I say "nearly" rather than complete because I gave myself until this past weekend to finish everything, but with the expectation I'd then spend the week listening, and send out rough mixes to a few other trusted ears for feedback, and if at the end of the week I had any last tweaks to go …
Category: Studio Updates
Reamping Day: Recording Electric Guitars
This is an update that's now a couple weeks late - it was a busy few weeks personally, but I've also been working on the mixing and the track preparation (cutting out excess dead space before a part comes in, roughing in pan level and and routing, all that fun stuff) so I haven't really …
The Philosophy of Recording Acoustic Guitars (and a last bit of tracking)
Much earlier along in this process, I wrote a longer post about the acoustic tracking process and how this album will differ from how I approached guitars for "Zero Mantra." Mostly, this was a change from stereo to mono recording: Over time, I gradually had a change of heart here. Stereo acoustic recordings make a …
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Last Song Done, On to Reamping
That's only 99% true as I have one or two overdubs left, but... the main melody guitars and solo are done for the last song on this album. It feels great to be able to write that. This song I was never sure if it was going to make the cut, and it almost didn't …
I Guess It Was Two Songs To Go, After All
It's been a VERY busy month here, so this is really an update from two weeks ago. But, I wrapped up the second to last song on my album a few weeks back. This was a relatively heavy - for me, anyway, and it's arguably the heaviest song on this album - song that I …
One More Song Done, One, Maybe Two, to Go
There were a few songs on this album I've been really nervous about recording because for various reasons they were really hard for me. This was one, and I'm breathing easier as I write this listening to a playback that, I think anyhow, sounds pretty good. I had a feeling more than a title for …
New Mac Studio, And With It, New Amp Software – Amplitube 5
My current computer is a 2011 iMac I bought in 2012 while trying to finish up Zero Mantra before my aging PC died, an experience that after a few Blue Screens of Death has made me habitually keep any project I'm in the middle of on a thumb drive, just in case, to this day. …
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November Update: One More Song, and Some Rewriting
Writing this after spending my daughter's nap re-recording a clean harmony line (sort of? It's unison, but its a clean echo of a distorted lead line) to make sure the intonation was really right (which is sometimes tricky with different guitars, especially when one is a Strat with an adjustable bridge but the other is …
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Quick Update: Arrangements, and The Right Guitar For The Job
Very quick update today, as I'm mostly re-learning the melodies and solo for another song at the moment, and figuring out what to do about a fill that wasn't in the demo but really should have been. "Ghost Dance" was originally conceived of as sort of an Andy Timmons-like three-piece, with bass, drums, and a …
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Revisiting “At The Top of My Lungs”
Ok, first, increasingly I'm thinking I'm no longer on track for a 2025 release. Couple reasons, but the biggest is that I've just had a very, very busy late summer and fall, including a massive cycling event I had to dial back the recording to train for, and then a two week vacation in Greece, …
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