Stickshifts & Safetybelts (Cake cover)

[Mach]

I love Cake and the band too 

Mach

[Jean Pierre]

excellent.. I love particularly bass line but everything is good and good place

thanks for your comment for Lee Shore

[Hook]

Such professional production, DP32? Great playing all around, that slide is so fecking cool.
Rock on!

[launched]

Yes, Cake rules and you did amazing job with this awesome tune!

Hell yeah!

[Redler]

My toe is tapping on the floor! Nice and melodic song, though I'm not familiar with it.

Well sung and played. Where's the drums from? Sounds like they're real!

Enjoyable listening!

[Groundy]

What a great sound Mach,
Not heard this number before,
Top class recording,
I agree with Redler, The drums sound real,
Well done...



Alex

[Jean Pierre]

yes, second listen ..can you give us somee information on the way to produce the sounds which you use;

Drums,
Bass ?

[Mach]

Such professional production, DP32?

Thanks Hook. Nope, I still haven't quite got the DP32 thing down yet. This was recorded and mixed in Pro Tools.

yes, second listen ..can you give us somee information on the way to produce the sounds which you use;

Drums,
Bass ?

Sure JP. The drums are a midi sketch from BIAB that I modified and played through Superior Drummer 2.0 for the sounds. Just a simple snare train brush groove and fills. The standup slap Bass is played through Spectrasonics Trilian which has some wonderful Bass sounds. Anything from Acoustic to Chapman Stick. No EQ on these, just the raw sounds.

The main guitar riff is my Fender Strat direct into my audio interface recorded dry. Same guitar on the right through a Johnson J-Station with tremolo and reverb printed. Just some strummed chords (not on the original Cake song.) I was going for a Perry Botkin kinda thing like he did with the incidental music on the Beverly Hillbillies.

Mach

[CaptainJimbo]

Oh yeah, I love me some Cake (the band).
I was in my early 20's when that Fashion Nugget album came out and I played the shit out of that disc. It was so different to everything else at the time and the songs, arrangements and playing were right up my alley. Most of all I really dug the guitarist Greg Brown who played all of the electric guitar on that album. I spent a lot of time studying his playing and trying to work out how he got that beautiful light warm and crunchy tone, (I still use a Rat pedal on really low gain to this day). His single note lead playing was both eccentric and eclectic (country/blues/rock/Jazz/surf/spy/spaghetti western/secret agent styles), but what really turned me on were all of those super cool 2 and 3 note chord voicings that he would throw in all over the place.
Yep I listened the shit out of that album and it was a pretty big influence on my playing. Greg quit the band after Fashion Nugget and whilst every other album Cake has done since then has been seriously good, none of them have grabbed me quite like Fashion Nugget did.

Anyway, enough of that historical rambling, your version of stick shifts sounds forking great, man!
The vocals and harmonies sound excellent and there's a serious yet slightly befuddled note to your voice, as if you could not fathom as to why anyone would put a stick shift, bucket seats or safety belts in their car.
The guitar parts all sound fantastic but I particularly like that double bass tone, it gives the whole piece a a nice warm centre. That drum part sounds very live and realistic.

Well done mate, you knocked that sucker righ out of the park.

[Oldrottenhead]

i thought cake where a prog rock band. must have got them mixed up with another band lol.

anyway this is outstanding. bass is standout but so is everything else. fanbloodytastic.