1st Recording - Purple Rain

pgzzz · February 28, 2008, 12:12:24 PM

Got the BR a week ago and have done my first recording. Excuse the voice as I am not a singer but hopefully the recording shows what the BR is capable of by the most inexperienced users. Track has been recorded at lowest quality setting to keep below 5mb. I would welcome any comments.

Cheers

Paul.

Pedro · February 28, 2008, 12:55:14 PM

Welcome friend Paul!

This is very good man, love the whole vibe and the solo is great (although the guitar is a bit out of tune). Your singing is good, I like it.

The recording is balanced and sounds good, I like the drums, are they Micro BR drums?

You should retune your guitar and redo the solo though.

PS: Your song was in 32kHz, this causes the MP3 player to play the song twice as fast (chipmunk time!) so I had to resample it and change your topic, hope you don't mind.
This is a limitation of flash, it doesn't play anything besides 44 kHz.

pgzzz · February 28, 2008, 01:06:51 PM

Thanks for the comments they are appreciated.

The drums were Micro BR but slowed to half the tempo of the song i.e the song was 110 beats per minute and drums were set at 55 bpm.

The guitar was tuned prior to recording, so maybe the intonation needs checking - I'll have a see

Both guitar tracks and bass were plugged straight in to the Micro BR with no external amps or effects.

Equipment is all cheap & cheerfull :Guitar Westone Strat
Bass Pro Guitar bass
Mic BR Built-in

Pedro · February 28, 2008, 01:25:42 PM

Ok.

I did an intonation reste two days ago on my guitar. It didn't change much though I think I need to change strings first.

Cheap equipment is great. I've learned to take the best out of cheap equipment. In fact I've come to learn which notes sound better on my guitars.

64Guitars · February 28, 2008, 03:20:53 PM

Quote from: pgzzz on February 28, 2008, 01:06:51 PMThe guitar was tuned prior to recording, so maybe the intonation needs checking - I'll have a see

Most likely, your string bending put the guitar out of tune. I often have that problem with all of my guitars. What happens is that the string binds in the nut slot and doesn't fully return to normal pitch after a string bend (it plays flat). I've found that I have much less of a problem with this if I apply some Big Bends Nut Sauce to the nut slots occasionally. See their website here:

http://www.bigbends.com/

It's fairly inexpensive and a tube of it lasts a long time. It also reduces string breakage if you apply it to the bridge saddles and other string contact points.

Pedro · February 28, 2008, 03:29:06 PM

Yes, I bet it was that too. That happens to me as well and I never thought it was because of the nut slots. I just thought the string became looser because of the tension applied to it when doing the bend. Much like when you strech up or down an elastic that is tied down both sides, it becames bigger and therefore will play flat.

After your second big bend on the solo is where the string turned flat.

pgzzz · February 29, 2008, 12:39:37 AM

Thanks 64Guitars

That sounds like something worth trying.

guitarron · February 29, 2008, 04:59:51 AM

A graphite nut works well, sounds good and is an inexpensive mod-never tried the lube but that that should do the trick also
sometimes its simply the string grooves not properly cut-a common issue in inexpensive guitars-you neighborhood repairman could do the repair or you can get nut files from stew-mac
here the cheapest fastest way- shave the end of a pencil-the lead not the wood-this is graphite-simply put in the slot(string out of slot first)-i have done this- i know it works
Ron