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Posted: Jan. 20 2004, 15:06 |
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| Quote (Yuval @ Jan. 20 2004, 14:32) | | sound very authentic though but a terriblr terriblr feel. I dont know if u improvised or was insecure by the recording but the feel is far from being oldfield style dispite the accuracy of the sound. many notes are wrong. |
Do you mean the distorted guitar, or the track as a whole (I kind of guess the former, but I can read the statement to mean the latter as well)?
If you mean just the distorted guitar, then I guess I should let Brandon do the talking. I like what he did, though, and I'm sure that by the time he's been playing as long as Mike, he'll be every bit as good as the man himself.
If on the other hand you mean the feel of the track as a whole, then I suppose I'm the one to come out with the excuses. Mike Oldfield had a distinct advantage over the musicians here when he recorded Tubular Bells in that he could hear the parts which he was playing along to - as you'll know from doing your own recordings, that helps rather a lot with regards to feel! I suppose it would in theory have been possible to record all the parts in sequence and pass rough mixes around for people to play along to, but it would have been incredibly fiddly, would have meant that people couldn't record their parts when they wanted to, as happened here (the bass, for example, which we would have needed first were a rough mix to be passed round, was about the last thing to be added) and wasn't something I was prepared to do at the time!
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on the aspects of the mix you highlighted as well. I'd agree in saying that the distorted guitar is forward - perhaps part of a regressing-to-teenage rock and roll fantasy on my part  Especially at the end, I think it needs to be loud, where it really soars above everything else - perhaps one of the biggest changes from the original. Some will like it, some won't, I suppose...
The instrument panning I based as closely as I could on the original, by noting key points in each instrument's travel. I'm sure it's not exact, as that would have taken forever (I seem to remember spending quite a long session on that aspect as it was, I think more than one in fact), but it was close enough to keep me happy. I would imagine that the stereo imaging on this version is rather more precise than on the 1973 original, which no doubt accounts for a lot - I don't have the 2003 edition, so don't have that as a comparison. Of course if you're hearing them all going the whole way from left to right, then something's wrong - after the glockenspiel they end up closer to the centre.
Anyway, glad to hear you enjoyed it!
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