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Post by adam on Jun 23, 2021 16:45:37 GMT -7
... just because the world is a better place with more DR Z videos.
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Post by Chilly Gibbons (Todd T.) on Jun 23, 2021 16:54:42 GMT -7
Another great video Adam!
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Jun 23, 2021 18:09:59 GMT -7
As usual - great tone! Thanks for sharing this one!
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Post by Russell B on Jun 23, 2021 18:34:18 GMT -7
Fantastic!!
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Post by DRZ on Jun 24, 2021 2:37:15 GMT -7
Excellent video Adam, as always. You sure got that little MAZ Jr. screamin'.
Z
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Jun 24, 2021 5:33:05 GMT -7
Now that's the music I grew up loving, Adam. Great job, I love the groove. Your rhythm and feel is in the pocket a mile deep, it's Just What The Doctor Ordered!
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Post by doctorice on Jun 24, 2021 6:32:50 GMT -7
Watched it on the big screen last night, Adam. Tons of fun. Thank you.
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Post by Chilly Gibbons (Todd T.) on Jun 24, 2021 6:49:40 GMT -7
Yes, your version’s recording is vastly superior to the original (no offense Ted, if you’re reading) and the vocals are awesome. How are you doing these? Are the drummer and bassist (when you’re not playing it) there with you or are you doing this over the web somehow? That just sounds far and away too tight for everyone not to be together in the same studio.
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Post by purpletele on Jun 24, 2021 7:06:29 GMT -7
Nice work, I love your band!!
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Post by jimfla on Jun 24, 2021 14:39:15 GMT -7
Nice job. We’ve exchanged some emails. We have a mutual friend, Joe P. I remember you saying you got turned on to Dr Z playing through my Maz 18 at an open mic. You are getting some killer tones out of that Maz 18.
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Post by adam on Jun 24, 2021 16:07:18 GMT -7
Now that's the music I grew up loving, Adam. Great job, I love the groove. Your rhythm and feel is in the pocket a mile deep, it's Just What The Doctor Ordered! lol! Thanks, I really try pretty hard to cop the groove and feel in whatever I do. Doesn't always work, but I try pretty hard at that. Might also add that the bridge section around the D chord, that was pretty hard to get that feel decent, but that part, the grindy distorted guitar tone, is really the reason I started playing guitar and is still the thing that grabs me today. The solo stuff, I just don't really care about that stuff. I might add that I didn't reference the tone when recording or mixing (never do), more like I think that sounds like the gist of what they were doing. When I had the video all done, I listened back to the original and it's pretty much night and day different, kind of more hifi or something. That original recording is really bandwidth limited on the top and bottom, and I never realized that before. The mic use and placement was an experiment. I always try something different when recording and try to learn from it. I think it worked fine, but in hindsight, I would have been better off not engaging the hi pass on the mic and moving the mic back an inch or two to compensate for the proximity effect. I think it would have sounded a little closer to what it felt like in the room. The thunk of the cab was missing a bit. Probably should have mic'd the di to mess with revamping, but it is what it is and is "honest" to that sound. Honest meaning if you set the amp like that and use the mic like that on a greenback, you'll get exactly that sound. I don't know how much people are interested in this stuff, like just sound in general. But I thought the bass was interesting. Usually I use a UAD SVT plugin DI, but on this song from some reason, it just felt thing against everything else (basically that modeler thing, but it really bugged me on this one). I ended up running the p bass into a 65 bassman into a peavey 4x12 with celestion 75 watt speakers mic'd with an old ev re20 and slammed a fet compressor. It was kind of like "bingo" in that it some weight and density and could compete with the guitars and drums. That's the same thing I find with modeling guitar amps in general... they just don't have the density or complexity to stack up with real instruments.
