"Work It Out"

That was killer as usual, and always a great big sound. Nice!! Also listened to Interstate Sun 2, just blown away as always. Great work as I always hear in your guitar playing. Got to love it for sure.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

As usual, brilliant work.  I think you have enough material for a greatest hits album.

That is some sick playing.  Sounds like you are really having some fun.  Great vibe!

pttaxavy
thanks for listening, pedro...
 
wide mix.... just really simple mix, really......
one close mic on the guitars (shure sm57), one rhythm part, played twice, hard panned left and right..
mono bass up the center..
snare and bass panned up center...
one solo guitar up the center, with a stereo delay on it in the mixdown....
overheads panned hard left and right on the drums....
tamborine and shakers panned left and right, about halfway out each.
for the lead vox, i sang it twice, just like i did with the rhythm guitars, and then did two part harmony on top of that, with the backups panned a bit left and right, and the two lead vox tracks straight up, one lower than the other.
the one keyboard line, and that's it. i think it was a casio keyboard straight into the recording deck.

so, with guitars, it's very straight forward.....
there are only two tracks of guitar, then the solo....

but to play the rhythm tracks tight enough, so that they blend together, that was key.
i close miced, but i had the guitar cab on a padded chair off the ground, which let the cabinet have it's own voice, instead of picking up the room floor sound so much....
i ran that signal into a tube preamp, with vu hitting 0db, so not very hot.....
a little compression on the way into the Deck, and almost no eq.
in other words, a very simple and honest capture.
 
guitar rig was really loud. 60 watt mesa boogie mark 2b head into a closed back roland cab with a celestion greenback, the amp was pushed with a Boss DS-1 pedal on the solos.
really loud.
LOL

Batsbrew
 

Thanks for sharing the great and simple recipe on your mix.... and you´re totally right about keeping it simple!!!  These days we tend to have every plugin possible in our daw´s, but a lot of times i find myself spending to much time on those plugins on the mixing phase witch can be counter productive. Thanks for making me reach this epiphany!!! From now on i´ll try to dedicate 80% of the time in getting a great guitar tone before recording and the other 20% for simple mixing decisions like panning, compression, and eq. , Because in reality theses can go a long way!!
 
Thanks,
 
Pedro,

That was good... I liked the breakdown of the mix too.... not being a rock writer, I wonder about such things...

Solid mix, excellent songwriting, great performances all-around.  Being a bassist, I really liked the bass playing and tone - punchy!

Terrific number with a huge sound.  Great job on all aspects --- writing, playing, production, and wonderful vocals.
Nice one!!!

Nuno came up in this thread.... i tough i´d share...   i´m from the place where nuno was born...  any guesses??  
 

nuno = portugal?

Batsbrew right on the money!!!
 
To be more specific on the Azores, Terceira island....
 
Pedro,

last bump before i yank this one....

Amazing stuff Bats, chock full of riffy goodness! Guitars always get the comments, but props on the bass tone too, that cuts right through.

 Never heard this one before Bat but I loved listening to it.

3dmus
thanks for listening and commenting....
glad you like this one so much!
 

starise
thanks starise, i'm glad you got to hear this one, it's one of my favorites.
and, it's only two minutes long!!
heheh
or about......