Members Anderton Posted December 28, 2014 Members Share Posted December 28, 2014 Thanks again for your comments! [video=youtube_share;g9jdY1j7iMA] This is definitely the most developed video yet that Ive done...and I seem to still be on this slide guitar thang...hope ya like it and any suggestions are of course welcome before it goes public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philboking Posted December 29, 2014 Members Share Posted December 29, 2014 Nice video work. Kind of 'pop' sounding compared to what I've heard of you before. A little over-abundant in guitar sound - not volume, but quantity. Maybe you could add in a bit of keyboards for additional tonal colors? Or maybe there's a great reason you didn't; I don't know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted December 30, 2014 Author Members Share Posted December 30, 2014 Nice video work. Kind of 'pop' sounding compared to what I've heard of you before. A little over-abundant in guitar sound - not volume, but quantity. Maybe you could add in a bit of keyboards for additional tonal colors? Or maybe there's a great reason you didn't; I don't know... ...and that's why I post asking for feedback. There are two guitar parts (slide, and the rhythm guitar part clean and then also sent through distortion). But there's also a keyboard pad and a string part. I mixed them pretty far down to sort of "fill in the cracks" between the guitars but after reading your post, I tried increasing them in the mix and bringing down the distorted guitar in those sections to give them a little more "room." It does make the sound more "well-rounded" and in particular, there are some contrapuntal things going on with the strings that have more prominence now. So I think it's an improvement. It does take some of the "edge" off the song, but does give a more pop element and since it seems to be going in that direction anyway... The "good reason" for lots of guitars is I'm a better guitarist than keyboard player : The piano part in "I Want My Heaven Now" where I play an octave line was a fabrication...I couldn't play the octaves so I said screw it, recorded the melody line, and drag-copied it to add the same line an octave lower. Thank you! I really do find these comments helpful, just like I prefer to have someone look over an article before it goes to print. It never gets worse, and it almost always gets better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted December 30, 2014 Members Share Posted December 30, 2014 Very catchy pop tune and cute girl I like the way you use major chords for the first part of the chorus and then change to minor chords. I use that technique myself sometimes Who shoots you in these videos? Do you have a static camera and create an impression of a moving cameraman in the edit, or do you have a guy filming you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted December 30, 2014 Author Members Share Posted December 30, 2014 Very catchy pop tune and cute girl Public domain pictures from the internet... Who shoots you in these videos? Do you have a static camera and create an impression of a moving cameraman in the edit, or do you have a guy filming you? The camera sits on a tripod, and I put that on cardboard boxes to get the necessary height. All the motion is in the editing. My lighting consists of "is the sun shining today?" although I shot "I Want My Heaven Now" in the bathroom and just had the light on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted December 30, 2014 Members Share Posted December 30, 2014 The camera sits on a tripod, and I put that on cardboard boxes to get the necessary height. All the motion is in the editing. My lighting consists of "is the sun shining today?" although I shot "I Want My Heaven Now" in the bathroom and just had the light on. For some reason that made me LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted December 31, 2014 Members Share Posted December 31, 2014 Really like the song and the video..Love the finish! And embrace the "Slide Thang"..It's a good thang! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goober(s) Posted December 31, 2014 Members Share Posted December 31, 2014 Nice video work. Kind of 'pop' sounding compared to what I've heard of you before. A little over-abundant in guitar sound - not volume, but quantity. Maybe you could add in a bit of keyboards for additional tonal colors? Or maybe there's a great reason you didn't; I don't know... as a keyboard player, I actually like it the way it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted January 1, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 1, 2015 as a keyboard player, I actually like it the way it is. So as a keyboard player, you know I'm not that good Seriously, I compared a couple mixes and think I'll end up splitting the difference. The parts aren't interesting enough parts to justify getting lots of attention, but during the slide part if I increase the level of the z3ta 2 part a little bit and bump the distorted rhythm guitar down a tad, the slide gets more definition, it adds a variation, and the pad sort of "glues" the whole thing together. So you're both right...another reason I value this feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted January 1, 2015 Members Share Posted January 1, 2015 Craig, can you tell me how you process your vocals? You have a really good vocal sound going on there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted January 2, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 2, 2015 Sure, here's the screen shot. The heavy lifting is done by the compressor and the VX-64 Vocal Strip. The Chorus/Flanger is mostly to widen the stereo. The 1/8th note delay is a really important component of the sound, and also, the high shelf and slight upper midrange range to give the voice clarity. I also adjust the gain for individual words at the waveform level as needed so they feed the compressor with a consistent level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted January 2, 2015 Members Share Posted January 2, 2015 Fascinating. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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