This is a long overdue update - in part because I've had the song I was working on done for about a week now, and in part because it probably should have been done weeks before that. Life's been getting in the way lately; work's been busy, family life has been busy, and then I've …
Category: Studio Updates
Friendly reminder – listen to EVERYTHING before moving on
I did a short batch of tracking over lunch, the probable opening track, "At The Top of my Lungs" I want to have my Strat handle the first few melody lines before switching to my Suhr Modern and humbuckers for the rest, so I banged that out over lunch. The first proper "lead guitar" part …
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On to my favorite Strat, and another song done
I've ended up traveling for much of May, which I guess I knew about coming onto this but kind of put to the back of my mind. So, I haven't had as much time to record as I'd hoped, between a week away, a week back rebuilding calluses and overdoing it while relearning material, then …
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Studio Update: Rhythm Guitar Tracking is Finished
...at least, with the caveat that it's always possible I'll go back and re-record a part or two here and there, and there are a couple songs with "rhythm-like" parts where there's a riff leading into the solo or in one case breaking up the solo a few times, but I plan on recording that …
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Studio Update: Clean Rhythm Guitars are (mostly) Done
I suppose this is a slight misnomer, as I need to set up my PRS and when I do I'll probably add one or two humbucker clean tracks using that. So, really, what I'm saying is all the clean and gritty rhythm guitar parts that I planned on playing on a Strat are done. I …
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Tracking Acoustic Guitars
When I was starting to think about how I wanted this album to sound, when I was writing it, I'd kind of expected that there would be a lot more acoustuc rhythm guitar than there actually was. As it happens, two of the nine songs have acoustic guitar parts - the one I'm adding at …
Reamping: Does Gain Staging Matter?
...sort of a trick question, gain staging ALWAYS matters, but specifically does how hot you record your DI tracks matter? First, just a quick general studio update - life's been busy lately, but I think the bass tracks are done. I might go back and re-record parts of one, and I've got a 9th song …
Bass Update: Headspace and Head Colds (and when a home studio can be an asset)
So, updates like these are probably slow reading at baseline, when you're trying to juggle recording an album on top of a job and a family and get a couple hours to work nights during the week and maybe again as much during the weekend. And then you get sick... Ironically, the genesis of this …
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Bass editing workflow
I've talked abut this a little in prior posts, but while I'm taking a day off to let my finger heal a little (there's evidently a rough fret edge somewhere on my bass, so my pointer finger looks like it's been sandpapered - I've taken a file to the treble side of the fret ends …
Quick Check-in at the midpoint on bass tracking
Real quick update from the studio - I'm trying to get in an hour or two after work and bedtime most nights when I don't otherwise have plans, so while I'm now one week into recording, the reality is more like four or five hours. Still, I'm chipping away. I won't win any accolades for …
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