theHumps

Hi Wayne, thanks for listening and really pleased that it was a good Christmas morning listen for you, and you liked it, that means a lot to me. Hope you are having a good Christmas.
Take care,
Mark

Yeah, this is unique :)

Nice to hear that i could make youre x-mas morning.

Have a nice x-mas Wayne
Thanks for the comment

stay tuned
joe

Glad I could get your Christmas off to a pumping start. Hope you had a good one.
I was going to leave it as one track but then I figured I still had five minutes left to fill so I thought I might as well carry on.
Cheers for stopping by and comenting as always.
FR

Hey Wayne, great to hear from you on this track! Like I mentioned to StaticNomad, The Clash is definitely one of my biggest dub related influences, and I like what they did with other styles too. the album "Sandanista" especially. I'm really digging the new guitar, and it has encouraged me to play more, so that can't be bad... I even fixed the set up on my Jackson finally! Going to re work the pickups on the box guitar as soon as I get the parts from Thailand (been waiting for almost a month already!). They were only temporarily affixed for ease of adjustment. I suppose I'm starting to be proud, but mostly just thankful to have so many awesome instruments around the studio now. Also I am thankful for your listen and comment!

Greetings!

"Are you plugging directly in and using amp software or are you mic'ing an amp?"

I'm going direct into a multi-effects pedal for some treatment, then to the AudioBox. I have "Ampire", but it's pretty gnarly on CPU. If I have four Midi drum tracks and have more than one instance of Ampire going, it starts peaking my CPU bar and playback is crackly and computer gets generally stressed.

"A new PRS, you lucky bastard!! I've only played one at the store and really liked it."

I played one here at good old Guitar Center and thought it seemed very smooth. Strat frets are too high and Ibanez sound like ass when you're trying to get a sweet, soaring tone. I had it shipped from Indiana to Missouri and it was still in tune. The only real bitch of the ordeal, was when it arrived, it was really cold outside, and there was a big sticker on it saying I need to wait 6 to 8 hours for the guitar to adjust to the temperature of the room to protect the finish.... So there I was,... waiting,... staring,... lusting. Longest 5 and a half hours ever. Didn't wait the six.

"Explain to me...your guitar playing experience. As a bass player, I didn't play the electric guitar until I started home recording a few years ago, a late bloomer in that regard."

Sounds like me. I got an Epiphone P-bass Fender rip-off at about 16. Played it for years and learned Tool's music. That was when I fell in love with the bass guitar. Justin Chancellor made it seem so much like a lead instrument, I didn't see why not. I had nobody to play music with, so the bass never too that secondary role that it usually takes. It was always the star.

When I started recording, I realized the Epiphone was not going to give me the clean sound I want. I bought an Ibanez SR600 and that it what you hear on everything of mine.

As far as the guitar, I've had an acoustic Squier for a while that I've learned some Floyd and Zeppelin on, but I've never learned any chords. I know three, and one's a bar! I'm learning "Amie" from Pure Prairie League, and was thrilled that it contained the three chords I know!!!!! What luck!

"Thought the mix was a bit over compressed."

After I read that, I went into the project and looked at the master, and I usually have a Multiband Dynamic Compressor on it with the mix at around 30 percent. That bitch was cranked to 100!!! Thank you for pointing that out. I have that effect templated to load in a certain way, so I must have brought it in with a drop-down or something. Anyway, yes. You were right. I'll do a new mixdown and upload soon.

Thanks again!

Evan

long live phi zappa crappa. honestly he is a compositional hero of mine. why don't you download this puppy and graffiti it up a little?!

Hey Wayne, good to have your listen and feedback! Nice to hear that you liked looking at the guitar as well! I did a little fine tuning on the guitar this morning... some tightening and reorienting of the treble pickup mostly. So I guess what you're saying is that it not very pop? I don't think what I think of as pop is what others do, so it makes sense. The "claws in me" words kept going through my head lately, so just had to develop the idea. It felt appropriate for so many different circumstances. "I knew exactly what happened when I read the reply on that other track." - I guess I'm having trouble remembering what reply you speak of. Thank you very much for stopping by!

Bang a gong, indeed, lol! (Always loved that song, btw.)

Thanks allot, Wayne. Glad you like it and took the time to comment. We really appreciate it.

Ciao,
M.

Thanks a lot Wayne. I thought this title would fit nicely a song like this...
I appreciate your nice words and am happy that you liked the song. Thanks again! Alex

Thank you! The guitar part isn't mine. Sergey Hartwick played it - and sent it back together with the voice. So - I can do nothing.)

Hey Wayne,

Thanks allot for chiming in and hitting me up with your kind words.

The guitar is my friend, Midiman James. The harp is actually from a Mellotron VST I have which James found for me after I told him it was one of my favorite instrument.

Cheers,
Scott

Yo.

So hard to say how long it takes to put this complex, lengthy stuff together. Many different sessions of varying lengths. I’ve made this one over the last 2-3 weeks whilst working on others as well as having a week’s break when it was pissing me off. So, pretty quickly made for me.

Yes, I can get tired of listening to long pieces over and over again. However, it’s also a damn good test of whether parts/sections are good enough. With this one, I found myself enjoying listening to it over and over again – a good sign. I’m always amazed at how many small things I can keep improving when listening again and again (and to different parts) and taking some action over anything and everything that pisses me off in any way. So, endless little volume corrections and small touches of automation, guitar edits etc

One difficulty in making such long stuff is that I’m generally working on fairly short looped sections at a time so it can be hard to see how the whole thing is coming together. I always start every new session by listening to the whole thing from the start, just to familiarise myself with every sound and element present.

