session track recorded direct

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 14 Dec 2019 6:56 am

This is a session track I did for a local singer songwriter in Charlotte a couple of years back The Hardest Thing by Mitch Hayes. S10 Sho Bud Pro I , early 80's tracked direct to the board.

This is one of my favorite sessions but also one of my favorite recorded Steel tones recorded at a local Pro Tools Studio. No amp, I think I may have been plugged into an outboard compressor, not sure.

Gives us an idea of what can be accomplished "direct" Of course we all hear things differently and that's the beauty of it, we are different.

The Hardest Thing by Mitch Hayes

http://www.tprior.com/The%20Hardest%20Thing.mp3

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 14 Dec 2019 9:55 am

Tony you sounded great... did you just play steel or other stuff as well?

Iâ€™ve actually gone back to a Mic, but when Iâ€™m playing without a track I hear some amp hum in the dead zones... what do used to eliminate that?

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 14 Dec 2019 10:41 am

Thx Dale, just Steel on this track. The Studio Eng/Producer is also playing guitar, he's quite good at all he does. He waited for me to track the Steel then countered what I played. His wife is the background vocalist. Together they have a pretty darn good band around town.

This was a nice track for me to play on, its my music style all the way .

mtulbert · Post by **mtulbert** » 14 Dec 2019 2:19 pm

Tony

What a nice song and great arrangement. Steel sounds superb, very Lloyd like IMHO. Tone dead on the money and the mix is spot on. Great job by everyone.

Dale,

You may want to try a noise gate on the noisy track and see if that helps.

regards,

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 15 Dec 2019 2:48 am

Mark thx for the nice comments. The Engineer/Producer is a multi instrumentalist and comes from the same music genre overall, he plays some Steel as well. He "gets it" with regard to the Steel ! I've tracked maybe a dozen times with him , always direct, and to my ears the final mix was spot on for each session. The Steel was never buried or lost .

He's still running Pro Tools 8 on XP !

mtulbert · Post by **mtulbert** » 15 Dec 2019 6:10 am

He's still running Pro Tools 8 on XP!

That is all he needs apparently and the better the players, the less processing you need to do. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Happy Holidays Tony

regards,

Lance Clifford · Post by **Lance Clifford** » 15 Dec 2019 9:19 am

Great tone and very tasty playing, Tony!