All The Things You Are

[Dale Rottacker]

First off I want to thank my friend Ron Forest for his help getting me up and running with a new method of getting the Steel into my DAW. Pretty happy with how the Steel sounds in this. Aside from my playing.

All The Things You Are was a squirrel that popped up in front of me the other, so something that took me off another path, but now I don’t remember what that was LOL … The beginning of this was inspired by a version of this I heard Beegie Adair do and really liked how the intro modulated into this.

Still trying to get comfortable creating single note lines that make some kind of sense, but the journey is long

https://youtu.be/XexLl-6KbqA

[Rick Bernauer]

Dale - that sounded great! Nice voicings and tone.

[Dale Rottacker]

Dale - that sounded great! Nice voicings and tone.

Thank you Rick

[Jack Stanton]

Dale, great as always. Can you please elaborate about your new recording method?
Thanks!

[Slim Heilpern]

Sounds great Dale!

[Dale Rottacker]

Dale, great as always. Can you please elaborate about your new recording method?
Thanks!

Thank you Jack ... I've used several methods over the years, but my main method the last couple of years was out of my 2nd out of my Telonics VP and then into my DAW to give me a dry track. I'd been overall happy but wanted to be happier.

So before Bill Ferguson was gonna run out of those LTD pedals I got one wanting to try one out. I play through a Quilter 202 with both 12" and 15" cabinets and love what I'm hearing out of them, but that sound doesn't always quite translate into the DAW. So I had my friend Ron Forest help me hook the LTD up correctly. I'd been using the Input/Send/Return/Sig Out of the 202... He had me coming out of my VP into the LTD>Flashback>Return and then the SIG OUT into the DAW in the Pre position of the 202. I still found that Signal just a tad thin and a bit harsh, but straight from my VP in was too round in tone. So Ron had me use a Cab Sim from Ampire which is in Studio One (DAW). I picked a 2-12 Blackface for the cabinet. That made a BIG difference, now the recorded steel was sounding VERY close to what I'm hearing out of the cabinets in the room. That 2-12 Blackface (Fender Twin?) fattened it up, rounded off the harshness and made me happy.

I usually tweak the Eq and add a touch of compression in post, with the Eq generally getting a bit of a boost above 3K+ ... I did NONE of that with this, as I felt the Highs rang without being overly jabby with the bottom full and rich without any mud.

You may hear something different with your ears, but thats what I was hearing ... Ron told me he thought it was "super smooth, but still had the upper mid growl when I needed it". I've always strived for Rich with Bite tone, and think I get that in the room, but getting that in the recording not always. Maybe now??

Sounds great Dale!

Thanks Slim

[Jack Stanton]

Dale, I'm going to have to read that at least three times, but thanks!

[Dale Rottacker]

Dale, I'm going to have to read that at least three times, but thanks!

I apologize for that Jack … communication skills are yet another of my shortcomings