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Well, well, well... look who it is.

This song is about someone else who went missing.

I'm curious how this mix sounds. This is my most ambitious use of Garageband yet, but I'm not as confident in its mastering magic as I am with the MBR. I get vastly differing results depending on the headphones I use.




PS: I'm going back to lurk mode, but feel free to be as shameless as ORH is in grabbing my attention by PM, e-mail and Facebook if you want me to comment on your work.

Ted the mix sounds marvelous in my dodgy iphone headphones! Love the bass lines and the crunchy guitar, curious to know who else went missing (as I have been pretty quiet for several months myself) - will PM/email etc you next time I post something!
Loved it

Andy

nearly missed this but for the facebook link  ;D ;D ;D

braw tell yuer maw, one for the pirpod. loving the vox like neil young muxed up with tom petty . magic.

Nice work. Cool bass.

JOA

I think this is balanced well.  Well mixed, played and recorded.  What kind of equipment do you use for recording? 

Well well well ... Look who's back .. Even for just a quick visit.

This is fab Ted !!

On my third listen already, and there will be many more!!

It's is one of your best, and you have a lot of good ones. The bass is excellent and the guitar is really something else .... It lives it own life but ties it all together nonetheless !! Very clever.

I'm curious how you put this together too. My guess is that drums and strings are from garage band and that bass, guitar and vocals are recorded on the MBR. The harmonies are ace btw.

I agree on the mastering challenges in GarageBand. If you did the final mastering in gb I'm impressed. I've only mastered one song in GarageBand and I wished I'd exported it to the br for mastering as I did with the next gb song I recorded.

Please do elaborate on your process!!

And we want more !!!!


I'm a fan!

Thanks, Andy, Jim, Will23, Jarle, & Gier.

Quote from: Geir on March 30, 2013, 04:39:34 PMMy guess is that drums and strings are from garage band and that bass, guitar and vocals are recorded on the MBR.

Bingo!

The first draft of the song was on acoustic guitar.

The second draft was in Garageband, using it like a word processor to arrange the song, drafting everything -- including guitar and bass using only the computer keyboard and the synth sounds. Then I exported those to the MBR and used them as reference tracks. Part of the guitar solo was even drafted using my Korg Nanopad2.

I recorded the guitar, bass, and vocals dry in the MBR. Then I bounced the guitar and bass separately to v-tracks adding my favorite MBR guitar/bass effects. I exported the dry and wet versions of these tracks so I could compare the MBR effects to the Garageband effects.

Before importing the guitar, I opened it in Audacity and added the wah effect to the solo sections. The vocals harmonies were by my Digitech Vocalist Live 2 with some compression, so I also used Audacity to mute the background noise added by the compression.

I decided I liked the guitar and bass effects of Garageband, so I did end up using the dry tracks from the MBR. I never even auditioned the wet tracks from the MBR.

I deleted the synth guitar and synth bass tracks from the project, so the only thing left were the drums and strings.

I'm used to songs from the MBR sounding different based on the listening environment (headphones, speakers, piPod, stereo, etc.) I'm using, but the variation I hear in this song is a lot more extreme.

Are you saying I could have exported the song from Garageband without any mastering effects, and then mastered it in the MBR? I considered it, but I wasn't sure if it would have made much of a difference. Even though I'm really burned out on tinkering with this song, I may try that and see if MBR mastering balances things out.

Quote from: Ted on March 30, 2013, 05:46:26 PMAre you saying I could have exported the song from Garageband without any mastering effects, and then mastered it in the MBR? I considered it, but I wasn't sure if it would have made much of a difference. Even though I'm really burned out on tinkering with this song, I may try that and see if MBR mastering balances things out.

Geir: I spent about an hour last night exporting the unmastered mixed from Garageband and importing them to the MBR to see if I'd get a better master out of the MBR. I didn't like what I was hearing, so I abandoned the idea. It still might be an idea worth trying, but I'm going to live with this mix and move on to the next song.

Deadly song Ted, I'll be back for more listens as the days turn warmer........I just got an iPad myself and am dabbling a bit.  So far all I have done is record out of the iPad headphones out into my BR-1200.  I am so comfortable recording on the Boss machines and cant get on with garageband at all so far.  My head is thick like that sometimes.  I am loving the sound of this and am inspired to explore iPad recording some more........oh yeah, great song Ted, a real groover.

