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I've always liked the Dan Fogelberg hit and wondered if it might work as a guitar piece. It's a great backing track, although the 'horn' section's a bit repetetive, but then so's the tune in some respects.
Let me know what you think anyway.

http://www.4shared.com/file/142853855/e ... onger.html

(Burns Marvin Neck p/up - Magicstomp EFTP Patch U11 - TonelabST: AC15 amp/cab; Classic Chorus setting but with no chorus effect, just to get a stereo blend; some reverb and a bit of added stereo widening for the lead work in Cubase4LE, with which it was mixed and recorded.)

Cheers,
Martyn

I think you can be very pleased with this. You captured the sound and the interpritation is very Hank like.

Well Done.
Ian

Thanks Martyn, really enjoyed that. Lovely tune, great sound, well played mate

The original song has a female vocalist harmonising in several places and I debated trying to do something similar with an extra guitar track, but somehow it seemed over-egging the pudding. Given the duo vocal parts required the notes to be held much longer in places and I couldn't recreate that on guitar, I opted to keep it as a solo piece and change to the upper octave towards the end to maybe compensate and keep it fresher.
The BT really is superbly done and is a great place from which to start - I've searched but can't find from where it originated or I'd point you in the right direction. I'm fairly sure it was a free download from a site somewhere but if anyone's interested let me know.

Thanks for your kind comments.

Regards,
Martyn

dave robinson wrote:Very nice, but IMHO he guitar sound needs a tad less top end as it sounds 'glassy' in places.

Hi Dave,
Could you elaborate a little - always presumed 'glassy' meant smooth and rounded in guitar-speak but do you mean glassy as in 'brittle', perhaps? It's not sounding that way on my speakers or headphones but I'll gladly try to amend it if that's how others are hearing it.

Regards,
Martyn

I think it needs 'mellowing' especially on the picking of the higher strings which sound a little 'clunky'. Could it be a little too much compression?

dave robinson wrote:I think it needs 'mellowing' especially on the picking of the higher strings which sound a little 'clunky'. Could it be a little too much compression?

Now I''m with you.
I regularly have problems getting the compression settings sorted and just as I think it's about right on the Tonelab, when I then compress a recording down to an acceptable size .mp3, the process adds even more emphasis to the intial note striking. I'm not sure why that happens but it does, so rather than dwell on it perhaps I should reduce compression on the intial recording to start with to allow for this added effect inevitably occurring each time.

Regards,
Martyn

I shall remember that for future reference.
Cheers,
Martyn