THE GLOBAL WINGS THREAD
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Bjorn Karlsson:
Happy Birthday to us!! So, here we are after 4 years...quite a journey, and as I said a few days ago---it's been a great trip from the start...and most of all been great to get to know the bunch of people that has gone trough this journey together! You're very special to me all of you! I thought I'd make a contribution today with a song I recorded really early in GW history, in a version with piano and vocals only... THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD (NAKED) http://rapidshare.com/files/308955001/The_Long___Winding_Road__NAKED__-_Bjorn_-_Global_Wings.mp3
"Naked" versions are always great!!!!
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EpiphoneCasino:
GLOBAL WINGS NEW ALBUM FOUR YEARS ON [FREE DOWNLOAD HERE[/size">](http://www.snapdrive.net/files/492294/Four Years On.zip] <span style=)
Downloaded!!!!
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The Only Living Boy in NY is one of my fav Simon and G songs ever, never in the greatest hits albums but one of the top ones for me. I like to sing it, especially the part of "I've got nothing to do today but smile"... Gary, I don't know how you can do things like In My Place in 50 minutes! I can record very fast but I spent 50 minutes in just deciding the reverb for the vocals...
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21st Century Paul:
well, here it is another original song of mine I've recorded... I don't think I have to explain much about the song... Make a Better World - original song
I've changed the mix, added more reverb to the vocals but lowing them down in loudness. For me this is the final mix. Who wrote these vocals??? crazy guy, this is like a mix of Twist and Shout and Queen's Gimme The Prize... Gimme The Prize
Make a Better World - original song -
audi:
EpiphoneCasino:
FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM -FOUR YEARS ON..... ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT Audi & Oliver, with added mastering and bass....ENJOY! LISTEN http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/song_2836110 DOWNLOAD http://rapidshare.com/files/308890424/20_Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight.mp3.html MD5: 6C8DE6904D7AC0DA241BF5C0341C01C9
Wow! Sounds like a record to me! Some cool ''walkin''' on that bass, Gary! I'l never know how you ''clean up'' audio the way that you do!!!
We've "passed the audition"
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blondie10:
EpiphoneCasino:
FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM -FOUR YEARS ON..... ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT Audi & Oliver, with added mastering and bass....ENJOY! LISTEN http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/song_2836110 DOWNLOAD http://rapidshare.com/files/308890424/20_Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight.mp3.html MD5: 6C8DE6904D7AC0DA241BF5C0341C01C9
HEY AUDI AND OLIVER!! This is GREAT!! Ok...Oliver is singing yes? and Audi you did the speech? I don't want to assume anything!! But I'm guessing Oliver has a Spanish accent and the Elvis talk sounded VERY American.... HEY...nice bass too... HAPPY GW DAY!!!
The speech is Audi, I could never do the speech that way, I sing the vocals and audi does all the rest
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Claudia611:
EpiphoneCasino:
FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM -FOUR YEARS ON..... ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT Audi & Oliver, with added mastering and bass....ENJOY! LISTEN http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/song_2836110 DOWNLOAD I don't stop in here too often...not for any particular reason...just don't think of it, but I have to say I'm glad I did. That was LOVELY!! OLIVER, you sounded SO good on that song...it really suited your voice perfectly.....just great!!! http://rapidshare.com/files/308890424/20_Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight.mp3.html MD5: 6C8DE6904D7AC0DA241BF5C0341C01C9
It didn't suit my voice, but I though, "If it doesn't suit, I'll try to make it suit". I guess Elvis did more than 20 takes for these one. I decided to stop earlier though. Thank you.
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Okey, not so long ago I asked is there is kind of "rule" that make sense to use more or less reverb... What I've done is listening to the records I like its sound more. Most of them are Queen records. For "powerful" songs, they added a lot of reverb to Freddie's voice (Innuendo, The Show Must Go On, Hammer To Fall, the start of "Rock It") and for "sweet" songs, they just put no reverb or little (It's A Hard Life, Dear Friends, These Are the Days of Our Lives...). Like Paul has lots of reverb in Sing The Changes and nothing in Little Willow. That makes "sense" to me, it's how I like it. For instance in Innuendo, when Freddie sings .... "you can be anything you want to be", I prefer that without reverb... so I guess I should have added no reverb to the vocals of Are you lonesome tonight... what really has reverb on the original recording is the speech... It's like in movies, explosion, doors slamming, the laughter of the evil one... have lots of reverb... My 2 euro cents Queen-Innuendo
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21st Century Paul:
The Only Living Boy in NY is one of my fav Simon and G songs ever, never in the greatest hits albums but one of the top ones for me. I like to sing it, especially the part of "I've got nothing to do today but smile"... Gary, I don't know how you can do things like In My Place in 50 minutes! I can record very fast but I spent 50 minutes in just deciding the reverb for the vocals...
