Originally Posted By: floyd jane
The playing is nicely subtle, as it needs to be. There is an awful lot going on in the track (crowded), not leaving much room for discernible licks. The main lead seems to change tone at 2:43 - was that intentional? As if it's 2 sections (the 1st section is a little louder than the 2nd - if you had not mentioned that you did it all at once, I would have guessed that it was 2 different takes, one being pasted in). I like the tone of the 2nd part.

The end licks are smooth. Did you play that fade?


Indeed that track is really busy. They didn't take much time to clean it out.... they simply muted VG's axe. I had the guitar parts up several dB louder but my wife commented that the guitar was too loud for the mix and she was correct so I pulled it back and let it set in the mix a bit more. That does make it a bit hard to hear in a few places as it competes with the stuff behind it, over which I had no control.

In the solo, I started with flanged guitar and then switched to straight tele. Yes that was intentional. I used flanger on the intro as well as harmony licks to VG's vocals in several places. Those places should be very obvious.

I'll be doing the video soon to accompany the music where I will be playing it completely through from start to finish. No cuts and paste or edits.

The tone for the rhythm and the second part of the solo as well as the ending is tele into boogie.... at a low volume. Sweet crunch... I really like that tone as well. You'll very likely be hearing that tone or a variant thereof in my future original tunes. Since it is recorded into Sonar, the fade on the guitar matches the fade on the master track.

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