sweet misery by jemima's kite.

[Ferryman_1957]

Question for you guys - are there strings on this? I'm hearing strings in the chorus. If there aren't, you've done a great job to make me think there are. If there are, what did you use?

Cheers,

Nigel

[Greeny]

Question for you guys - are there strings on this? I'm hearing strings in the chorus. If there aren't, you've done a great job to make me think there are. If there are, what did you use?

Cheers,

Nigel

No strings, just a load of vocal harmonies and guitar! 

Flash added some piano too.

It's the kind of song that begs for strings though - I always have that kind of arrangement in my head, and even though I could add a poor approximation of strings on a keyboard, it's not the same as a proper string section.

[Flash Harry]

Question for you guys - are there strings on this? I'm hearing strings in the chorus. If there aren't, you've done a great job to make me think there are. If there are, what did you use?

Cheers,

Nigel

Nigel,

I'm not sure, I may have put some synth strings in. I really can't remember. Tim's workrate is so high I can't even remember all the tunes we've done.


If there are, they will be from my Yamaha Clavinova. It's the only synth I have. I wanted weighted keys. The Yamaha was the best feel I could find. The XG stuff is OK as far as it goes.

[Greeny]

... maybe you DID put some on then. Who knows?! 

[Flash Harry]

... maybe you DID put some on then. Who knows?! 

ORH will know. He mixed it. Mind you.....

[Ferryman_1957]

ORH will know. He mixed it. Mind you.....

.....he's forgotten more than he knows? 

I'll believe there are some - I can definitely here a nice string line in the chorus. Works really well, lovely song. And still loving the dwarf pics.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Oldrottenhead]

ORH will know. He mixed it. Mind you.....

a cannea mind whit day o the week it is. this was the very first j kite song and i honestly cant remember what went into it.  i know that a few songs used up the 32 tracks on my microbr and like mike i have lost track, i recall putting a sitar on one song but bugger me if i can remember which one lol.

[Ferryman_1957]

Sitar? That could be it!

[Oldrottenhead]

naw i think it was on ladybird, i dont think there are any string keys on this one i think its an effect caused by the harmonics between all the instruments in the mix. i think i recall mixing the keys in seperately and putting lots of effects in to get a john lennon imagine type feel to them, so there are lots of tap delays reverb and echos going on with the piano.

[Ferryman_1957]

OK, that could be it. It's the chorus "sweet misery" harmonies and I wondered if the rich production is making me hear a string line. It's just going round in the headphones at the moment. No strings on Filthy Animal that just kicked in. Except five rusty ones on each guitar....

Cheers,

Nigel