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My Recorded Cover Songs – Smells Like Teen Spirit

May 28th, 2010 . by Alexander Fisher

Carl's Ludwig Standards I had a magazine that had the sheet music to Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit around the time it came out in the early 1990’s. I had been playing it and decided to record it. My original mix of this song sounded a little “small” and I was embarrassed to play it. It was mostly due to the recording process I used then. The other day I decided to re-mix the tracks of the version I had recorded. I think this mix is much better.

I had done a re-mix of these tracks about a year ago, but I really wasn’t satisfied with the outcome. I am much better at lining up out of sync tracks now than I was then. I used several methods to sync these tracks, but the one that gave me the most satisfaction was stretching the audio, quantizing it the nearest sixteenth note and then manually editing the stray beat transients, I didn’t use that method on all of these tracks, but I wish I had.

Smells Like Teen Spirit

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I recorded this song in about 1992. I played the guitar from the sheet music, but just played the bass and drums parts pretty straight forward. I didn’t put a lot of effort into duplicating the original recording. I also didn’t add any new parts to it either. The guitar is a Fender Stratocaster electric. The bass is a Rickenbacker 4001. The drums sounds are from a Boss Dr. Rhythm drum machine and were played on Yamaha MIDI drum pads. I originally recorded the song on my analog Yamaha MT-1000 4 track recorder using dbx noise reduction. I transferred it to my Fostex VF-16 digital multi-track and processed it with Cakewalk Sonar 8.5 Producer and Sony Sound Forge 9.

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