This is simply outstanding. One of my favourite songs and you’ve absolutely nailed those tones. Also, as the owner of a Roland Fantom I got a kick out of that making an appearance towards the end!
The bass on this song, including the original is what sends it over the edge I think along with that guitar riff that gets under your skin! One of the most perfect songs ever produced imo.
Hell yeah! Absolutely nailed this cover Perry! Sounds absolutely perfect! Definitely haven’t seen many covers that use the j-160e much less 2. Also really enjoyed the guitar and bass tones and all the instrumentation was spot on! Easily the best cover on the tube!
Perry you’re one very talented individual. Glad of your input to the Gear there and everywhere channel. Keep up the good work on Beatle recreations. 👍🏻👍🏻
Luis, I just checked out your Channel and was blown away by your talent! You have a beautiful voice with an effortless delivery! If I lived in Brazil I'd definitely be hanging out playing with you! Great job on your channel. I just subscribed!
@@perrystanleyNumber9 wow, I'm so glad to hear that, my friend... specially from you!!! I'm a number 1 fan of your videos here on RUclips and I'd definitely be part of your band if you lived in the same country. Thank you once again for your kind words and for your outstanding videos!!! Best regards from your Brazilian friend. ✌️🎸🎶
superb, magnificent version. Just wow! I love it. I have a couple of somewhat nerdy questions, and given your attention to detail, I hope that’s ok with you. 1. I didn’t notice any reference to the sg model you played here. Is that a recent reissue? 2. Do you hold your D chord with 2d, 3d, and 4th fingers, freeing your index finger to do the descending pattern on the A string? That’s what I thought I saw. I play the D with 1st 2d and 3d fingers and flip my index down to play the C on the A string and then pop it back to the D chord. Mainly because it’s somehow easier for me this way. But I noticed that if you’re slightly late getting the index back into position, you get a nice hammer-on from open G to A in the D chord that I think I hear on the record. And an observation: watching and hearing the drumming, just before the 3 minute mark there’s a fairly complex flurry that sounds like Ringo on I am the walrus and doesn’t sound anything like Paul.
Hi ,Thanks! 1.The SG is the Gibson SG Original from 2013. 2. I have played it both ways depending on the width of the neck I am playing. I prefer using the index finger I think because it keeps the drone D note on the 3rd finger going without interruption.4th finger ? Do you mean pinky?As far as I know I'm not using the pinky in the main riff.
Ok thanks. That’s a really nice sg. I forgot another nerdy question - I read somewhere (forget where) that John recorded the casino unplugged on one of the guitar tracks. Does that sound crazy? Plausible?
@ possible, but in my opinion not likely. I did hear an acoustic track doing fingerpicking panned hard left once the theme started, buried very low in the mix . It sounded to me like the 68 j200. I used my 68 j200 to put it there but like the original it is buried so you won’t hear it unless you really listen for it.
Thanks! No one except Paul really knows, but I think it’s mostly the jazz bass . The Rick might appear on some numbers , but I’d be guessing unless I tried each song out with both basses.
@@perrystanleyNumber9 Thx again Perry, and thank you for being objective. I see so many people post this and that about what bass Paul used and I always ask what source they sight and then it is crickets. I truly appreciate your approach to stated your opinion!
@@perrystanleyNumber9Let me get this straight, Paul used the Jazz Bass with flats, George used his Lucy Les Paul, and John used both his Casino and J160E.
Great job! Everything sounded exactly like the record. Also loved when you did it with the j-160e through the twin reverb on the 62 j-160e video. Loved the warm/woody tone. Do you have a method for getting specific tones?
Sort of. I start with the gear I think was used . If I'm wrong I try other gear they would have had when the song was recorded. Then a lot of back and fourth with the real recording to get it as close as I can. I also use recording equipment that was available to them or whatever I have that is comparable. After a while you really get to know the character of the instruments, amps, and recording gear.
Incredible work Perry! I'm surprised by the drum mics. Is that historic or your preference? It looks like akg 414 overhead, sm57 snare and d12 ok the kick?
Thank you! No the mics are not historic. I usually record my drums with these mics. They just work really well. I now recently just purchased more D19c mics so I can go historic. I do always use the D20 Kik mic which is what the Beatles used. It’s not a d12. It is a D20. I did feel I had more leeway to go out of the box of what was normally used in terms of pres and processors because this song was recorded at Trident with 8 tracks and different recording gear.
