1st cut of a demo

The song No One Knows Midnight Like Melinda is a Max Richards original that he recorded in about 1976 with Men Of Country on their 2nd album.

The sound is a muddy mess at the moment because some of it was recorded in the round so those parts will have to be rerecorded as individual tracks, everything is straight into the mixer.

Probably the only things that will not be rerecorded are the bass and the drum track, and harmonies will be added to the basic structure

Buried rather deeply in this very rough demo is the PBH-4 I built a year or so ago, the guitar parts are Squier CV Thinline

https://soundcloud.com/suthol/no-one...inda-2016-demo

That's a pretty cool demo mate.

Dave It seems you've sorted your recording problems out and it's working well great job

Thanks guys, I only spent a couple of hours on it today so it was always going to be a bit rough.

Last week I found a suitable straight rock beat at 80bpm in the drum machine and recorded 5 minutes of it.

Thursday night I got Max to sing a guide track and put down an acoustic part to the drum track, unfortunately the pezieo in the guitar picked up his voice so the acoustic has to be rerecorded.

Today I chopped up the drum track for the tacits, laid down the bass track, a simple solo as a double track, a 1 or 2 strum to the bar electric rhythm and another electric part that is finger picked intervals following the chords.

There is reverb on some tracks and most have a bit of Eq.

Next Thursday night we'll rerecord the acoustic and then start on the voices, it will be at least 3 part harmony and possibly a bit of steel guitar.

This will become the proper demo but there will also be another version that will have the electric lead, lead vocal and two of the harmony parts stripped out to become a backing track for live performance.

Hi Dave i can see where your heading with this, keep it as old school country as possible

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Originally Posted by tonyw

Hi Dave i can see where your heading with this, keep it as old school country as possible

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Given that I am the youngster at just short of 68 and the other two are 71 plus it will be reasonably old school :D

Here's another one that we did a couple of years ago, all done one track at a time.

It's a song that Bob wrote for his father back in about 1974 that we played together back then and rerecorded with Max.

https://soundcloud.com/suthol/20-sons-of-poppa-browne

Yeah mate and i just clicked the 61 on Friday lol

I'm turning 47 in August this year, guess that makes me a young pup....lol.

Never to young to learn Doc lol

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Never to young to learn Doc lol

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Hahaha....trouble is, I never learn...lol.

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Originally Posted by dave.king1

Here's another one that we did a couple of years ago, all done one track at a time.

It's a song that Bob wrote for his father back in about 1974 that we played together back then and rerecorded with Max.

https://soundcloud.com/suthol/20-sons-of-poppa-browne

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Ahh i have done my share of the old country, bought up on a foster farm as kid, good stuff mate.

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I'm turning 47 in August this year, guess that makes me a young pup....lol.

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Very, my eldest will turn 47 in July :)

So, I rerecorded the whole shooting match with very clean and balanced tracks and took it to rehearsals last night.

Got Max to put the vocal down which went well and the he realised the key of E is too high for his aging vocal chords, his original recording back in the 70s was in C and he sang it in a lower register but can no longer hit the low notes with enough strength.

Over the weekend I'll rerecord the rhythm, bass, guitar fills and lead track in D, then we'll redo the vocals next Thursday night

sounds good DK, look forward to the re-recording