This is one I’ve been kicking around with for fun for a few weeks. It’s a B side from the Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me era. Just got a wild hair to record myself playing tonight so, yeah. Not a perfect cover, I missed a note but It’s all one take. Nothing going on for effects. I EQ’d the right channel to have some mid punch to it and the left side with the lower end scoop.
It has been a while since I made a cover. It’s been a rough year and there were a couple months that I didn’t play anything at all. But things are getting better I think. I’ve been playing again, I even have a couple more songs that are almost ready to be recorded.
Learning the guitar has been an interesting challenge, but also fun. Not really learning it so much as playing power chords… still, it’s fun.
Ha! Love it, @JustinAndSheba! I really can’t remember the last time I heard this song!!
Or hair metal Well played, @CrayWolf, although would have liked to hear the bass a little more!
Some dreamy Cure!! Well played @faydout. Would have liked the bass a little higher in the mix, although, I can imagine that in the original the bass was reasonably backed off too.
The Invertants - She Sells Sanctuary (Acoustic Cover)
Our drummer was unavailable for the last rehearsal, so we made it an acoustic session. Here’s The Cult’s wonderful She Sells Sanctuary. This was the first song of the session. It’s not 100%, and this song really does need a driving beat behind it, but it’s fun mixing things up now and then.
Oh, the bass was almost inaudible on the original iPhone video, so I needed to create an MP3, split it using Moises, then try to pull the bass a bit further forward.
And in a departure from the norm, I haven’t cartoonified the video
You know it’s funny, in a couple of recent videos I posted I had the bass too forward in the mix. Guess I overcompensated! I’ll figure out mixing one of these days.
Thank you Duncan, it’s one of my favorite Cure songs. I’m trying to work on finding a happy medium with where (I think) the bass should sit in a more normal mix vs pulling it all the way out and having it completely separate from the rest of the song.
Great work sunDOG - acoustic versions can go really badly but that really did the original justice. How about giving the singer something to hit to keep the rhythm - Tambourine, wood block etc?
@faydout If you use Moises or similar the quick way to get a good starting mix level is to reference your recorded bass sound level with the original (extracted) bass track and tweek from there…you might already be doing this, but it is basically a cheat code compared with full mixing a song where the level of everything is up for grabs
Yeah this can happen within 1db too, small increases then suddenly it seems to pop out over the rest of the mix (good trick there is to then turn it back down slightly and you have your approx max ‘in the mix’ level)
(also I liked the bass level you had in the mix for the cure cover)