The folks at the Les Paul Forum had about a ten day head start on the rest of you. I used the time to add a layer of acoustic to my original take.

The lead is a Nashville Tele into a Womanizer. I doubled the track and ran one copy through PSP's 84 delay. The acoustic is my Gibson J-100 double-miced and with a lot of reverb, some compression and e.q. added in ProTools.

This is still a fun jam, Don! Glad you were able to follow my instructions. Now hold onto your hat, because there are some very spectacular players here at the Aussensaiter!

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Cheers,
Clay

Hi Clay,

real good Sounds on that take, my favourite is the Strat-sound.
Nice mood all the time, although sometimes the layering is a bit too much/dense, (in my opinion of course).

Greets
Dan

Thanks for the listen, Dan. I think you are correct, and I should have left it alone... or at least made the acoustic more rational in where it appears.

Here is what it sounded like before I added that layer -- the delay on the electric was a little farther back in the mix, too.

No acoustic

--Clay

Hi Clay,

wow, awesome (Knopfler meets Gilmour) clean tone! Wonderful warm
sounding delay, the guitar sits beautiful in the mix, you keep the
melodic tension right to the end, a fine listen! sorry for the copy & paste thing ;-)

Andi

Clay,

One of your trademark wonderful mixes. Great clear sound to your acoustic on the left-upper sound field. The interplay between the electric and acoustic soloing was well performed. As I said in the Les Paul Forum I found the use of the ethereal delay was a wonderful enhancement, it sounds very synthlike, great sci-fi feel. Hveing listened to your take a couple of times, I don't think its overly busy. Great take!.

Regards:

Don

Hi Clay,
i would prefer the version without the accoustic too.
Without there is a bit more space in the take and more air for your melodic work to breath.

cheers
MIKE

Hi Clay,

I really like this version of the track. But especially I am fascinated by the wonderful worm and clear sound of your Telecaster.

Very enjoyful, relaxed and smooth to listen . . .

Best regards
André

Hi Clay,

I listened to both takes and while the old one has more "air" I really liked the new one with the added acoustic very much. All those different textures go together with the acoustic so well.

Your Nashville Tele sounds fabulous and man, how I love what you did with the Lexicon plugin.

Your lead is as beautiful and relaxed as this backing could ask.

What a fine listen, cheers

Jochen

Thanks Jochen!

The acoustic layer was done in a big hurry, and I was having some strange latency issues while tracking it -- probably because I had too many plugs-ins going for my laptop to deal with it. I love the PSP stuff, but it seems pretty processor-intensive if you're using four or five of them. ;-)

For the acoustic, I ended up sliding some sections around to get them to sync better... and it turned into kind of a mess (though I like the sound). It was a first pass, and I should have spent more time on it.

The Tele delay was just the PSP 84 "South Pole" preset with a bit of adjustment in the Mains section...