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Here's what I've been up to inbetween posting that last message & this one (quiet in here isn't it):
"What is wrong with this picture"

A simple love song...

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When did you start working with sir George Martin,Give the
gut that did the arrangement a raise, it made me think,
nice arrangement.
Supe job

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I just finished this rough final mix...Paul Curtiz on vocals... another Memphis/Belgium collaboration...
~Roy [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]


'Paint the Desert Wind'
http://roy.n3.net/mp3/Paint_the_Desert_Wind.mp3

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Roy your tune with Paul is so musical.

It's a really nice match,you two are musician's that once heard, are recognized as some of the world's finest. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

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Steve- yes, very beatles-ish, sounds good

roy- very good song!

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Very cool, Steve... [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] very creative piece and the vocals are just so fine...a really fresh and unique production style too. Good job, man...I'm looking forward to your next one.
thanks, Roy

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Here it is. I just sat down at my machine last night after participating in the little peecee/macincost flame pit, and 5 hours later this is what I had.

If 5 hours seems like a long time, I guess I am just slow.

All done in reason, even using the new Reason Effects.

5 reverbs and the cpu indicator was only at three bars !!!!

Mad Props to the props... I can't wait for rewire !!!

Any feedback is appreciated.

www.homepage.mac.com/kriswhitten

*****urbritches_pt.mp3 is the file. 8 minutes long....

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Lol Cheers archtop.. It was just lil' old me and my pro-tools.. it's all midi'd XP-80.. it started out as all electric guitar, but I took a left turn & forgot to leave a hole for guitars & the like.. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

-S.

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Stupid guitar's only cause problem's anyway,

cool song ,really

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">If I could get that amount of "Space" around my productions I'd be a happy boy.. very very nice job chaps! excellent relaxed playing & singing too.

Somehow your mixes always sound professional, where mine sound like demos..

Thanks for the comments on my little tune Roy, I have another one gestating.. and it's in yet another style.. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

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Here are a couple tune's I have done. They are short and still work in progress. I usually only do radio and commercial production but every now and then I try to do a couple tunes for the he** of it. I have only recorded a few songs in my life so don't laugh!

Drums and bass were done with Sampletank free (and I hardly know what I'm doing with midi) and the electric guitars were run through the Amplitude demo. Ha Ha. Guess it's a good thing I'm not donig music professionally. But damn it is fun to do every now and then.

Would love your opinions!


Funkalicious

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Hello all !

Yet another transatlantic collaboration :

http://twanglab.netstudio.be/audio/MaryJane.mp3

- Chris aka FunkyD (Philadelphia, US) on drums
- Roy Howell (Memphis, US) on lead guitars
- Paul Curtiz (Brussels, Belgium) on guitars, bass and vocals.


At the end of the track, you will experience the first "virtual band" studio crisis between three people who have never been in the same room...
My nose still hurts, but he won't use that slide anytime soon... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">that was funny [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] cool tune...

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Steevp -

That is a beautious tune, my friend. Very imaginative, with styles reminscent of two of my all time most respected bands - Beatles and XTC! Fantastic.

Yes, the overall feel is a little demo-ish, but there is great strength in both the songwriting and the arrangement. Some of us have gotten pretty good at engineering our recordings, but if you had to choose the most important skills for any musician - which would they be?

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Chris, Roy, Paul -

I was expecting superb and I got superb. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
I'm not sure what else I can say about how good your stuff is - it started off great and just keeps getting better and better.

Funky D - nice drums. You're a fine edition to the family of collaborators. I hope we can hear some more from you.

The end was a riot.

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Thanks for the kind words, Soundsurfr! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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Paul and Chris...

So that's what you guys were up to after I 'left the studio'... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ... I'm still laughing...

Hey, it's a pleasure playing with pros like you guys... Chris was right in the pocket from the get-go, a true professional(and I especially want to thank you for popping Paul for me... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ) and Paul... I've always got a spare slide, my friend...hehe... looking forward to our next one... [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]
Great song, Paul...

~Roy

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archtop, Micah, Steve, and Greg.....thanks about 'Paint'...
~Roy

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LOL No Paul, this was my Beach Boys phase:

Lets get Brian back in his sandbox [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

But I'm glad your picking up the good vibes, that's what we do it for right?

-Steve

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Steev - I think the turkeys would be more likely to enjoy "grouse". Especially on Christmas.

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Here's one I've just started mixing tonight. I finished recording everything but drums and vocals. The vocals are just scratch tracks and the drums are loops put together using Naked Drums demo session, not much time put into it at all. I mixed them in the demo session and bounced so the bass drum gets lost, but whatever. I'm going to record real drums when I have a few more songs ready.

King of Glory

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Steve...I love 'Christmas at the Zoo'... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
It's funny that I heard this now, because we all went to the Zoo here Friday night, right? Well, once we got deeep in the heart of the place, all the lights went completely out....just pitch black everywhere.....it was so dark, you couldn't see 3 feet in front of you...we were walking right into other people walking toward us. Linda(my wife) was holding onto me, and I was reaching out ahead of us so we didn't hit any more people(or a tree). I think we wandered into 'Cat Country' before we found our way out...


