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
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 …
Continue reading Quick Update: Arrangements, and The Right Guitar For The Job
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 grew up listening to the White Album more than anything else by the Beatles, and in particular I always loved “Helter Skelter.” Harrison’s “I’ve got blisters on my fingers” captured in a mic at the end of the track was, while maybe a little silly, always one of those amazing rock and roll moments …
Continue reading George Harrison and I Have Something in Common Now
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'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 …
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