Midiboy
Now I have always loved this song! You did it some definite justice! That organ solo...geez oh pete, man.
hey midiboy,
kudos to XENOPHILE for those great live keyboard parts, and for writing the drum parts!
the ONLY track in this recording that is not live played, are the drums..
those were midi'd and edited in Ezdrummer.
he did a great job at nailing a LOT of the original riffs...
ian paice, was always one of my favorites, and he has a lot of jazz-style riffs in his bag, and those are TUFF TUFF TUFF to nail in real life, much less to program in midi.
everything else, was just regular ole guitar tracks (1 rhythm, 2 solo tracks, just like the original), 2 keyboard tracks, like the original, bass was recorded thru a sansamp bass DI, and vocals were done thru a ADK Hamburg.
the only compression used was on mixdown, with a typical leveling on the vocal tracks.
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no multiple takes, no studio tricks, a very honest layout of this song using standard EQ and panning, the individual tracks were so well gain staged and even that there was hardly any changes in the volume automation,
the idea was to approximate the original mix,
so there was some verb used for 'room' sounds.
i could not pull off the opening banshee screams/singing that ian gillan did at the intro of the song..
i tried.
i tried.
LOL
so, i used the guitars instead, figured it would sound better than hearing a wounded animal.
kudos to Gillan.
