Waterloo Sunset - Robbomac cover The Kinks

[Johnny Robbo]

Kenny suggested this one & I thought it would be a cool song to cover. As always he did a sterling job on the vocals... cheers Kenny!

All the usual suspects involved in this one:

Drums - Cakewalk Studio Instruments "Slight Beef" kit (with Tiled Room reverb)
Bass - eBay no-name special into a bass preset I created on the Tonelab & a little compression in the mix
Clean & dirty rhythm guitars - tele recorded dry through the Tonelab (Dumble model for Clean; Soldano model for the crunch), double tracked L/R & a little Tiled Room reverb.
Slide guitar - tele through the Soldano setting again with a little slapback delay & Tiled Room added in the mix.

Then I added a little compression & EQ to Kenny's vocal parts & that was it. Finally it got a wash through the LANDR mastering service to add a little more polish & "oomph". I've mentioned this before & if you've never tried it, here's the un-mastered version for comparison:

http://geetarjohnny.fileburst.com/attachments/Waterloo%20Sunset%20(unmastered).mp3

I wouldn't describe myself as a big Kinks fan, but I really enjoyed doing this one!

Thanks for listening!

[Hook]

Excellent job with this one, Kenny's vocal is awesome and of course the backer is really spot on.
Rock on!

[Farrell Jackson]

Great work on this Kinks' cover Johnny and Kenny! Excellent on all the vox and I dig the slide work. I gave the un-LANDRED version a listen also and the LANDR master sounds quite a bit better to my ears. Did you have to reduce the volume before you ran it through the LANDR process?

Farrell

[Pete C]

Excellent cover - sounds very professional. Kenny's vocal is great and so is the backing. Brilliant work !

Pete

[thetworegs]

That's the way to do it chaps a great cover of a classic Bravo!!

[tonyc]

great cover my favorite kinks song. you and kenny do a great job here love the vocals and the guitar work....tonyc

[fenderbender]

Brilliant version
You guys rock

Tommy

[Mike_S]

This is a great song. The Kinks are responsible for some classics I think. You guys have done this more than justice. Those vocals are brilliant and the instrumentation is great... lovely guitar sounds.

Mike

[Black Mary]

Great stuff :-) This is an excellent version. So fresh and at the same time adhering to the original. The slide is gorgeous. Mix is spot on. Sounds astounding.
Cheers
BM

[Kenneth]

Wow! The songs are more pro all the time here , this really sounds incredible.
Great work guys, it's as good as it gets.