13 Feb
2005
13 Feb
'05
9:25 a.m.
OK the vocal sounds like a very early David bowie and thats good.
I cant understand out of tune guitars these days as there are many
tuners out there.
If the guitar is upfront it should be tuned.
But as this is mutlitrack just do it again as the vocal sits nice.
Just my 2p's worth
Bob
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:56 +0000, tim hall wrote:
Last Sunday 13 February 2005 10:24, Shayne
O'Connor was like:
(i should say that, to me, this song has more
than a bit of a tribute to
the musical forms of Pavement ... and correct tuning in this context has
no more relevance than good singing ... )
OK, there's no such things as 'correct' granted. However, in my musical
opinion, this song would sound better 'in tune'. Dodgy guitar sounds require
much greater production skills to sound right (c.f. World Domination
Enterprises 'Asbestos Lead Asbestos' or indeed their version of 'Funky
Town'). Recording the guitar through a miked up valve amp would help. 7th
chords on the guitar tend to produce uncomfortable and distracting harmonics
if they're not tuned right, you'll notice many guitarists use open power
chords for this reason. It's worth using the tried and tested classic pop
formula to start with and then deconstruct it for whatever artistic reasons
you have.
That said, you've already got further than I have. ;-)
cheers
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk