Jim Dunne's video: Beethoven s 5th Symphony - arr by HS Lee Cloud9

My cover of a rockin' version of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. I did not arrange this nor did I (obviously) compose it. It is very fun to play though! Go to YT user behimo's page to grab the tabs and the backing tracks for this one. It took about 6 hours of collective practice time using Guitar Pro's wonderful speed training loop feature to nail all the parts as well as I could get them. I still suck at sweep picking because I really really hate it anyway. It sounds stupid and it's hard to do and is completely useless. I don't like it. Don't tell me I suck at it because I know that and I have no intention of fixing that. Sweeping FTL. There is only one ~2 second guitar overdub to fix a mistake and I bet you can tell where that is cuz I didn't cut the video at that part. Other than that the track's audio is completely accurate to the video. Yes, I only edited one spot in the audio but I don't do that to make myself look better; I didn't touch the video other than to deinterlace and recompress for YouTube. It's just to be easier on your ears because I flubbed a note and it would sound awful if I had not dubbed it. You can barely tell the note is flubbed from watching the video anyway so it's quasi-believable. Gear used is my standard rig of Ibanez JS-1000 straight into MESA/Boogie Triaxis 1.0 preamp straight into my EDIROL UA-1000 audio interface. Cakewalk Sonar Producer 8 is used to record and mix. I used PerfectSpace convolver plugin (yeah it's a reverb but that's not all it does!) with a cabinet impulse WAV I made from my own 2:90 power amp and 4x12" cab with a Shure SM-57 microphone capturing the sound. Applied EQ, delay, reverb, multi-band compressor, and a basic stereo channel enhancer tool to the guitar track. This cuts down on the harshness and adds some space to the track so it sits a little bit on top of the mix. Tossed a tube leveler plugin on the master buss and finally Boost11 to hard-limit the very rare peaks.