Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#
Frank,
Very cool collaboration. Final cut sounds amazing! Was interesting to see the development. Mix is ACE! Congrats to you & crew and thank you for sharing!

Misha.


Thanks Misha, I appreciate the encouragement. Cheers

Originally Posted By: Tano Music
Loved your story-line of song evolution! Really appreciated you posting the chart as well.
Great work, team!!


Thanks Tano, I thought including the chart for a tune like this was a good way to mix it up, never done that before. Cheers

Originally Posted By: floyd jane
Frank,

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to - and watching - your song journey.

Excellent tone and playing throughout.

I'd be interested to know how you record your guitar (interface?, amp sims? effects?).
And if you feel like it, talk about why you dropped the nylon in favor of the tele?
And why you chose to use an EZDrummer track instead of the BIAB jazz drummer?

Your videos are "simple" but VERY effective. Easy (and enjoyable) to watch. What are you using to record video? and what software to create the video?

Cool stuff!

fj


Hi Floyd, thanks for the encouraging words.

The guitars were recorded with an SM57 on a Quilter Micropro amp. I really like the lightweight but powerful Quilter and I find it is a great amp for pedals. I set the gain on the Quilter to were it sounds clean with my regular picking attack but with a harder attack I hear just a little bit of gain. I have 8 pedals on my pedal board and always have the compressor on to act as a buffer, which is the first pedal in the chain. My compressor setting is medium light.

The Tele didn't have any other effects from the pedal board. I had a little bit of eq and compression added in Reaper (my DAW).

I used a King of Blues drive pedal on the Ibanez semi-hollowbody guitar. Not too much though. EQ, Compression and Delay were added in Reaper.

As an aside, I have recently been getting into the Amplitube 4 amp sim and have gotten a tone I really like for the semi-hollowbody guitar. Still working on it for the strat and tele.

I didn't give the tele vs. nylon any thought really, the tele was the guitar I happened to have near at hand at the time.

EzDrummer2 has been my go to drums for a couple years now. The BIAB drums would have been just as good for this. The BIAB grooves are a great source for drum tracks as are the EZDrummer grooves, both played by professional drummers and both not quantized (not snapped to the grid). I've acquired several drum kits and a whole bunch of midi libraries. What I like about EZDrummer is I can switch between a bunch of drum kits, and I can easily modify patterns such as muting all but the high hat for this measure, or adding a crash to the 1 of this measure, or changing the hi hat pattern to a ride pattern, etc. and there are a lot of variations within one groove to select and develop a song from. Also, I have control of volume, panning, reverb, velocity and more over each individual element of the drum kit.

I use a free video editor called VSDC. I've tried a few different ones and this one seems to run the best on my PC. The issue I've had with video editing is that my PC gets overwhelmed when I have too many videos running simultaneously. VSDC has worked the best for this and I can easily run three videos at a time, and if I go past three I can lower the resolution during the editing process and I've been able to run five at the same time. This is all very dependent on how powerful of a computer you have; video editing is the most processor intensive thing I do on my computer.

Thanks for the questions, I like to nerd out on this kind of stuff.

Cheers

Frank

Some tunes from me and my collaborator: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvGqM6ktMW5ltTnyit1KWPg/videos


Band-in-a-Box Ultrapak 2019, Windows 11, Reaper, Behringer u-phoria UMC404HD, Kali LP-8