5th November 05, from Live Journal
: Gigantic-ness
We've been chugging along with the Ryan Meyers project. I'm anticipating project completion to be around Thanksgiving. We should be finished with vocals by the end of next week. We have been alternating recording of vocals and guitars to let Ryan's voice rest between takes.
Yesterday we tracked the electric guitars and bass for the song "Quiet Cities". Man, this tune is sounding huge! The guitars sound akin to the smashing of old rusty 50 gallon drums against telephone pole wires. They're so ugly that they're gorgeous. We achieved this using Bob Rice's Fender Deluxe amp and cranked the clean channel almost all the way after the amp was left on for several hours, so the tubes were nice and hot. The distortion sound is probably a combination of hot tubes and speakers crapping out. (BTW thanks Bob for letting us borrow your amp.) The guitar is tuned to an interesting open tuning which I can't remember the details at the moment, but the low strings are down to a Eb and the pickups switched to the 4th position middle/neck combo. We combined this track with a shimmering clean double track, and then added two tracks of guitar rig (plugin) in the choruses. Dan played the bass line on his p-bass with the signal split between an overdriven sansamp and an Avalon, also tuned down. I'm quite excited about the sound and the vibe of this track.
Actual picture of Dan recording his bassline.
We've been chugging along with the Ryan Meyers project. I'm anticipating project completion to be around Thanksgiving. We should be finished with vocals by the end of next week. We have been alternating recording of vocals and guitars to let Ryan's voice rest between takes.
Yesterday we tracked the electric guitars and bass for the song "Quiet Cities". Man, this tune is sounding huge! The guitars sound akin to the smashing of old rusty 50 gallon drums against telephone pole wires. They're so ugly that they're gorgeous. We achieved this using Bob Rice's Fender Deluxe amp and cranked the clean channel almost all the way after the amp was left on for several hours, so the tubes were nice and hot. The distortion sound is probably a combination of hot tubes and speakers crapping out. (BTW thanks Bob for letting us borrow your amp.) The guitar is tuned to an interesting open tuning which I can't remember the details at the moment, but the low strings are down to a Eb and the pickups switched to the 4th position middle/neck combo. We combined this track with a shimmering clean double track, and then added two tracks of guitar rig (plugin) in the choruses. Dan played the bass line on his p-bass with the signal split between an overdriven sansamp and an Avalon, also tuned down. I'm quite excited about the sound and the vibe of this track.
Actual picture of Dan recording his bassline.
29th October 2005
: NCYC comes to and end
Unexpectedly I ended up at NCYC, and I write this from Atlanta, GA. My friend Gene Monterastelli (of Apex fame)called a few weeks ago and asked if I would play for Joia Farmer (Gene being her executive producer / manager). I instantly agreed, since I am a big fan of Joia's, it was a privledge for me to have the opportunity to play. I also played with Ryan Meyers, Chris Padgett, and half a set with Ben Walther. What a rockin weekend! I met so many cool people and had a lot of fun.
Ben Walther with band, plus John Flynn
Righteous B's merch table
Unexpectedly I ended up at NCYC, and I write this from Atlanta, GA. My friend Gene Monterastelli (of Apex fame)called a few weeks ago and asked if I would play for Joia Farmer (Gene being her executive producer / manager). I instantly agreed, since I am a big fan of Joia's, it was a privledge for me to have the opportunity to play. I also played with Ryan Meyers, Chris Padgett, and half a set with Ben Walther. What a rockin weekend! I met so many cool people and had a lot of fun.
Ben Walther with band, plus John Flynn
Righteous B's merch table
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