Stefanos Alexiou – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

This Year for Christmas I got a record player and a few old vinyl records. Among them a couple records from The Rolling Stones which I’ve been listening on a daily basis.

I especially love their “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” song so appropriately this would be my first cover song for 2014.

Stefanos Alexiou - Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Dual Guitars & Drums)

Stefanos Alexiou – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (Dual Guitars & Drums)

The Making of Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

Started by playing the Rhythm guitar on DSL’s crunch channel with no other effects present.

Stefanos Alexiou - Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Rhytm Guitar)

Stefanos Alexiou – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (Rhytm Guitar)

Then I played the drums to keep the rhythm, each one of them individually miked and some reverb added to the snare.

Stefanos Alexiou - Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Drums)

Stefanos Alexiou – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (Drums)

Finally, I played the Lead guitar improvising a lot, especially the parts where a sax is used on the studio version.

Stefanos Alexiou - Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Lead Guitar)

Stefanos Alexiou – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (Lead Guitar)

This time I chose not to include bass guitar…

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking: Final Mix & Video

Mixed the Rhythm guitar 60% to the left, Lead at 40% to the right, added some stereo reverb to the whole track and here’s the complete video that was uploaded on YouTube on January 7th, 2014.

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