"Just know now" New!!!

I've been rearranging many older tunes lately, and wanted to write something new. Last Monday I was playing with my home-made guitar amp while I was baby-sitting. Came up with this little tune.
 
I got to use my crappy '70s chord organ finally. I also used the custom tube amp I built on the slide guitar solo's. It transfers to recording well me thinks! Anyway, my ears are no longer subjective....a little listen and comments would help me cap it off.
 
"Just know now"
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Thanks,
Ron

Love this song - especially when the electric guitar comes in.

Really nice chords throughout and great vocals.

Lovely 'feelgood' factor listening to this, takes me back a long time.

Fantastic, this could be on any 'easy-listening' album you could buy.

I really like the electric guitars in the mix.  They sound great.  The chord organ sounds cool in the song.  That is a nice touch.

Thanks for sharing,
Tom

Ron this is excellent!  I love the accoustic framework of this number, and the organ is beautiful.  Your vocals came off great IMO, and the mix sounded very well done to me.  I love the balance and the way the guitars blend in and out with the vox.  This is a great listen, one I'd love to see hit the airwaves!    Awesome job!  

Hey, Ron, I really like this tune.   Interesting instruments.  Love the slide!!

Great Tune...glad i read you have a cold ....my little gripe was there`s alot of "SSS sibilance that I`ve never heard in your vox previously...Still it sounds Great!!!!

Really well mixed and each instrument compliments each other well, great guitar playing and nice lead guitar. Cheers

Yeah, I answered back. I think it's due to the manufaturing techniques back then, and it being in one place all the time. I've seen many a cone from '65 through '75 that were just completely shot, but mid '50s cones just perfect. I already sold that amp, but I have 4 more tube amps sitting here ready to be turned in to guitar amps!

I was up pretty late cleaning all the junk from the mix, and tightened up the vocals a lot. I'm going to try and post it later when it's done depending on how much I can actually work on it.

Wow Ron ..... I thoroughly enjoying listening to this one. No vocals ? ... Oh, there they are .... Nice Nice little change up. very nice slide guitar. I like the harmonics ( or are they ? - Mandolin??? Cool) Very nice sound quality ... I'll attribute that to your choice in amplification.

-TAP-

Nicely done sir. Home built amp you say?
It has good bite and grit for that slide part.

Well, I think it's polished decent. I got rid of the clicks from the compressor on the vox. What took me the most time was de-noisying the mix. Had a lot of trimming to do, and used a volume envelope on the bass like a gate to remove an nasy buzzing from electrical interference...and yes, it was super-time consuming!

I think the new mix sounds a lot smoother. It was a lot of effort for such a subtle difference, but I'm glad I did it.

I really liked the beginning. I wasn't sure where you were going once the electrics came in, but it works. This is a pretty great song, so my critiques are on the mix only.

The drums sound well played but buried and lifeless in the mix. No sense of stereo excitement with them.

On the first organ solo I noticed a drop in the relative volume of the drums. Could be compression kicking in. One way I avoid this is to never send anything directly to the master bus. When you have compressors running on all the busses you hardly ever get that huge dip  (unless you want it of course!). And make sure the total of all the busses going to master bus doesn't exceed -6 db. This way when final compression is applied you have enough headroom to dynamically bump up and not hit the -0db ceiling.

The bass is kinda dull and lacks definition. Which stinks cuz it underpins the tune really nice.

I hear a lot sibilance ducking, but way too much. Sounds like you have peanut butter on the roof of your mouth when you sang (which I am pretty sure was not the case!).

jamesyoyo


I really liked the beginning. I wasn't sure where you were going once the electrics came in, but it works. This is a pretty great song, so my critiques are on the mix only.

The drums sound well played but buried and lifeless in the mix. No sense of stereo excitement with them.

On the first organ solo I noticed a drop in the relative volume of the drums. Could be compression kicking in. One way I avoid this is to never send anything directly to the master bus. When you have compressors running on all the busses you hardly ever get that huge dip  (unless you want it of course!). And make sure the total of all the busses going to master bus doesn't exceed -6 db. This way when final compression is applied you have enough headroom to dynamically bump up and not hit the -0db ceiling.

The bass is kinda dull and lacks definition. Which stinks cuz it underpins the tune really nice.

I hear a lot sibilance ducking, but way too much. Sounds like you have peanut butter on the roof of your mouth when you sang (which I am pretty sure was not the case!).

 
 
 
You know, I'm glad you said something. It's the snare....ugh.
 
I'm using EZ Drummer. For some reason The snare changes to a different snare at a certain part of the song. I see why you think it gets compressed. The snare starts with a nice crack to a lifeless thud.  I took some steps to mask it with a remix (also worked on the vox more) and posted it up.
 
I may have to go fix that snare...it can be done...just really tedious!

Very good song Ron, I enjoyed this a lot. Lovely, filthy slide sound, can't resist that . Mix-wise it sounds a little narrow, and something in the low end (kick drum?) is clipping (unless it's my ears)

Superb guitar work throughout, and a really well-written song.

James

Nice job, Ron! 

I think the vox are a little low in the mix, they get a little lost - pretty much all of the other instruments overpower them.

nice job , tho!