@@perrystanleyNumber9 I bought a d19 right when the WARM reissues were announced but it arrived broken, as is common with them. Since I last asked you a question I did pick up a vintage u87, a km86 and a pair of vintage km84. So despite the broken mic it has still been a pretty great year for the mic locker. I'm still trying to figure out what my solution is for a u47-ish thing. That said, yours always sounds good. Anyhow, thank you for sharing this wonderful cover with the world :)
@@ilovemusic7748 Well Paul stated that John was the only one in the group that could actually do the Travis picking, but I'm sure that Paul jumped on the overdubs on guitar too. It would make sense with 8 tracks they would overdub as many people as they could for each track and then bounce down.
I originally tried ADT but found it was better doubled . It remained clearer. But I definitely tried it and lived with it for a while before I tried something else to get closer. Also from what I read it was only used on the claps and backing vocals when the tapes where brought to EMI from Trident.
Wow, it's surreal how close to the original sound of the record you got with this video cover. And it seems like you used every guitar you have in making it! Just a couple questions: do you think John used George's J-160E as well as his own? And what about the Casino? Do you think it's likelier that George played his own in unison with John, or that John overdubbed his to the backing track subsequent to its completion?
Anything I say in answer is just speculation based on what I have read about the recording of the song and my recording experience using four and 8 track format. According to McCartney , John was the only Beatle who could actually do the Travis picking Donovan taught them.I think John laid that down as a foundation first. Probably just doubled it on his own guitar or George's if that what was in the studio that day. We have all seen many pics where John has recorded with George's J-160e so using it is certainly possible. After the initial foundation fingerpicking tracks I think it still wasn't full enough and George and John (maybe Paul too) overdubbed the two ringing notes all together . They would have wanted to save tracks before committing to the bounce. They probably would have achieved all the overdubs for the wall of rhythm guitar in this way playing at least two people to a track. Doubling casinos, doubling J-160es, and doubling the bass notes. Though I think I got the formula for how many guitars really close , I know there is a treble frequency I couldn't achieve.I got as close as I could. They would have played as much together on each track because that's the way they were used to recording. Unlike today when we have track by track because we have unlimited tracks. I think they would have doubled by instruments on the overdubs to achieve true doubling. So double casinos, J-160es, for the ringing notes, then pretty much do the same for the bass notes. In the bass notes frequencies there is a weird bass mess on the real version I again couldn't reproduce . I think that is from the overdubbing without really adding eq. I feel they bounced and then added more eq, and they were stuck with some horrible bass frequency clutter on the bounce. once they got the sound of the rhythm guitars as thick as they wanted, they would have had to bounce them down to at least two tracks to make room for all the other instruments. As far as whose guitars were used, I'd rather focus on what models of guitars were used because it is easier to demonstrate. The Sg part might have been done on Lucy because he had gotten it around this time . But the SG nailed it so I used it , and certainly it could have been what was used on the record.
@@perrystanleyNumber9 I've seen and heard a few comments that "Dear Prudence" was one of the most densely-latered tracks the Beatles ever did. But seeing your video, that adds a whole new meaning to that statement!
@@perrystanleyNumber9 really? Then the Conqueror must have been a really powerful amp. It's really hard to get it that loud with my Magical Mystery Box.
@@elirosen1391 not really. It was the distortion circuit. Not pushing the amp. But the distortion is variable. So the dial was most of the way down with the distortion circuit on.
Also it was not particularly loud for an amp. It was miced with a close U47 as you can see in the vid.If you perceive it as loud it is probably because the mic was close and it had compression on it when I mixed it. (Probably Fairchild.)
no cowbell 0/10... jk. Fantastic cover Mr Perry. Probably one of the closest recreations to the song online ever also, I always thought George's lead was Lucy but I guess not. tbh, their both Gibsons with humbuckers so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Could have very well been Lucy. In fact in hindsight it probably was. He got Lucy in July and Prudence was recorded at the end of August. No one knows for sure, but I did it with the SG and you are right, both have humbuckers and can get the sound (although I honestly haven't tried the Les Paul ) through the Conqueror. As far as the cowbell , do you mean through the outro drum solo? I listened to the isolated tracks and wasn't sure if it was a tom, or Tambourine keeping time. I felt it was a tambourine that got mushed by the isolated process. But it certainly could have been a cowbell!
