Guitar Gathering Forum Collaboration GG1

[Fretless]

Mandy, is there a chance you could put a copy on box.com or make the Soundcloud file downloadable (edit the track, click on permissions, download is top left)?

[Nutty1]

Hello Fretless, I have just made the Soundcloud file downloadable and put a .wav file of the bass without the drums in the Box folder. I hope that is ok, please let me know if you would like anything else.

[Fretless]

25 minutes ago, Nutty1 said:

... please let me know if you would like anything else.

A cup of tea and a piece of cake would be nice!

[Nutty1]

Whoops, sorry I forgot to say that I recorded the bass track at 60 bpm and I forgot to speed it back up again.  I will replace them with the correct speed as soon as I can. 

[Nutty1]

Sorted! Sorry about that folks.

[rkl312]

21 hours ago, Nutty1 said:

OK folks, I have created a bass track for our song. I recorded it using my Lindo Purple Dove bass guitar routed through a Yamaha THR5 set on clean and I used Modern Stack as the amp in GarageBand. I am not a great bass player so do not expect too much! 

 

Sounds good!

[Nutty1]

Thank you rkl312 you are very kind.

?WANTED RHYTHM GUITARIST  ?    Please can we have a volunteer to do the rhythm guitar, there must be someone out there who would like to do it?

(tip - you can slow it down to record your part and then speed your recording up again if you want to!)

[Steve Krenz]

I'm loving this!!!!

- Steve

[gotto]

Sounding good all. I will not be ale to record while I am on my trip but I will try to get into the next collaboration. Hopefully someone can jump into the opportunity to contribute with a rhythm track. This is designed to be a group effort to learn the process of song writing and recording as well as share our musical ideas. Fretless and Mandy are great ones for helping anyone out, if someone needs advice. Keep it up friends!

Greg

[Nutty1]

OK folks I just could not resist doing the rhythm guitar. I turned down the Bass guitar for the verses in my mixes.

Lets have some fun with it!  I have 3 versions here, the same guitar track but with different amp simulations on GarageBand.

They are the Cool Jazz Combo, Bright and Clean and Surfing' in Stereo.

The question is...........Which one should we use?

GG1 CoolJazzCombo.mp3

GG1 BrightandClean.mp3

GG1 SurfinInStereo.mp3

[Fretless]

7 hours ago, Nutty1 said:

The question is...........Which one should we use?

I would use BrightandClean and SurfinInStereo. There is just enough delay used on one (or both) that panning one half way to the left and the other half way to the right they have a nice stereo separation, slightly jangly, reminding of The Byrds, and that would leave the centre free for rkl312's vocal to sit unhindered.

Edited February 11, 2018 by Fretless

[gotto]

Good idea Fretless. Nice Mandy

Greg

 

[Nutty1]

4 hours ago, Fretless said:

I would use BrightandClean and SurfinInStereo. There is just enough delay used on one (or both) that panning one half way to the left and the other half way to the right they have a nice stereo separation, slightly jangly, reminding of The Byrds, and that would leave the centre free for rkl312's vocal to sit unhindered.

Thank you Fretless that is a brilliant idea. I never would have thought of that.

[rkl312]

5 hours ago, Fretless said:

I would use BrightandClean and SurfinInStereo. There is just enough delay used on one (or both) that panning one half way to the left and the other half way to the right they have a nice stereo separation, slightly jangly, reminding of The Byrds, and that would leave the centre free for rkl312's vocal to sit unhindered.

Uh, feel free to hinder.

[Nutty1]

Here is an interim mix with the rhythm guitar tracks added exactly as Fretless suggested (I hope). 

Wow, it sounds so much better than how I was thinking about doing it. Listen with stereo headphones to get the full effect folks.

I have learnt something really valuable here about mixing. Thank you @Fretless.

I have uploaded the rhythm guitar tracks and 2 versions of the Rhythm Mix (.M4a and .Mp3) to Box.

@rkl312 please let me know if you need any other type of file to practice/record with.

GG1 Rhythm Mix.mp3

[rkl312]

15 hours ago, Nutty1 said:

Here is an interim mix with the rhythm guitar tracks added exactly as Fretless suggested (I hope). 

Wow, it sounds so much better than how I was thinking about doing it. Listen with stereo headphones to get the full effect folks.

