When someone has time to practice their guitar but doesn't....

VonBonfire said:
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I pick up my guitar three, maybe four times a week. Back when I was in college, I used to practice 3-4 hours every day without fail.

There are periods when I just look at my stuff and think, "Nah. Not today." Harder to be motivated when you don't have a band or any reason to play. But when you get out of that trough, the love story begins again.
 
VonBonfire said:
When you had a long day at work and don't "feel" like practicing tonight....
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Some people do have it a little easier i suppose with maybe what some people call talent i guess.

But this is pretty much the difference between tiers of players in my opinion. Was just talking about this with some friends of local bands. If you want to be great, get off your ass and get it.

Nobody is going to get better at something by sitting around and thinking about it.
 
OldGtrGuy said:
Some people do have it a little easier i suppose with maybe what some people call talent i guess.

But this is pretty much the difference between tiers of players in my opinion. Was just talking about this with some friends of local bands. If you want to be great, get off your ass and get it.

Nobody is going to get better at something by sitting around and thinking about it.
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Between the music end of things and the music business end of things there are a lot of different areas one's given talents can be applied so if you are someone who is going all out the "talent" on your instrument is probably the least important thing. And as you said, if you get up off your ass and work it's mostly irrelevant anyways.

I've been guiding a young tan pan pants player the past couple weeks and I don't think he realizes he has a much greater music intelligence than he gives himself credit for but he's also been a lazy bitch lately making excuses like "I have to work today". As it's often said, excuses sound the best to the person making them.
 
VonBonfire said:
Between the music end of things and the music business end of things there are a lot of different areas one's given talents can be applied so if you are someone who is going all out the "talent" on your instrument is probably the least important thing. And as you said, if you get up off your ass and work it's mostly irrelevant anyways.

I've been guiding a young tan pan pants player the past couple weeks and I don't think he realizes he has a much greater music intelligence than he gives himself credit for but he's also been a lazy bitch lately making excuses like "I have to work today". As it's often said, excuses sound the best to the person making them.
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"excuses sound the best to the person making them"


Wisdom for the ages...
 
VonBonfire said:
Between the music end of things and the music business end of things there are a lot of different areas one's given talents can be applied so if you are someone who is going all out the "talent" on your instrument is probably the least important thing. And as you said, if you get up off your ass and work it's mostly irrelevant anyways.

I've been guiding a young tan pan pants player the past couple weeks and I don't think he realizes he has a much greater music intelligence than he gives himself credit for but he's also been a lazy bitch lately making excuses like "I have to work today". As it's often said, excuses sound the best to the person making them.
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Ive experienced both aspects.

My singer from my first real band decades ago had some very serious connections and most of the time that is needed. Especially if you want money and great opportunities.

Unfortunately with my current band I have to basically do everything including the booking although some other members do help on that end.

I agree with all of your post except for the "talent" being the least important thing.

I think it's the most important thing. Not even sure we're referring to the same thing here but you can be a shitty band, get great opportunities or you could be a great band and not get many opportunities via who you know and your business talent.

It certainly takes both and im not saying my band is great but I'd rather have good music and less who I know opportunities.
 
OldGtrGuy said:
I agree with all of your post except for the "talent" being the least important thing.

I think it's the most important thing. Not even sure we're referring to the same thing here but you can be a shitty band, get great opportunities or you could be a great band and not get many opportunities via who you know and your business talent.
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I agree. I was implying musical talent is probably the least important talent to have in the music business cause it seems to be more about the business than it is the music, especially nowadays. As you said, social talents and business acumen probably account for more success than just being musically able and hard work can make up for not being especially musically talented out of the gate.
 
VonBonfire said:
Between the music end of things and the music business end of things there are a lot of different areas one's given talents can be applied so if you are someone who is going all out the "talent" on your instrument is probably the least important thing. And as you said, if you get up off your ass and work it's mostly irrelevant anyways.

I've been guiding a young tan pan pants player the past couple weeks and I don't think he realizes he has a much greater music intelligence than he gives himself credit for but he's also been a lazy bitch lately making excuses like "I have to work today". As it's often said, excuses sound the best to the person making them.
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Does the snare sound better on this? I used a different one. I quad tracked the guitars, too

 
DanTravis62 said:
Does the snare sound better on this? I used a different one. I quad tracked the guitars, too

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The quad tracked guitars still sound great although I also liked the rawness and openness of the original too. Both sound excellent. I listened to the snare on both tracks again and they both have that top mic'ed sound but no "body" like you'd get if you placed a mic underneath the snare along with having overheads in the mix.

I do think part of what I'm hearing is the guitar and the drums sound like they are being played in two very different places, which obviously is the case, but maybe there is a way to bring them closer in terms of a "room" sound before you radically adjust anything major with the snare. I'm not familiar at all with drum software so I don't even know if that's possible to replicate and I'm not real sharp on how snare is usually done in heavy music either so take what I'm saying with several grains of salt.
 
VonBonfire said:
The quad tracked guitars still sound great although I also liked the rawness and openness of the original too. Both sound excellent. I listened to the snare on both tracks again and they both have that top mic'ed sound but no "body" like you'd get if you placed a mic underneath the snare along with having overheads in the mix.

I do think part of what I'm hearing is the guitar and the drums sound like they are being played in two very different places, which obviously is the case, but maybe there is a way to bring them closer in terms of a "room" sound before you radically adjust anything major with the snare. I'm not familiar at all with drum software so I don't even know if that's possible to replicate and I'm not real sharp on how snare is usually done in heavy music either so take what I'm saying with several grains of salt.
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okay i promise this is the last one, I may have discovered some cool delay pedal settings

i tried using some saturation in the master buss to try and "glue" the drums together with everything else as well

 
DanTravis62 said:
okay i promise this is the last one, I may have discovered some cool delay pedal settings

i tried using some saturation in the master buss to try and "glue" the drums together with everything else as well

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Sounding pretty dang good now. Nice leads! Drums seem louder in this mix which also helps the overall sound IMO. They were getting dominated by your quad tracked guitars in the previous mix. Snare is better. Not sure how much more experimenting can be done with the program you have or whether this is something you are socking away for release but it might be worth fooling with some more down the line, assuming your parameters can be saved. IME different songs wind up requiring different sounds from a snare drum so whether more tinkering is worth it or not isn't something I can be the judge of. All in all really nice job Dan and thanks for letting me give some feedback!!!
 
VonBonfire said:
Sounding pretty dang good now. Nice leads! Drums seem louder in this mix which also helps the overall sound IMO. They were getting dominated by your quad tracked guitars in the previous mix. Snare is better. Not sure how much more experimenting can be done with the program you have or whether this is something you are socking away for release but it might be worth fooling with some more down the line, assuming your parameters can be saved. IME different songs wind up requiring different sounds from a snare drum so whether more tinkering is worth it or not isn't something I can be the judge of. All in all really nice job Dan and thanks for letting me give some feedback!!!
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Nah man i'm just fucking around for fun at this point :LOL:

If i end up doing something with it down the line i'll probably re-record the entire thing, it's more of a demo for demo's sake type of thing
 
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