@@perrystanleyNumber9 I think somewhere on the isolated bass, Paul says "Cowbell?" to Mal. That whole outro bit, Paul seems to be timing the cowbell hits with his bass. Interesting idea he had
@@HJsCorn909 I actually think it might be a harmonic caused by the way Paul was playing near the end of the neck, since he had the chrome covers on his Jazz Bass (I heard the same sound, but less noticeably, on the bass tracks for Helter Skelter and While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I don't think it's a cowbell) P.S. I'm amazed at how someone finally did an instrumental cover that could almost pass as the original if not listening closely!
Good lord Perry. This is without question one of the most accurate covers I’ve ever heard. Outstanding job!
I appreciate it Dom, Thank you!
That SG tone is incredible. You knocked it outta the park again!
Thanks, Sam!
This is by far the best Dear Prudence cover. I highly doubt anyone will ever top this one.
The SG through the Conqueror was perfect. The whole thing is spot on. Love it! Great playing Perry!
Excelente trabajo..hermosa canción 👍 🔊🎼🎶🎵
This is the best anyone has ever covered this song Perry, I don’t even know what else to say
This is simply outstanding. One of my favourite songs and you’ve absolutely nailed those tones. Also, as the owner of a Roland Fantom I got a kick out of that making an appearance towards the end!
@@j0pj0p Thank you! I really appreciate your comment!
What a labor of love! Thank you for sharing. Such a beautiful song
Oh lord! Perry you absolutely killed it!!!!
I've never heard a better recreation of the main J-160e part. Well done!
The bass on this song, including the original is what sends it over the edge I think along with that guitar riff that gets under your skin! One of the most perfect songs ever produced imo.
There was so many guitars going on!! Great recreation thought - spot on
Bass sounds exceptional, great job!!
Absolutely excellent
Thanks!
Hell yeah! Absolutely nailed this cover Perry! Sounds absolutely perfect! Definitely haven’t seen many covers that use the j-160e much less 2. Also really enjoyed the guitar and bass tones and all the instrumentation was spot on! Easily the best cover on the tube!
Well I'm loving it already
Wonderful👍
Thank you!
Great Job!!!! Excellent recording as well as all of the playing.
Beautiful recreation. Lovely.
Gosh that's well done ! BRAVO !
bravo bravo
Outstanding
Beautiful
That SG tone!!!
@@vincentcupo9004 Thanks!
Ok this was excellent my friend wow
This is so good. All those guitar overdubs...
Perry you’re one very talented individual. Glad of your input to the Gear there and everywhere channel. Keep up the good work on Beatle recreations. 👍🏻👍🏻
Bravo sir you have outdone yourself and your a legend !
Wow!!!! Perry this is brilliant!!! Well done!!!!
crunchy drums and delicious. Nice Nice Nice Perry!
Perry this is so great! Video editing is awesome too!
Amazing. Incredible job! GOAT.
This is insane, Perry. Terrific job!!
Incredible✌️✌️🙌🏻🙌🏻♥️
Oh my! an excellent cover! Good work in all the instruments!
Thank you!
Mesmerising-spot on cover! Great work!
Thanks!
That's awesome Perry!!! Really great job!!! ✌️🎸🎶
Luis, I just checked out your Channel and was blown away by your talent! You have a beautiful voice with an effortless delivery! If I lived in Brazil I'd definitely be hanging out playing with you! Great job on your channel. I just subscribed!
@@perrystanleyNumber9 wow, I'm so glad to hear that, my friend... specially from you!!! I'm a number 1 fan of your videos here on RUclips and I'd definitely be part of your band if you lived in the same country.
Thank you once again for your kind words and for your outstanding videos!!! Best regards from your Brazilian friend. ✌️🎸🎶
Superb!❤️
Thanks!
EPIC!
AMAZING
Ahhhahaha the cut to 10(!!) guitars is great. Wonderful work on one of their most complexly layered songs.
Thanks a lot!
I loved this! :)
Fantastic!!
@@davidreina2183 Thanks!
This is wonderful. You've made my day!
Hell yeah!
Amazing tones
That's amazing!
@@thewhaleking Thanks!
Beautiful thanks
Jesus Christ ❤. Pure Perfection
🤘🤘🤘🤘🇬🇧 Beatles Rule Forever
Wooow! Fantastic !!! but where is cow bell Perry?
I couldn't find one but maybe!
You are so cool!
Not really, but thank you !
superb, magnificent version. Just wow! I love it. I have a couple of somewhat nerdy questions, and given your attention to detail, I hope that’s ok with you.
