Guitar CLIP of the Month!

[dbw]

Okay, this is the guitar CLIP of the month for November.  Entries close November 15th, and voting will close Nov. 31!

Post a clip, no more than 1 minute long, and let us know what you used to record it.

(Now excuse me, I only have 1 month to practice something enough to post it online :tard: :help: :guitaristgif

 

[tfarny]

Are we judging by chops or by tone or both?

 

[dbw]

Just vote for the one you think should win!

 

[Superlizard]

How's that Smoke On The Water solo coming along?

Oh yeah, and do I have to use a modeler?











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[jackthehack]

under 1 minute = stoopid fail

 

[GoDrex]

one minute isn't a bad limit - make it short and sweet.

I'll try to come up with something

 

[taez555]

I'm intrigued; I might actually have to put something together.

Are we talking solo guitar only, or can it be full on orchestration, layered guitars, sound effects, maybe vocals, insanity, etc.   Focused on your Warmoth of course.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Damn you and that one minute limit!!!   :doh: LOL
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When I got finished and compiled the track it came up at 1 minute and 10 secs, oooops and oh well. I ain't starting over.  :toothy11: But, if it becomes a real issue, I'll cut the arpeggio off the beginning.  :icon_thumright:

OK, threw this together yesterday and today, would have been finished yesterday, but as Vista goes, it locked and I lost about half of my finished tracks.  :evil4:

Guitar used: Gibson Les Paul Gothic w/EMG81/85 pups, D'Addario XL 10-46 strings, Fender Graffiti heavy pick, Eb tuning
Bass used: Gibson Les Paul Gothic w/EMG81/85 pups (not a typo :laughing7, D'Addario XL 10-46 strings, Fender Graffiti heavy pick, Eb tuning
Guitar Amps used: PODxt Live: Clean - L6 Sparkle Clean, Rhythm and Solos - 1968 Plexi Variac'd w/all knobs dimed  :laughing7:
Bass Amps used: PODxt Live: Line6 Prog Metal Bass
Software used: Vista64 Home Premium, RiffWorks Standard, Instant Drummer - Sonic Reality Lo-Fi Funk drums
Console: My Hewlett Packard dv9930us laptop and Altec Lansing desk top speakers w/sub

First things first: My sincerest apologies to the bass players on the board, I'm not one and just played what I thought fit.
And I don't own a bass guitar.  :help: But I think the Les Paul covered it pretty well.  ccasion14:

Wanted to do something cool and laid back, but builds as it goes along. Everything was planned out and played with a purpose. Except for the last solo, I wanted to have some fun with it. So I just said to hell with it and went for broke, raw and in your face.  :icon_thumright:

Oh what I could have done with more than one minute!!!!  :toothy11:

Notes:
All guitars and bass are single tracked with the exception of the lead lines @ 48-58 sec, they were triple tracked and blended/panned to give that section an "airy" quality.
All clean tracks used the EMG 85 pup
All hi-gain rhythm tracks used the EMG 81 pup
Solo/lead lines and pup used: EMG 85 @ 26-41 sec and 59-1.10 sec, EMG 81 used 42-58 sec.
Bass guitar tracks used the EMG 85 pup
Bass guitar tracks start at 16 seconds in
Guitar volume and tone controls at full on for all tracks

I turned off the EQ on Windows Media Player during test plays and had everything pretty much set flat when I was recording and mixing this down. So if you run a normal V-shaped EQ you may want to adjust it as needed, or to your personal taste and preference. :icon_tongue:

Any and all comments welcome.  ccasion14:

I call the track: Lizard POD Pie  :toothy12:

 

[jimh]

Wot???  No Warmoth  :dontknow:

Seriously.... Nice tune DbU.  Lovin the solo.  Wicked tone.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Sorry, no Warmoth. I'm currently out of state doing some work and only brought my Les Paul, an acoustic guitar and my PODxt Live. I just brought those along to have something to play on and then this thread pops up!! LOL. I left the Warmoths at home where they are safe.

The flash player is part of the forum. If you attach a mp3 to a post that's how it shows up.  

 

[dbw]

Damn dude    Cool clip.

I was thinking we could do alternating tone/chops months like with the guitar of the month.... thoughts?

