Live for traditional recording

[iceaxe]

I started using Live (Suite) exclusively as my DAW front-end. Here's my first 'completed' track done entirely in Live:

http://www.newtsoup.com/ableton/InHere.html

It's very traditional compared to what I've heard here. In any case, your thoughts are welcome on overall sonic quality, production, and how the sampled instruments stand up. Just bear in mind the link streams an MP3. The .wav sounds much better, but at 10x the size.

I cut the vox and guitars live with an AT3035, Line-6 Toneport UX-2 (physical preamp), and the UX-2 VST plug-in for preamp modeling (I love the sound of their Avalon clone). The fiddle is 3 samples from efiddler.com, hacked to bits and reassembled. The heavy lifting is all Suite:

- Session Drums multimic kit (piccolo snare-stick)
- EIC P-Bass finger
- EIC Rotary organ
- Warp Engine (fiddle riffs)
- Groove Engine (I refuse to say where )
- Audio effects galore: a preset or 2 plus mostly EQ eights, compressors, verbs, saturators, spectrums, utilities, and multiband dynamics.
- Automation & rendering

Thanks for listening.

ia

[gjm]

I am often in this forum listening to stuff as I do paper work... vary rarely do I stop what I am doing, close my eyes and listen for just the pleasure of it... you sir stopped me in my tracks!

That is simply the BEST tuneage I have ever heard on this forum... and to be blessed with such a good voice box...

<---- 5 start rating

[outershpongolia]

I like how everything is panned in the beginning and then when the song kicks it doesn't seem as separated.. I guess cause it gets more filled out..

I used to go to a church in my hometown when I was little and there was a gospel-rock band that this reminds me of. Very uplifting! I think it's an awesome track!

[Pasha]

Very good. I like traditional.
You have an outstanding voice timbre and this is a great song.

even for me this is a

[frozendummy]

That was great.. I like the traditional ones.. The tuneage was there and you've got a great and cool voice. Seldom have I appreciated theese things. Very nice and awesome.

BLUES

[cath]

Good.. I like it

[iceaxe]

Thanks to all for the kind words, and my apologies for being so slow to reply--RL is thoroughly unsettled at the moment.

That is simply the BEST tuneage I have ever heard on this forum...

Wow, and thanks. From a user with 2000+ posts, those are very kind words.

I like how everything is panned in the beginning and then...doesn't seem as separated.

The 1st elec-guitar and the fiddle are panned full L/75% R throughout. The electric is doubled from the 2nd verse with a track panned about halfway R, which pulls the overall image in just a bit from the left when it kicks in. An acoustic guitar part, doubled/panned full L/R, also starts with the 2nd verse and helps fill things out. The elec-guitar and fiddle reverbs are long but pretty low in the mix, and panned mostly to the opposite side of their dry signals to help spread things out some more.

...there was a gospel-rock band that this reminds me of.

To me, that's about the highest compliment there is.