As you can see we have had a good response to the Latin Rock Challenge. Voting will run until midnight Sunday. You have 2 votes please cast only 1 vote per category A and B, i.e. don't vote for 2 people in the same category
[quote author=themanthatwalks link=action=profile;u=457 date=1234813778]
Here is my Latin Rock entry(aka Latino Le Computer): http://www.box.net/shared/3jsoecobq7
This Is my first ever attempt at Latin rock but it came quite naturally. Not my best recording but I am slightly proud of myself ::)
I think I fall in the Advanced category????
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[quote author=Spyke link=action=profile;u=71 date=1234945001]
Here's my entry for this week. Advanced category.
http://www.box.net/shared/i39uxqe50v
Never really been into this kind of stuff, flamenco etc, but this was fun. It's an oldish piece that was just sitting rusting away in the back of my repertoire... yanked out, dusted off and freshened up a little. I like... even if it is a little rough.
Only three tracks, all on the Squier Strat and 505II combo (acoustic patch).
Mixed on Audactity
Thanks
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[quote author=Alan Ratcliffe link=action=profile;u=10 date=1235209443]
This week I did things a little different. Firstly I moved away from my recent self-imposed restriction of solo guitar for these competitions - after all, how can you really have Latin Rock without percussion? So my four instruments are percussion, bass, nylon guitar and electric guitar. The second main difference is I used my Vox AC15 for the electric guitar (the first time I have recorded it).
[url=http://ratcliffe.co.za/music/alan_latin.mp3][b]http://ratcliffe.co.za/music/alan_latin.mp3[/b][/url]
[b]Recording Notes[/b]
From now on, I'm going to try to include these notes with all my entries. Hopefully this will help demystify the recording process for those with an interest and also give some of our pro members the opportunity to point out where I can improve (and how).
[i]Electric Guitar[/i]
I recorded the electric guitar late at night at [i]very [/i]low volume, using my Vox Big Ben overdrive pedal "dimed" for the overdrive. Because of the low volume, the amp isn't doing much, so it's not the best example of the amp's tone and suffers a little with fizziness, but overall it's an acceptable sound. Mic is the ubiquitous SM57 pressed right up against the grille cloth, midway between the dustcap and the edge of the Celestion Blue speaker, angled in towards the dustcap at about a 15 degree angle (to soften and take the edge off). The guitar is the Sanox and the pickup was the bridge position Air Zone humbucker.
[i]Nylon guitar[/i]
The nylon guitar (an Ibanez GA-100) is captured with an AKG C535 mic, which is a small diaphragm condenser mic. The mic is positioned over the 12th fret and angled slightly towards the soundhole. I often add in a large diaphragm condenser as a distant mic to get some ambience, but not this time as I wanted the guitar with a more "up front" sound.
[i]Bass guitar[/i]
The bass is the neck humbucker of my Hohner Jack plugged straight into Guitar Rig with the Ampeg amp sim.
[i]Percussion[/i]
The drums took more time than everything else together. I tracked the other instruments with a simple Bossanova drum loop I had to get the timing and feel. Then I programmed the actual drum and percussion part using Toontrack's EZDrummer to create the basic rhythm. I then edited the drum tracks manually to get the kit and congas locked in nicely, both together and with the other instruments.
[i]Mixing[/i]
Pretty straightforward with minimal effects and EQing. Both guitars have a highpass EQ at about 120Hz to cut the lower, muddy frequencies out. Bass has a shelving high EQ to cut the frequencies above 600Hz by 6dB to leave plenty space for the guitars. The drum track has a "brickwall" peak limiter with threshold set at -1dB to catch any nasty spikes (that damn timbale!). There is one reverb bus that all the tracks are sent to. Reverb is fairly heavy on the lead guitar, but just a touch on everything else to give a bit of life and cohesiveness to the sound. The master bus has a limiter set with a threshold of -2.5dB to even out the dynamics and prevent clipping.
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[quote author=Viccy link=action=profile;u=755 date=1235338508]
Hi there, I gave it a try this week. Was too impatient, I don't have any recording equipment exept my little camera. I hope that isn't too unorthodox. Don't mind being disqualified or any thing.
I'm a bit embarrased to say that I'm "advanced", but I have been playing over 10 years, so I can't very well say that I'm a beginner. Happy Salsaing
http://www.box.net/shared/72iqqbe0gp
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[quote author=Lethe link=action=profile;u=311 date=1234989548]
Here is my entry for the week. I'm afraid it was very rushed. I did it all in less than 10 min. So there are two tracks. One rhythm and one lead. Both of them recorded on the first take, unedited. Both played on my Yamaha Nylon.
http://gfsa.s3.amazonaws.com/311/Latin%20Improv-01.mp3
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[quote author=CDee link=action=profile;u=382 date=1235051746]
Here's my entry for this week... Again I'll try my luck in the beginners class.
(I do have a feeling I've heard that intro somewhere before but I am not sure... :-[)
2 tracks both guitar.
http://gfsa.s3.amazonaws.com/382/Latin.ogg
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[quote author=Squonk link=action=profile;u=298 date=1235071181]
http://gfsa.s3.amazonaws.com/298/latency%20in%20A%20minor.mp3
Latency in A minor
Takamine Acoustic using Zoom G2 pedal's drum machine
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[quote author=Rudolf link=action=profile;u=756 date=1235323425]
Ok I tried to refined my entry a little :)
Still a hopeless entry into ubernoob class! Here: http://www.box.net/shared/32yxr2uvdu
1) A percussion track consisting out of two "latin" dance samples I had lying around. I played with them a little and composed a little mix of the two in an old producing software package. Still think I had the BPM too high, o well. I was trying to get to the sound of some of the Chad Kruger and Santana colabs.
2) Power chord thing using my Fender strat with some distortion to get it "rocky". Hehee, this bit went alright.
3) Single note fumble with the strat again.
I'm still hopeless on the single note thing but ok. Everything else is sounding better. Hehehe, I think.
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(old forum) Poll Results: Which is Latin Rock?
- themanthatwalks (A): 8
- Spyke (A): 3
- Alan (A): 9
- Viccy (A): 0
- Lethe (A): 4
- CDee (B): 8
- Squonk (B): 9
- Rudolf (B): 4
