Neil Young cover... for your Bashing pleasure!

[Quarry]

Here's a rocked-up version of an old Neil tune, called "Harvest".

The drums are rather plain - no fills or anything - from EZDrummer. The rest (bass, guitars, vox) are me! I used a VST effect to get the back-up vocals... worked fairly well... sorta...

Let me have it...

[Mark P]

Maybe it's just me but I don't like the effect on the vocals. With a really prominant delay effect like that it makes the vocals sound off from the music. I would try something a little more subtle (but effective) to make the vocals stand out. Everything else sounds good and well balanced. One can nitpick about the mix but it all comes down too preferences and not being a country fan makes me not the best judge of what sounds good for that particular style.

[Quarry]

Mark - first, thanks for the comments!

I'd have to agree with you; the delay effect on the vocals is a bit heavy. I'm not really a "country" guy at all... but I do like Neil Young. The vocal effects are probably better suited for rock, my preferred genre...

[davisonp]

Pretty slick. I wouldn't call it country. Maybe country rock. I like it. There is something odd about the intro. The guitars are louder than the rest of the song. Was it added on?

[Quarry]

The intro was added on!

Damn, I hoped it wasn't that obvious!!!

Actually, I suspect the fact that its louder may be due to the compression... since its only guitars in the intro, they would be louder... Either way, that's something I can look at and possibly correct in the future.

Thanks for listening!

[bradzoot]

Quarry, as a huge Neil Young fan I expected to be hating this. But! You have hit on something here. I love when people do slightyl different versions of other peoples tunes. To me it kinda means more than just a note for note copy. Good work.
Not sure if this is allowed but heres a link to one of my favourite covers of all time. It's on youtube, hence my concern about if it's ok or not.
No doubt I'll find out.

YouTube - eric clapton don't think twice

[bradzoot]

[QUOTE=bradzoot;75545]Quarry, as a huge Neil Young fan I expected to be hating this. But! You have hit on something here. I love when people do slightyl different versions of other peoples tunes. To me it kinda means more than just a note for note copy. Good work.


On the subject of slightly different covers, Heres one we recorded about 15 yrs ago, see how long it takes you to figure out what the song is.

[Quarry]

Bradzoot - love the paranoid cover! I actually got it rather quickly - I've toyed with the idea myself, but I like your take!

And thanks for the kind comments - I really like to take a cover tune and create my own version of it.... I agree that it means more, to me, anyway...

[bradzoot]

Originally Posted by Quarry

Bradzoot - love the paranoid cover! I actually got it rather quickly - I've toyed with the idea myself, but I like your take!

And thanks for the kind comments - I really like to take a cover tune and create my own version of it.... I agree that it means more, to me, anyway...

Glad you liked it, the only thing for me about that was the drum sound. It was done using a Roland electronic kit and the engineer insisted on moving beats into time on the computer, i think this had an effect on the 'Feel' of the beat. On reflection we should have over-ruled his decision but we were quite new to recording then and thought he knew best, lol.