Blues Lawyer

[Ray Brookes]

Cool humorous lyrics, Warren and we've all met this 'blues lawyer' at some time or another.

[Mike_S]

Wonderful Warren... this has got so much heart and attitude. Much more than the vast majority of crap on most radio stations. This is where it's at man. Yeah, so you definitely hit upon a great subject matter here. Yeah so the Blues Lawyer... hadn't come across the term before but I totally get where you're coming from. I guess whatever way you look at it, talent and taste can't be bought thank God. But again, on the other side of the coin each to their own and if you're not doing any harm to anyone what the hell.

A really cool lyric that kind of exposes the Blues Lawyer, but is humble enough to be self critical at the same time. Fab stuff.

(Oh... great stuff on the honest, raw performance, damn good)

Mike

[Bluesberry]

guitar sounds fantastic...and these are fantastic vocals....love the gruff edge...it almost has a feel of old school outlaw country music from the 70's.....with Neil Young on rhythm guitar...fantastic

[StephenM]

Thanks folks. 

I have not been happy with the line out school of recording guitar, somehow it hasn't mixed well for me because I don't know how to add the "room air" back in.   So this is a Shure SM58 mic on my Blackstar HT5R, backed off more than you would if you had an SM57, so it's getting an ambient room sound plus enough of the amp.   That then goes into a live-sound mixer with compression, where I blended the live sound of my vocal prior to recording into the computer.   AN odd way to record. 

Vocals are into a low end Neeuwer NW700 large element condensor.

Then I basically just added too much vintage compression and saturation to accentuate the demo nature of the sound, and my go-to Raum reverb in the box.

I think I should actually mix the vocals back down about 6 dB lower.

"I think I should actually mix the vocals back down about 6 dB lower."
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!  I think the mix is great.... gosh this is so funny and clever....super job *Warren.....

[Bluesberry]

I agree...the vocals sound great just as they are...

[WarpCanada]

Okay good to know.   I heard from someone that my vocals were too loud. A friend of mine who is an actual live sound engineer, you know from those days when there were concerts and bands and the FoH sound guys who get paid to mix live sound.

[Bluesberry]

Okay good to know.   I heard from someone that my vocals were too loud. A friend of mine who is an actual live sound engineer, you know from those days when there were concerts and bands and the FoH sound guys who get paid to mix live sound.

maybe he is right...I thought they sounded good like that, prominant in the mix like this, but this dude is a professional...so maybe he is right....I wouldn't touch them if it were me...but you could try it and see how it comes out


Edit: I juat played it for my son and he says he likes the vocals like this, it gives it a 70's production feel, back in the day when vocals were pushed in the mix like this...hard to say...

[StephenM]

Okay good to know.   I heard from someone that my vocals were too loud. A friend of mine who is an actual live sound engineer, you know from those days when there were concerts and bands and the FoH sound guys who get paid to mix live sound.

well, you can get 10 people to mix and the mix will be a bit different for each... I get a kick out of folks grabbing eq knobs and throttling em all the way up....yikes...

[WarpCanada]

His wife said I sound like Johnny Cash, and I think it's because I took that Vintage Compressor plugin in Cubase and dimed it and set the ratio to 6, which is nuts.

[Bluesberry]

His wife said I sound like Johnny Cash, and I think it's because I took that Vintage Compressor plugin in Cubase and dimed it and set the ratio to 6, which is nuts.

That's what I hear also....I got a Merle Haggard vibe from the vocals...hence my outlaw country comment....and those guys always had their vocals super prominent like this....I think it sounds deadly good