I spend 50 minutes just tuning my guitar!
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vlivantje:
21st Century Paul:
The Only Living Boy in NY is one of my fav Simon and G songs ever, never in the greatest hits albums but one of the top ones for me. I like to sing it, especially the part of "I've got nothing to do today but smile"... Gary, I don't know how you can do things like In My Place in 50 minutes! I can record very fast but I spent 50 minutes in just deciding the reverb for the vocals...
I spend 50 minutes just tuning my guitar!
that reminds of I guy I knew who said he "tuned" his voice... : I asked why do (his band) sang all the songs in the key of A. And he said "because my voice is tuned in A", and he wasn't joking...
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21st Century Paul:
blondie10:
EpiphoneCasino:
FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM -FOUR YEARS ON..... ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT Audi & Oliver, with added mastering and bass....ENJOY! LISTEN http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/song_2836110 DOWNLOAD http://rapidshare.com/files/308890424/20_Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight.mp3.html MD5: 6C8DE6904D7AC0DA241BF5C0341C01C9
HEY AUDI AND OLIVER!! This is GREAT!! Ok...Oliver is singing yes? and Audi you did the speech? I don't want to assume anything!! But I'm guessing Oliver has a Spanish accent and the Elvis talk sounded VERY American.... HEY...nice bass too... HAPPY GW DAY!!!
The speech is Audi, I could never do the speech that way, I sing the vocals and audi does all the rest
Don't forget that Gar played bass -- and remastered the recording to sound mind-blowingly pro!
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I've changed again my new song. Those vocals were mixed way too loud. It's the same file name, though. BTW, all that about Are you lonesome tonight? has made me think of doing another "similar" song somehow. Mad World, you know, Tears for Fears original, covered by Gary Jules, then Adam Lambert, etc. Have the Global Wings made that one?
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21st Century Paul:
The Only Living Boy in NY is one of my fav Simon and G songs ever, never in the greatest hits albums but one of the top ones for me. I like to sing it, especially the part of "I've got nothing to do today but smile"... Gary, I don't know how you can do things like In My Place in 50 minutes! I can record very fast but I spent 50 minutes in just deciding the reverb for the vocals...
Hee hee - to be fair, it took me 50 minutes to do the backing. It took me considerably longer to do the vocals and bass.
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21st Century Paul:
I've changed again my new song. Those vocals were mixed way too loud. It's the same file name, though. BTW, all that about Are you lonesome tonight? has made me think of doing another "similar" song somehow. Mad World, you know, Tears for Fears original, covered by Gary Jules, then Adam Lambert, etc. Have the Global Wings made that one?
Mad World IS a great song, and no, GW hasn't covered it. If you do as good a vocal on Mad World as you did on the Elvis number, it will be good.
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21st Century Paul:
Okey, not so long ago I asked is there is kind of "rule" that make sense to use more or less reverb... What I've done is listening to the records I like its sound more. Most of them are Queen records. For "powerful" songs, they added a lot of reverb to Freddie's voice (Innuendo, The Show Must Go On, Hammer To Fall, the start of "Rock It") and for "sweet" songs, they just put no reverb or little (It's A Hard Life, Dear Friends, These Are the Days of Our Lives...). Like Paul has lots of reverb in Sing The Changes and nothing in Little Willow. That makes "sense" to me, it's how I like it. For instance in Innuendo, when Freddie sings .... "you can be anything you want to be", I prefer that without reverb... so I guess I should have added no reverb to the vocals of Are you lonesome tonight... what really has reverb on the original recording is the speech... It's like in movies, explosion, doors slamming, the laughter of the evil one... have lots of reverb... My 2 euro cents Queen-Innuendo
I overdid the early GW songs with too much reverb. These days, I'm much more sparing with it. As the great George Martin said of producing - it's not what you put IN the track, the genius is what you leave OUT. Wise wordsd from Sir George...
