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Topic: My First CruzTone Recording |
Kurt Kikendall
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 7:55 am |
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I have recorded my first song with the CruzTone. I plugged it straight into the computer with no amp, no amp sim, no pre-amp, etc. The only effects are compession and reverb. I am trying to demonstrate the tone of the guitar virtually "raw".
This is not a perfect performance by any means. I have a few notes that are a bit "off", some pick clicks, and even a nasty bar drag at one point, but hey, I got all the way through the song and this is about the best I can do without lots of editing after the fact (which I don't like to do).
http://web.mac.com/retro68/iWeb/Site/Music/Music.html
This is the first steel guitar composition. I am not a professional... please be kind 
Next I want to record a blues shuffle through the Blue Jr amp. This guitar sounds so cool with a little "grit". |
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Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 8:18 am
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Hi Kurt,
I listened to your tune and you sound like a PRO to me. I hear nothing at all wrong with your performance.
Roger |
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Keith Wells
From:
South Carolina Sea Islands
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 9:33 am
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Beautiful tone on that guitar Kurt.
Your composition made me think of Christmas, not sure why. Maybe the Ionian mode took me there.
Nicely done.
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-- Keith |
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Jamie O'Connell
From:
Medford, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 9:36 am
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Nice tune. Nice sounding steel. Congrats.
--Jamie |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 10:20 am
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| Kurt, I don't get any sound when I click on "listen" |
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 10:27 am
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Same here Andy.
I guess we have to install QuickTime software?
That sure is a beauty of a guitar tho Kurt.
Congratulations.
Roy
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Custom Tabs Various Tunings
Courses Lap Steel, Pedal Steel |
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Kurt Kikendall
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 11:55 am
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| Sounds great Kurt, your intonation sounds right on to me. |
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 1:56 pm Sounds good from Florida!
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Hey Kurt -- I thought it sounded pretty darn good. Your intonation is spot on. Clean pickin', too!
Hard to believe that the tone is "no amp, no amp sim, no pre-amp, etc. The only effects are compession and reverb." Man, if that isn't "the" tone for use as a starting point, then I guess I don't know what is. The tone is very similar to my Ricky frypan p'ups.
Can't wait to hear what it sounds like with some grits.
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Todd James Weger --
1956 Fender Stringmaster T-8 (C6, E13, A6); 1960 Fender Stringmaster D-8 (C6, B11/A6); Custom-made 25" aluminum cast "fry pan" with vintage Ricky p'up (C6); 1938 Epiphone Electar (A6); 1953 Oahu Tonemaster; assorted ukuleles; upright bass |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 3:59 pm
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| Kurt, you sound really beautiful on the Cruz Tone. But no pre-amp? I think that your computer's audio interface must have a pre-amp before the converter, in order to sound like that. What input did you plug in to? |
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Kurt Kikendall
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 5:34 pm
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Thanks guys!
Earnest: I guess there is probably an amp in the input itself. I wasn't thinking of that. I am using a Mackie Spike. When recording DI, I would normally use an amp sim (POD, etc), tube pre-amp, etc to get the signal hot enough into the input. I guess I was referring to the fact that there was nothing between the guitar and the Input except the guitar cable in this instance.
I am impressed with the signal/noise ratio of the pickup on the CruzTone. My Gold Tone sounds a lot more "down in the mud". I had to use full compression and full track volume slider to get the Gold Tone audible in Garage Band when plugging the guitar straight into the board like this, but there is plenty of head room with the CruzTone pickup.
Sorry if I mis-represented my setup... What I meant is that I plugged the guitar straight into the input on the board and pressed record... then I added compression and reverb in Garage Band.
Kurt
Last edited by Kurt Kikendall on 12 Oct 2007 2:21 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2007 7:19 pm
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You didn't mis-represent your setup. I just wondered where you plugged it in. I see here
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Mackie-SPIKE-2496k-Compact-Recording-System-?sku=248150V
that Mackie Spike has "2 mic/line/instrument inputs with high-headroom Mackie mic preamps". A lot of interfaces have instrument inputs, and I think some sound good and some don't unless you run it thru another preamp first, such as Revelation. Yours sounds really good.
BTW I have a Cruz Tone too, with 2 pickups, and I am trying all sorts of ways to amplify it and record it direct. |
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