Take Me Home Country Roads (John Denver - Youtube video)

[des0free]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38vAxyBKtE

Recorded in just three tracks:

1. Vocal, guitar, and rhythm track (from Casio keyboard speakers) recorded together live with Zoom H2n recorder in "mid-side" stereo mic mode (unit seen in video). CLA vocals plugin applied in Reaper.

2. Bass DI into Mackie Onyx Blackjack USB interface. GTR Amp plugin (Motown Bass patch)

3. Doubled vocal (on chorus) CAD D90 mic into USB interface. Waves Ultrapitch plugin (modified "very stereo" patch), CLA unplugged plugin

[TPB]

Very nice appreciate the explanation how I t was done always nice to see how others do their recordings
Tim

[Hilary]

Lovely!

[Jean Pierre]

well done my friend (and your brother)

It's a song I've always liked, it's one of the first covers I did ...in 2015, if you didn't hear it at that time it's HERE

https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=23015

well I had a lot of help from the guys from Band in a Box, for the bluegrass/country color.

[Johnny McAleer]

Excellent! A great song and a great rendition. Quality all round. Nice one, guys! JMc

[Hilary]

Every time I log on to Youtube on my PC this video comes up so I thought I'd give it a bump as it's a joyful cover.

[Zoltan]

Thanks Hilary for the bump! I had not seen this before. It's great to see des0free in action

A lovely cover! There's a great vibe to it all!

[StephenM]

Coolness....  love seeing people play and sing.  So do i understand correctly that the mic is a recording device?
Really dig Doug the bassman too....
Is that a Music Man bass?

[des0free]

Every time I log on to Youtube on my PC this video comes up so I thought I'd give it a bump as it's a joyful cover.

Hey, thanks for the bump!  It has been a while since I did that.  I dream of doing more video covers and using split video frames to show myself playing multiple parts.  But lately I've been letting midi files play the bass on all my covers, since I'm not much of a bass player 

[des0free]

Coolness....  love seeing people play and sing.  So do i understand correctly that the mic is a recording device?
Really dig Doug the bassman too....
Is that a Music Man bass?

Had fun doing that video.  The mic is a Zoom H4n recording device and the thing I was experimenting with there was having it simultaneously record my guitar playing, singing, and in that case it was also recording a drum pattern that was playing on a Casio keyboard.  The bass part was overdubbed afterwards.  It is a Fender Mustang Bass.  I'm not much of a bass player, but in this case I worked really hard with tab I found online to learn the bass part.  Took me ~10 days practicing maybe 30 minutes a day.  Of course doing it all as a live video meant I had to practice enough to be able to play/sing all the way through without messing up.  And as I recall it took many tries before I got a full error free video. But I would like to make more videos like that, eventually. Though for now in my covers, as I haven't had much free time, I'm letting midi files play the bass and other parts and just focusing on  rhythm guitars and vocals