Thanks for the offer -- who knows where this project will go?
I'm a Fender guy when it comes to guitars: made in Mexico Precision and Telecaster. The bass normally runs through a Gallien-Krueger 700RB into a G-K Neo115 III, but for that set I had to use what was there, a small Hartke combo. I've also got a Yorkville BC115 bass cab at home, which is nice but isn't capable of using the bi-amp feature of the G-K amp, where there is a separate amp for high frequencies and you can control the woofer and tweeter settings independently. Compressor, delays, reverbs, and a rotary speaker emulator on the pedalboard; there's more, as it's for my guitar, but those are the ones I use on the bass.
Agree about the warmth and imprecision even of analog. I was watching an interview with John Foxx the other day where he was talking about that in terms of the synths and stuff he uses in his current work with Benge -- digital forbidden with the exception of a Yamaha DX7!
Does the name Red Lorry Yellow Lorry mean anything to you?
RCB
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The three of us (bass-drums-vox) are all old enough to have experienced the prog-rock era, or at least the latter part of it, so perhaps no wonder that some elements come in, even though we really came of age with the punk movement and its aftermath. I dare say the end result will have more tips of the hat though to a host of late-70s early-80s bands (e.g. Joy Division, Bauhaus, early Cure, Foxx-era Ultravox) as those are at least my greatest influences.
Just back from another evening of knocking songs into shape. Some are easy, others not so much -- we all know the one we were working on last needs some tweaks, but no one has yet had any inspiration. Hopefully a week of thinking about it will lead to a breakthrough. Individual bits are fine, but the whole is like stale beer...
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I was at Bradford Uni from 1980-84, so during the era you are referring to. I saw many bands live at Bradford Uni, including New Order and U2 on their first tours, the Bunnymen, Wah Heat, Teardrop Explodes, The Cure, the Au Pairs, Gang of Four (fantastic!) and no doubt others of that ilk that I've forgotten about. I went late to uni - I was 24 when I moved up from Essex - so I'd already had my musically formative teenage years. I really enjoyed all those early 80s bands at the time but, for me, they haven't aged as well as the classic 60s/70s stuff I grew up with. For example, I loved Echo & the Bunnymen's first two albums at the time, but when I play them now they sound quite flat and dated. But play me Led Zep IV, Argus, Fragile or Disraeli Gears and they all still sound fantastic to my ears. I still love Gang of Four though. And a lot of the early punk stuff like the Clash, Pistols, Damned etc.
Inspiration is a funny thing, isn't it? You never know, someone will probably be noodling around at your next rehearsal, play something that sparks your interest and you'll be off and running. The fascination of music. -
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Yes, I didn't do the lead vocal or the drum programming, but the bass, guitars and all the production, mixing etc, as well as the video, is me. It started with our band's singer sending me his vocal and acoustic guitar tracks. I then built it all up from there. I dumped the guide acoustic and layered it up with, IIRC, about ten guitar tracks, although some of those are duplicates panned left & right. The riffage and solo is on a Les Paul and the funky rhythm bit before the stops is on a Strat. What I like to think of as the Gilmouresque slide at the end is on a Fret King superstrat, set up with heavy strings for slide. I made the bottleneck from the neck of a Mateus Rose wine bottle; the wine may be shite but the thick glass bottles are perfect for making bottleneck slides! Not a lot of people know that
TBH I don't have a clue about mastering. I have a Waves Audio plugin called CLA Mixdown. Once I've got the mix as good as I can, I slap that plugin on the master output bus and play around with it until it sounds better.
I must admit I was pretty pleased with that project because it was the first time I'd properly used Cubase for anything other than tinkering about.
I'm appallingly slow at using Cubase and there are so many shortcuts and functions that I don't understand or even know about. But I'm retired, with plenty of time on my hands, so speed doesn't really matter. The current project is taking forever. It's seven minutes long and there are eight guitar tracks which I'm having to ruthlessly edit all over the place so they don't clash with each other and turn it all to mush. But I love doing it. It perfectly suits the obsessive perfectionist side of my nature.
I completely agree about Ringo. Master of playing what is necessary for the song. The others called him a metronome, his timing is so good. To think that for a time he was widely regarded as not very good - ' he's not even the best drummer in The Beatles' etc. Listen to Rain, Tomorrow Never Knows or, indeed, Come Together, and tell me he's not a master. -
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