Randall822

Hi Planet,
Thanks for your review and comments. I appreciate you taking the time to listen to it and am glad you enjoyed it.

The 12 string I used was a newer Fender Strat 12 string. If I took off the extra 6 strings, it would sound like, and 'look' like a regular Strat.

The old hockey stick style I did own at one time and foolishly sold it. Now they are bringing in over $4,000.
Thanks for your input,
Randy

Hi djshade,
Thanks for listening to my latest venture. I appreciate your comment very much.
I used a set of drums that included a double bass/kick as I love that sound and decided to use it on this medley.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hello there,
Thanks for reviewing my song here.I tried to do a few different styles is all. Glad you enjoyed it.
Randy

Hello djsalkizar,
Thanks for listening and reviewing my Blues song.
'Slide' is fairly easy actually. You can tune your guitar to an open tuning like "E" or "G" which is the same as a normal Dobro and 5 string Banjo tuning, and when you strum across, you have a full chord without actually having to 'fret' the instrument.

Sounds cool. It is easier if you have 2 guitars tho....one tuned to normal and an extra one to fool around with. You can use slide in a normal "E" tuning, but you get a different sound.
Randy

Hey there Djsalkizar,
Thanks so much for taking the time to review a couple of my tunes. I appreciate it very much and will check yours out as well after I write this. As for the guitar tones, yeah...I really like to hear what I am playing so I mix the session so that the lead, whatever it is, always stands out on top.
After I stopped playing in my own band way back when, I owned a complete sound system and used to mix for bands by sitting out in the audience, and that way, I am hearing what they are hearing.....and I'd adjust the sound accordingly.
The biggest complaint I always heard from people when they listened to any band was....they could never hear the vocals. Well....I fixed that!
There is a lot of good talent here on Looperman and the diversity is amazing.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hello Mr. Six,
Thanks for taking the time to listen and review one of my humble songs. Not sure what you meant by recording with what? Instruments or Software, so I'll explain them both a little.

As for the software, I am using and learning as I go...Pro Tools 7.4. with a MBOX 2 Pro as the sound card interface,( a Firewire unit) and a Glyph GT 050 Q external hard drive as my totally dedicated audio hard drive. I record everything in Stereo!
(Also I use a Dell XPS M-1710 Laptop holding the main PT program).

Everything I play, or use as loops, goes thru that program/interface. All effects, and instruments.... and eventually vocals.

I have a variety of instruments here at home. At present, I own 9 electric guitars which include several Fender Telecasters, A Fender Strat, A Fender Strat Electric 12 string, 2 inexpensive acoustic guitars, (Yamaha and Johnson)
a newly aquired Dobro, and a '72 Framus electric (a Les Paul copy).
Also a Fender Precision Bass.

I have here and play, an Emmonds Double Neck 10 string Pedal Steel, a 5 string Banjo, and all other worldly and unworldy sounds come from a Korg Karma Workstation keyboard which also doubles as my MIDI input as needed.

My Instruments all plug directly into the 'MBox'.

If you'd like to see a picture of them all, I'd be glad to send you one.
Now... not bragging here, just that I have accumulated these instruments over time as I am 'old', and I learned to play them all over time as needed, when I was playing in my band, which was basically Country-Rock music.

Okay...hope this info helps, any suggestions you may have on how I can improve my music is appreciated. I do plan on taking one of my songs to a recording studio down the road here and have it 'Mastered' just to see what the difference would be with someone elses ears. Then maybe I can get a better 'full sound' like you hear on the radio.
Okay...thanks again for the review. I'll tell my friend you liked the song as well.
Randy

Hi there Meestege!
Good to hear from you and am glad you got to play my latest creation. Probably I should have sent you an E-mail.
As for my new Dobro, As you know I had to send the pickup back, so the replacement should be here this week. I am anxious to see what I can add to your song.
Later and thanks for the review..I'll review some more of your songs tomorrow as I'll have two days off work.
Randy

Hi there Mos'reQuest~,
Hey....thanks so much for listening/reviewing my song 'Blues 101'. I appreciate the review and will later today listen to some of your tunes as well and give you feedback.
Randy

Hi SEROKSATY,
Didn't look like I said 'Thank you', for reviewing my song here.
So thanks again, :)
Randy

Hi there SEROKSATY,
Thanks for the review. If you haven't already, take a listen to the Blues song I uploaded yesterday called 3 Part Blues. You may like that as well.
Thanks for your reviewing my Altern-Rock song as well. More to come.
Randy

