I have always liked the song "I Shall Not Walk Alone" by Ben Harper so I recorded my own version of it (sans vocals.) It's a pretty spiritual and you should go to iTunes and download it at once. There's a several good several versions by different artists, and I can honestly say my version doesn't sound at all like any of them.
I don't have a bass guitar (yet....) so I was forced to use the Octave pedal on the Tonelab for the bass part. If you've tried this you'll know that it's quite finicky.. I had to palm-mute the strings in order to keep it from jumping octaves. It's not great but it did the job in a pinch.
I haven't gotten my 24-bit rig in the mail yet. Hopefully this is the last 16-bit "Soundblaster" recording I ever make.
Chris
Sounds freakin great!
Sun, 2007/01/21 - 8:58pm — PetrucciisGodSounds freakin great!
Sounds Good there! Enjoyed
Mon, 2007/01/22 - 7:19am — ForsblomSounds Good there!
Enjoyed it alot!
Small Critiqs:
The guitar is clipping. To fix this lower your output from the Tonelab SE, set it to about half. Then check in a wave program that the sampling isn't clipping. If it still clips, lower the mic/line input so you get that nice clean signal!
Another solution might be that you have to much gain on the Cabinet/Amp. Never set it higher than 7.5
Other than that, great piece!
//Forsblom
Chris, In the absence of
Mon, 2007/01/22 - 7:53am — hamfistChris,
In the absence of a bass guitar, that sounds OK. You've been wise in keeping it pretty low in the mix though. I'm guessing that it might have shown a few shortcomings, had you given it a little more space in the mix.
Alan
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Patch
Mon, 2007/01/22 - 8:27am — mself61Patch saved.
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Not bad at all, Chris. Very
Mon, 2007/01/22 - 10:23am — hotramanNot bad at all, Chris.
Very creative way to use the Tonelab for bass, if you don't have a bass guitar or keys.
Steve
www.stevehotra.com
Forsblom Thanks for the
Mon, 2007/01/22 - 1:29pm — cDubForsblom
Thanks for the advise. I always record with the line out volume set at ~2/3 Vmax.
[geek](Actually, (1 - e^-1)* Vmax)[/geek]
However, I DO have the input level maxed in Windows Volume Control. I brought it up because the level was so low in Cakewalk compared to the drum .wavs.
Having said that, in Cakewalk, the indicators never went into the red while recording (I try to keep them between -12 and -9 dB), so I assumed all was OK. Looking at my curves, they all are nice and round, so I'm pretty sure they're not being clipped. Perhaps my soundcard is modifying the signal in some other way?
Although, I HAVE recently been experimenting with sending my tracks out to multiple wet/dry buses. This boosts the sound significantly, so I suppose I could back off the input level on my soundcard and see what happens.
Alan
Indeed, the bass line sounds pretty weird all by itself. But then again, so does everything else.
Chris
isnt the soundblaster using
Mon, 2007/01/22 - 7:34pm — mself61isnt the soundblaster using the Windows Volume Control ?. thats why I went to an Echo mia, the volume is controlled by the Echo Mixing software that comes with it. so if the soundblaster does have a seperate control then maybe you arent getting 16 bit WDM or higher quality.
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Well, it uses it's own
Mon, 2007/01/22 - 7:39pm — cDubWell, it uses it's own version of the Windows volume control. I looked at one of the track .wav files in WIndows Explorer and the properties are:
What are your Echo .wav properties?
Driver mode is WDM, 44100
Mon, 2007/01/22 - 8:12pm — mself61Driver mode is WDM, 44100 (but can go higher) 16 bit (can go to 24)
the reason its not optimized is cause last time I reinstaed XP I was to lazy to change it ( and still am, lol) but it still records pretty dang good.
PCM is standard format.... heres what WMD says in SONAR
In almost every situation, the newer WDM (Windows Driver Model) sound card drivers that most sound card vendors are creating are a much better choice than the older MME (Multi-Media Extensions) drivers. If your sound card vendor has a WDM driver, by all means use it.
Note: If you play DXi's in real time from a MIDI controller, you'll get noticeably better performance if you use WDM or ASIO sound card drivers instead of the older MME type.
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