I have learnt something really valuable here about mixing. Thank you @Fretless.

I have uploaded the rhythm guitar tracks and 2 versions of the Rhythm Mix (.M4a and .Mp3) to Box.

@rkl312 please let me know if you need any other type of file to practice/record with.

GG1 Rhythm Mix.mp3

Great job Mandy.  

[AcousticM]

Great job on this everyone! Really coming together. 

I have 2 questions im hoping someone can answer. 

1. Have you found a way to play the mp3 tracks in the browser without having to download them? I know you asked about that earlier 

2. I downloaded a couple of the tracks so i could try playing the rhythm along with the drum and bass track, but when i tried to import them into my daw (Studio 1) it says not compatible file? What type of file should it be im wondering? And how would you convert it if you need to? Will the daw program do that?

Im just newb to Studio One and lots there to figure out for sure. 

Any help appreciated,  thanks.....Paul

[IanD]

Sounding great guys.

Ian

[Nutty1]

3 hours ago, AcousticM said:

Great job on this everyone! Really coming together. 

I have 2 questions im hoping someone can answer. 

1. Have you found a way to play the mp3 tracks in the browser without having to download them? I know you asked about that earlier 

2. I downloaded a couple of the tracks so i could try playing the rhythm along with the drum and bass track, but when i tried to import them into my daw (Studio 1) it says not compatible file? What type of file should it be im wondering? And how would you convert it if you need to? Will the daw program do that?

Im just newb to Studio One and lots there to figure out for sure. 

Any help appreciated,  thanks.....Paul

Hello Paul,

1. The only 2 ways that I know of getting MP3 files available for people to listen to on this forum are how I have done above, by dragging the file into the "drag files here section" or by putting them in Soundcloud and copying the link in the browser of the page containing the song that you want to share.

For anyone who does not know about Soundcloud it is free to join and you get a limited amount of space to load and keep your songs.The limited amount of space in Soundcloud (for free) is the reason that I have started embedding MP3 files into the forum using the first method. 

2. I do not have any experience with Studio One but I did a quick search on the internet and I found this answer to the file formats question:

"I think you need to convert your files to one of those audio formats I think. They are mp3, ACC or WMA. You can try Mediabuddy tool for it."

I personally use this online media converter as it was recommended to me by BobF_ on the L&M forum http://media.io

I am glad that you are getting in to home recording Paul, please reach out to us if you need any help. Perhaps some of the folks reading this will be able to supply you with better answers than I can.

 

[Texaspackerfan]

9 hours ago, AcousticM said:

Great job on this everyone! Really coming together. 

I have 2 questions im hoping someone can answer. 

1. Have you found a way to play the mp3 tracks in the browser without having to download them? I know you asked about that earlier 

2. I downloaded a couple of the tracks so i could try playing the rhythm along with the drum and bass track, but when i tried to import them into my daw (Studio 1) it says not compatible file? What type of file should it be im wondering? And how would you convert it if you need to? Will the daw program do that?

Im just newb to Studio One and lots there to figure out for sure. 

Any help appreciated,  thanks.....Paul

Hi Paul, @AcousticM

I use studio one as well. If you have itunes you can use it to convert your mp3 to a wav file, studio one only uses a wav file format. If you have itune, click the file header and go to convert, but make sure you select the file first. If you need more help just let me know.

Danny 

[Nutty1]

Hello all,

I just wanted to let you know that the GG1Collaboration is continuing at a good pace.

rkl312 has produced an excellent set of lyrics and is working hard at producing the vocal track.

Watch this space, as they say (whoever "they" are!).???

Edited February 19, 2018 by Nutty1

[rkl312]

Working on it.  It's been fun!

[Nutty1]

Hello everyone, I am very pleased to tell you that we now have a vocal track written and sung by rkl312.

 

GG! vocal mix.mp3

Edited March 15, 2018 by Nutty1

[IanD]

Fabulous! A very catchy tune. Well done guys!

 

[Fretless]

Thanks, Mandy. Is there any chance you could upload the vocal track alone, without being part of a mix? I would be really grateful.

I don't know why but I thought I had been volunteered to do the lead part for this collaboration. Looking back I cannot see how I got that impression. As no one has yet volunteered can I contribute the lead guitar this time?