Pretzel Logic

[Sustainz]

My cover of the Steely Dan classic. Enjoy and thanks for listening!

[StratMatt]

Nice work mate, love the wah sound.

[StrummersOfThunder]

Yeah! Great work. One of my favorite songs, albums and blues guitar solos. Really dig the 4th chords inversions on the bridge of this track....very much a dan thing. Solid effort.

[Sustainz]

Nice work mate, love the wah sound.

Cheers! I recorded several takes of the fills in that verse, took the three best ones, and panned them left, right, and center.

[Sustainz]

Yeah! Great work. One of my favorite songs, albums and blues guitar solos. Really dig the 4th chords inversions on the bridge of this track....very much a dan thing. Solid effort.

Thanks, man. I really love those changes, too. Thanks for checking it out.

[StrummersOfThunder]

Brings back memories of driving anywhere with my dad as a kid in his old chev Malibu wagon. He ALWAYS had either pretzel logic, the night fly or JJ Cale playing.

[crowbgood1]

Really good job!... was just singing the "where did you get those shoes" line the other day. Always get the 'ear worm' when I buy new sneakers.

[Molly]

My cover of the Steely Dan classic. Enjoy and thanks for listening!

Cool! I love that song. Never knew that was its name. Think I'll put some SD on my iPod for work tomorrow.

[Jay]

Fantastic, I suppose you offset your own vocals by a few milliseconds to get the effect of multiple people singing?
Perhaps you should be on stage with Larry

[Sustainz]

Really good job!... was just singing the "where did you get those shoes" line the other day. Always get the 'ear worm' when I buy new sneakers.

Thanks man! I'd always envisioned for some strange reason that they were bowling shoes that "the man" was talking about.

Cool! I love that song. Never knew that was its name. Think I'll put some SD on my iPod for work tomorrow.

Thank you! It was quite a daunting task at first, but once I got the drum programming done, things just fell into place. Can never have too much SD in the iPod!

[Sustainz]

Fantastic, I suppose you offset your own vocals by a few milliseconds to get the effect of multiple people singing?
Perhaps you should be on stage with Larry

Thanks, man! I think I would shit myself if I was on the same stage as LC. I'm maybe worthy of handing him a pick if he were to drop it.

The backing vocals. I love the production end 'cause I'm really such a noob at it and I learn shit as I go. First, I have to thank benderissimo for some great tips he gave me awhile back on how to get better sounding vocals in the mix. There's a certain silkiness to the original backing vocals that was hard to replicate. I first tried duplicating the backing vocals and doing the offset thing, but I didn't like the result. So I ended up actually recording 3 separate tracks - one in the upper range of my natural voice, and two in falsetto - and then panning and dialing in the mix until I was happy with it. All vocals ran through a high pass filter cut-off at 100hz; then some EQ, and lots of compression. I think the combination of everything helped give it a chorus-y effect. The lead vocals ran through a buss with a bit of reverb and mixed so it was not quite completely dry; no reverb on the backing vox.

[Jay]

Whatever you did, it worked. What software are you using?

[Sustainz]

Whatever you did, it worked. What software are you using?

Thanks. I used Ableton to build the drum track and saved it as a wav file, import it to Audacity use Audacity for recording and mixing. That's pretty much how I do everything.