Hi all,
It's been a while. Life, work etc. Not much guitar playing of late but that will make it all the better when I get back to it.
https://soundcloud.com/gary_w/i-see-y…-big-brown-bear
So this is a duet with my 12 year old daughter providing vocals for half the song. Don't panic - she's got a decent set of pipes on her already. Better than me actually and getting better by the day so I'm looking forward to getting her involved more in the coming years. As such, I thought I'd better name our little collaboration so we are 'Isabella and the Big Brown Bear'
As to the recording, I've used Reaper for years and I wanted something that is a little more friendly. That's not me being down on Reaper - it's a great program and it's been very good for me. But I'm getting even less intelligent as I age and frankly anything that makes my life easier ticks the box of 'I'll try that'. EZ Drummer 2 was the catalyst and Studio 1 fits right in with that ethos in my opinion.
I've also been a naughty boy and bought some Slate pluggins (virtual tape machine, virtual consoles etc) which supposedly make the mix sound less 'digital'. Not sure if you all buy that explanation or not but what I do know is that putting these things on each channel did *something* that I'm not experienced enough to identify but whatever it is I like it
There's not *that* much guitar on here, but what there is came from Amp Factory. I'm pretty sure it was the Cornell from pack 7 but I cannot find the notes and the guitar was recorded some time back. I've just not had chance to put the rest together until now so hopefully you'll forgive my poor note taking
Hope you enjoy it - let me know and if you do then I'll let my daughter know that 'somebody out there liked it'