Indian Soul (instrumental)

[Platefire]

In the 90's in the early days of my recordings, everything was an experment  
This is my first experment to make a three part harmony guitar solo. Some parts of the tune are two part harmony others are three. My wife told me it sounded like Indian music---so I call it "Indian Soul".

http://soundcloud.com/connie-and-bob-scott/30-indian-soul

[EL34]

Nice Plate

Did you overdub all those harmonies?

[Platefire]

Thanks! Yelp, that is a Tascam 424 4 track cassette recorder that I still have. I did so much recording in the 90's that I've got tons of cassette demo's I did then--so I hold on to that old tascam 424 so I can mix them down to mp3 or wav in the digital as required. The backup track was a Yamaha keyboard(bass/drums/piano) and the other three tracks were different gutiar parts. I had to feel my way through those parts trial and error until it seemed half way right. As I recall the gutiar was an Ibanez RG-450 direct into the ART SGX LT Preamp to recorder. I tried it, it was all right and then moved on. I used to be real impressed with big huge sounding harmoney guitar parts but its not such a bid deal to me anymore. Plate

[Ritchie200]

Plate, you are amazing!  Really cool stuff!  Had that 80's teen movie track feel to it.  I also have a 424 and to have ANYTHING come off of that THING worth listening to is a spectacular feat in itself!  I also have piles of cassettes laying around from stuff that I tried to do on that thing....  It was so noisy I don't think there is anything usable.

Keep them coming!

Jim

[Platefire]

Thanks! I love my 424. I can lay down an idea quicker on that than anything I've ever had. I keep wondering how long it will last before it bites the dust. I've used computers, Yamaha digital and now have a Tascam DP-02 8 track but the 424 is the fastest most easy. It's nice to have great recording equipment but for me I need to lay down an idea while I'm still inspired about it. If you go through too much of a headbanging process to lay something down sometimes you find yourself wearing out your inspiration before it's ever recorded. I personally would rather have it more inspired than technically proficient--- having both is better but without inspiration to me it's dead.    
 
When I got into recording in 1992 I read everything I could find on recording and producing. I subscribed to Electronic Musician for many years and devoured it. I'm certainaly no expert but I did learn a lot of tricks regarding controling noise and recording technique. Two very important facts I learned is:

1-Regarding noise control, controling your gain stages from instrument/vocal to the recording media
is very important. If you have several effect preamps/gain stages between your instrument/vocal to the tape/hard drive they have to be carefully tweaked to reduce noise at every stage. The more direct path with the least amount of gain stages to tape/hard drive/recording media is the most noise free pure sound.

2-A good recording must have a solid foundation to build on. In other words your drums, bass, keyboard and rhythem guitar needs to be perfect as you can get it. The best lead vocals or lead guitar in the world will not shine through very well on a shotty foundation.

This is a true good standard and I don't always live up to it but is still good practice when you can do it. I'M off my soapbox now! Platefire