1. I didn’t notice any reference to the sg model you played here. Is that a recent reissue?
2. Do you hold your D chord with 2d, 3d, and 4th fingers, freeing your index finger to do the descending pattern on the A string? That’s what I thought I saw. I play the D with 1st 2d and 3d fingers and flip my index down to play the C on the A string and then pop it back to the D chord. Mainly because it’s somehow easier for me this way. But I noticed that if you’re slightly late getting the index back into position, you get a nice hammer-on from open G to A in the D chord that I think I hear on the record.
And an observation: watching and hearing the drumming, just before the 3 minute mark there’s a fairly complex flurry that sounds like Ringo on I am the walrus and doesn’t sound anything like Paul.
Hi ,Thanks!
1.The SG is the Gibson SG Original from 2013.
2. I have played it both ways depending on the width of the neck I am playing. I prefer using the index finger I think because it keeps the drone D note on the 3rd finger going without interruption.4th finger ? Do you mean pinky?As far as I know I'm not using the pinky in the main riff.
Ok thanks. That’s a really nice sg. I forgot another nerdy question - I read somewhere (forget where) that John recorded the casino unplugged on one of the guitar tracks. Does that sound crazy? Plausible?
@ possible, but in my opinion not likely. I did hear an acoustic track doing fingerpicking panned hard left once the theme started, buried very low in the mix . It sounded to me like the 68 j200. I used my 68 j200 to put it there but like the original it is buried so you won’t hear it unless you really listen for it.
Wow Wow Wow!!! I’m stunned! Thank you so much for that! On a side note, does Paul use the Ricky on The White Album?
Thanks! No one except Paul really knows, but I think it’s mostly the jazz bass . The Rick might appear on some numbers , but I’d be guessing unless I tried each song out with both basses.
@@perrystanleyNumber9 Thx again Perry, and thank you for being objective. I see so many people post this and that about what bass Paul used and I always ask what source they sight and then it is crickets. I truly appreciate your approach to stated your opinion!
@@perrystanleyNumber9Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da was Rick bass
very nice, perry! the sound of the SG is particularly great. do you transcribe (and then read) these parts or just memorize them as you go?
Thanks! I just memorize as I go. I have to be able to internalize the parts to achieve the right feel I think.
@@perrystanleyNumber9 that’s a good way to put it. i do it that way, too, but have often wondered if it’d be easier if i could transcribe and read.
@@perrystanleyNumber9Let me get this straight, Paul used the Jazz Bass with flats, George used his Lucy Les Paul, and John used both his Casino and J160E.
@@perrystanleyNumber9Also, Paul used his fingers on the bass and used a pick in the coda
@@beatlesfan2884I thought it was common knowledge at this point that George used his SG on this track?
Great job! Everything sounded exactly like the record. Also loved when you did it with the j-160e through the twin reverb on the 62 j-160e video. Loved the warm/woody tone. Do you have a method for getting specific tones?
Sort of. I start with the gear I think was used . If I'm wrong I try other gear they would have had when the song was recorded. Then a lot of back and fourth with the real recording to get it as close as I can. I also use recording equipment that was available to them or whatever I have that is comparable. After a while you really get to know the character of the instruments, amps, and recording gear.
Incredible work Perry! I'm surprised by the drum mics. Is that historic or your preference? It looks like akg 414 overhead, sm57 snare and d12 ok the kick?
Thank you! No the mics are not historic. I usually record my drums with these mics. They just work really well. I now recently just purchased more D19c mics so I can go historic. I do always use the D20 Kik mic which is what the Beatles used. It’s not a d12. It is a D20. I did feel I had more leeway to go out of the box of what was normally used in terms of pres and processors because this song was recorded at Trident with 8 tracks and different recording gear.
@@perrystanleyNumber9 I bought a d19 right when the WARM reissues were announced but it arrived broken, as is common with them. Since I last asked you a question I did pick up a vintage u87, a km86 and a pair of vintage km84. So despite the broken mic it has still been a pretty great year for the mic locker. I'm still trying to figure out what my solution is for a u47-ish thing. That said, yours always sounds good. Anyhow, thank you for sharing this wonderful cover with the world :)
So you play drums and everything? Also it would really be cool if you performed sometimes
Curious question what do u think of the theory Paul dueting with George in one of the overdubs i got a mutual who had this theory .
Duet in what way? Backing vocals? Guitar?
@@perrystanleyNumber9 yeah the duet guitars
@@ilovemusic7748 Well Paul stated that John was the only one in the group that could actually do the Travis picking, but I'm sure that Paul jumped on the overdubs on guitar too. It would make sense with 8 tracks they would overdub as many people as they could for each track and then bounce down.
