Steve Vai's Die to live (clip of me playing)

LightSeeker · #1 09-30-2007, 05:03 PM

It's a video I made today, playing Die to live. Hope you can squeeze a couple of minutes in to watch

, but if not it's great to post here again, as it's been a real long time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrATYC9CGZU

It has a minute audio issuses... smal crackling in some spaces. Dunno why Check it out! And in one part I did mess up quite considerably... I think

p.s.: oh yeah and I have the headphones on, cuz originally I wanted to record audio separately in Audacity and then replace the original audio from the video. But I didn't quite figured it out yet So I just pushed the backing track in the video's audio instead

Guitarmiester · #2 09-30-2007, 09:41 PM

Very nice job! I just saw Vai last night and was hoping he'd play Die To Live, which he did. One of my favorite songs by Vai, keep it up. There were a few mistakes, but you managed to recover and keep in time.

What gear were you using? I see the Ibanez Prestige, looks like a Zoom unit sitting on top of something I couldn't make out.

Andy43 · #3 09-30-2007, 11:25 PM

Haven't heard that song in a while. Nice choice in gear. Your tone is just as good, if not better, than Vai's. Good job.

FloridaNative · #4 09-30-2007, 11:31 PM

Awesome!!

LightSeeker · #5 10-01-2007, 03:56 AM

Thank you very much for listening, I apreciate it. Thanks to Guitarmeister, Andy43 and FloridaNative.

p.s.: Gitarmeister: the gear was as follows: Ibanez 1570 Presitge-->Mesa boogie studio preamp-->Tech 21 Trademark 60 (cuz I just can't open up the 50/50 power amp

) clean channel on tweed setting--> Zoom G2 1.u effects unit in the effecs loop (tape echo)--> vintage Jensen speaker (it's under the Tech)

Martyr Machine · #6 10-01-2007, 04:24 AM

Better playing than just about any other cover I've seen. The tone was a bit off, but still damn good, and closer than anything else I've heard.
Nice job.

TREVA · #7 10-01-2007, 06:13 AM

What ???????
No line 6 amp !!!!!!
That's why the tone is goooooood !
Mesa all the way !!!!!!!

Distantshore · #8 10-01-2007, 06:48 AM

Well Done!

LightSeeker · #9 10-01-2007, 09:04 AM

Thanks Martyr Machine, Trerva and Distantshore, I'm really flattered and apreciate that you've taken the time to listen to it.

Yeah the tone is always a problem, i guess it would be better if I ran it through my Mesa 50/50, but it's jsut to loud, when driven to about 4 out of ten, where it smoothenes out. Maybe I should buy an atenuator. But they cost monex...

p.s.: I seem to have a problem on youtube. I can't find my video if I do a regular search in the search window. Can't even find it if I organize the videos to show me the latest that were added. And I added mine 17 hours ago

What's wrong? ANy Idea?

Guitarmiester · #10 10-01-2007, 10:01 AM

I knew it was some sort of preamp, I can't believe I didn't notice you were using a Mesa Studio pre. Great playing, looking forward to another clip or video.