Posts by Mats_Nermark

  • Washed brains

    Hey Renaud,


    A really inspiring track. It's very clear that you have different influences than I do and I really enjoy listening to your tunes.


    Cheers,


    Mats N

  • Franjoe30 collection thread

    Quote from BayouTexan

    Is there any drawbacks to using a stereo delay "after" double tracked guitars? I'm sending both left and right mono guitars into a stereo track just for the delay. Without the delay, the guitars sound way up front which I might not want.

    If you think it sounds good, do it. Simple as that!


    Cheers,


    Mats N

  • Per collection thread

    Quote from Per

    Todays. I'm attempting to slowly get a handle on more modern pop production aesthetic, albeit I know I will make many mistakes along the way and this is one, ending up much more on the 80's side which obviously is a heavy influence on modern pop but I'd rather figure out what differs with modern pop even when there are guitars involved, starting I guess with more sparse arrangement and more space. Though here perhaps it's too much punch, I notice a lot of Belle & Sebastian style folksy-ness in modern pop too with softer sounds.


    If there's one tune I really would like you to develop, this is the one. The energy in the first 19 seconds is off the charts.

    I'd really like to know what instruments you used for that?


    Cheers,


    Mats N

  • Per collection thread

    Quote from Per

    I'm carrying on the empty path of trying to take onboard some pop. Today opting for almost maximum softness. Again not a success, but a continued learning process though my own laziness is fighting it, wanting to return to tropes. I think if I wanted to get it really like pop I'd have to tame the mids and bass a lot, but it's harder to hear that on normal speakers than on crapmac(tm) speakers where it becomes very apparent. I can hear the kind of high girly flute like semi Bjork influenced modern female voice that I would fit over this in my head at least even with this mix.


    This is a really interesting track in many ways. One thing that I like is that the drums are so dry and some other instruments are really ambient. Usually it's done the other way around. But as time has proven, why do the usual when you don't have to.


    Cheers,


    Mats N

  • I'm Your Everyday Necessity - new tune with unknown source of inspiration but with some slide

    Quote from Franjoe30

    Sounds absolutely brilliant Mats_Nermark the guitar playing and tones are so tasteful and well placed.


    I do love starting off with a bit of an idea and just seeing where the flow takes you.


    Your tasteful licks and feel are brilliant, i wish i could play like that. This has been the best 4.01 minutes of my day so far

    Thanks, Joe!

    You are too kind!


    My best 4 minutes today was when my son called and told me his wife gave birth to their son this morning. My first grandchild and me and my wife are almost overwhelmed by emotion.


    Cheers,


    Mats N

  • I'm Your Everyday Necessity - new tune with unknown source of inspiration but with some slide

    Quote from Per

    Sweet, awesome backing track feels very different to where you usually go and some great Clapton, Duane Allman and George Harrison style riffs in there.


    You've been very helpful to all of us over the years with your advice and awesome profiles you've shared, and you're a far better guitarist and musician than I will likely ever be, I also know you're looking to expand your own sonic palette and I wish people would let me know about my cliches and what to do to avoid them, because they're dead end roads that you don't realize you've walked down and need to back up and try a different route.

    So I hope you don't get terribly offended if I give a little feedback because I know you're more than capable of implementing it. One thing I think would take you to the next level and modernize your sound is reduce the quantity of flourishes, especially on the starts of notes, there's a lot of hammer-ons, slides, etc that feel like a signature. It's a great way to add detail and interest for legato work, gives it an awesome Holdsworth like hollow electric sound almost, but having heard where you're coming from and I get the frustration g that you're trying to break free, I think it's a crutch for you that's now holding you back. It sounds a bit like melisma can become for some singers.

    I'd love to hear you do a take on a BB King style solo even though I know it's hard to overcome the idea of "must avoid cliche" especially on what you've mentioned it the past about guiding your students away form just blues solos, but that's the way to learn IMO try to do something really really well that you dread. Why BB? He uses embellishment now and then (mostly rakes and very fast and tight bends) but mostly brutally clean straight notes and slow bends with emphasis on sharp transient. If you were to rebuild the basic note, not from scratch but with mindfullness, and allow more breathing space around the riffs, slow down a little. Then I think you'd open yourself up to your full potential.

    Hi Per,


    Thank you for your most interesting post and, no, I didn't get offended at all as I know you mean it with my best interest in mind.

    The timing of your post is awesome as I'm just preparing a lesson for my electric bass students where I use the same bass line in two very different 12-bar blues tunes with the difference in the bass is that in one tune it's straight 8ths and the other is a shuffle.

    I wrote both tunes quickly using equipment I don't usually use for blues. Other guitar, other amp simulation. I will now go back and listen to my guitar melodies and solos in those two tunes with you comments in mind and see what I can do differently. Either with those two or in the future.


    So onward and upward and thanks again for your thoughts!


    Cheers,


    Mats N

  • BIG FOOT: a track from OSTINATI, my latest release!

    WOW! Just WOW!!!!

    I can hear almost Peter Gabriel's voice in here somewhere.

    Then the California fusion comes in and dominates the track and I love fusion like this.


    The arrangement and the mix allows me to enjoy all the instruments.


    And to lay the groundwork, there's solid musicianship.


    Did I say WOW already?


    Cheers,


    Mats N

  • The end of an empire

    Hi Renaud,


    I think you should be super satisfied with the entire track. It has a great rhythmic drive and the mix is excellent. The arrangement is such as I can hear everything in it's place. Nothing seem to step on something else's toes.

    Only fault with the arrangement is that it is way too short.


    Did you play bass with fingers or a pick?


    Cheers,


    Mats N

  • I'm Your Everyday Necessity - new tune with unknown source of inspiration but with some slide

    When I write a tune, I almost always know where I got the idea and/or from whom I got the inspiration. Not so in this case. I just went where the tune took me.

    What did happen was that the tune called out for some slide guitar. I play slide about once a year (when a song calls for it) so whenever it happens I have to practice a bit.


    Clean guitar: K-Line Springfield

    Slide guitar: PRS McCarty with 57/08 pickups

    Bass: Sire Marcus Miller V7


    Hope you'll like!


    Cheers,


    Mats N