This is brilliant. Did you use any ADT on the guitars or is it just doubling?
I originally tried ADT but found it was better doubled . It remained clearer. But I definitely tried it and lived with it for a while before I tried something else to get closer. Also from what I read it was only used on the claps and backing vocals when the tapes where brought to EMI from Trident.
Wow, it's surreal how close to the original sound of the record you got with this video cover. And it seems like you used every guitar you have in making it! Just a couple questions: do you think John used George's J-160E as well as his own? And what about the Casino? Do you think it's likelier that George played his own in unison with John, or that John overdubbed his to the backing track subsequent to its completion?
Anything I say in answer is just speculation based on what I have read about the recording of the song and my recording experience using four and 8 track format. According to McCartney , John was the only Beatle who could actually do the Travis picking Donovan taught them.I think John laid that down as a foundation first. Probably just doubled it on his own guitar or George's if that what was in the studio that day. We have all seen many pics where John has recorded with George's J-160e so using it is certainly possible. After the initial foundation fingerpicking tracks I think it still wasn't full enough and George and John (maybe Paul too) overdubbed the two ringing notes all together . They would have wanted to save tracks before committing to the bounce. They probably would have achieved all the overdubs for the wall of rhythm guitar in this way playing at least two people to a track. Doubling casinos, doubling J-160es, and doubling the bass notes. Though I think I got the formula for how many guitars really close , I know there is a treble frequency I couldn't achieve.I got as close as I could. They would have played as much together on each track because that's the way they were used to recording. Unlike today when we have track by track because we have unlimited tracks. I think they would have doubled by instruments on the overdubs to achieve true doubling. So double casinos, J-160es, for the ringing notes, then pretty much do the same for the bass notes. In the bass notes frequencies there is a weird bass mess on the real version I again couldn't reproduce . I think that is from the overdubbing without really adding
eq. I feel they bounced and then added more eq, and they were stuck with some horrible bass frequency clutter on the bounce. once they got the sound of the rhythm guitars as thick as they wanted, they would have had to bounce them down to at least two tracks to make room for all the other instruments. As far as whose guitars were used, I'd rather focus on what models of guitars were used because it is easier to demonstrate. The Sg part might have been done on Lucy because he had gotten it around this time . But the SG nailed it so I used it , and certainly it could have been what was used on the record.
@@perrystanleyNumber9 I've seen and heard a few comments that "Dear Prudence" was one of the most densely-latered tracks the Beatles ever did. But seeing your video, that adds a whole new meaning to that statement!
What level was the distortion on your Conqueror amp set to?
On but very low on the dial.
@@perrystanleyNumber9 really? Then the Conqueror must have been a really powerful amp. It's really hard to get it that loud with my Magical Mystery Box.
@@elirosen1391 not really. It was the distortion circuit. Not pushing the amp. But the distortion is variable. So the dial was most of the way down with the distortion circuit on.
Also it was not particularly loud for an amp. It was miced with a close U47 as you can see in the vid.If you perceive it as loud it is probably because the mic was close and it had compression on it when I mixed it. (Probably Fairchild.)
@@perrystanleyNumber9 no kidding. Speaking of the Conqueror, have you done a video dedicated to it yet?
no cowbell 0/10... jk. Fantastic cover Mr Perry. Probably one of the closest recreations to the song online ever
also, I always thought George's lead was Lucy but I guess not. tbh, their both Gibsons with humbuckers so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Could have very well been Lucy. In fact in hindsight it probably was. He got Lucy in July and Prudence was recorded at the end of August. No one knows for sure, but I did it with the SG and you are right, both have humbuckers and can get the sound (although I honestly haven't tried the Les Paul ) through the Conqueror. As far as the cowbell , do you mean through the outro drum solo? I listened to the isolated tracks and wasn't sure if it was a tom, or Tambourine keeping time. I felt it was a tambourine that got mushed by the isolated process. But it certainly could have been a cowbell!
@@perrystanleyNumber9 I think somewhere on the isolated bass, Paul says "Cowbell?" to Mal. That whole outro bit, Paul seems to be timing the cowbell hits with his bass. Interesting idea he had
@@HJsCorn909 I actually think it might be a harmonic caused by the way Paul was playing near the end of the neck, since he had the chrome covers on his Jazz Bass (I heard the same sound, but less noticeably, on the bass tracks for Helter Skelter and While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I don't think it's a cowbell)
P.S. I'm amazed at how someone finally did an instrumental cover that could almost pass as the original if not listening closely!
All these years and I thought there was a vocal.