Lee Knight

I'm scared. It's really silly that I'm feeling this way but I don't want to mess it up. I want to teach my soon to be 9 year old daughter how to play the guitar. She's been asking...

I've got her a Little Martin beginners guitar for Christmas and we'll start shortly after. Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how to approach this?

A good beginner's book? How frequently we work on this?

I'm always uncomforable giving input towards something that sounds so good. My comments were based solely on a first impression of what I'd do. It sounds way cool as is...

Maybe I'm not talking air on the vocalist but that presence that comes between 1 and 4k. Something to put her right in my ear. Not a ton, but I think she deserves to win the fight with the snare, as cool sounding as IT is.

I mentioned Morcheeba earlier. They get her hovering just above everything else...

Or...

It's completely done and finished and sounds GREAT!

I lost myself in that one. Really cool zip/zap effects. Morcheeba-esque?

Now for the suggestions... I think the snare is too present. It needs to be murky too fit the vibe. Vocal needs more air.

In other words, bring the singer forward, and move the drummer back about 8 feet.

Very cool stuff... very groovy.

Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe Hey Lee - well done. I particularly liked the classic jangle of tracks like "Add Water" and "Goin' Places". Good stuff. I also enjoyed "Neophyte, and detect a bit of Costello influence in the vocal approach on that one. Again, well done all the way around! I'm headed to listen to the MP3 you emailed me next...

Thanks for the nice words Phil. This was done when I was still at 16bit and it was tough at times to make it present sounding without it piercing your skull with like sonic laser beam.

The Neil Diamond cover I sent you was at 24bit and much easier to pound into shape. That's my buddy John Chatfield doing his best Truth era Jeff Beck impersonation. Go Johnny go!

I think this sounds great. If you're looking for suggestions, or things to try here are a couple, but I think it sounds great as is...

Try spreading things out a bit maybe?

Ac guitar 50% to the left with a nice room ambience spread 100% left and staight up the middle.

Elec guitar (nice playing!)I'd do the same opposite side with the same type ambience. The electric needs to be put just slighly behind the voice, not in level but with the ambience.

Bass sounds great but I'd go for more subs. Like Freebo used to do with Bonnie Raitt. Cool natural tone but with a bit more 60Hz.

Nice vocal tone .

It's bitchin' though as is.

We just released our album on Zip Records! Mark DeCerbo and Four Eyes. I'm one of the eyes...

I played bass, shared guitar duties, keys, vocalized in the background, etc., recorded it at my studio, mastered, coproduced it, cowrote a couple.

Here's what Not Lame Records said about it...

"These are sophisticated, carefully crafted, extremely well produced songs that have had a lot of thought put into them to yield the delights here. Theres an intimate feel to all this gorgeous material and its never in a rush to get to that catchy chorus. This one that will reward and grow extreme pleasure, rest assured. Big Time Extremely Highly Recommended!"

And now I present this labour of Power Pop Love to you in the form of horrible sounding MP3 clips! Mmmm, tastes good! Enjoy.

http://www.ziprecords.com/artists/markdecerbo/index.shtml

I just noticed I'm a "Junior Member". I LIKE that!

I'm finaly here. I took a right on Mohacky Blvd. instead of a left! Then I found a great Fat Burger and had to stop. Then I had to stop again...

...but I made it.