The House Of The Rising Sun - Joe Funktastic

And it baffles me tremendously Eric why you perform in Trance. Nothing wrong with Trance man. I do a little Trance on the side once in a while. But you appear to me as a person with refined music tastes. I did the Harmonic with Chris Hein's Harmonica VST. It was the closest harmonica sound I could find that had enough realism that I was looking. I used Toontrack Superior. It has a lot of tweakable options. It was fun doing this one bro. When I do songs like this I really show my age too much. I was much alive back then. It came out in 1964. Not sure about the brothel part as this song was loosely based on a folksy blues song of the 1920s and 30s. Hey, thanks for stopping by for the review there Eric!

Cheers!
Joe

Grab a coat. No, really thanks so kindly. I really appreciate the listen and comment.

Joe

Wow, sounds like you got a lot of rich music history Damon. Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan can really blow that harp.

I am virtually playing my harp Damon.

I really appreciated your comments and your listen to this song. Not bad for a burger king! ah ha ha!

Cheers!
Joe

In Beantown, we are world champions BABY!!! Hey there young man, I can say that because I think I got you beat by about year Wayne, ah ha ha! :-) Well, we had snow recently, so bring on the winter man! I'm tough!

Hey, thanks for the review Wayne, it always a pleasure to hear from you. Well, when you do a song like this you got to get things right. It took me about 3 months to get this one done. The bulk of my time, about two-thirds of it, was spent on mastering. I decided to just spend more time with my tracks these days and to slow this dog and pony show down a tad, bus by bus, bit by bit, all the way to tweaking and shaping my hi-hats with a bit of color. It got crazy Wayne, I almost scrapped the whole thing because I had too many concurrent tasks going on all at once that I nearly lost focus for a time at what I was doing. Fortunately, I was able to call on Mr. Funktastic to settle me down. So I went into WWJFD mode (What Would Joe Funk Do.)

So the whole thing got interesting when I decided to tackle the separation of frequencies in each of the multi-track bus layers on my console. I relied mostly on Low and High pass filters to carve out and also isolate some frequencies, and gentle compression which is why the mastering got kind of crazy.

Funny you say soulful in a good way. I was not even leaning to any particular sound or doing anything on purpose to shape the genre. But I guess you are right, kind of on the soulful side and I seriously did not even notice that until you mentioned that, thanks Wayne.

All is good here, but as much as I love music, I love my family in more ways impossible to measure. But I somehow managed to find the happy medium or is it median, I always mess that one up. Bosox all the way!

Cheers Wayne!
Joe

Thank so much. I try. But this gave me a challenge, but in the end, I tamed this wild beast. Thanks so much!

Joe

Thanks, I really appreciate that. Just doing what I do. Thanks again!

Joe

Hey Kyle! OOps, sorry it took so long to reply. Hey man, I appreciate the listen. There are so many different genres of music on this bro. I appreciate the listen and review.

Joe

I was once called Joe the butcher. I sliced mostly lunch meats, thin sliced. Almost seemed like another life back then. Well, I appreciate the listen.

Joe

Thanks I needed that. I appreciate the listen

Thanks Rygel. Well, you know the Harp(harmonica) comes in many types like a horn or drum does. The real small ones have 10 holes and the larger ones have 16 holes for a richer sound like the ones Stevie Wonder uses. The one heard in the lead here is 10 hole one which has a higher pitch and not that full sound like Stevie. Thanks again!

Thanks, the drums alone took 3 days to master by themselves with separation of frequency band work and compression. Thanks a lot. Peace!

Thanks bro, that's the key. Have your own sound. Don't sound like the guy before you. Thanks for the listen!

Hey! It is my favorite Looperman man, ha ha ha! Man, I wondered where you have been, seriously! The fact is I owe you a lot for your advice bro! Hey I know that sounds weird but one day I will explain it all.

Thanks for stopping by man and checking it out and dropping some comments. That was truly appreciated!

Cheers from Joe!

Thanks Ludwigbroo! Well you see I got an excellent collection of instruments. Kontakt 5 gives me those closest thing to an authentic sound as possible. Thanks so much for the review.

Cheers from Joe!

Hey Mykael!

Wow, always A high honer hearing from man. How are you? Geez, thanks brother man. I think if one is going to do a classic they better A game. One day I gonna ask you to sing for me man on a classic song man. I appreciate you stopping by.

Love, Peace and Light to you too man!
Joe

Hey Neo,

Nice to hear from you man! You know I thought about funking thinks up and then I said no way. This one was hard and if I blow it then things might not go to well for me. So I went with a direction on how I felt at the time rather than trying to force the funk which is never a good idea. This one has been performed by so many artists in different genres that many of those versions sound quite different. But I would never do a cover if I unsure of myself. All the same, thanks my musical brother for the heartfelt comments. I got tons of respect for you do as well. Thanks!

Cheers from Joe!

G'day mate! Really nice to hear from you Dave! Hey Dave, I want to share something with you. When I first arrived here I was a hip-hop artist and it was one of the worst decisions I ever made in music. Hip-Hop and now Trap music seems to be the default genre most new young people fall into. For me, as I said I fell into hip-hop too at that time, but about year into my account back then I met AllenV and I learned from him the value of being yourself musically through direct contact with him. He never sold out and was true to himself. I liked what I saw and heard from him. You talk about teaching this old dog (me), a new trick!

I deleted all of my hip-hop songs back then and said I am Funky, musically of course. That's who I am and I have stayed the course ever since. But more recently I started having flashbacks on some of the other songs my parents played around me musically when I was a kid. I soon discovered that songs like this one here are as much as a part of my life as funk is. Quite honestly this one made me feel good about myself. Doing todays popular music now appeals far less to me now. Isnt music supposed to make you feel good? Why give a damn about SC followers, make whats in your heart, I am sure there people who feel the same. So even if only one person enjoys my songs, I would say to myself, GREAT! Because now I am being true to myself. You would never see me posting in that SoundCloud rat race chasing follers instead of focusing on what really matters, and that is making great music.

Okay, enough about me rambling on about whatever. It's people like you Dave that make this site great by your devotion, contribution, support, excellent humour, talent, and awesome music. You are great human citizen and musician that shares with us, keep up the great work there mate! Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers from Joe!

Cheers there mate! Always pleasure to hear from good people I truly respect. This one fun SP. I truly appreciate comments coming from talented people such as yourself. Well SP, all the instruments are mine. I used tabs on most of it and poured a ton of mastering into it my friend. Sometimes I dream about those days and I think I would of been happier as an adult in my prime in those days. The music was way better back them to me. But I must say there is lots of new talent today trying to heard as well. You got some excellent and talented people with you, congrats again mate!

On my song I used a lot of Kontakt based instruments, and tweaked them to perfection which is really cool to do. I am freeing myself from presets my friend and using my ear more. Always good to here from friends on the other side of the pond!

Cheers from Joe!

Thanks brother man! I appreciate that. You are into all sorts of music. That is a sign of a great musical person. Creativity starts when one opens their mind to other possibilities beyond their own comfort zone. Thanks for the comments and review. Cheers from Joe!