Thread: Imagine John Lennon Cover (Guitar)

I really liked your second version better than your first. Your compression usage I found much too aggressive to be pleasant to listen to. It caused me quite a bit of fatigue. Whereas your second version was much more real sounding and easier on the ears making for a more enjoyable experience. Your aggressive use of compression would have been more appropriate on something more rockin'. In fact I also found your vocal almost too nice. It sounded great technically. Nice air, pleasant presence, smooth. Not as hopeless sounding as John performed it. But that's interpretation and you have poetic license, in all senses. You probably utilized a sampled drum kit. You can't always obtain the interpretation you want that way. But that's the breaks of our latest technologies. Otherwise quite a nice job overall. I take back everything I said about you...... I'm just kidding. You're doing it right.

Nowhere to go but up
Ms. Remy Ann David

Thanks a lot! that means a lot to me. You know the funny thing is the only thing that changed between the two is that A. I lowered the drums a few notches, and B. I took the auto gain off the master track and trusted my own intuition on gain levels. :D

thanks for the good feedback.

Yeah the guitar is plugged lol, I'm a guitarist and it's my least favorite part of the mix. I just think the sound quality is poor, I may try to mic it when I get a preamp or something.

Btw good ear lol

You can actually keep your guitar tracks. You can utilize what we call "re-amping". This might require that you utilize a little savvy software & interface manipulation. You can play one guitar track out of the left Channel of your audio interface into a guitar amplifier input. You put the microphone on the guitar amplifier and plug it into the right Channel input of your same audio interface. You assign the right Channel to its own track, to record. Then you do the same with the other guitar track in the reverse sense/style/channel. You can then also repeat this a second time and that time around, you'll put the microphone in a different position or use a different type of microphone. This will give you a larger stereo effect with a more acoustic feel and the sound of your guitar amplifier. It doesn't even have to be a guitar amplifier it can actually be a crappy stereo system but you won't quite get that integrated guitar/amplifier sound of a dedicated guitar amplifier.

This is getting fun now
Ms. Remy Ann David

hmm...cool technique, I like it. it's like turning my guitar amp into a preamp...sort of, kind of "after the fact". Although it's probably more accurate the way you put it "re-amping."

Originally Posted by Imaginaryday

by the way, you have a very nice voice.

really? thanks! This is actually the first time I have recorded voice on anything, I'm not trained at all.

What did you mean the drum intro is off? I used a drum loop, so more likely the other tracks are off. I know that at the end of the first chorus the guitars are both off to the drums. That might be what you are referring to.

http://www.purevolume.com/BleedingArrows

I re-recorded the guitar mic'd from my amp, and I'm now on Purevolume instead of Myspace. Guitar sounds a lot better, but now with the extra headroom you can hear the faults in the vocal track that I can't help right now :\ I also uploaded an acoustic version.

Let me know what you think.

EDIT: actually, the files sound great on my computer, but warbled on purevolume. I have no idea why? Ideas?

EDIT:EDIT: ok @_@ it's purevolume not me. check my myspace instead. I just found out that purevolume crushes the audio quality on any track you upload so that it can stream it. Lovely. Anyway check my myspace, I even uploaded an acoustic version! That's how this all got started anyway. I recorded it for my girlfriend a while ago in Garageband, this is the polished version. www.myspace.com/chrysalisct