This week I finally got my bedroom recording rig in serviceable condition (much thanks to the help of lazy q), so I hope to be presenting a lot more material here in the near future. Right now, though, all I've got is... well...
Recently I picked up a swell amp. I've been playing around with it. It has a tube vibrato that I am keen on, it brought me to this chill little 3-4 chord progression. Then when I turned the amp up and played my new guitar in it, it made a chunky plunky sound when I muted the low strings and played a bass-like thing. Then I brought back the vibrato and stuck a small melodic line on top. Please excuse the hum - I still need to figure out some way to address that. It's from the guitar.
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March 29th, 2009 - 1:53 PM
I actually like the track quite a bit - of course moody harmonic experiments are pretty fascinating to me. But what to do about that noise? it's kinda brutal for a non-thick mix, especially going into the tremelo. I'm guessing you're working on the shielding and I'll see if I can lend a hand on filtering at some point. Still, good idea.
March 29th, 2009 - 2:34 PM
Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be able to get by without shielding that guitar. I am going to go with a different strategy than "copper tape everywhere" - I saw an article that suggested a combination of copper tape and conductive paint, which sounds just as effective to me, not to mention a lot easier to pull off. You might be interested to know the setup. The "bass" and melody line are both neck pickup, the chords are neck and bridge, and I think the distortion was just bridge, although it was heavily eq'd. I didn't have a mic clip yet, so I just put it on the ground about a foot away from the amp. Plugged the guitar straight into the amp, just varied the intensity of the vibrato and the gain. I'm pretty happy with the results. Also: probably going to swap out that bridge pickup. It's microphonic. :/ Dunno if that's because of the tele bridge, or what, but my treble booster can't be used with that guitar on that amp because of it.
March 2009 - 10:00 AM
dude, nice tremelo. on the whole reminds me of ylt
March 2009 - 12:17 PM
Really nice sound. I love how it's so mellow and warm but also has a touch of pensiveness, like satisfaction tainted with uncertainty. reminds of Dave Gilmour too.