Weekend Song – The Beastles
OK, so you like the Beastie Boys and you like The Beatles. That don’t impress me much. What would happen if you had the two together? Well, I like pears and cashews, but I wouldn’t put the two together, but somehow this works.
I have an album of this stuff. There’s Whatcha Want, Lady, which is a mix with Whatcha Want and Lady Madonna, there is I Feel Fine Right Now, Hold It Together Now, Tripper Trouble, and this one.
I’m a newlywed, not a divorcee and everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey.
Listen: Sure-Bla-Di Shot-Bla-Da
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May 31st, 2008 at 8:57 am
I don’t like the Beastie Boys too much. Great way to ruin a Beatles tune;)
Hey when you record your acoustics,do you just use the piezo output or do you mic them up?
May 31st, 2008 at 11:04 am
That’s awesome. My fav Beastie Boys album and some classic Beatles, score!
May 31st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
yech.
;)
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Ed - This isn’t a Beatles tune though. The Beatles tune is right there - it lives on. This rocks.
Also - I have a piezo and a mic on around the 12th fret of the guitar. The piezo is very bright and gives too much “quack” on its own. I turn the top end down on the piezo and bring up the bottom a bit and pan that left 25 per cent. The mic’ed input I pan right 25 per cent with a little more top end and a little off the bottom (I have a large-bodied dreadnaught shaped guitar, so it can be a little boomy with a standard dynamic mic) That’s it and it sounds like this
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 am
Off on a tangent here, but pears and cashews sounds like a thoroughly delicious combination.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 am
I suppose the Beatles tune lives on, if you count being raised from the dead, having grotesque extraneous body parts sewn onto you, your head bolted back on with stove bolts, and your complexion a sick green because you have no circulation ‘living on’.
I have never liked the sound of a piezo pickup on a guitar unless it’s powered by an 18 volt preamp. The piezo just sounds squashed to me. Back in my day - well before real piezo gear - we’d use two cardioid conderser mics, one around the 12th fret and another between the soundhole and the bridge. But you have to make sure the distance between the two is more than 18 inches or so or you get frequency cancellations in the stereo signal. Another trick was to point two condenser mics at the 12th fret, one pointing toward the body and the other toward the ehadstock. This seemed to work ok too and as long as the mics were less than an inch or so apart there was no frequency cancellation going on.
I think the first option sounded better, though, and if the room had a nice freverb to it, that helped a lot. The stereo signal on the first option sounded much better.
I might have to do this again. Recommend me a condenser cardioid mic?
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
I’m recommend a Behringer B-1. Not up there with Shure or AKG, but a fraction of the price for decent quality.