.5 and imagined it would sound pretty close to Eddie if I swapped the amp they had, with a Plexi and slightly tweaked the delay.   That is how this project started.  Thanks for the listen and comment.    P.S. Your latest rap project with Philip was amazing.

Mark, The forum SW would not allow me to respond to a PM...

edit, tried again and it appears to have gone through.

Nice playing and the sound is pretty close. You may have it correct but it would take Eddie to make it sound like him.

Very well done!

Though it shouldn't matter, I find that the live recording I get direct from the POD X3 I use always sounds better than POD Farm VST.

But since I am a pretty clumsy guitarist, I usually just record it dry, fix it up nice and use POD Farm!

Sounds great to me!  What are you using for drums?  They sound great to me!

I'm sure Danny or Robby or some other insane singer around here could lay down a sweet vox track for you if you wanted one.  :)  

Guitarpima -Thanks for the comment. 
 
Daryl-Thanks for the listen, I suspect the thin-ness comes from my mix.    Many others are getting great results with the PODfarm stuff. I am going to get some assistance mixing rock guitars.   I have considered the Axe-fx but I am too cheap to part with 2k for a guitar effect;)  One of these days I am going to do an Eagles song.  Really liked your recent original.  That was a cool song.
 
James-thanks for the comment.  I am actually recording wet and dry.  I have channel 1-2 from the UX2 going wet and channel 3-4 going dry and then recording to 2 tracks in Sonar.   That way I have some flexibility if I want to change out the amp or effects later, or, in this case, mix two settings together.   I have a second track in the background of this VH song with a little different EQ and delay.
 
Geno-Thanks.   Bass is Trillian as always;)  I used some of the EQ tips you shared with me on our recent collab.    I also tempo mapped this song so it follows the original pretty darn close.  I have been doing that lately to make it sound more authentic.
 
Janet - Thanks for the comment.  The main drums are Superior Drummer.  The percussion is a combination of EZDrummer Latin Percussion and my Yamaha Motif blended together.  Robby is actually working on vocals.  Your collab with him was really great.  He Ain't Heavy....wow..

Nice job on capturing the vibe and playing was excellent!! Been a while since I heard this tune. Drums sound nice 'n tight.

Robby (bandontherun19) graciously accepted the challenge to sing this Van Halen cover.  All lead and backing vox are compliments of him.  I had previously posted this as a backing track only and have now updated the links with this vocal version.  This project started as an experiment with my new Podfarm 2.5 software and finally morphed to this cover.. 
 
 
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=1014791

:-) Thanks for the opportunity Mark, although you tortured me? I enjoyed it in the end. Kind of like an S&M summer camp? Or that scene from Dirty Harry where the bad guy hires someone to beat him? "Oh you really do want 300 dollars worth, don't you?" Who did this to you, "big guy, homicide detective, Callahan! (aka, "markno999") 

Thanks again, and I'm pretty sure you only fired 5 shots?

 Janet - Thx for the listen.   I think everyone should venture outside their usual style every now and then;)   He did a great job...
 
Robby - Glad you enjoyed the experience;)  I am a huge Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) fan by the way so appreciate the analogy;)   Probably wasn't quite as painful as the beating Scorpio took in Dirty Harry though.
 
Luke - Thanks for the comment.  Appreciate it.

Awesome job, one of my favorite VH covers. Great tone and performance on the guitar, great job on the vocals Robby

with the vocals added ...this rocks.

Robby's vox on this song are IMHO, the best vocal performance I have heard him do. And all the while I thought he was a love song/ballad kinda guy. 

Never heard the original, VH kind of passed me by really, but this sounds pretty darn good to me.