VALENTINE'S DAY SONGS
🕑 Added 2024-02-14 13:55:13 +0000 UTCIt's good to share the love on Valentine’s Day and it feels especially lovely to be able to share my performances of your chosen song requests. The songs were recorded live and I added a little djembe overdub on a few tracks to help get your groove on!
Here's a rundown of some of your requests:
Eyes Wider than Before
Drifter
Silence
Something Real
Sweet Scented Figure
Myself Again
My Selfless Moon
Cinnamon
The Light
Passing Stranger
Good Times
For the gear-heads amongst you. Here's a rundown of my vocal / guitar chain:
Vocal - JZ Vintage 67 microphone going into a Neve 1073 / Early '70s Ueri silver face 1176 / Roger Mayer 456HD all-analogue tape emulator.
Acoustic guitar - Early '70s AKG 414 going into a Neve 1073 + RM 456HD unit
All this juicy analogue gear is then running into my Antelope Audio Orion Studio Synergy Core interface.
It's best to appreciate the finer details with headphones on ideally. Hope you enjoy the vibes!
Sending you all my love,
Scott
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Comments
Charlie Costello
Can’t believe I missed this 🫣
DesertFlower
These recordings are lovely. You could have used them to create an album of love songs. My only personal exception is on Sweet Scented Figure. I will always love the recording you did for us that was more rough/twangy. That is how I see that song done best. You really did an excellent job. You must be a very sentimental and caring person.
Derek Browne
Just catching up now, but sounds great Scott, many thanks. Who would be your dream artist to ask a request from?
Cathy Gardner
Thank you. X
James George
Nice one, yeah man. I look forward to that. Indulge me! 🤌🏼😁
Scott Matthews Official
Yes I do find certain guitars in my collection need a specific pickup / preamp combo to function at the their fullest potential. I’ll text you some extra ‘geekoutery’ jargon later!!! 🤓
Scott Matthews Official
Obrigado Thelma. Glad to hear of your enjoyment. I enjoyed creating them. I may even start a little mini series of live performances 🤔
Scott Matthews Official
It’s my pleasure, Andrew.
Andrew Boyle
Just wonderful Scott…thank you for this
Thelma Ribeiro
Thank you for this! Even if I didn't request anything (considering i'm a forever alone 😅), this is just so heartwarming! Whishing you and Sally a wonderful valentine's day! And to all the lovely couples in this community too! 🥰
James George
Bargain! Aw yeah, good old K&Ks. I’ve heard great things about those Radial PZs. Only used the Pro DI in the past before. Might look at one for Norman 🤔, it’s always needed a bit of love on the signal path being a passive pickup! Take out some honky and quacky mids on the eq and she’s good to go 😁
Renata
lol @ cupid
Renata
ohh - how did I miss that? Andrew's got that cd, need to add it to my car playlist (Scott Fave's). Do you usually play 'Drifter' on that guitar?
Scott Matthews Official
Haha!!! Happy days, dear fellow. Glad you both enjoyed the fuzzy warmth of the sound waves! Yeah the Alvarez Bari cost me £180 (used) The K&K pickup works really went into a Radial PZ DI mixed with the old 414. The DI signal helps to give the whole sound that full but firm low end
James George
Young chap! That was an absolutely sublime version of Cinnamon, mate 🤩. It had a real warmth to it, Jazz was of course made up 🙏🏼. The whole set was sounding superb, those mics 👌🏼. As for the acoustic baritone, that translated really well, too. What is it, an Alvarez?
Scott Matthews Official
Cheers Alan. Very happy to hear it 😎
Scott Matthews Official
Thank you, Rollin. It was nice to play that song on my old ‘70s Guild. It reminded me that I should play that guitar more often
Scott Matthews Official
Thank you, Ren. Yeah Silence is from my album ‘The Great Untold’ (album No.6
Scott Matthews Official
Cheers Laurence 😎
Scott Matthews Official
Happy days, guys! Glad to hear Kate was feeling the good vibes 😎
Scott Matthews Official
Aww that’s great! Thanks Gary. Happy to hear Laura loves it 🥰
Gary Chapman
Absolutely stunning Scott, thank you so so much. Laura loved it!
Mark Jones
Amazing, thank you Scott. Kate was over the moon with Passing Stranger ❤️
Laurence
Thank you Scott or should I say Cupid! X
Renata
OMG what a lovely Valentine gift - thank you SO much Scott and Andrew for the two requests .... love you both! xxx don't think I've heard 'Silence' before - just beautiful. xxx
Rollin Bohn
Incredible, Scott. Just amazing. Tara loves this!!! Thank you.
Alan Maclean
Thank you very much, that’s a lovely surprise for Lianne x