E-Guitar meets orchestra composition - any good?

Hi, I'd like to ask you for your opinion and advice on this work-in-progress of mine: Electric guitar accompanied by a symphonic orchestra.

MP3, 2.2MB GuitarMeetsOrchestra

What do you think of it with respect to composition and sound? Is this any good?

I'm looking forward to your comments!

Bye

Stoertebeker

I reworked the thing in large parts, so I'd recommend listening to this version:

Guitarorchestra

What do you think of it?

EDIT: Fixed the link

Nice work...

I like both, but I like the second version better. I like that you have a conversation with the orchestra rather than drowning it out by craming as many lead notes in as possible (as many lead guitarist's do). You flow with it, and let the orchestra get their words in too.

Very nice work.

tres cool! i liked the arrangement and the tones (except for the synth strings, this cries out for real strings). there are some really great moments in there chordally, as well. nice vibrato technique on the guitar, very subtle and musical. at times the acoustic at the beginning "rubber-banded" the compressor (did you record that track direct with a mod?) when the strings were hit hard but not too bad and i like the delay on that sound.

i listened to the first link, the second one didn't work.

overall- A

The link is now working correctly!

I took out the acoustic section in the newest version (see my post above) 'cause I felt the "galloping" strings didn't integrate well. Instead I added a newly composed beginning/end section and re-recorded some of the guitar parts.

First of all: Thank you all very much for your comments!

@scott:

I'm not exactly sure what you mean. In both versions the clean and distorted guitar sounds were recorded using a PODxt. The orchester was programmed using Edirol's HQ Orchestra. I used Ableton Live 5 as a sequencer.

It definately does. Unfortunately neither hiring a real symphonic orchestra is an option, nor buying a more advanced plug-in like Vienna Symphonic Library - both would be FAR to costly. So I will have to stick with the somewhat limited capabilities of that Edirol program and try to get the maximum out of it. So there's maybe 25 % of "headroom" regarding the strings sound quality.

Thanks, but I'm not completely satisfied with it: As you can hear on some parts i get the feeling right, but screw up technically, on others i play technically correct but miss timing cues or play not as expressive as I'd like. Hopefully I'll manage to incorporate all three elements in my playing someday :-)