My very 1st soundclip! The "Maxim OD" Blues

[Geezer]

Well, i finally figured out how to record clips (please don't laugh, it's my very 1st take & mix)

The amp is my new "Maxim OD" which is a HoSo pentode preamp into a switchable Dumble-ish "Bluesmaster HRM" OD section. I'm still trying to find the "sweet spot" on the OD.....even a tiny twist of the controls gives pretty large changes.
PA is LTPI > 2x6V6 cathode biased

I started with the "clean" channel, then go to the OD, then just switch around (even throw in the middle pup for some "out of phase-ish" tones.) Guitar is the #1 Ibanez Strat HSH

Critiques welcome........ Can't figure out how to "fade out" @ the end of the tune....
edit:new link has the correct "fade out"

Bm Blueswithfade.mp3

BTW, still tweaking the amp to taste

[bigdaddy]

Phat sound man....cool......a little mix of Albert and BBs thrill is gone background.

To fade on a recording you just slowly bring down the master volumes on both sides during the final mix down. But you practice first to get it right, it takes a little touch to do it smoothly. You might try and get fancy and first bring down the whole band before your guitar and then bring them up again before the final fade. You can be creative depending on how many channels you have and the complexity of your recording equipment. That's why they are some times called faders, you can use them just like that and fade away....

[tubenit]

WHOA !!!!!!!!!

and WOW !!!!!!!!!  

Two comments:  

You're quite a player!  Very very tasty chops.  I loved it.

The amp sounds fabulous to me. I can't say I've heard anything I liked better tone wise. You can hear the blooming effect and the harmonics just sound superb.

Jeff, I'm very impressed with your tone and playing!!   Thanks for sharing it. Hope to hear lots more from you.

To fade at the end ............ just lower the volume of the backing track and the lead work (using the volume edit gizmo)

With respect, Jeff

[JayB]

Sounds really sweet and excellent playing.  I just finished a bluesmaster hrm build with some what of a different approach.

Fade outs are usually done with programmed level adjustments. Each program does it differently so, hard to tell you exactly how to do it.

[Rev D]

 Sounds great! Nice playing, good sounding amp! For fades I've always used audacity if I recall, it had a function to just mark where you want the fade out to occur and it processes it, save the file, done. Anyway nice job man.

Regards,

Rev D.

[pullshocks]

Great playing and a good sounding set up.  Geeze on, dude.

[bnwitt]

Or you can use soundforge and just drop a fade out process at the beginning of the desired fade to the end point. 

Great tone and I definitely loved the choice of notes   It touched my blues bone

[Geezer]

I figured the fade out....in mixcraft, you highlight the section you want to fade the volume down, then hit "alt+2" & it automatically fades the master down to the exact end of the song!

I'm sure there are tonnes of features I'll never figure out in this program, but glad I got that one nailed!
Thanks for all the good comments. I'm looking forward to doing more clips......I suspect I'll be like the toddler that is late in learning to talk, then you can't get him to shut up!   

[bigdaddy]

It's that easy.....I worked years on getting it just right for recording and even live sound I would use that effect some times. I did a lot of weddings..."MY BIG FAT ITALIAN WEDDING"....I can't tell you how much Calamari I ate every weekend.......If you let any feedback happen you were fired....LOL.

[LooseChange]

Cool!  The clean sounds very Dumble like.

[EL34]

Nice job!!!
Great tone and playing!
I love minor key stuff

Looks like you have already figures out one way to fade.

I do it this way in mixcraft because each track may fade out at a different rate than the track next door
And so I adjust each track to fade at the desired rate based on what I want to hear on the fade out.

For example, the drums may fade out later than the keyboards
Or a vocal may fade out at a slower rate than the guitar

If you click on the track you will see the volume line appear.
Click right on on the volume line and it will drop a small dot at that point.
Go to the end of the track and pull the end volume down to zero

I'll post a screen shot later of how it looks

[EL34]

Ok, here's a screen shot showing several different things in Mixcraft 5

Notice at the top of the screen that you can select clip volume or several other things that can be altered along the length of the clip like clip pan, etc
Once you select something at the top, the line that show up in a clip are related to what you selected at the top
So, if you are working on pans, the blue dots are left and right pan points

Here, I have selected clip volume at the top of the screen

When you click on a clip, you can add dots/points to whatever function you are working on.
You can change volume, pans, etc
 
You can then grab those points you added and pull them up or down
You can change volume levels during playback to whatever you like all along the whole clip.
Look at the clip on the bottom. I pulled the volume level up and down several times

Notice how the last blue dot on the right is pulled down to zero
That is how you fade out a clip
The dot to the left of the last blue dot is where the fade out begins.
You have to add a dot at this point or you would be fading out the whole clip from the start point or the last dot you added.

You can control where each track starts to fade out and how long it fades out.

You can put the dots anywhere on a clip and control sections that may be too loud or you may want to pan the clip left and then right, etc

Mixcraft 5 also has track automation controls for volume, pan and any effects you may add, but that is a subject for another day.

[CraigB]

Geezer, that sounds great in all aspects - nice playing; love the tone, very nice sounding amp; + very good recording quality!  Really, I've heard demos on several boutique amp company websites that didn't sound near as good.  Bravo!

[jhadhar65]

Hey, that's fantastic!  I love the sound of that EF86 in there.  Like others have said - very good playing.  Playing like that would sound good even if the amp sucked.

Oh, yes, and good engineering, too.  First clip you say?  I know I haven't heard your stuff before, so I believe you, but I certainly wouldn't have believed you otherwise.

This is very good and thanks for posting it.

[Geezer]

Thanks for all the kind comments.

I was thinking about the "engineering" today.....I suppose everything is perfectly flat, because I never even tweaking an EQ or anything of the kind........very strange  :shocked:

[AZJimC]

Yes Sir! I like that picking! Good job all the way on that from design, implementation, to recording, all with good picking as well. Thanks for sharing that.

Jim

[tubenit]

Listened to the tune for about the 12th time or so.......

What a great tone!  I sure enjoyed your playing. Wonderful phrasing.  You knocked it out of the park.

With respect, Jeff

[DummyLoad]

nice pickin' geezy!  :-)  ...and great tone!

thanks for sharing.

--ISO

[Madison]

Good stuff!

>>I suppose everything is perfectly flat, because I never even tweaking an EQ or anything of the kind

Sometimes less is more.