I started to write āThe Q-Qā but something else came out, but I still got a reference to Q in the last line. āThe Sourceā here:
The Source
It kicks, Tom. Could use backing vocals on the chorus, but thatās always problematic, isnāt it?
What is your set-up? You play guitar, right? How do you generate the other instrumentation? Are the drums the infamous ān-Track Drumsā that I hear so much about but have yet to use (being stuck back in Version 2.2)?
What I do is play a guitar and vocal track to a click, then go back and play the kick and snare into midi using samples from wherever, in this case from my rogers garage sale set, then quantize thsoe samples, then move them as needed in front or behind the groove. I then play the cymbals and toms live on top of that (in this case through an OH pair of EV Cardinal mics), and then bass (in this case a J bass DI through a presonus preamp) and keyboards and guitars and vocals. In the case of this song, I just played the 12 string through the carr mercury through a 421 to a click, then added bass and cymbals and an organ part, all live not midi, and vocal, such as it is. Thatās all there is here, something an actual 4 piece could play live. Most of the keyboard sounds I use are from various softsynths played live using a laptop - in this case the rumplerausch (however thatās spelled) organ, - although Iāve really been having fun lately with the wurlizer farfisa clone I got last summer. And a casio SK1 I found at goodwill a couple of months ago. Talk about lofi digitalā¦
So, actually, itās all me playing, with midi quantizing help on kick and snare. I have tried to actually play the whole kit live, but I sort of suck. 
What I like about all of this is I can write and record a song in a couple of hours - this one took just about 2 hours to write and record. Iām not exactly picky about good playing or anything. I just like to get it out and move along. Thatās all I have time for. That and hanging around here when I should be working. 
Thanks for listening , Bill!
Tom,
Send me the vocal track - MP3 is okay; WMA is better - and let me mess around with some vocals for the chorus. Tell me your preferences, too - male v female; upper v lower - that sort of thing. Iām just starting to experiment with this and itās fun to mess with.
My email (altered in an obvious way to prevent harvesting) - bill.clarke(at)rogers.com
Bill
PS - If you check the āForever And A Dayā thread youāll find that Iāve cheated - having re-mixed the track with some vocal āchorusingā that didnāt exist in the original file. Like I said, Iām just starting to experiment with this but I like it!!!.
Heck, if you are going to go to that much trouble, Iāll send the raw tracks on a CDR. They are entertaining at least - or is laughable the word?
Yes, the vocals on the remix of your track stand out a lot better now - somehow more life in them. Letās hear it for studio toys.
Iām sorry, Tom - in re-reading my post I realize how presumptuous I was being. Thereās nothing I can contribute to your track that you couldnāt do yourself as least as well and probably better. In my defence, it was borne of a genuine enthusiasm for your work - youāre prolific and talented.
Hm? I took everything you said as totally complimentary. Which is more than my stuff deserves.
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| Hm? I took everything you said as totally complimentary. Which is more than my stuff deserves.
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Well, at its core, it was meant to be complimentary. Because both your stuff and you deserve it to be so.
Well, then. Iām sending you the files! You asked for them! NOW YOU WILL SUFFER!