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  • 20-01-2006 8:55pm
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    steveland?
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    OK, got a Toneport UX2 for Christmas and I've been kinda messing with it since...

    Decided to give recording a go there the other night using Live Lite 4 that comes packaged with it.

    I played all the tracks myself (limited to 4)

    I have a Maverick F1 which I use all the time and also a Fender Semi-Acoustic I was going to record the basic rythm track with but I didn't have access to it at the time because my dad had taken it with him when he went away to practice for himself :)

    For the main track I used the Basic Guitar Tone with a compressor

    For the crunch effect I used the Basic Guitar Tone with the Classic Distortion stomp box and turned the treble on the guitar half way down to give it that crunchy feeling.

    For the bassline I ran the guitar through one or other of the Bass presets on the Toneport (can't remember which) with the treble turned all the way down on the guitar (hopefully getting a bass soon to eliminate the need to use a guitar)

    For the lead/solo-y style part I started with Basic Guitar Tone, added Classic Distortion, Equaliser (can't remember the settings I used) and some pre-amp I also can't remember... Might have possibly used the Modulator on a low setting...

    I made it up as I went along basically... Chord progression is just E, D, A, D for a few bars and then E, G, D, A with the bass (and later the crunch guitar) playing: 
    A| -------------5---7---
E| -----5---7-----------
    over the A chord when it was going from A to D in the first few bars and A to E in the next few bars

    Lead part is just a blues scale messed around with... dunno anything about scales... just know a couple off by heart without knowing what the name of them are...

    The scale I used was: 
    E| ------------------------------------------------------12---15
B|--------------------------------------------12---15-----------
G|-----------------------------------12---14--------------------
D| ------------------------12---14------------------------------
A| -------------12---14-----------------------------------------
E| ---12---15---------------------------------------------------
    bending the A note on the G string (fret 14) the odd time and progressing up and down the scale... as I said I just made the lead up as I went along...

    Please have a listen and let me know what you think...

    Can you make out the bassline? I can hear it but I think that's only because I know it's there... I think I recorded it too low...
    At low volumes can you hear the lead? I couldn't make it out too well because I recorded that too low aswell... this is my first time trying to record music on my Toneport...

    The other thing I want to know is: Would anyone be, for want of a better word, "fooled" by the "bass" in this song? It's just my guitar with the treble down low and running through a virtual bass rig...

    The song is real messy at the moment... just sounds incoherent but it was just an experiment to learn about how I could lay down tracks and play other tracks over them

    http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~steve/Mbleh.mp3

    Any comments are much appreciated


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    skye
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    Not much into the technics of music but I couldn't hear the bass at all and the lead is deffo too low...the other guitar (repeating chords) is drowning everything else out...good though if tuned up - just what my ears hear!!!


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    steveland?
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    Cheers.

    I'll rerecord it at some point in the near future. I know what it's gonna sound like now so might be able to make a coherent song out of it :)

    Hopefully I'll have the bass soon aswell so I can record that bit properly...

    Cheers for the comment. Anyone else have any comments/suggestions?


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    mordeith
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    I can hear the bass no bother. Its a little low alright but I can definitely hear it. (Sounds like a nice riff too). The lead as already said, is way too low or rather the rhythmn (spelling?) is too high.


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    mike65
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    Nowt wrong with a bit of panning. I'd move the support guitar (the da-lidely-da sound!) track to one side. The bass is nowhere to be heard, I take it you just ran the exact same note progression for the 'bass'?

    Mike.


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    steveland?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭steveland?


    mike65 wrote:
    Nowt wrong with a bit of panning. I'd move the support guitar (the da-lidely-da sound!) track to one side. The bass is nowhere to be heard, I take it you just ran the exact same note progression for the 'bass'?

    Mike.
    Fairly much yeh.

    I don't play the bass so I haven't really had time to mess around with bass fills and the like. I'm getting one soon though to have on standby for recording songs. When I get it I'll re-record the bass for this with a proper bassline.

    I'll look into panning but I'm only just getting to grips with Abelton Live Lite 4. It came free with my Toneport but it's limited to 4 tracks so I might investigate different recording software.

    Anyone have any recommendations on other software (as cheap as possible, preferably) that'd suit my Toneport?

    Thanks for the feedback folks, you've been super :v:


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