Jacques_nasi
Please listen to my first recording, plugged my Cube 80 straight into my onboard souncard via shoddy cables and recorded with audacity, drum loop created with hydrogen, my take on Massive Attack's teardrop, just for fun. let me know if you like it or if you think it sucks!!! ?
http://soundcloud.com/jacques-scheurkogel
Hope the link works
AlanRatcliffe
Not bad for a first attempt. Well done!
You should try playing with your panning when you have more than one instrument, which will help keep them all separated in the mix.
You also need to spend a lot more time working over drums, your timing was consistently, but fractionally late, which affected the feel adversely.
Jacques_nasi
Thanx for the input Alan, noted and written down!! ?
I never thought of changing the panning on the two guitars, makes sense so that everything wont turn to moosh together!
V8
Recognized the tune from the first four bars, good going!
+1 to Alan's comments - I had a listen to the original and your cover, one thing that I was hearing (like Alan mentioned) is the timing of the drums. I may well be completely mistaken but when I simplify the drums down to a 1 and 2, 1 and 2 rhythm, there's a space in the original on the 'and', where there is a bass drum in yours?
Panning guitars...something I learnt here on GFSA entering the challenges ?. I couldn't get two acoustic pieces to sound distinct from each other until I started playing with panning them. I didn't want apply too much EQ on either piece, was trying for a 'natural' acoustic sound so panning was definitely the answer.
My 2c : Headphones do help during the learning process, but I'd always check on some speakers to make sure it all makes sense in a true stereo environment (when your ears hear left & right channels together and not separately like in headphones).
ParadoximA
Nicely done!
Just a note on the timing - if you're using your onboard soundcard, you probably have recording latency problems. That is, there's a good chance that what you record won't be properly in sync with what you hear.
If you're listening to the guitar sound straight from the amp's speaker, and playing along with the drums, all you'll need to do is "nudge" the guitar tracks earlier or later until the guitar is in sync with the drums.
If you're listening to the guitar sound through the computer - this means you could be hearing a delayed guitar sound, which makes it quite difficult to play in time. If that's the case, I can't help much further I'm afraid, I don't know Audacity well enough... maybe someone who uses it could give some tips.
Jacques_nasi
Thanx for all the comments guys,
V8, regarding the drum timing, I started off with the idea of not listening to the original over and over to do my version, but rather do guitar intrepertation of the song of what I can remember, so everything wont be 100% spot on.
I also aplied my limited theory knowledge to create all the tracks, for the sake of trying to push my boundries and not rely on tabs like a zombie, but rather understand what and why I'm playing,and hopefully getting better at it!
Paradoxima, yes i Think you are right,using the onboard souncard does give a bit of latency problems, and Im Currently looking at getting a USB Guitar interface, possibly the Line 6 UX1 or UX2, but still get the sound from my cube rather than rely on the Effects of the software that come with the interface, so basically a setup like: guitar - cube - Interface - PC = Happy me and better recordings.
Joe, how right you are, I just restrung my Vintage prior to the recording, and did not check the intonation, (out a bit when I checked after reading your post), could this have been what you heard? :-[
