RotM #17- Voting - Closes 10th Jan

Antique_Guitars

Howdy fretboarders!

Welcome to the voting thread for Riff of the Month #17

Voting closes on the 10th of Jan at 11.50 pm.

Feel free to vote and comment in this thread.

Same deal as the main Fretboard Challenge, vote for your top 3 entries!

1st choice gets 5 points

2nd choice gets 3 points

3rd choice gets 1 point

You can find all the entries on this playlist

steamabacus

Nice to see a good few entries this month - and some good stuff in there, too. I'm going to need a couple more listens to pick my top three.

ElectroDan

A really varied selection here. Congratulations to all who took part.

5 Points @steamabacus - Great tone captured there and equally great riff.

3 Points @Markv

1 Point @Hobbio

steamabacus

Cheers @ElectroDan. It was all recorded direct (onto minidisc!) with the loop assembled on my JamMan looper pedal. No computer involved until I uploaded it.

ElectroDan

Sounds great to me! What did you have the guitar going through?

steamabacus

I have a 'preamp board' of compressor, phaser and various gainy pedals that goes into the front of a Blackstar HT5. The fx send from that goes into my 'delay board' and the JamMan looper in stereo. From the looper it goes in stereo to two Award-Session preamps (with speaker emulation) and a Drawmer stereo rack compressor which is plumbed into two channels on my mixing desk (old Behringer). A bit of reverb (Lexicon rack unit) on the desk aux send and then out to the minidisc recorder.

It's a setup that has slowly 'evolved' over the years - I'm very familiar with the componenets and I have it set up so I can switch it all on and be recording in seconds with the throw of a couple of power switches.

hobbio

Thanks for the point @Electrodan.

For anyone that's interested, I went through my pedal board into a Blackstar HT-5, then used the 4x12 emulated out into a Focusrite iTrack Solo and then into GarageBand on my iPad. It's easy and versatile, but I find mixing in GarageBand to be a pain which is why mine is soooo badly done. It really changes between the iPad and Soundcloud, the bass disappears and the rest of the levels seem to jump around a lot.

 

 

ElectroDan

No problem @hobbio. I liked the riff. It has a good energy to it and reminds me of Life in the Fast Lane.

There seems to be some love for the HT5 here.

mellowsun

Here's my 3 favourites

5pts: @markv  love this delay riff

3pts: @antique_guitars nice singer-songwriter riff with bonus vocals

1pt: @steamabacus  classy, pro-sounding track as always

kin

5pts @Steamabacus

3pts @antique-guitars

1pt @Markv

steamabacus

1st (5pts) @Antique_Guitars

2nd (3pts) @markv

3dr (1pt)  @mellowsun

markv

Some seriously classy bits of music here and it seems unfair to only reward three. But after much enjoyable listening, I will go with:

5 points @mellowsun - lovely and clean, very 80s and really catchy, I had it going round in my head for ages!

3 points @kin - intriguing and different

1 point @Antique_Guitars - good singing too

Thanks for the points so far, I was pleased with how this turned out. It's the second "full" track I've recorded (i.e. all the sounds), rather than recording over a backing track. The first was last month's RotM ...

TTony

A slight variation on my usual voting criteria this month ...

5pts @mellowsun - wow, the quality of the playing, recording, mixing - stunning Phil.  Love it.

3pts @markv - a pretty close second, based on the above criteria.

1pt @kin - impressive timing

Normally, I'd vote based on the toe-tapping, memorable, "riff" content.  Could I hum it after a couple of listens?

This month those criteria have been pushed out of the window by some great quality, inventive playing, and tracks that I just want to hear more of.  So - where's the rest of the tracks guys??

steamabacus

TTony said:

 So - where's the rest of the tracks guys??

Well, mine was cut from the first few bars of this widdle-fest.  

https://soundcloud.com/steam-abacus/trump-is-such-an-arsehole-09122015

I agree, it's great to see a decent number of consistently inventive and varied 'riffs'. I hope this level of interest and quality continues in the coming months.

mellowsun

Cheers Tony, I'll put the full track up on sound cloud tonight

mellowsun

Here's the full track @TTony

hobbio

1st - 5pts - @kin - love the tone, love the feel. 

2nd - 3pts - @steamabacus ;

3rd - 1pt  - @mellowsun

markv

I don't have a full track for mine, just that snippet and an aspiration! I meant that it's only the second time I have recorded a piece of music where I have done all the instruments/sounds. And it's only 50 seconds ... some way to go for me I think!

DulcetJones

5 Points -  @PVO_Dave 

3 Points - @markv

1 Point - @Hobbio ;

Cabicular

5 points @kin I don't believe the irony of this after my comment on your rROTM
3 points @steamabacus grungy noisey ..likey
1 point @MarkV it was developing nicely the clean tone was great the dirty tone a bit too thin for me

@antique_guitars honourable mention but once I had Tracy Chapman fast car in my head I couldn't get it out

kin