Now, if they could have played your 'Christmas at the Zoo' over the loudspeakers, everybody would have felt a whole lot better about the situation... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] (good song)

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Soundsurfr: Wow, thanks very much! I'm slowly working on eliminating the "demoness" from my recordings.. but I think I still suffer from "everything louder than everything else" syndrome..

Anyway, here's one I just finished for all you metalheads (not)

Christmas at the Zoo

I just reworked an old recording in PTLE, and yes, I realise that I was sitting indoors in mid June with the thermometer hovering around the 90's working on a Christmas song... (shakes head in shame..)

-S.

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...he he he ...Steve...your take on "Pet Sounds"...? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

And yes, your last track also reminded me of XTC !

Fun tracks, and definitely great vibes. [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">But that would almost be cannibalism! you disgust me!! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

(I was going on size I s'pose..)

Cheers Roy, reminds me of when I was about 6 and my mum took me to the Zoo, we lost track of time & were in the reptile house.. all of a sudden the lights went out & it was quiet.. they'd closed the place, locked the doors & turned out the lights.. just me my mum & loads of Aligators..

Funny how these things always surface in a song sooner or later isn't it!

I tarted up What is wrong with this picture if anyones interested, simplified the bass & sorted out the intro..

-S.
-feels a power ballad coming on..

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hey paul/roy/chris, that was a great song, and the ending was hillarious.
you guys should take requests or something ;-o, well actually maybe not, but i think you guys should do a virtual band cover of queen and bowie's 'under pressure'. that would be great, i would pay for a cd of that.

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thanks arcarsensal...that ending was fun...some of Paul's creative mischief... [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

Steve,
Just heard 'Lets get Brian back in his sandbox', and again loved it. You have a gift for unique, refreshing stuff...where are you located?.........thanks, Roy

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Hi Roy,

And again thanks! Sandbox wasn't done on PTLE, it's an old recording I did on Voyetras much underrated Digital Orchestrator Pro.. I was going to re-do it on PTLE much as I did Xmas at the Zoo, but I quite like the density of that version despite its many faults. (I want tomake the singing even more like the Fifth Dimension!)

I'm near Cambridge in England, lived most of my life in London but moved out here a few months ago to get away from the hell hole the city has become.. an added bonus is my neighbours are further away now so I can make more noise..

So if that intercontinental jam band needs a left field instrument or 24 tracks of densly harmonised vocals on 2 lines near the middle you know where to find me! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Great, Steve....we'll have to do something for sure, very soon.

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If this was a car show, it's full of cherried out RollsRoyce's

this old one's more like a old ford pinto

I figured it's time to lower the bar again [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

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Vocalvoodoo...

Man, your stuff sounds great! Sorry I had missed it til now... really nice work... I sure would like to hear the full versions... Good job. Hey, post more stuff when you can... thanks, Roy


new stuff is here, I see...so I'll be back

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I wasn't able to get vocavoodoo link to work [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

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Thanks Roy. I wish I had time to really do music. Hopefully those songs will become full versions one day. Perhaps by magic? [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] If nothing else, I sure am learning a LOT. Making music sure is different than boring radio production!

Archtop, as far a the link not working, make sure you have IE explorer set to look at FTP's in a "folder view". That could be the problem.

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I'm on a mac usin' "safari", I just enjoy it over here [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]
I'll try it w/IE
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O.K. Vocalvoodoo now were workin'

Music: super cool, nice vocal
Fidelity: super cool, nice vocal
Length: leaves me wanting more [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
nice job.

Too many browser's open when I checked it out, so it came thru computer moniter instead of studio moniter,and it sounded great.Were on our way to an "Aquasox" minor league baseball game,I'll check on other speakers later
easy

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Paul I love your songwriting.Mary Jane is a killer track.You have got a great voice as well.

Roy Paint the Desert wind.These lyrics are very moving to me.I can relate to this tune on many levels.I think you hit a home run on this one.

Now that little league is over maybe I can sneak into my studio for a little while. later Stu [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

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Roy, Just checked out Paint the Desert Wind. Very beautiful track, I must have missed the specifics on that track, but who is singing? You?

Do I also here a mandolin in there as well? Thats you I assume?

Very nice track indeed. It was inspiring!
I have to download the rest, for some reason, my d/load program cut it off at about 2 minutes.


Also checked out Mary Jane. Very nice work done indeed. Nice production, nice vocals!

=-Ben

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Hey lets HEAR your latest mix!!!!!!

For everyone running PTLE on a Mac!!!!!!!!

Halon Inhaler
It's an older mix, but maybe it'll get the ball rolling........ [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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You GO RILLA !!!

I said the same thing the other day.

Ziggy Wiggy and ****urbritches are newbies !!!

Sorry for the DL only, I will have my server up soon.

www.homepage.mac.com/kriswhitten

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Here you go:
http://www.dhenderson.com/index2.htm

Forgotten Man - new tune 6/21/03!
Wired For Loud - new tune 6/9/03!

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