Thank you guys, you're all too nice! As I said before - enjoy the patches and soon there'll be plenty more where that came from! :twisted
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Very nice. Sounds excellent. All the energy is there. I've always loved the juxtaposition of the almost ADD-like guitars and Idol's almost Valium-like calm in his vocal lines. Just makes it all more better.
Anyhow, yea, this is top freakin' notch man. I enjoyed every second of that. Solo was killer. Synth sound after the solo in the break down section was wicked.
Question for you: for the recording, did you have the exact tempo for the click track or did you just kind of free form at the beginning there?
Thanks! I had a blast making these patches and recording the song. I just copied the drumbeat 4 bars and played on top of that, then removed it. I tone matched the original later in Logic.
Wow ! Outstanding job!
About the only criticism I can offer is the two note synth thing in the verses seems to end a little abruptly. Perhaps add some reverb or something to let it tail out more naturally.
Well, now I haven't played this song through headphones since I don't have any good pair. But in my monitors, a couple of US made V8's, it's just what I was going for. In the original recording - it's about the same. They actually did this quite a lot in the 80s - blending different "spaces" and reverbs. Kinda makes the mix interesting. But details come out really well in head phones and I could make some adjustments to it sounds really off unnaturally weird.
Amazing!! That is spot on! Totally agree with everything being said. The guitar solo was great, the synth sounds are awesome and the total song smoked!
Thanks a ton, Groovenut! You're the man!
Nice.
And what a beautiful tyler! (Not a big fan of the burning water/vomit finishes).
Thanks! The top is a AAAA grade tiger stripe maple. It has a thinner and faster neck than the Tyler's made today.
Me neither. But IMHO looks are always secondary. If the guitar is good, I don't care what color or finish it has.
Excellent tones and performance. How do you do the ray gun sound in the solo? Is it in the patch for the solo and how it could be activated?
The ray gun sounds are edited in the recording since playing the solo was, on its own, a challenge - at times I am hanging on for dear life... :lol But if you want to use the solo patch live you can attach the mixer channels to one controller switch on your foot controller unit. Set the mixers channel slide controllers to work opposite of each other, i e when the guitar sound is feeding the amp, the ray gun is quiet and vice versa. This way you can kick in the ray gun when you want and bypass your guitar sound. It's very easy...
Just as an aside, I went to high school with Steve in the mid-70s, when he was just Steve Schneider. He was hot for my sister at the time. *LOL* I was in the school band at the time and every year we would sponsor a rock concert to raise dough. I worked the lights one year when his band played - they did a very credible version of Roundabout. I was a major Yes freak at the time and the chick who was singing needed me to feed her the lyrics during the performance, as she was having problems remembering them. Ah, the good old days!
Sounds like fun times. Ha ha, great! Do you have any pictures, concerts, yearbooks and stuff you wouldn't mind posting? It's always interesting to see how people looked in their school days. Yes, Yes are great. As a matter of fact I'm working on a cover of "Owner of a Lonely Heart". That'll sure generate some patches - let me tell you... But I will post that in few weeks maybe. Thanks!
That's not a Variax. Looks like a Studio Elite.
Yes, that's right. This is a 1991 James Tyler Studio Elite. It has a mamywoo body, maple top and neck. Really resonant body, slim neck and super hot output pickups. The electronics are all toggle switches, which makes it cover a lot of different pickup combinations and tones. It sure lives up to its name, Studio Elite: Really versatile guitars. Highly recommended!
