PJH

On 3/15/2023 at 1:19 AM, mark skinner said:

Cool one. Hats off to you for actually doing a reunion like that , instead of just writing about it.    Nice ..   mark

Thanks for the comments Mark! It was one of those "if we don't do it now, we'll never do it".

On 3/7/2023 at 1:40 PM, Bajan Blue said:

Hi Peter

Sounds good and your Guitar playing is great

Cool even after all these years

Nigel

 

 

Thanks for the comments, Nigel!

Cheers!

On 3/7/2023 at 4:35 AM, DeeringAmps said:

?’s for sure! Very cool.  

Has a little Strange Kind of Woman vibe. 

t

Thanks Tom! Now that you mention it, I can hear what you mean.

On 2/27/2023 at 9:16 AM, AndyB01 said:

Sounds great Peter and stands the test of time all these years later.

Andy

Thanks Andy! It came out better than I expected.

Cheers!

This has been a fun project! Our school band, Ad Astra (formed in 1973 when we were between the ages of 13 and 14 years old) decided to get together and record one of the songs that was written back in 1973. Two of the members now live abroad (Alan in London and John - Paul in New Zealand). As this is the 50th reunion since formation, they both made the effort to come over to South Africa and get together to redo this song.

We'd talked about getting together for a long time but we procrastinated and didn't do anything.

Our wake up call came about when we lost our good friend who joined as our singer due to Covid. This made us decide to make this happen. One never knows what's around the corner.

The version of the song in the intro was recorded live at one of our school concerts back in the 70's.

On 1/6/2023 at 3:25 AM, Jesse Screed said:

Friends

I don't know what that is.

If to have friends you must be a friend

then i M lost

great mix at 75db

then that thing at 2

clean and clear

i never knew a drummer in HS

this is cool

nice pads

who did the pads.>.

greatr mizs

I would take some of those histrionics and paste them into a shorter version

could make this a 3 kindatng

but htat wutrt they said abour t the WHITE ALBUM ,

 

 

Not sure I follow what you're saying but thanks for the comments. 

On 1/4/2023 at 10:44 PM, steve@baselines.com said:

Nice.  Tight.  Great guitar work.  Great drum sound as well.  Cheers!

Thanks for the comments! 

Cheers!

On 1/3/2023 at 5:53 PM, Supa Reels said:

Thanks for the share .. brilliant ! He IS a great skins man ... your not bad either LOL ..

Steve

 

Thanks Steve!

Much appreciated!

On 1/1/2023 at 4:45 AM, Old Joad said:

Cool song, nice strat?

Thanks for your comment. 

On 12/31/2022 at 11:25 PM, garybrun said:

Well done Pete.. the mix sounds great on my Focals.

Thanks for the comment, Gary!

On 12/31/2022 at 6:24 PM, Bapu said:

Nice one Peter.

The plan is for my band from High School days will be getting together in February for a day of jamming.

Thanks, Bapu!

You should try and record or video your jamming. 

On 12/26/2022 at 5:37 PM, evadianepug said:

I have been down for over 2 weeks with Influenza A and am physically and emotionally exhausted.  The beauty of this brought me to tears at times.   Thank you.  Reunions are great!

Wow! Thank you for your comments! I'm really glad that the song had such a great effect on you!

I hope you're feeling much better!

Cheers!

On 12/15/2022 at 5:04 PM, Keith Wilby said:

One word: fantastic ?

Thanks Keith!

On 12/15/2022 at 5:43 PM, mark skinner said:

 Peter, as usual this one flowed like water over glass.  Beautiful melody's , you make it look so easy ..  Congrats on your reunion . I had one a while back with some old mates , we are really spread out now , and not a lot of us left .. Enjoyed it ..  mark

Thanks Mark. Yes, that's the reason we did it. We really don't know if we'll get another chance to do it again.

On 12/14/2022 at 2:22 PM, Wookiee said:

Cool grooving @PJH and co, nice, just what I needed after the start I had today. Sweet  

Thanks for the comment Wookie!

On 12/15/2022 at 5:21 AM, noynekker said:

Real quality feel to this one, so well played and conceived . . . enjoyed it very much, just don't make it another 40 years to play together again !

Thanks noynekker, yes, I don't know if or when it'll ever happen again. Just glad we were able to do it at all.

Thanks Olaf!

On 12/14/2022 at 3:43 AM, Andrew Rhodes said:

That's some nice, chilled out, bluesy playing. Is that a japanese strat - heel truss adjustment?

Thanks Andrew!

No, it's a '61 Reissue Mexican. 

On 10/20/2022 at 1:29 AM, Dream Art Scientists said:

Sounds really good and really nice playing!

Thanks for the comment!

Cheers!

Lovely production! Great guitar tone in the choruses. Well done Nigel!

20 hours ago, ChristopherAnn said:

Nice at 2:40ish..reminds of the old days in the 80s.

 

Thanks for the comment!

1 hour ago, Wookiee said:

Nice playing  well captured   applause to you all.

Thanks Wookie!

On 11/13/2022 at 8:29 PM, antler said:

Very nice!

I admit - I was looking at Cakewalk in the background so got a vague idea as to when the big sections were coming up ?

Excellent playing and production all round!

Thanks Antler! I'm amazed that you could make it out!

On 11/20/2022 at 5:00 PM, paulo said:

Top notch in every way. ?

Nothing more needs to be said, which is just as well as I need to leave here right now so that I can throw my pc out of the window.

Thanks for the comments, Paulo! Much appreciated!

On 11/20/2022 at 7:23 PM, InstrEd said:

Nice work!

Thank you IntrEd!

23 hours ago, antler said:

Very nice!

I admit - I was looking at Cakewalk in the background so got a vague idea as to when the big sections were coming up ?

Excellent playing and production all round!

Thanks for the comments!

Cheers!

15 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

As always Peter top shelf in every a way!

?'s ?

 

one question, I see Larry "whack" those cymbals, but I don't "hear" it.
Is my top end that compromised? Hear the snare and toms just fine...

Thanks Tom! Crashes sound fine here.

Thanks so much for the comments guys!

To answer your question Nigel, I have three Sony HD video cameras which I place around the studio when I know I'm going to record various instruments.

To be perfectly honest, I don't spend as much time as should with the camera placement etc as I'm more concerned with the actual performances of the recordings. 

If only I had another pair of hands to be a kind of "roving" camera that would be great. It is nice to have three views of each instrument though!

Cheers!

I've known David Myers for many years and never knew that he played piano. He mentioned one day that he'd like to record one of his original tracks and asked if I'd produce it.

I was completely blown away by his composition and playing. This has been a most enjoyable project and I hope there'll be more like this from him.

As usual, we filmed the sessions...

8 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

 

Well, if you are trying to go by what Jacques suggests, render with Elastique Pro.

I did try Elastique Pro and the result was unusable. Audio artifacts everywhere.

I remember when Sonar closed down before Bandlab took over, I tried Samplitude Pro.

I couldn't warm to it but I have to say that the time stretching in Samplitude was excellent.  No artifacts, glitches etc. The funny thing is that it also used the Elastique algorithm.