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a track from my band, am540...
a track from my band, am540...
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toddlgreene
38 posts
Oct 14, 2009
9:18 AM
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Hopefully this link will work...please let me know if you can't access it:
http://www.box.net/shared/0sxp7obh0z
I front an all-original band here in New Orleans called am540, doing lead vox, harmonica and percussion. This is a tune that the engineer and I finished mixing last night at Fudge Studios for our first album. It's a duet with myself and a local gal named Dana Abbott. This definitely isn't a blues song-more of a semi-cutesy Phish meets Blues Traveler kinda thing. Let me know what you think.
p.s.-there's about :39 seconds of silence in the beginning
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I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
Last Edited by on Oct 14, 2009 10:12 AM
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jaymcc28
167 posts
Oct 14, 2009
10:27 AM
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Listening to it right now. Cute, catchy tune. Definitely Popper influenced on the harp sound. I like it, I'd listen to it again :)
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toddlgreene
39 posts
Oct 14, 2009
10:39 AM
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Thaks Jay, the feedback is appreciated, especially positive feedback! ;-) I've got a slightly darker tune with harp that we haven't mastered yet that I can share when I get it, plus I have some other non-harp songs from last night's session I may share...hell, here's another, called Bandolier. I just sing on this one-no harp. Guitar player is Sean Arrillaga, who trained with New Orleans great Cranston Clement.
http://www.box.net/shared/90k863s234
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I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
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Ryan
11 posts
Oct 14, 2009
6:08 PM
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I'm sure people get tired of hearing this question, but what kind of amp/effects are you using? It sounds similar to the sound Sugar Blue gets. Thanks.
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wallyns10
32 posts
Oct 14, 2009
11:12 PM
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Solid man, its groovy...it does smell kind of phishy haha. I like it, who wrote it?
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toddlgreene
41 posts
Oct 15, 2009
5:34 AM
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Thanks fellas! Ryan, when I play live, I play through a locally-made amp-a KJL Dirty Thirty combo, which currently has a Celestion 12" in it, and has NOT yet been 'voiced' for harp, so I have to keep the bass, midrange and treble settings turned down.. Go to www.kjlamps.com and check out Endorsees(yeah, it's purple)for a pic or two. I normally use a modded Shaker crystal mic that has a tranformer installed to make it hotter, and I have a few effects pedals-Lone Wolf Delay v2, Lone Wolf Octave, Dunlop RotoVibe(for a Leslie effect on chords & when I play keyboard parts sometimes), a Guyatone digital delay for crazy delay stuff, and few others I trot out occasionally. In the studio for this track, I ran a sm57 right into my amp(I should have stood my ground and played thru my effects in hindsight), then used studio plug-ins for delay and a tube distortion plug-in for a little more bottom end, as I thought it was a bit thin the way it was recorded. We initially laid those tracks early in the year, and I've since learned thru this forum better ways to capture my actual sound on a recording than what was done this go-round. My amp live with my normal setup doesn't have that almost solid-state distortion on it-it's much warmer. I don't totally hate it but next time around I will do things differently.
Wally-This tune was written by our keyboard player, Paul McDonald. I dug the melody and felt compelled to incorporate it into my solo.
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I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
Last Edited by on Oct 15, 2009 9:48 AM
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