The Raven

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I never played rhythm to my lead before. Recording is demanding!! Anyway, here is my first attempt. This was recorded through my Marshall JVM, emulated out, crunch amber channel for both rhythm and lead. The Raven is set to middle position, neck series and bridge split, although I may have switched around on the lead 1x, I can't remember.

I am very happy with this guitar after the re-wire. It is a great way to make a guitar your own

https://soundcloud.com/user-903662928/raven19-2/s-s9vb9

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I've been using looper pedals lately. I used to use software effects and recording. I always start off with the best intentions, but I almost always end up playing some sort of blues.
 
I remixed it. I am so critical of anything I do, so I will say that both tracks were one take and the solo was improvised on the spot, so I get latitude.
 
Sounds great to me! Better than anything I could put together...

...and that guitar looks nearly the shape of my Fender Cyclone. I see it's a Tom Anderson correct? Nice!
 
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Sp8ctre said:
Sounds great to me! Better than anything I could put together...

...and that guitar looks nearly the shape of my Fender Cyclone. I see it's a Tom Anderson correct? Nice!
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Thank you. Since I will not likely ever perform live, I am trying to overcome my fear by putting stuff out there. The internet is a bigger audience that many bars after all!

Yep, it is a Tom Anderson Raven. I re-wired it this weekend and I am very happy with the tone.
 
Ignoring the offputting background rhythm, the lead is very nicely played and the guitar sounds great - this is no shock to me; I really like that guitar.

BTW, impressed by the effort of putting a track together - I hope to try something similar soon. Putting a simple bass line, some easy rhythm then a tad of lead on top all sounds so simple, but it's bloody difficult to do well hence why a whole host of professionals join together to make albums.

The Raven is a superb bit of guitar art, imho. I don't like chimey, cutting, sharp single coil sounds at all - they can just sound nasty, but the Raven has all the great single coil attributes at the right levels to be powerful yet mellow.
 
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Mr Grumpy said:
Ignoring the offputting background rhythm, the lead is very nicely played and the guitar sounds great - this is no shock to me; I really like that guitar.

BTW, impressed by the effort of putting a track together - I hope to try something similar soon. Putting a simple bass line, some easy rhythm then a tad of lead on top all sounds so simple, but it's bloody difficult to do well hence why a whole host of professionals join together to make albums.

The Raven is a superb bit of guitar art, imho. I don't like chimey, cutting, sharp single coil sounds at all - they can just sound nasty, but the Raven has all the great single coil attributes at the right levels to be powerful yet mellow.
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Thank you for listening and commenting. Why is the background rhythm off-putting? I am looking for honest criticism more than praise as I know I have a long way to go, so fire away!!
 
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The Raven is a superb bit of guitar art, imho. I don't like chimey, cutting, sharp single coil sounds at all - they can just sound nasty, but the Raven has all the great single coil attributes at the right levels to be powerful yet mellow.
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It really is. That said, because I do not believe much in tone wood, and since that is a 24.5 scale, you should get close after you install the PQs. Those are PQ1 and PQ3. It was played with the bridge split and the neck "full"
 
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Why is the background rhythm off-putting?
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Firstly, it's far better than I can do!

Secondly, over-harshly, meant in a kind way, the two parts don't musically link together, the background distracts from the foreground lead. Perhaps the two sounds are too close together (could the background rhythm be more bassy and more rhythmic?). Perhaps the tempo of the background doesn't provide a foundation for the foregrounded lead? In a cognitive sense, the background should initially be set then fade out of attention while the lead changes and spotlights itself - my feeling is that the chimey nature of the background spikes into the foreground taking attention away from the lead momentarily, but regularly. Thus, there isn't a foundation set for the lead, per se, there's more of a competition for attention (very one-sided because the background tone doesn't do much, but it does interfere). To look at it another way, it does not seem that a genre has been chosen and a mutual goal set with distinct and separate parts - the lead is good and purposeful and musical, but the background feels like it comes from a different piece of music for a different purpose.

Sorry if this comes across badly, I don't mean it to...
 
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Firstly, it's far better than I can do!

Secondly, over-harshly, meant in a kind way, the two parts don't musically link together, the background distracts from the foreground lead. Perhaps the two sounds are too close together (could the background rhythm be more bassy and more rhythmic?). Perhaps the tempo of the background doesn't provide a foundation for the foregrounded lead? In a cognitive sense, the background should initially be set then fade out of attention while the lead changes and spotlights itself - my feeling is that the chimey nature of the background spikes into the foreground taking attention away from the lead momentarily, but regularly. Thus, there isn't a foundation set for the lead, per se, there's more of a competition for attention (very one-sided because the background tone doesn't do much, but it does interfere). To look at it another way, it does not seem that a genre has been chosen and a mutual goal set with distinct and separate parts - the lead is good and purposeful and musical, but the background feels like it comes from a different piece of music for a different purpose.

Sorry if this comes across badly, I don't mean it to...
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Makes sense and please do not worry. It is not my hope that this be great, it is more that I post one of these next year and the track has improved greatly! I greatly appreciate your honesty.

And I know what you mean. I already re-mixed this once for that very reason - I lowered the rhythm track. I will try again. This is also an opportunity to learn how to use mixing software (StudiomOne)
 
Mr Grumpy said:
Firstly, it's far better than I can do!

Secondly, over-harshly, meant in a kind way, the two parts don't musically link together, the background distracts from the foreground lead. Perhaps the two sounds are too close together (could the background rhythm be more bassy and more rhythmic?). Perhaps the tempo of the background doesn't provide a foundation for the foregrounded lead? In a cognitive sense, the background should initially be set then fade out of attention while the lead changes and spotlights itself - my feeling is that the chimey nature of the background spikes into the foreground taking attention away from the lead momentarily, but regularly. Thus, there isn't a foundation set for the lead, per se, there's more of a competition for attention (very one-sided because the background tone doesn't do much, but it does interfere). To look at it another way, it does not seem that a genre has been chosen and a mutual goal set with distinct and separate parts - the lead is good and purposeful and musical, but the background feels like it comes from a different piece of music for a different purpose.

Sorry if this comes across badly, I don't mean it to...
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Also, you are very intuitive. I played the lead over the actual JJ Hale track. The only reason I did the rhythm was because Soundcloud blocked the upload for copyright reasons, so I added the rhythm after the lead! Really great ear Grumpy!!
 
It is a very difficult process, and I have a lot of respect for folks who can and are making music; keep up the good work; it's gonna progress and get better and better - you'll be musically planing down and neck and refretting in no-time...
 
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Mr Grumpy said:
It is a very difficult process, and I have a lot of respect for folks who can and are making music; keep up the good work; it's gonna progress and get better and better - you'll be musically planing down and neck and refretting in no-time...
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A big reason I did this is because of Joe Walsh's advice. He said that you have to get out there and play live, even if you suck, and slowly but surely you will suck at a higher and higher level!

I did not want to wait for me to lay down what I consider to be the perfect track, because that day will never come. I would prefer more if next year I post a clip and everyone says "Damn RVA, that is a whole lot better than the crap you posted last year!!"
 
That's a really awesome looking and sounding guitar. Bit of guitar envy happening right now in the IbLive household.
 
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