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audi:
21st Century Paul:
blondie10:
EpiphoneCasino:
FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM -FOUR YEARS ON..... ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT Audi & Oliver, with added mastering and bass....ENJOY! LISTEN http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/song_2836110 DOWNLOAD http://rapidshare.com/files/308890424/20_Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight.mp3.html MD5: 6C8DE6904D7AC0DA241BF5C0341C01C9
HEY AUDI AND OLIVER!! This is GREAT!! Ok...Oliver is singing yes? and Audi you did the speech? I don't want to assume anything!! But I'm guessing Oliver has a Spanish accent and the Elvis talk sounded VERY American.... HEY...nice bass too... HAPPY GW DAY!!!
The speech is Audi, I could never do the speech that way, I sing the vocals and audi does all the rest
Don't forget that Gar played bass -- and remastered the recording to sound mind-blowingly pro!
but how can he remaster if he doesn't have the masters?... I've got the masters, your track and mine... I could sent Gary the 2 files and let him master that.
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21st Century Paul:
21st Century Paul:
well, here it is another original song of mine I've recorded... I don't think I have to explain much about the song... Make a Better World - original song
I've changed the mix, added more reverb to the vocals but lowing them down in loudness. For me this is the final mix. Who wrote these vocals??? crazy guy, this is like a mix of Twist and Shout and Queen's Gimme The Prize... Gimme The Prize
Make a Better World - original songIt's pretty original, and well done. The vocals don't have to be too prominent. Good stuff.
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21st Century Paul:
audi:
21st Century Paul:
blondie10:
EpiphoneCasino:
FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM -FOUR YEARS ON..... ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT Audi & Oliver, with added mastering and bass....ENJOY! LISTEN http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/song_2836110 DOWNLOAD http://rapidshare.com/files/308890424/20_Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight.mp3.html MD5: 6C8DE6904D7AC0DA241BF5C0341C01C9
HEY AUDI AND OLIVER!! This is GREAT!! Ok...Oliver is singing yes? and Audi you did the speech? I don't want to assume anything!! But I'm guessing Oliver has a Spanish accent and the Elvis talk sounded VERY American.... HEY...nice bass too... HAPPY GW DAY!!!
The speech is Audi, I could never do the speech that way, I sing the vocals and audi does all the rest
Don't forget that Gar played bass -- and remastered the recording to sound mind-blowingly pro!
but how can he remaster if he doesn't have the masters?... I've got the masters, your track and mine... I could sent Gary the 2 files and let him master that.
I remastered from the copy. Remixing is what I think you're talking about. I think the track is very good as it is, and of course, is track 20 on the latest GW album... For the record, I imported the track into Nuendo, noise reduced it, heavily compressed it using Waves L2 limiter, to bring up the levels, added bass and EQ'd the whole mix. I also added a slight bit of ROOM reverb using perfect space.
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THE NEW ALBUM - FOUR YEARS ON - is now UP on the GW website.... http://www.globalwings.bravehost.com/CD51.htm GLOBAL WINGS NEW ALBUM FOUR YEARS ON [FREE DOWNLOAD HERE[/size">](http://www.snapdrive.net/files/492294/Four Years On.zip] <span style=) AND FROM THAT ALBUM.... KATHY'S SONG 2009 My second attempt at this gem... http://www.snapdrive.net/files/492294/17%20Kathy%27s%20Song%202009.mp3 AND A TOTALLY AND UTTERLY REMIXED FINAL VERSION... THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK http://www.snapdrive.net/files/492294/19%20The%20Only%20Living%20Boy%20In%20New%20York%20%28Gary%29.mp3
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EpiphoneCasino:
21st Century Paul:
21st Century Paul:
well, here it is another original song of mine I've recorded... I don't think I have to explain much about the song... Make a Better World - original song
I've changed the mix, added more reverb to the vocals but lowing them down in loudness. For me this is the final mix. Who wrote these vocals??? crazy guy, this is like a mix of Twist and Shout and Queen's Gimme The Prize... Gimme The Prize
Make a Better World - original songIt's pretty original, and well done. The vocals don't have to be too prominent. Good stuff.
It's a "All you need is love"' son, Paul would say. It's the same chords progression or so, only with only different melody and rhythm... you can sing along All you need is love over it... Maybe the vocals are still too prominent, I don't know, If I low them down there are parts where they couldn't be heard. I'm starting to show my really weird stuff. Not the normal things...