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Griffinator

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  1. The stupid part is, the reason I outsourced the mastering was because I was worried about ear fatigue. I premastered two tracks that became lyric videos prior to the official album release, and they sounded 100x better than what he handed back to me.
  2. I know the damn ME at Capitol completely ruined my band's debut with excessive, audible compression.
  3. Truth: It was the "inmates running the asylum" part that brought me back.
  4. You're just going through a phase... At any Rate, I appreciate your Feedback. You always add Depth to these discussions, Caevan. Oh boy. At this Speed, the pun factor in this thread will Drive us all to madness aGain...
  5. You'd hardly need amplification beyond a headphone controller...
  6. You still have to know the chord voicings and be willing to do the meticulous back-editing to create convincing strumming.
  7. Generally speaking, people bring in guitarists when they want to track the guitar if they don't know enough about the instrument to be able to play it properly. Here are some of the issues you have to overcome: 1) Chord voicings. Guitars don't voice chords the same way a piano does - the notes are spaced much farther apart. For example, a two-handed G chord on a piano would likely be played G-B-D-G (LH) D-G-B-D (RH) or some similar voicing, with each hand covering a full octave and playing most if not all the notes in the chord along the way. On a guitar, one might choose an open G (G-B-D-G-B-G or G-B-D-G-D-G), or in many rock songs they'll play a "barre" G chord (G-D-G-B-D-G). If you choose the wrong voicing in the wrong register, it's going to sound completely wrong, because it's just not how the given chord is naturally played in the pitch range you chose. Worse, you might inadvertently produce a physically impossible-to-play sequence of chords. 2) Lead/melody expressions: There are a hundred or more subtle techniques used in playing lead on a guitar, and they all produce unique sounds. For example, the one you're most likely to stumble over would be legato. In legato style, which is most commonly used for faster runs, only one out of every three or four notes is picked, where the rest are hammered-on or pulled-off strictly with the fret hand. This does NOT sound anywhere REMOTELY the same as picking each note, and your melodies will sound wooden and fake if you try to play what would be for most guitarists a legato run using all picked notes. 3) Strum: Back to the chords issue, if you play full 6-string chords on a guitar, the notes are not all struck simultaneously. If you do not account for this when you try and fake a guitar on a piano-type instrument, your chording will stick out like a sore thumb. There are miniscule delays involved between string strikes in full strum. 4) Bends: String bending is such an important part of any lead guitar repertoire. If you don't include string bends in a lead, it's GOING to stick out. More importantly, you have to know WHEN to bend. If you bend in the wrong spots, you again can run into physically impossible phrases. I can go on, and on, and on, and on, and on about this. There are so many stark differences between the electric guitar and the piano in terms of the way notes are sounded and lines are played, it's pretty damned difficult to fake it if you know how to play an electric guitar, and nearly impossible if you don't.
  8. I was going to say the same thing, Joe. A guitar isn't anything at all like a piano, and if you try to write guitar parts like you would piano parts, it's going to sound like a fake guitar.
  9. Snakes on a (optionally motherf***in') Plane
  10. I'm fortunate - I have a drummer that locks to original tempo, even when he's riffing off the original beat. When we rehearse "Perfect Strangers" (Deep Purple), I always feel like we're playing too slow - until I go back and listen to the studio version... then I realize I've been listening to too many live versions
  11. And here I was going to comment about how minimal your setup looked.
  12. All I could think of was... [video:youtube] Stop! HAMMOE TIME!
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