STEELCHALENGE 1 Are you all ready????

Brian McGaughey · Post by **Brian McGaughey** » 21 Mar 2011 8:08 am

OK. Here's mine.

http://soundcloud.com/a-b-masher

Constructive criticism welcomed.

Franklin>Goodrich>RV3>Vibrosonic>ShinyBox Ribbon Mic>Electro-Harmonix (noisey!)Mic Pre>Sonar

Bill Dobkins · Post by **Bill Dobkins** » 21 Mar 2011 7:22 pm

Brian, Awesome tone and playing just a little to busy. I love the sound your getting. IMHO

Jeff Hanson · Post by **Jeff Hanson** » 21 Mar 2011 7:31 pm

Here's mine http://soundcloud.com/starsteelguitar/times-gonna-fly.

Bill Dobkins · Post by **Bill Dobkins** » 21 Mar 2011 7:33 pm

Bill Moore wrote:Here's my attempt: http://soundcloud.com/user3264119/time-first-take

This was played on my Rittenberry SD-10, Lawrence 705 pickup, a medium amount of delay, DD-3. The playing is too busy, but I just played as if I was doing it live. Nothing special, but I'm satisfied with it as a first try.

Good Bill.

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 24 Mar 2011 9:53 am

Elizabeth West · Post by **Elizabeth West** » 24 Mar 2011 9:19 pm

I'll try and upload one over the weekend

Frederic Mabrut · Post by **Frederic Mabrut** » 26 Mar 2011 3:55 am

Here's a little bit' of French Touch!

Recorded on ProTools this morning.
Franklin D10
Transtubefex

The hardest part was not to play and go along the tune until the climax at the end of the song. I've tried to keep it simple to avoid an overbusy steel part.
Comments welcome.

http://soundcloud.com/steelguitarfred/times-gonna-fly

Mickey Adams · Post by **Mickey Adams** » 26 Mar 2011 7:16 am

WAY WAY COOL!!!...

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 26 Mar 2011 7:27 am

Guys, this is so great!!!
All those approaches!!
Keep them coming!
Hat off to you, Fredric!!
Thanks, Johan

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 26 Mar 2011 8:47 am

Johan,

What does your friend whom wrote the song think so far?

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 26 Mar 2011 8:52 am

I will ask him and post the answer!
JJ

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 26 Mar 2011 9:20 am

Good idea. Can I add other instruments too ?

Tom Cerrigione · Post by **Tom Cerrigione** » 26 Mar 2011 11:32 am

Hey everyone,
This has been an incredible experience for me, listening to all of these great accompaniments.
I'm not a steel player so I don't feel qualified to comment on playing or sound, however as an amature producer, ( I recorded this on a home PC with Cakewalk Sonar), I like what Gary did with the repeating theme. I also really liked Freds holding back approach.
In my mind I visualized the dynamics of this song as becoming very soft in the begining of the last chorus, then getting stronger throughout the rest of the song along with the lead guitar.
I always felt like the chorus needed a little somthing more.
Individual tracks can be found here.
http://soundcloud.com/tomcerrmusic/sets
if anyone wants to experiment with the mix. Feel free to add or take away instruments.

You have a great group here!
Thanks Johan for using my song.

Tom

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 27 Mar 2011 1:04 am

Tom this is great fun! Thanks for using your song.

BTW, does anyone have recordings of a nice honkytonk-song without steel for chalenge nr 2?

regards, Johan

Bill Dobkins · Post by **Bill Dobkins** » 27 Mar 2011 9:01 am

Laney and Russ Hicks have some good tracks.

Albert Svenddal · Post by **Albert Svenddal** » 27 Mar 2011 2:24 pm

Here is my little contribution.

Blessings, Albert

: http://soundcloud.com/alberts-2/forum-song

Ray McCarthy · Post by **Ray McCarthy** » 27 Mar 2011 4:46 pm

Excellent! The question is whether we are showcasing ourselves or trying to augment the song. I think you've nailed the latter.

Bill Dobkins · Post by **Bill Dobkins** » 27 Mar 2011 6:24 pm

OK I'll try. Hope this works.
http://soundcloud.com/dobkins/01-times-gonna-fly

Elizabeth West · Post by **Elizabeth West** » 27 Mar 2011 8:59 pm

http://soundcloud.com/spuzzumkid-1/times-gonna-fly
Hope I've got this right.
Heres my first try.

Elizabeth West · Post by **Elizabeth West** » 27 Mar 2011 9:09 pm

http://soundcloud.com/spuzzumkid-1
Sorry I got the first try one wrong.

Frederic Mabrut · Post by **Frederic Mabrut** » 28 Mar 2011 1:34 am

Albert Svendal, I think you've just nailed the challenge!

Congrats!

Michael Remming · Post by **Michael Remming** » 28 Mar 2011 3:40 am

I love this idea and have been trying in vain to convert the mp3 file to a wav file to use in my DP-004 Pocket Sudio that I got for Christmas. It requries a 16 bit, 44.1-kHz, mono, WAVE file. I've been using Audacity with no luck yet. Can anyone help me with this?

Bill Dobkins · Post by **Bill Dobkins** » 28 Mar 2011 5:01 am

Frederic Mabrut wrote:Albert Svendal, I think you've just nailed the challenge!

Congrats!

WOW! if I had know this was a contest I would taken more time. Congrats Al.

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 28 Mar 2011 5:41 am

Once again, this is not a contest. I just started this for letting hear each other ideas about playing and backing up, instead of just talking about playing.
As we say in Dutch: "Niet lullen, speulen!" it's in English like 'Shut up and play!:)"
Thanks for all reactions!
Johan

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 28 Mar 2011 5:45 am

Michael, There is a programm called Youtube downloader http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
that you also can use to convert audiofiles.
regards, Johan

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