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Topic: Help Me Make It Through The Night - Greg Cutshaw + Changes |
Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2009 5:05 pm |
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Still working on the rhythm track for this and will have it soon!
Prior to recording this, I put new Jaguar strings on my guitar (ordered from the SG Forum), stainless steel wounds, 012 015 011 014 018 022PL 026 030 034 036.
I also removed the burrs on the changer fingers on my MSA Legend and got rid of almost all the string buzzing. The grooves looked really deep but I was shocked to find out that they were less than .003" deep and removed easily with the result being a perfectly smooth and round changer finger. DO try this at home.
A friend of mine loaned me his Boss DR-3 drum machine and I agreed to use it on a recording so here it is. Patterns are all DR-3 Ballad#1 with the drum kit changed to something more country sounding. I used the stock pattern intro, ending and alternates resulting in 8 different sounding patterns.
This is my last recording using a drum machine. I am now using Reaper, EZDRUMMER and the Toontracks Nashville expansion pack for my drums.
Help Me Make It Through The Night in wma format (192kbps)
Help Me Make It Through The Night in mp3 (320kbps) streaming format (192kbps
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Bernie Gonyea
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Sherman Tx. 75092 ,U.S.A. (deceased)
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Posted 13 Jan 2009 6:00 pm Help Me Make It Thru The Night
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Greg : some mighty fine steel pickin', my friend; you were using some pretty nice riffs and slides and a little bit of your great style in making a steel do what it was made to do.. Good work, Greg , I always enjoy your great picking..Bernie |
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Danny Sherbon
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San Angelo, TX
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Posted 13 Jan 2009 7:53 pm Help Me Make it Through
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Nice work Greg.
Not sure what you are talking about the grooves and burrs but sure like the sound. Heavy strings and a great rich sound. |
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Terry Miller
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Hammondsport NY USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2009 2:05 pm
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| Greg are you going direct or micing an amp ? If you are micing what are you using. I like what you are doing. Terry |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2009 6:20 pm
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Bernie, I want you front and center next time I play out!
Danny, The grooves in the changer are what forms from the string wearing into the top of the changer finger. Mine were beginning to buzz a lot and I thought, oh man, what a mess. It looked like the string had formed this deep gouge into the top of the changer finger. After cleaning all the gunk off, I found the grooving to be miniscule and easily removed with a low abrasive green plastic cleaning pad! Perfectly smooth now!
Terry, I have a Shure SM-57 sitting about 3" from the grill cloth and straight on axis with the speaker cone. This was a 19 track recording and on some of the steel parts I applied light compression to remove the peaks and used the Yamaha's 4 band parametric EQ to boost the mids and upper mids a bit. The reverb is a Boss RV-5 set on plate, no amp reverb. The second set of steel parts add an el-cheapo Guyatone MD-3 delay. The guitar uses an e609 mic in front of a Deluxe Reverb, same placement. The low guitar over-compressed part was added during playback with the Yamaha compressor adjusted to "quack".
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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