CptFandango: Just noticed there are more on there, I thought it was just the one :D Some nice stuff on here, I like your easy solo :) My brain added the mike patton EEEEUUGH at the start \m/
I'm probably wrong but I think you was picking the knopfler style solo, gotta fingerpick that shizzle :D . Also are you doing your drums in bfd 2 or a live drum sound vsti ? screw with the velocity on the hits so that they are all slightly different and do accents when doing acoustic drums, makes em sound a lot more real :D (tho I normally ruin them by over compressing it to hell after doing this use the compressor more as an effect than a production tool) xD
thornton_s: Thanks, thats one of my favourites also.
Yeah theres around 40 track on there. I did use finger picking on a Strat for the dire straits solo because it's just wrong to use a pick for that one.
All the drum tracks are exported from guitar Pro tracks and then imported to Cubase 5 as i am hopless with drums or a drum machine. I sometimes add a few plugins from Guitar Rig 5 to make them sound a bit more realistic.
Cubases own drum software is pretty good! you use beat designer and map the pads from the sampler, I think its called halcyon one? (not used it in ages) Then you get access to step sequencing with velocity etc, just clicking things in :D there's a couple of good tuition videos on youtube. I tend to play things in horribly on my MPK mini pads then drag everything into the correct positions afterwards in piano roll. Primitive but does the job!
Edit : Cheers for saying that about my tracks :D, I just got back from a guitar festival (international gypsy guitar festival).
Saw some awesome players! dorado schmitt played with his son, also got sunburned in a jamming circle and bruised my hand playing a solid oak cajon my mate made :s . Probably why they make them out of ply and MDF so you dont get sausage fingers!