Great song - love that swirly guitar sound.
B

Great song, sounds superb and that guitar is simply wonderful! Good to hear you again, Ted!

                                                            henwrench

Thanks, Bruno, Bluesberry & Henwrench.

There's a measure in the bass part (at the transition from the verse to the chorus, and again in the  middle of the chorus) that I like to think of as my "Henwrench moment." I'm really pleased with it, but it doesn't sound like it's from my normal bag of bass tricks.

Masterbump.

Thinking about doing a ukulele an acoustic bass version of this.

Nice one Ted, Missed this one originally......

Alex

Quote from: Ted on April 24, 2016, 12:25:44 PMThinking about doing a ukulele an acoustic bass version of this.

I've been thinking about this song lately because someone referenced in this song died recently: The "father," "dad," and the "outsider" on the "bloody sailboat."

I came looking for a different song I heard on my playlist (which I have not found btw)..

but I was intrigued by the title... and the tune is awesome... but I would not have guessed what it is about from this title.

that little wah right out the gate defies the rest of the music... the sinister keys provide a wonderful underpinning.

the vocals are king for sure... really great... I love the vibrato... not many can get that much vibrato... the only dude I know that can do that is the lead singer from The Tragically Hip (Rip Gord).

the lyrics are awesome... really a great story Ted... come to think of it now listening a few times this does have a detective or spy kind of feel to the music...

well worth a few listens and adding to my playlist...

This sounds really good .. the vocals are great, all instruments sounds good , excellent lyrics .. really liked the guitar work, specially the wah .. also excellent lyrics .
Excellent ..

I enjoyed this. Cool track. Like the vocal harmonies. The bass is super and the wah is great. The mix is just fine.

Thanks for the bumps!

Quote from: StephenM on May 03, 2024, 07:04:11 AMbut I would not have guessed what it is about from this title.

I hope it doesn't take any mystery from the song to explain that this song is about my stepson from my first marriage, who was inspired to run away from home after reading Jack Kerouac (https://amzn.to/4dtqGTD). So "beatitude"comes how the Beats (a.k.a. beatniks) interpreted that word. Kerouac described living the Beatitudes as living "in a state of joy."

That event put a lot of stress on my first marriage, which was already in trouble.

Quote from: Ron D Bowes on May 05, 2024, 05:16:04 AMLike the vocal harmonies.

Those came from the DigiTech Vocalist Live 2. A piece of gear I wish were here with me in Madagascar, not in storage in Arizona. At the very least, it would be a great addition to our home karaoke setup. (Malagasy people love karaoke.)

Damn that was great.

Sounds like John Barry started a pop band. Love the tones in here. Great performance and arranging. Cool tune.

Ooh, loved that ending.

Blooby

Quote from: Blooby on May 08, 2024, 07:59:13 AMOoh, loved that ending.

When The Nutrients learned this song, Ron Whistle (https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=8152) always wanted to end on a power chord. And I had to insist, NO! Just the open E string.

Live version here at 14:45: https://youtu.be/2zJGCo1eh0E?t=887

Ted, you're such a funky dude!

This funks like a moose. Enjoyable and slightly angular whiteboy groove that's hard to resist. The lyrics are even more interesting. I listened to both the studio version and the live take. I heard fabulous things. In the live version i thought i saw a guy with a "American Dad" T-shirt, but turns out i read it wrong. Then when the backing vocals came in i heard "CANNIBAL TRIBE!" and i was OH YEAH! This is heavy. But i heard wrong. As it turns out i'm getting a lot of things wrong, but don't worry i did check the lyrics and they're great too! (even without my changes to them ;)).

It's all clear to me now. The reason why you're posting so few songs. You're waiting for the world to catch up! With such a back catalogue of goodies i'd do the same.

Nutrients don't play no more? Too many calories? :)

I'm not saying the singer lisps or anything. It's just my funky hearing. Or the way i process the sounds. Now i heard another live song of yours with lyrics YOUR SALIVA!

Damn, it almost looks like there's a song trying to get out of me. I must hold back.

Quote from: Zoltan on May 09, 2024, 10:45:37 AMThe reason why you're posting so few songs. You're waiting for the world to catch up!

My back catalog is very thin. You're thinking of Prince.

Quote from: Ted on Yesterday at 03:27:17 AMMy back catalog is very thin. You're thinking of Prince.

You're just holding it back.