Trying a return to standard tuning. Can I borrow some ears for a few minutes?

[Jim Soloway]

After many years of tuning down, I've been playing in standard pitch for a few days and kind of enjoying it. It's harder on the hands but it's certainly a lot easier to record. Here's my first attempt. It's a one take version of my arrangement of Days Of Wine And Roses. I'm playing my Ozkarpat in a Milkman "The Amp 50" and running direct from the line out on the amp with the speaker is turned off. At the DAW, it's running through the Lancaster Pulse IR loader to provide some speaker sound. The trem and most of the verb come from the Milkman.

Mostly I'm just wondering what people think of the sound. Is the bass sufficiently under control?

[neatomic]

sounds fine...like the trem...maybe a bit tighter tonally than with your usual lower tuning

try the lower tuning and trem! hah

cheers

[Gitterbug]

It's almost like two guitars. The bass end is warm, and the tremolo less pronounced than the rather bright and somewhat wobbly top strings. The balance is fine, not too much bass. It would be interesting to hear this without tremolo. Superb chord progressions!

[citizenk74]

Enjoying this on my imac. Sounds just fine! One or two of the higher notes poke out a bit, but a teensy bit of limiting would smooth that out. Lovely performance!

[marcwhy]

Very nice, as always, Jim!

[Jim Soloway]

Thanks all. I'm trying a slightly heavier string on the high E and B today but in general I'm enjoying this. After all these years of trying I really want to get the new album finished so I'm trying to get sound of the recordings as close to dialed in as I can. It's easy to fall into the belief that it's never good enough but I do think I'm close. (And I've said that so many times)