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2015/03/08 04:01:51
bayoubill
I really like it. I love that guitar sound. Puts me in a  Pulp Fiction kind of mood. I recorded Windy and Warm really buzzed on Abita Springs Amber beer. It was good time  
2015/03/08 05:04:54
jamesg1213
Excellent! Definite movie soundtrack sound. Glad to finally hear you play. Loads of comparisons above, but to me this is channeling Brian Setzer.
2015/03/08 05:32:01
craigb
If this is his "throw-away" stuff, then I'm ready to hear the polished material! 
2015/03/08 09:53:15
Beepster
The band that did the Kids In the Hall theme song was Shadowy Men From A Shadowy Planet and they were great. I'd say their guit tone was quite a bit screechier than this which has more of the traditional surf tone.
 
A while back I got to see the guitar player from Shadowy Men From A Shadowy Planet play in his new band at a buddy of mine's bar. They were calling themselves Ancient Chinese Secret and it was spectacular. Kind of like that old stuff you'd hear on Kids In The Hall but far more skilled and mature playing, excellent backup and leaning a bit further into rochabilly territory than surf (but still pretty surfy). His tone was amazing and they were just ripping the whole time.
 
Just thought maybe if people liked those theme tracks they might want to look them up.
 
And Rain... this sounds very very good even if you haven't polished it. Heck, sounds better than my fully "produced" efforts. lol
 
Great playing too. Very natural. You got skills, bud.
 
Cheers.
2015/03/08 10:59:20
soens
No... he's got SONAR!
2015/03/08 11:28:02
Beepster
Actually based on past posts I don't think he uses Sonar to record/mix... being a Mac dude and all. Might be some Cake tools used in there though.
2015/03/08 19:00:36
Rain
Thanks Beep! You know, I've come to the sad realization that most of the time, the more I try to mix, the more I screw up things. :P
 
And you're correct - unfortunately, no Cakewalk products were used. Though I do own all their synths, 2 of them no longer work on OSX and Z3ta has authorization issues for which we're waiting a fix. Not that it would have been susceptible of being used in such a cut.
 
The plugs list:
 
EZ Drummer
Kontakt player for the bass track (because I was too lazy to re-track it)
Logic's Classic Organ
Lexicon PCM Reverb on a buss
IK's Fairchild on the stereo buss to glue things up
Waves L1 for the final mixdown
A very few bands of EQ here and there, using Logic's own EQ.
 
Various guitars all recorded DI with the POD HD300.
 
No compression, no fancy processing, some very crude volume automation in 2 or 3 spots.
2015/03/08 23:50:22
ampfixer
I loved it. You could hang out at my shop any time.
2015/03/09 07:08:57
mudgel
The beauty of what you've done is to stop before you over fixed everything. Another example of less is more.

Also shows that you don't have to do too much if you capture it right. Quality in quality. Well done.
2015/03/10 01:37:00
Rain
Thanks guys.
 
Funny thing is that my wife heard it, expecting something very silly and now she's telling me we could have done something with that.
 
I'm starting to think that, all those years, I've been putting songs I wrote in the wrong pile - I throw away keepers and keep lost causes. :P
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