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Pay The Man - David Lindley

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U.Tucker T
  • NeedsFlute
  • NeedsBass Electric
  • NeedsGuitar
  • NeedsKeys Organ - Hammond and others
  • NeedsDrums
  • NeedsVocals
  • NeedsBacking Vocals
  • NeedsSurprise me
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Published on 03 Dec 2020 / In Reggae / Reggaeton

I love his music.

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Flute
Bass Electric Surferbeto
Guitar
Keys Organ - Hammond and others
Drums
Vocals
Backing Vocals
Surprise me
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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 3 years ago

Your ocarina sounds good U.Tucker! It has a tone quote close to the original recording. Well done.

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 3 years ago

Hi U. Tucker, I moved my harmony vocal tracks to Drafts and recorded a few new ones for your consideration. I hope you like them. I wanted to get "oooohs" on the second verse too. And I added a track with lead vocal melody on the "oooohs". I added compression, light EQ, and a little reverb as suggested. I set their sync adjustments in Studio mode.

They're not perfect, but they're not bad. I misplaced the "woof, vroom!" on one of the tracks but it still kind of works. I was hoping it would remind discerning listeners of "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown."

I haven't yet added comp, EQ, reverb to the lead vocal track. I'll get to that another day. It's getting kind of late here at +7hrs GMT.

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U.Tucker T
U.Tucker T 3 years ago

Tried my ocarina. I think it's OK for now. Hope you like it too.

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U.Tucker T
U.Tucker T 3 years ago

I 'll join the backing harmony on the highest part in time.

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 3 years ago

I can certainly adjust volume and reverb. I've been learning how to do simple post-processing in Audacity. I never did this in the old BandHub days. But BandHug makes it easy to export/import tracks (good feature, Denniski!). And a little judicious compression can really improve vocals. I often use a noise filter and noise gate (to clean up background noises) then add a little compression.

If you like, I could also mix the paired vocals into single tracks (in Audacity) in order to reduce the number of video tracks of me filling up the screen.

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U.Tucker T
U.Tucker T 3 years ago

Feel free to mix and adjust them as I don't know much about it and I'm open to enjoy new ideas. Thank you!

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 3 years ago

Hey u. tucker, there you are! I'm glad you like it.

Another high vocal or two would be good. I was thinking of adding more, but I wanted to wait and hear from you first. I can build 3-part harmonies pretty easily but it's more fun to sing with other people.

I was thinking I might duplicate the lead vocal in head voice, to create more opportunities for mixing.

Bongos and/or more percussion would be sweet!

Do we know anybody who is good with a pennywhistle?

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U.Tucker T
U.Tucker T 3 years ago

No. I was wondering if I could do with my ocarina. In that case the whole song sounds more naïve and humorous , which I like though.

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 3 years ago

@U.Tucker T: Yes. Second verse of this song could be really dark. Keeping it light and playful is good.

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 3 years ago

@U.Tucker T: I have a kalimba that might sound good. But it is in the wrong key for this song (C maj).

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U.Tucker T
U.Tucker T 3 years ago

Great raw materials Suerferbato. I think your experiment has succeeded. Do you want to adjust the volume and reverb? Shall we wait for the keyboard?
I might want to add my higher backing vocal and bongos!

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