I didn't get a chance to listen to previous versions.  this one is really nice.  good job, Robby.

Tried 3 times in the last few days to hear this but that RN player just won't start for me. Always hated RN..

love the old 3 dog night stuff...
this one was a great one to cover, excellent job!
nice flow, good job on the harmonies, drum mix is a toss-up, because if you compare the original with your version, the drums are not 'phat' or in your face....
could go either way that part of the mix...

Excellent work as always.  You certainly have the talent.  I'm curious though what the motivation is for putting 6 weeks in on a cover tune?  I don't mean to be facitious, but that's a lot of time on a cover tune, unless your putting it on CD for sale.

No doubt a great exercise.  

Did I see in one your pictures a UA mic preamp?  If so, how do like that and what all do you use it for?

Daryl

Daryl;

I use this rig to record my acoustic instruments, dobro, 6 string, 12 string Percussion. It's 'a mid-side technique, and depending on how I position the item being recorded, it will naturally sit center left, or center right.





The small diaphram condenser at the bottom is a Mojave Audio MA-100, it has it's own tube (that little black box at the bottom w/the light), That is my mid channel, and it runs through the LA-610 at the top of the rack. Then the U87ai is turned sideways and configured in a figure 8 pattern. It runs through the Avalon 737VT in the rack. And when I record a track, I get two, a mid, and a side. I then clone the side and flip the phase, and pan one side hard left (100%) and the other hard right (100%) I highly recommend both this technique, and the equipment. I play the fretless through the 610 as well.


As for the 6 weeks? :-) One week was class out of town? But my songs are like my children, I love them all, even and in some ways "especially!" The adopted ones.

Best production I've heard from you Robby, this is rich and clear to my ears, everything perfectly placed. That 'swooping' bass in the final choruses is superb. Wonderful harmonies, and the the whole vocal feels really comfortable and natural. Excellent.

:-) Thanks James! That fretless and I are old friends now. It took a long time though... It's like wrestling a gorilla? You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

It fought hard for a long time (that bass), like a hotel hostess against Kobe Bryant? But like Kobe, I just said "you can kick and scream all you want, but one way or another, this is gonna happen." (Or I could have gone the Ben Roethlisberger route?) Either way, "this is gonna happen..." If anyone is trying to learn an instrument? Stick with it, don't give up. Time + dedication = success ;-)

Of course throwing money at your passion doesn't hurt either? (Ax's? Mics, pre-amps, plugs, etc...) But much more importantly, "persistence..." Winston Churchill, "never give up, never give in, never."

Very nice choir and everything is well played and sunged (wrong word apparently hope you get it anyway) but I do miss the ground here its to plain if you get my meaning. Some EQ-work will do it.

You know I just realized something? "Dogie Style" Could be taken several ways?

Hi Robbie,

I was never really a TDN fan but I always liked this tune. The mix sounds great on my cheap speakers and the vocal/harmonies are outstanding. 

And you're actually playing real drums on this? A bold, bold move in this day and age, my friend but you do an excellent job on all the instruments!