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. …
Continue reading New Mac Studio, And With It, New Amp Software – Amplitube 5
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 …
Continue reading November Update: One More Song, and Some Rewriting
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, …
I'm 99% sure this one is done but at a minimum I'm going to need to give it a few days and see how it sounds just to give my fingers a break. The chorus on this one has a lot of 22nd fret high D's bent up to E's hitting them hard to make …
Continue reading One more song done -“At the Top of My Lungs”
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 …
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 …
Continue reading On to my favorite Strat, and another song done
I suppose that title sounds like some commentary on workflow and working your way backwards through a song or something, but really all I'm saying is I've started lead guitar tracks, and (in part because I planned on using the same sunburst Strat I used for all my rhythm tracks, and in part because this …
...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 …
Continue reading Studio Update: Rhythm Guitar Tracking is Finished
Drew Peterson 
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