Hi there Planet,
Glad to hear I would be able to please Jr. Brown. I'll never be as good as him though. ;-)
I'll do another Blues tune sometime later on......now I want to see what I can do with a 12 string.
Thanks again for your nice comments.
Randy

Hi Mokeone,
Thanks for reviewing my latest song. To answer your question on slide playing, I play the Dobro laying flat across my legs as it has a 'square neck', and use a steel Stevens type bar to slide with.
It is a type of bar that has 3 notches in it for holding onto.
The round neck guitar, you can play like a regular guitar. However, since I am already a Pedal Steel player, the square neck is easier for me to play. Plus since the Dobro is usually tuned to an open 'G', the upper 4 strings are tuned the same as a 5-string banjo...which I also play...thus kind of a natural fit if you will.
I am awaiting a new pickup from 'LACE' and then I can resume more cool sounds on it.
Glad you liked the song.
Randy

Hello there SEROKSATY,
Thanks for your review of my latest Blues song. I haven't played any of yours yet and will do so today, and give you a review back for sure.
The 1st. Blues song I made you might enjoy as well....altho it is a real slow Delta Blues type of song, all done with slide.
Randy

Hello Art,
Thanks for your review. I love that kind of rock guitar sound myself. It wasn't meant to copy anyone, but with so many 1,000's of songs out there, you can't help sounding a little like someone elses song.
Yeah, the Beatles playing/meeting was totally a suprise. But, again they weren't even famous yet. At least not in France.
My next song is a 2 part Blues song. I have it almost finished, but am working a lot of overtime, so it has to wait.
Thanks again for your review.
Randy

Thanks Blair. I had forgotten what 'all along the watchtower' even sounded like when I was making it......so it wasn't an influence at the time I made the song.
Thanks for your review
Randy

Hello there Art,
Thanks for the review. I certainly appreciate it.
Glad you like both parts. Since the individual songs were so short, I felt that I needed to do something...so I made the tune into 2 songs with totally different sytles. Sometimes your mind goes blank after starting a song. :-)

In my next Blues song, I have put in a Fender Strat again, doing some cool harmonics. Again it will be a 2 part song only because I couldn't get the 1st part out of my head and it is short.

Features mostly Dobro sound/slide as lead.
I'll check some of your songs here and give a review.
Randy

Howdy blairrock957..!
I appreciate your review of the country song. Yeah...I am kinda old, but healthy and will keep playing as long as my mind stays together! (ha)

I just bought a newer Dobro, so hopefully I can add more of that type sound to my songs, and keep up the quality I want.
Some of the faster guitar playing parts I can't do well, so I use sample/loop disk to help out....and often I play a part real slow when I am learning it, and then record it and then set the tempo to normal so ALL the parts fit together.

Sometimes I make up my own drum sets or use drums sets from Betamonkeymusic.com.
I have several big programs that have many drums sets in them, so I pick and choose which program I want to use...or...I make them up on my Korg Karma Keyboard unit if I can't find exactly what I want and don't want to go searching.
Thanks again for your review,
Randy

Hi there blairrock957,
Thanks so much for reviewing my tracks. I appreciate the nice comments. I agree the songs are a little short. However, It is hard making a instrumental unless you add in a lot of different instruments or parts....as a song will get boring pretty fast.
However, I'll try and make my next songs a little longer. :-)
I am just getting back into making music again after nearly over 20 year of hanging it up....because of rotating shiftwork.
Thanks again for the review.
Randy

Hi Slap,
Thanks for the review. This was the first song I ever did using combos of loops and my varied instrument talents. I am happy that you liked the song and it brought some good pictures in your mind. :-)
Since I am new to all this way of making music, it takes me awhile to produce.
More to come soon.....
Randy

Hi Mokeone,
I already answered you on this in another e-mail, but just wanted to say I appreciate your review here. Sounds like you had a lot of fun growing up as I have only seen what your talking about on the TV show, 'Hee Haw'. One of my favorites.
Thanks again...more coming!
Randy

Hello there Mokeone,
Sorry, it doesn't look like I responded to your review here. Sometimes I don't always get an e-mail showing that someone did a review of my
song(s).
Anyways, thanks for listening to it and your nice comments.
I may make some loops, just have to look into it more.
Sounds like from what I read, you can't make a very long loop at all. Just a few seconds? Some of mine would be maybe 10-15 seconds long.....like maybe 4 bars.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hello WhiteSands,
Doesn't look like I said 'Thank you' for reviewing my song here.
So Thanks! :-)
Randy

Hi Whitesands,
Thanks for the review. When my next Blues song comes out, you might want to consider buying a case of beer!
:-)
Thanks again,
Randy