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TonyFlyingSquirrel

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Giving Up The Ghost: Lead Tracking
« on: August 06, 2016, 09:09:41 pm »
I'm on staycation, got the In-Laws visiting, enjoying some down time, and got the inspiration to re-lay down a lead track for this song.  The first lead was laid down with my ole faithful TFS6, but I just didn't feel like its voice was giving the track the best of what the track needed.  The TFS6 is very much a heavy rock guitar, and very good at it, but I needed a voicing that "breathed" a bit more, so I reached for my Bari-Tele, which is tuned down a whole 4th.  I transposed the range from the TFS6 in standard tuning & found the starting position on the Bari-Tele, then laid down a "test track" with it.  I think this voicing is better suited for this song, which is called "Giving up the Ghost", a tribute/honorarium to my dad, and the lyric takes place during the few minutes that I held his hand as he transitioned passing from this world to the next
https://youtu.be/tjqIx7z6JBw

By the way, studio is painted and acoustically treated, and I hear a big difference.  No more 15ms Flutter Echo, it's down to a minimal early reflection at the very most, standing at the rear-most position in the room.  It sounds fantastic at the mixing/monitoring seated position.

Most of the synth pieces you hear are from the Arturia V-Collection.  There is the Arp-2600-v, Solina-v, Modular-v, CS80-v.
The organ is prior to me acquiring the newer version of the V-Collection, so this is Pro-Tools' DB-33 organ plugin.
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