Stratman70
Purple fan
Registered: 09-2003
Posts: 537
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Catch The Rainbow
Hi there,
Did something with this great backing track.
Let me hear what you think of it.
Hope you enjoy it!
All kind of (honest & critical) comments are welcome.
https://soundcloud.com/stratman70/catch-the-rainbow-2016
|
|
19/11/2016, 18:34
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Stratman70
Send PM to Stratman70
|
Knopflers Fingers
The Best Part(s) !
Registered: 12-2005
Posts: 1430
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Catch The Rainbow
Man, fantastic playing an tone. How you record your guitar? Awesome!
|
|
20/11/2016, 16:24
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Knopflers Fingers
Send PM to Knopflers Fingers
|
Stratman70
Purple fan
Registered: 09-2003
Posts: 537
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Catch The Rainbow
Wow... Thank you Knopflers Fingers! 
Normally I play with Engl amps, but when I play or record at home I play through a modeling amp. This is recorded with a Roland Cube 80x into a mixer which goes into the pc. Between guitar & amp I have the BSM rpa. That's all. I record with Magix Samplitude music studio where I added compression & reverb. I play almost clean with no gain (less guitar volume). For the end solo I used a little more gain (more guitar volume).
Thanks again for your kind words.
|
|
20/11/2016, 16:59
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Stratman70
Send PM to Stratman70
|
Desperateheart
Purple fan
Registered: 09-2013
Posts: 2289
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Catch The Rainbow
I’ll have a listen later Stratman, think I’ve got some of your other tracks saved on sound cloud, The Loner possibly? When you say a modelling amp do you mean the Yamaha THR? Like you i use Engls for gigs, but the THR 10-X at home, sometimes with a Boss Overdrive....great outcomes!
|
|
21/11/2016, 16:41
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Desperateheart
Send PM to Desperateheart
Blog
|
Stratman70
Purple fan
Registered: 09-2003
Posts: 537
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Catch The Rainbow
quote:
Desperateheart wrote:
I’ll have a listen later Stratman, think I’ve got some of your other tracks saved on sound cloud, The Loner possibly? When you say a modelling amp do you mean the Yamaha THR? Like you i use Engls for gigs, but the THR 10-X at home, sometimes with a Boss Overdrive....great outcomes!
Yeah The Loner, but that one sounds a little shrill. This one sounds better I think.
The modelling amp I use is the Roland Cube. But I was impressed with the Yamaha THR when I tried it in the store.
|
|
21/11/2016, 18:13
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Stratman70
Send PM to Stratman70
|
mtb7
Purple fan
Registered: 03-2013
Posts: 864
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Catch The Rainbow
Great version, finely balanced sounds! At some point you even used the kind of sweep Ritchie uses these days - nice nod.
Where did you find the BT? I think I have located the same, but it's only 6 mins - did you loop the last section to extend it to ten, or is there another version floating around?
|
|
22/11/2016, 9:27
|
Link to this post
Send Email to mtb7
Send PM to mtb7
Blog
|
Stratman70
Purple fan
Registered: 09-2003
Posts: 537
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Catch The Rainbow
quote:
mtb7 wrote:
Great version, finely balanced sounds! At some point you even used the kind of sweep Ritchie uses these days - nice nod.
Where did you find the BT? I think I have located the same, but it's only 6 mins - did you loop the last section to extend it to ten, or is there another version floating around?
Thank you mtb7!
I looped it to ten minutes.
|
|
22/11/2016, 12:20
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Stratman70
Send PM to Stratman70
|
BagShotBullets
Purple fan
Registered: 09-2009
Posts: 394
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Catch The Rainbow
quote:
Stratman70 wrote:
Hi there,
Did something with this great backing track.
Let me hear what you think of it.
Hope you enjoy it!
All kind of (honest & critical) comments are welcome.
https://soundcloud.com/stratman70/catch-the-rainbow-2016
Nice sound and effects, and nicely played, so good job Stratman70:
For what it's worth. It sounds like something is clipping in parts of the guitar signal, towards the middle of the song, I'd suspect the RPA pedal, as the likely cause. Where is it in the signal chain, before or after the Cube ? The digital amp should be dumping most of what the RPA does anyway as the final sound is modelled. Around 1:36-1:45 something, the guitar, or the effect, either is, or sounds out of tune, which is odd, as it sounds fine elsewhere.
I think the original Slide parts at least was recorded direct to the desk, without using amps at all, and just used desk gain. The slide needs more "saturation", if you know what I mean. Not distortion, but fattening, which I think came from the Desk gain/EQ.
Anyway nice one as usual.
|
|
22/11/2016, 14:15
|
Link to this post
Send Email to BagShotBullets
Send PM to BagShotBullets
|
Stratman70
Purple fan
Registered: 09-2003
Posts: 537
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re:
Thank you BSB. You're right about clipping part. I place the rpa before the Cube of course, between guitar & Cube. It works fine for playing at home but for recording it gets a little difficult to keep the tone clean for some reason. I checked the peak levels.
About the out of tune part, I have that bad habit of picking up the guitar, play and record and forget to (fine) tune before recording. But sometimes it's also because of fretting too hard on a scalloped neck. 
Not quite sure what you mean by 'saturation'. Do you mean the colour or thickness of the sound? I tried to get the right amount of reverb on it, but when I added more reverb, it became too metal/steel cold sounding. I couldn't find the right sound I was looking for. I obviously didn't want it to become too dry.
Thanks again for listening and your fine reply! Nice to read!
|
|
23/11/2016, 11:09
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Stratman70
Send PM to Stratman70
|
BagShotBullets
Purple fan
Registered: 09-2009
Posts: 394
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Re:
quote:
Stratman70 wrote:
Thank you BSB. You're right about clipping part. I place the rpa before the Cube of course, between guitar & Cube. It works fine for playing at home but for recording it gets a little difficult to keep the tone clean for some reason. I checked the peak levels.
About the out of tune part, I have that bad habit of picking up the guitar, play and record and forget to (fine) tune before recording. But sometimes it's also because of fretting too hard on a scalloped neck.
Not quite sure what you mean by 'saturation'. Do you mean the colour or thickness of the sound? I tried to get the right amount of reverb on it, but when I added more reverb, it became too metal/steel cold sounding. I couldn't find the right sound I was looking for. I obviously didn't want it to become too dry.
Thanks again for listening and your fine reply! Nice to read!
Regards "saturation", I mean it's not quite "fat/big" enough! I don't mean distortion but a little more clean drive maybe. Again I imagine the original track may have been the same guitar track doubled up a couple of times, to really "fatten" out the slide. That would retain the delicate slide sound but make it just "bigger" and possibly adjusting the EQ of the different copies of the track would give the result. Not possible to do it live, but perhaps fun to experiment with.
Anyway as ever fun to do and a good job from you.
|
|
23/11/2016, 12:22
|
Link to this post
Send Email to BagShotBullets
Send PM to BagShotBullets
|
