New Recording Featuring OM40 and Gibson Hummingbird

[Sandstorm]

Hey fellas,

Got a new recording here to share.  I uploaded it yesterday, then made a small change to the drum track and had issue replacing it on Soundcloud but appears to be working now.

I used my OM40 for most of the guitar tracks other than the fingerstyle tracks I just finished up this weekend on my new, pre-owned Hummingbird.  I would have liked to use the OM40 for fingerstyle and the Hummingbird for rhythm but most of the song was done by the time I acquired the bird and I wanted to use it on this recording for something.

The drums aren't anything special, just something to keep the beat and I added some other percussion "garnish" here and there.

Hope you enjoy:

https://on.soundcloud.com/nxSXNJyrWAEJJ9fDA

[mike in lytle]

I listened to the first version and this one too, and maybe its my imagination, but version 2 seems a lot different. It's better. Seems longer as well. Anyhow, I admire the complexity in it and makes me wonder... did you sort of have to chart all this out just to keep track of it all?
Mike

[Sandstorm]

I listened to the first version and this one too, and maybe its my imagination, but version 2 seems a lot different. It's better. Seems longer as well. Anyhow, I admire the complexity in it and makes me wonder... did you sort of have to chart all this out just to keep track of it all?
Mike

The second version was just different drums and they can change the overall feel of the song.  The first version I used an electronic kit in garage band thinking if they are going to sound like programmed drums, I might as well lean into it and make them obviously electronic drums then after I listened back to it, I thought they were maybe too overwhelming in the overall mix and wanted something to blend more smoothly.

I am new to recording and it took me a while to figure out how to approach recording a longer or more complex piece and what I found made the most sense was to lay down the click/drum track to maintain the tempo, then without focusing too much on the tone, record a reference track that had the melody and fit in the pocket that I could listen to and coordinate my strum/rhythm track to and then later also use as a reference when recording the finger style track.  I guess the common denominator is the rhythm strum track from start to finish, other parts will enter and exit.

Thanks for listening!