New Song: Like a Thief in the Night

[Bear-Faced Cow]

New song online: Like a Thief in the Night.

Wrote this one using the Fields of Rock SDX. I never realized how much this SDX rocks. I’m going to be using this one more often.

You can listen to it here: https://bearfacedcow.bandcamp.com/track/like-a-thief-in-the-night

Enjoy!

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This topic was modified 2 months, 4 weeks ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

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[CHRIS]

Bear-Faced Cow,

My favorite parts of your song are: guitar tone (what did you use for that, especially main rhythm guitar and lead guitar?), lead guitar, vocals & vocal melodies.  The rest of the song is quite good also, including the drums.  Rock on!

https://www.soundclick.com/aaronaardvark

Cubase 10.5, iMac OSX 10.15.7, memory 8GB, Steinberg UR22 mkII interface

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Hey Chris,

First of all, glad you like it.

The rhythm guitar actually consists of two parts. I play one in a lower register of the guitar and one slightly higher up. I use the Helix Native plugin for all of my guitar parts except the lead (that was an older Logic guitar sim fully distorted to the point where I needed to use a noise gate). The amps used in the Helix native were a Marshall and A Fender Bassman Tweed. The overdrives used were the Klon and Nobel’s sims, Not too distorted. Otherwise the rhythm gets muffled.

The arpeggiated guitar part has the addition of the UAD Waterfall Rotary fed into an MXR Flanger.

vocals used a combination of plug-ins: Capitol Chambers for reverb, EP-34 for echo, and a H910 in dual mono for a split harmonizer effect fed into an MXR Flanger plug-in to thicken the vocals.

And yes, I’m loving the Fields of Rock SDX. It was a change from my usual go-to (The Rock Foundry, although great, wasn’t cutting it this time).

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[CHRIS]

Bear-Faced Cow,

Thank you for replying.  Yes, Helix Native is my primary amp modeler & effect device for guitar.  Though I use others too.  Using an EZmix 3 guitar preset for a cleanish guitar sound on a song I am working on currently.  Sometimes mixing various brands of amp models works well for me on double-tracked guitars panned left & right.

https://www.soundclick.com/aaronaardvark

Cubase 10.5, iMac OSX 10.15.7, memory 8GB, Steinberg UR22 mkII interface

[TheSritoh]

caught myself dancing to this one in the night.

We are a group of people recording videos of Geometry Dash, Roblox, Minecraft, etc...

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

I didn’t know bots could dance.

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

CHRIS wrote:

Bear-Faced Cow,

Thank you for replying.  Yes, Helix Native is my primary amp modeler & effect device for guitar.  Though I use others too.  Using an EZmix 3 guitar preset for a cleanish guitar sound on a song I am working on currently.  Sometimes mixing various brands of amp models works well for me on double-tracked guitars panned left & right.

Helix Native is my main go to when it comes to software amplifiers. For the most part I will record directly with the my Helix floorboard and PowerCab as I prefer the amp in the room feel. I have always treated the guitar and amp as a single instrument.

I often tap a line out of my Helix to record a dry guitar signal to experiment. I’m still seeing what EZMix can do for me.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[CHRIS]

Bear-Faced Cow,

Use whatever works for you.  Though I like to have the option to change any number of things after recording only the clean guitar signal.  That includes using Melodyne for timing correction, and altering monophonic notes if need be.

https://www.soundclick.com/aaronaardvark

Cubase 10.5, iMac OSX 10.15.7, memory 8GB, Steinberg UR22 mkII interface

• This post was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by CHRIS.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I don’t like using dry unprocessed guitar signals as my main guitars. I’m usually one to do all my pre-production with the guitar, which will mean setting up the entire recording chain starting from the Helix. To me, it is all one instrument and I like to play it as such. Changing the amp sometimes changes my playing. The guitars on this song was originally done at a different time but I didn’t like what done back then. My only choice was to see what I could do with the dry signals or re-record it. Fortunately, Helix Native always comes through for me. My real challenge was the arpeggiated guitar parts, but when I add the Waterfall Rotary, I was over the moon with it because it stood out the way I wanted it to.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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