Shane_B. Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 Howdy. This is another Christmas song my brother and I recorded back around 89 on a 4 track tape machine. He sent me the master tapes a few weeks ago and I transferred them in to my DAW and cleaned them up and added some new stuff. As with the other one, I used Ozone 9 Advanced to mix and master it. I wasn't happy with how the original instruments were mixed down on tape and I couldn't fix it so I used the drums as a marker and re-recorded everything except his vocal track. It's the only thing original to the recording we made in 89. My Brother: Vocal (1989). Me: Everything except the vocal track. (2021) It's true to the non-quantized original recording we did. No quantizing, or studio trickery. I used my Epiphone Sheraton II, Free high quality glockenspiel samples from University of Iowa, Cakewalk SI Bass, a free Christmas jingle and sleigh bell VST, and Session Drummer 3. All played live. It's modeled after the original by Lynn Anderson. The fast walkdown guitar part was murder. I must have done 150 takes trying to get the timing right. It's a lot harder than it sounds. Hah. As with the other one I used the meters extensively. Any input good or bad is always welcome on the mix, performance. Anything. Thanks again. Hope everyone enjoys. Thanks for listening. Merry Christmas. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Nice one Shane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Sprouse Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Shane, it's hard to write original christmas songs. Great job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB01 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Very clever lyrics and impressive chops on that guitar walkdown. Great Christmas tune. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) Thanks guys. This isn't an original tune of mine and I'm sorry I forgot to mention the original artist. It's a very old and very obscure country song by a lady named Lynn Anderson. Conway Twitty recorded it too. The version my brother and I did is almost identical to the original L. Anderson version. I don't like Conway's version. Thanks for listening and the feedback. I wish I could have gotten all 7 done that we recorded. Hopefully I'll still be around next year to finish them. Edit: Her big song was Rose Garden. That fast guitar part was in Rose Garden and they reused it in this Christmas song. I tried to emulate it and it was a lot lot harder than it sounds. Edited January 1, 2022 by Shane_B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Fogle Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 I've never heard the Conway Twitty version but listen to the Lynn Anderson song every Christmas season. I visited your Soundcloud site and am confused as Ding A Ling is not visible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Jim Fogle said: I visited your Soundcloud site and am confused as Ding A Ling is not visible. I set it to Private. I could change it to public. The worse that could happen is they take it down for copyright stuff. Side note ... It's all done in Studio One but I don't post there because for some odd reason they don't allow you to post private soundcloud links. Thanks for listening and responding. Edited January 2, 2022 by Shane_B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeringAmps Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Another I missed, but better late than never. ? t the vocal sounds great, I miss my old 688 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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