I like the phrase “the laser show” and agree it’s a bit odd. Probably doesn’t quite fit in this track, which is much more on the beautiful side. I do have an idea to fix that – vocode that laser sound with a more beautiful synth sound and see if they merge in a way that softens the laser. Or maybe I won’t bother. Laser craziness ain’t exactly my signature sound but it is kind of fun.

“I liked how the guitars took over and ended it all”

That’s mostly distorted bass that you’re hearing, not guitar, though there is also a return to the very first, funky clean guitar part heard in the track. Strange having clean guitar over distorted bass. And now it’s uptempo, racing stuff rather than the original mid tempo funky.
This track has actually been No1 on the intergalactic Thousand Year Track charts for the last 3,000 years.

“the 1,000 year version is beyond my listening capacity”
Not if you make it into my heaven. Lots of time there for you to bask in this musical millennium journey. Whilst munching on some mangoes.

“congrats on finally finishing up that one!”

Yeah, it took quite a bit of computer processing power and I had to incorporate about a thousand genres to keep things interesting. Some have never been heard on this planet. So, that’s something to look forward to if you make it into my heaven. That and all the mangoes.

Thanks again.

Yeah it was loops. I tend to upload songs, get feedback, and then re-upload them to make them as best as I can. Thanks for the feed back!

Hey Wayne,

Many thanks, my friend. You know, I was a disco hater too, when it first emerged. I thought it would hurt us playing musicians, but I joined a 9 piece disco/funk band and I loved it. I remember having to tie my bell bottom cause it kept getting caught in the beater of my kick drum pedal! I still don't have allot of disco in my collection, but smile when I hear it on the oldies stations.

Thanks allot for your kind words.

Cheers,
Scott

Hello Wayne!

I am happy you enjoyed the track! It is always good to have a fresh pair of ears, so thanks for yours!

Love and Light,

Mykael

Always good to hear from you Wayne...your comments like this one are always highly appreciated. I'm really glad you liked this one so much and thanks for the fav!:)

With appreciation____Orlando

Hey mate,sorry for the late reply...thank you so much for your kind words,yes this is the bass I made (which is undergoing a total body metamorphose as we speak (as I type! lol)..bass tone,bass tone it's my grail I think haha...I was watching an old Spaghetti Western awhile back and thought,Wayne and I could write a better sound track! lol (which is true)..thank you again for taking the time to listen mate...cheers from Dave,Detlef and Steve. :)

Thank you! The piano sound in the song is demolished by distortion :)

/Anders

hi Wayne, I am really glad that you liked my playing. Yes, I made the drums using EZ plugin also with some percussions from ferryterry and other single percussive sounds. Basically this track combines fast 4/4 and slower 6/8 feel and that's why it is still listenable.

Great to hear from you again! Thanks for your nice words, Alex

Hi Wayne

Good to hear from you. I hope all is well.

Thank you very much for your kind words. It is rewarding when I get comments that make is all worth while and "superb, clean and clear" are just knockout. Thank you. Glad you liked the solo too.

Best

Richie

Yeah, you should get into slide. I did in about 2005 after watching a Black Keys DVD (back when it was just the two of them and they were really good) and have never looked back.

I really haven't. I changed my tuning to DADFsharpAD and that has remained my tuning ever since. I'm a bit lost if I play in regular tuning these days. So, I use that tuning now for all guitar playing, not just slide.

Slide would really suit a lot of what you do and it's an extremely sensual way of playing. Opens up all those microtones. I recommend a glass slide on the little finger. Can't understand people who put it on the third as that screws up your fretting hand whereas if you don't want to use it, you've still got three fairly unhampered fingers so can do all your usual shapes.

When I'm playing with the slide, I try not to overdo it so that when I add the slide, you really notice it. Some passages are pure slide (quite a few in this one) but it's a killer physical acoustic effect to hit from time to time.

Yes, this is a shorter one in which I don't switch into a whole bunch of other styles. It's a lot more consistent. Like a few ideas rather than my usual 10,000 in one track.

I've done slide playing across so many different styles (jazz, funk, electro, metal, grunge, blues, rock, d'n'b, reggae etc and more to probably come) but this is one of the more consistent blues ones, even though it's no regular blues.

"You said you trimmed some guitar bits"

Damn right I did! I do that all the time in every single track as I'm one of the laziest players out there. I'm the king of "fix it in the mix" though with me it's more "write the composition after jamming away for a while" as it is fixing bad notes and general errors/average and not especially interesting playing. I don't know if there's anyone else who has the same working method as me but I guess I'd only find out if I actually worked closely with someone on playing, recording, editing etc
"not knowing when to stop adding to the composition"

Yeah, you do that a bit and it could be said that I do it a lot. However, I try to make all that layering my special sort of unique sound. Complex and constantly changing but hopefully nothing interfering too much with anything else. So hard to know if I always (ever?) get it right. And that's partly down to the editing and mixing skills.

Anyway, I liked it, you liked it and that's the main thing, even if it is a bit rough around the edges in places. A bit like a lot of my work, I guess.

Good to hear from you on a pretty old track. Hopefully it's kind of timeless!