Yngwie Malmsteen - BROTHERS - cover

[Satchwood]

Hey I think I can detect this "warbling" kind of underwater background noise...

Sure enough I went back to my original mp3 straight out of the MBR and it sounded cleaner.  Audacity did something to the mp3 file....maybe it did some un-wanted auto-compression like 64G suggested? 

Anybody else notice sound degradation after using Audacity?

[64Guitars]

Also, what exactly is warbling?  I'm not familiar with that term...

It's like the sound of a babbling brook, double-tracked through a rotating Leslie speaker or a high-speed phase shifter or chorus effect, and it's constantly there in the background.

Here's an example, although it's not exactly like what we're hearing in your MP3.

http://www.sowa.synth.net/poly/sound/bloops.mp3

Yours is maybe a bit distorted and more in the background.

Which version of LAME are you using with Audacity? I found the following quote from a developer on the Audacity forum:

"We don't support v3.97 in Audacity any longer - you just happen to have a 3.97 version that Audacity accepts. LAME v3.97 is well known to suffer from "warbling" distortion unless you use higher bit rates (circa 192 kbps or higher). To avoid this you need a non-beta LAME 3.98."


You can download the latest LAME MP3 encoder here:

http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/

[64Guitars]

Before I posted this song, I exported this mp3 out of Audacity to get rid of the annoying backer drum 4 beat count-in.  I'll compare with the mp3 prior to Audacity getting it's hands on it.

MP3 encoding uses lossy data compression, meaning it actually discards some of the data from your recording. Re-encoding compounds the problem since it throws away more data with each encoding. As a general rule, you should never use MP3 encoding unless you have to for file size (uploading to this board) or compatibility (loading onto your MP3 player). So, it would have been better if you'd exported your song from the Micro BR as a WAV file and imported that into Audacity. After trimming, you could then export it from Audacity as an MP3 for uploading to the board. That way, the song would have been encoded to MP3 only once, instead of twice (Micro BR and Audacity).

[Satchwood]

Thanks for your help 64Guitars!  That makes sense to me now. 

I am using Lame 3.98.2 so I guess I'm good there. 

I think I actually may have exported it out of Audacity and then re-exported out again...   live n learn...

Thanks again 64 - I'll import a wav file into Audacity next time!

[Wiley]

I would think your fingers would be sore or burning after this episode. Absolutely amazing how fast you are.  Excellent job!

[Bosko Schwartz]

Excellent guitar , in fact superb , shreds not my thing  , but i can still apreciate a top player ( warbling starts about 00:52 into the song by the way )



Facemask93

... nor is shredding my thing, but that could be because I could never do it in a million years, no matter how hard I tried.  This is spot-on Ingwie.  I used to be a full-on "metalhead" (I bet you'd never guess that from my music), back in the mid/late-80s, and used to be a huge fan of his.  Even saw him in concert once.  Amazing, of course.  At the time, I thought he was the only person in the world who could play guitar like this.  Boy, was I wrong.  Perhaps Ingwie's a hack and Satchwood is the REAL guitar god!

[indierik]

Bosko took the words right out of my mouth, I too was a big fan back in the eighties (as well as (Maiden, Priest, Dokken, Dio, Ozzy, Rat)  never saw him live but wanted to. I would drive around in my metallic gold Oldsmobile Cutless with matching gold rims and crank his music on my Alpine stereo!  I would never even attempt to play his riffs, yet you have and have done it, and done it really well. Wow! Nice work! It's cold tonight, can I use your guitar, which is most likely on fire right now, to keep me warm? 

[Satchwood]

Wow on the comments!!  I'm speechless...and humbled!  Thank you kindly.

I use to be a metalhead back then too....but I still like assorted flavors of music...like everyone on this site.  I listen to more music on here then anything else, so after recording a tune last night, I realized you all are starting to influence my music - way cool or what!

I am definitely not a guitar-god, but thanks for the reference; I do have a tendency to play fast, especially when I feel like I'm under alot of stress - you know life stress....shoot, I might have to satch up that mellow tune I was recording last night...

I'd like to do a few more covers from: Satriani, AIC, Dokken, Aerosmith, Floyd, etc. - maybe we can ask the admin or 64G if there might be a better place to post cover songs - like a separate area different from the "original" posts?

I have posted mostly originals, just so you don't think I'm a cover band....but I do like playing some...

[64Guitars]

I'd like to do a few more covers from: Satriani, AIC, Dokken, Aerosmith, Floyd, etc. - maybe we can ask the admin or 64G if there might be a better place to post cover songs - like a separate area different from the "original" posts?

I don't know if there'd be any advantage to having a separate area for cover songs. I think there are too many boards and child boards already. Do we need more?

Feel free to post your cover songs in either "Post your MP3" or "Collaborations". If you want to distinguish cover songs from originals, you can do so in the message subject.

There are no rules for message subjects, but here's my suggestion:

"Song Title in quotes" followed by (original or cover in brackets).

For example:

  "Sundials in the Rain" (Greeny original)
  "Home" (Jemima's Kite original)
  "Harvest" (Neil Young cover)
  "Brothers" (Yngwie Malmsteen cover)

But that's only my suggestion. Feel free to format message subjects any way you like.

[Bluesberry]

The playing is so beautiful here Satch that you have brought tears to my eyes.  I am in awe.  I am struck down.  I am struck deaf, dumb and blind.  WOW.