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Damn dude    Cool clip.

I was thinking we could do alternating tone/chops months like with the guitar of the month.... thoughts?

Thanks, no poser here, I actually play my gear. LOL.

Tone vs. Chops?? They kinda go hand in hand if you are judging the Clip of the Month as a whole. If you are going to break it down, you may need a Best Chops of the Month thread, etc.

 

[djf67]

With respect to Steve Karl,  I have loads of stuff recorded over the last 18 years but think it should be a new clip not a section of something older (although I did edit down some killer clips  :glasses9: ). Happy for a ruling from dbw...  :dontknow:
I've gone for a new recording and I'll nominate it for tone ('cos it certainly isn't difficult to play!). Very different to my usual metal stuff (e.g. on my website  :icon_biggrin.

Warmoth korina strat, Breed neck pickup, volume pot (!)
Behringer V-amp Pro with my own settings
spdif into Creative sound card via breakout box
Tracktion 2 software
No bells. No whistles.

 

[dbw]

For next month, only your GUITAR should be heard on the clip.  :doh:

 

[Return of Guitlouie]

I say just vote for the one you like.  The shred-meisters might always win for their killer chops, but maybe not.  There are a lot of people who like a lot of different kinds of music.  Just go for it.  I myself will have to wait until next time, as my recording gear has been giving me literally a year long problem, which I am veeeeeery close to resolving.  One more small purchase, and I should be good to go.   Nice clips so far!!!!

 

[Death by Uberschall]

For next month, only your GUITAR should be heard on the clip.   :doh:

Dude, don't sweat it. This is a "Clip of the Month" thread and we have posted "clips".  :icon_thumright:

I say just post what you can put together. Do what you do best, period. Your playing will speak for itself. Either you can play well or you can't. Drum and bass tracks won't cover it up, neither will a guitar only clip. I don't think anybody will hold anything against anybody based on what they have or don't have to get it done with. All I used was a POD unit and the simple software that came with it, on my work laptop no less, nothing special. It's not that hard to record something, just depends on how far you want to take it. Either way, you're going to have to get something recorded or we'll never get to hear it.  :laughing7:

I do think it should be something you put together just for this thread or any others that come along. I'm sure many of us, myself included have studio/professional recordings we could snatch 60 seconds from. I've recorded two full CD's of original work and there are some great moments on them that would be awesome here. But I don't think it would be in the spirit of the "Clip of the Month" thread.

We can beat this against a wall until everybody is happy and then what will be left? Dry, wimpy tone, single guitar tracks that you don't want to listen to more than once?? And BTW, you're not going to make everybody happy anyway.  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Death by Uberschall]

I say just vote for the one you like.  The shred-meisters might always win for their killer chops, but maybe not.  There are a lot of people who like a lot of different kinds of music.  Just go for it.

I agree. But the "shred-meisters" will not always win. They are going to need substance or it will just sound like you are practicing scales. That's why David Gilmour will always be one of my favorite guitarist. He wasn't the most proficiently skilled player, but he knew how to write melodies that would pull you in and take you for a ride sonically. I may have went off the "deep end" in the last 10 seconds of my clip, but what would it be otherwise if I hadn't recorded all the other stuff before it? Even as well as I pulled off that last bit, I'm much happier with and prouder of the main structure of the whole recording. But that last 10 seconds sure was fun!!!  :laughing7:

 

[GoDrex]

This is a little riff thing that I find myself playing a lot. So I decided to record so i'll stop playing it. :laughing7: It turned into a kind of classic metal sounding thing. That's not really what I thought of when I played it, but that's what happened when I did the drums and bass. It's the first thing I've done with the Tonelab LE. I think I need to tweak it some more. It's got a lot more treble than I'm used to. I used my Warmoth LP for most of it. The solo noise at the end is my strat. Sorry that it's 10 seconds over. I have trouble doing stuff shorter than 2 minutes.  :icon_tongue:

check out my other recordings to hear some stuff I'm actually kind of proud of.

 

[DangerousR6]

Those are some pretty cool clips...... :icon_thumright:

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Now that wer'e defining the rules maybe I'll gt to recording something new.

Hey Steve, looking forward to hearing what you put together. How's it coming?