Thursday's video is a surfy cover of the Beatles' "She Loves You". (Inspired by The Surfrajettes' version - thank you ladies).

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Our last video for a while. Not exactly "surf music" - but an instrumental nonetheless. This is our cover of Led Zeppelin's "The Immigrant Song".
No distortion was used in the guitar mix.

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Our newest cover is Slacktone's "Bells Of St. Kahuna". This wasn't an easy one, folks. It's definitely a workout!

(Youtube video looks best in 1080p60 - full screen).

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Awesome! Love that song.
That video was not safe for work, though

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Squid wrote:

Hi, Gellert.

A fun sound and superb lead guitar technique on Evan Foster's piece.

Do you use "Rotor" or a similar company to help make videos?

Conrad

Hey Conrad,

It was my intention to make the "Surfer's Anthem" video on my own - like I have on several within my YouTube channel. However, I just bought a new PC and haven't installed "Filmora" onto it, which is a great video program I use for video making. I contacted a video person off of Fivrr.com and had him make it for me with the specs that I wanted for a fairly cheap price. So everything you see on the video is royalty-free video content that anyone can purchase to make their own "custom" movie. It is what it is LOL. After several revisions, I basically had to say, OK this will have to do. Most of the computer specialists on Fivrr are overseas and NOT very good at English or understanding American culture so I am glad that the video came out as well as it did, considering he was from India.

I have never heard of Rotor, but, you have me interested in it so I will check that out. I do like making my own videos, but it does take me hours and hours to get exactly perfect. Unfortunately, I am super anal when placing anything online that is attached to my name or band

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Hi, Gellert,
Thanks for the interesting detail about Fiverr.com (Fivrr.com is unsafe).

Rotor seems to automatically perform the video production you did manually, and do it inexpensively. I spent time on their website last week but did not actually subscribe. I look forward to hearing your impressions of Rotor. If you subscribe i'd like to hear of your experiences and see your results.

Conrad

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TheFintastics wrote:

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elmorto wrote:

Awesome! Really liking the guitar tones here. Whats your setup like?

Hey there! It's funny you ask because I was just on your Bandcamp page yesterday and really enjoy your songs a lot ... especially Napalm Nug! I love that type of surf - very much like speed metal!

My set up is extremely simple and it's purely for recording and practicing songs through a PA. I am using a Fender Jazzmaster's bridge pickup for the main tone on Flight of the Surf Guitar. There is also a simple rhythm track that I added (not on the original Atlantics recording) where I used both pickups to get a fatter tone. It's hard to hear but that's how I wanted it...just barely audible to fill in the sonic space.

Aside from the guitar, I am using just one pedal which gives the guitar all its sound. It's a Zoom MS-50G MultiStomp Multi-effects Pedal! I have five effects going through a chain and it took me while to get the right combination to sound surfy enough. Guitar -- noise gate -- compressor --reverb -- Fender twin amp sim -- delay. That's it. The great thing about that pedal is that it is in stereo. My delay effect "ping pongs" back and forth, from left to right giving it a wide effect. I own an original Surfybear reverb and a Hot Rod Deluxe 2x12 that don't get used much.

If anyone owns that Boss pedal, I can share my settings and get you in the right direction for getting the same sound I do. There's a 6 year old thread on here that goes into detail about it.

https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/24232/?page=1

Hi Gellert! What is the recording tool you use and drum machine? I remember we discussed it last year on our surf call but…

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TheFintastics wrote:

I use Reaper for recording and layering the guitar tracks while the drum track was an actual drummer I paid to learn the song and record it in his studio. I haven't used a drum machine or any drum programs in my recordings.

Sounds great! Reaper is a program, right?

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TheFintastics wrote:

Correct. I have their paid version but you can download it free.

Listened to all these videos again, so much fun and a sound is really great! I think I need to buy Zoom ms50)))

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