Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Man.... the music on this site just keeps on raising the bar. I think, personally, that this song is the best one I've heard here in a very long time.... without a doubt. Very well done.

Good mix, excellent writing. I dug the video and that was also very well done. It would have been cool to have some vikings vs crusaders battle scenes.....medieval war.... I was actually thinking on the first listen that would have fit the musical picture you were painting.

I got an immediate early Wishbone Ash vibe..... The King will come/Throw Down The Sword era feel.

The guitar work.... where do I start no this? As a guitar player, I was thinking, wow.... wow.... just OMG WOW! From the introduction licks that were so on target, I knew the song that followed had to be good. The solo reeked... of shades of David Gilmore with a fatter, more smooth, and muted tone. Extremely tasty playing throughout. I thought I heard the guitar right on the verge of harmonic feedback in a few places..... am I right on that? Was this with a live amp?

Nice work on the singer's part too. She puts the grit into it.

I love a good war protest song.


Thanks for your very kind comments, Herb!

Wishbone Ash, man, that's a name I haven't heard in a very long time! I used to listen to them back in the day though, probably 30 years ago or more, and I'm sure I still have a couple of their albums here in my vinyl collection. Will need to dig them out and give them a spin.

As far as the guitar goes it is not a live amp. I decided more than a year ago to switch over to amp simulator software. It allows me to record whenever I want without bothering my wife smile But, more important, it allows me to change my mind about the sound I am going for after I have already recorded my track. I can try different things in the mix to see what works best.

The simulator I am using is the Scuffham Amps S-Gear sim, it was Tom Adams that turned me onto using that, he uses it too. For this particular song I'm feeding it with the TSC 1.1 VST plugin, which is a free Tube Screamer emulator from Mercuriall. In addition I'm using Waves CLA Unplugged VST on the backend to add some reverb and delay.

Dave

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