Guitar work on Brooke Fraser's "Albertine"

[Janine Doubly]

This is killing me...

One of my newest and most favorite CD's I've been listening to is Brooke Fraser's "Albertine". If you are not familiar with it, and you like well arranged, well played, thoughtful female Christian singer/songwriters, this is a must have CD. (She also writes and plays with Hillsong United. She wrote "Hosanna" and "Lead Me to the Cross")

Anyways, there is a track called "Love is Waiting" (Track 04) on it and the opening guitar part is just lovely. The guitar credits are Michael Chaves and David Levita. Whoever is playing the part gets this really cool modulated vibrato/chorusey/wobbly sound that, for the life of me, I can't figure out how he is doing it. Not to toot my own horn, but I am usually pretty good at figuring out tones. This one is stumping me. I don't know how to post sound clips (plus it may infringe on copywrites). But if anyone knows these guys, this track or how they did it...by all means, feel free to spill the beans!!!:D

[Thoth105]

Sounds like a chorus/slow flanger with a lot of reverb, and he's adding vibrato with his left hand. The Vibrato effect on the Eventide mod factor sounds a bit like that, too.

[SonicGator]

Love is Waiting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bTjDace9nY)

Almost sounds like a chorused tremolo effect. Maybe a Leslie cab?

[Janine Doubly]

I've been working with my Maxon CS-550, Boss Rotary Ensemble and Demeter Trem pedals to get something of that effect, and getting close, but no cigar. I am just such a picky person, I want to NAIL the sound on the song, but the smooth modulation of his way of doing it is proving to be allusive. :mad: Its the OCD in me!!

I am going to keep trying. I will attempt setting my chorus at a low setting and try to add more left hand vibrato. Thank you so much for the comments and help.

Anybody know Michael Chaves personally? I am really digging his work.

[mapleneck]

It sounds like a light modulated delay.

[guitarzan]

I bought this cd a couple of weeks ago. Her vocal track on the opening tune is 1 in a million. Just the perfect female vocal performance for this kind of music. Absolutely love it.

And the whole record feels close mic'd and intimate which is refreshing in today's climate of bigger, bigger, louder, louder.

[santellavision]

I just bought the CD on itunes. Awesome. Thanks for turning me on to it!

[michaelomiya]

....which is refreshing in today's climate of bigger, bigger, louder, louder.

wait, and your issue to this is what?;)

[guitarzan]

wait, and your issue to this is what?;)

haha. Well, just- clearly- anyone who knows me knows that I'm a super sensitive, in-touch-with-my-feminine-side, precious moments style guitar player and these records that try to blow my ear drums and my speakers simultaneously drive me to drink. Where are the Bonnie Raitts and the Lyle Lovett's and the Jackson Brownes of the pop world?

(Of course, I love switchfoot and I've enjoyed listening to my boys' clean version of Death Magnetic- BOTH of which are like ribbon-thick waveforms...)

[tom]

corey, how'd you know i was listening to lyle today?

[guitarzan]

corey, how'd you know i was listening to lyle today?

I could feel it in my soul.

[bud]

Where are the Bonnie Raitts and the Lyle Lovett's and the Jackson Brownes of the pop world?


This is deserving of a thread of its own.

[Janine Doubly]

My only issue with the sonics of Brooke's album are that it could be even less compressed on the final mix. For a while there, I was working part time at a super high end audio shop and everything about the "Albertine" CD's overall sonics was spot on...except you could tell someone over did the compression. The sound staging, detail, layering and imaging is just great on this CD. The opening cut, "Shadowfeet" (which, as an aside, I get to perform with my co-lead worshiper tomorrow at church!!! Yeah!!) Sounds awesome and then the drums come in, and you can just feel the squash. Too bad. I'm sure it sounds great on iTunes and computer speakers, but on a pair of Vandersteen 5A's and Audio Research Reference tube gear, the excessive compression just bums me out.

The drum work is also killer.

Now, if I can just get that wobbly guitar sound...:D