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Post by DRZ on Jun 24, 2021 16:21:22 GMT -7
Now that's the music I grew up loving, Adam. Great job, I love the groove. Your rhythm and feel is in the pocket a mile deep, it's Just What The Doctor Ordered! That's the same thing I find with modeling guitar amps in general... they just don't have the density or complexity to stack up with real instruments. BINGO truer words have not been spoken IMHO. Z
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Post by adam on Jun 24, 2021 17:22:45 GMT -7
Watched it on the big screen last night, Adam. Tons of fun. Thank you. Thanks, I hope it sounded ok. I have to be pretty careful about how much low end I allow in the mix because I kind of like low end, but that can just go completely out the window with subs and I didn't check it that way.
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Post by adam on Jun 24, 2021 17:57:24 GMT -7
Nice job. We’ve exchanged some emails. We have a mutual friend, Joe P. I remember you saying you got turned on to Dr Z playing through my Maz 18 at an open mic. You are getting some killer tones out of that Maz 18. Jim, yes! You are the guy who started this whole mess for me. Back story for others, went to play a high school reunion thing at a bar with backline provided. Jim had a maz 18 there that they had me plug into, I had a Strat and just thought "this is going to sound terrible". Jim was standing there asking me what I wanted to change, and I said something like "nothing, don't change anything". It sounded fantastic. That was what planted the seed for me. FF a couple years, I picked up a MAZ18 on whim based on that experience, not even knowing that that was the same amp I plugged into prior. Then asking Joe about it and hooking up with you, you kind of said "creamback" and adjust the tone knobs with your ears and don't even pay attention to what knob is what. I've had really good results like that, so thanks so much. Side note, I got a creamback today and put it in a z 1x12 cab (really based on what you said a long time ago), and it's just perfect. I love the g12h in open back now too, but there's something about the creamback with that amp too. So thank you for letting me play your amp and advising me along the way. I also paid attention your holding on to the Remedy too. If I can share something learned back to you that I think is worth trying, try setting the amp kind of how I had it set, but you'll need the attenuator for it (and what a wonderful idea the brake light is for that too). Dial in overall tone with eq bypassed (cut), and also how hard the master is pushing). Then go back to the tone controls and just bring them to the level and tone you want. Then, and this part I haven't tried yet, use the low input and put a switch into the high input and somehow that's supposed to allow you switch that input with a switch. What I find is that on the high input with a humbucker guitar, I can really clean up the tone a lot from the guitar volume and not lose volume. The bonus there would be the switch to put it into low input mode. You kind of get another "gear" of tone option there. Then just plug a tele or Strat into it (high or low) and tell me that tone doesn't just knock your socks off too. For added bonus, add something that can either cut or boost (probably cut) in the loop. I haven't tried that yet either, but I know it will work one way or the other. Say you are cutting volume, you can then have another gear of tone by turning the guitar down more and raising the volume of the amp. Kind of another level of clean, but you can also use that for a solo volume boost too, like you can then also play cleanish bluesy solos. That's where I'm headed with this amp, and that one channel coupled with the couple switches and eq bypass is sort of all levels of great tone and volume on any guitar. Gain pedals are totally not needed, and delay or modulation are really non necessary accessories at that point because the tone is just so alive and full of color and character. Thank you.
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Post by adam on Jun 24, 2021 18:09:29 GMT -7
That's the same thing I find with modeling guitar amps in general... they just don't have the density or complexity to stack up with real instruments. BINGO truer words have not been spoken IMHO. It takes time and experimentation to figure that out. I think anyway. My revelation was with a pod xt used as a second amp at a live outdoor jam thing. It was so thin, it felt like if you could hear 20 to 20khz, you were only hearing 100, 400, 1k, 4k and 8k. Everything was missing in the sound. The same experience holds in recording. I heard Tim Pierce rant about it too, saying how he got scolded by a producer on a project and they had to redo everything. Tracks just disappear in a mix. You can tell people that, but until they live it, it's hard for them to comprehend the magnitude of it, me included.
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Post by adam on Jun 24, 2021 20:04:47 GMT -7
How are you doing these? Are the drummer and bassist (when you’re not playing it) there with you or are you doing this over the web somehow? We did these a few years ago. We'd get together to jam and record about 5 tunes. If the people didn't know their parts, they got replaced. Redid the guitars to show the z amps. Basically as long as the drums were good, I can mess with it from there.
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