If it makes you happy (Sheryl Crow) Aston Origin mic
 

This was a demo recording that I made testing out my revamped home recording space. Over the past few weeks, I have been experimenting and added room treatment and bought a new mic.

Both my guitar and vocal were recorded at same time with 1 mic (Aston Origin) .. Using my Spire Studio recorder... adding the Spire's Warm Space effect. Then I took the file into Reaper where I did minimal adjustment .. EQ (High pass) and very slight (8ms) channel time delay.

Personally, I think it's one of my best "off the cuff" recordings.. meaning I didn't do much preparation .. Just placed the mic in front.. let the Spire auto set levels and hit record.

Really Nice!
 

I bet you do some great Cat Stevens. If you don't, you should!!
LarryK

Thanks so much!

Nope I don't know any Cat Stevens.. I guess I need to check him out.

Thanks again,

This is so excellent on many levels. Great tone, great singing, simple, honest, raw.

Fantastic cover.

Thanks so much.. I really appreciate your kind words about my recording. You made my day!

Agree with all that he said! Great singing and playing! ;) Was it a Gibson J45 that you used?

Hey Cool555 - Thanks so much for your comments.

Yep.. my '08 Gibson J-45 with Adi top .. I stopped looking for guitars after I found it a couple years ago.

https://i.imgur.com/wbWGtg9l.jpg

Thanks Jake for your reply and picture! Beautiful guitar and sounds equally beautiful during recording. The tone is lovely. No wonder the J-45 is well-loved in AGF! :)

Yep.. my Gibson J-45 is my favorite guitar .. Just feels right and sounds great

Very nice job Jake. It sounds good with a reasonable balance between voice and guitar!

- Glenn

Thank you for taking the time to post Glenn!

In order to get the correct balance .. I actually had the Single LDC Mic situated at chin level .. angled slightly downward and about 12-14 inches away from me.

1 Mic is nice and easy set up!

I love this song and you did it justice. Very nice guitar playing and singing. The recording was wonderful, nice balance and clarity. The only problem is now I want a Gibson J45.....badly.........even more than I did before :D

You do need to look into Cat Stevens, your voice is well suited to his songs.

Another great job Jake. Recording sounded balanced and clean.

Thanks so much for listening and your positive comments!

Thanks Dave!

This song is special and for some reason it touched me a while back.. Which pushed me to learn it... I'm glad I did it "justice".

All the positive comments are very much appreciated. :guitar:

Okay .. So what are suggestions for Cat Stevens songs ?

Jake dude, you rocked this bro. I love this song and just about everything S. Crow does. Your vox, guitar playing and tone are excellent, bravo!

Hey NoleDog ....

I am so glad you liked it and chimed in to comment.

You Made my day too!

As per the record forum post
Things are shaping up and progressing nicely, sounds great and really like your interpretation of the song :up::up::up:

Thanks so much Kev .. As you know, I have spent the past 2 months getting my room and gear set up. The sound I "hear" is getting better and it showed through on this recording.

Thanks again!

Very nicely done song, played and sung well... but the thing that really caught my attention was the professional recording quality. Amazing things the little Izotope Spire's. They should post this on their website.

Thanks Billder99 - Glad you liked my cover and really appreciate your comments!

Yes, I agree the Spire unit is fantastic and adding a high quality mic took it to another level for my needs.