Guitarclips...

Here are two soundclips with guitars.

Outro for "Hollow Soul"
Last refrain and a part of the outro of "Universal Human"

No EQs, comps or fx added yet, except for some compression and some reverb on the drums for "Universal Human". Enjoy!

Right now I'm working on the "samplepart" of "Universal Human". It is built up around a drumloop with some weird synth sounds and Henrik whispering... It was awsome already as we did the preproduction... My hopes are that it will be twice as cool this time! I'm using Reason and my KAWAI K4 to get it together. I will post some clips when I'm done.

TGIF - cheers!

/ Airbag

Guitars, anyone?

Last weekend I treated my studio with some acoustic panels from Auralex. It made a huge difference! I also recorded all the rhythm guitars through the POD. I used my old Washburn KC-40V with a Jackson humbucker. I ran the signal through my BBE Sonic Maximizer and into the Digi 002R. I think I used the Rectifier ampmodel. I recorded two separate tracks for each song (left-right...).




Yesterday I borrowed a Marshall amp and a 4 x 12 cabinet from a friend. It was a 8100 - a valvestate model, but it worked out. I was actually going to borrow a valve amp (Marshall JMP modified by Folkesson) from another friend, but that didn't work out this weekend, so I did it this way. I miced the cab with two Shure SM-57s, one straight at the cone and one angled approx. 45 degrees. They both went to disk through my Focusrite Octopre using just a little bit of compression to defeat peaks. I once again used my Washburn KC-40V straight into the amp. It has a quite heavy distorsion, so I didn't have to use any dist pedal.


One of the songs can maybe qualify as a powerballad... Well, at least it has some acoustic parts so I recorded two tracks (once again left-right...) of my Stratocaster through the POD usig a clean sound with a little chorus and some delay. Then I miced my Washburn acoustic with a Röde NT-3 (I was going to use NT-2, but I couldn't find the shockmount... ;-).
I also recorded the intro solo to this song called "Hollow Soul" - using the Strat and POD - BBE --> Diggi 002R. Of course I used Dunlop JazzII picks for electric and Dunlop 0,78 mm for acoustic. Standard E-tuning.




I will update this post with two soundclips as soon as possible...
Here's a picture of the ol' bastard! Ain't she a beauty...? :-)

Next up is some keyboards and samples for me to do, and to set a new date for Mono to record the vocals. As he is soon going to be a father I'm hoping we can get it done before the birth.

Cheers!

/ Airbag

Drum & Bass

Here is a small soundclip from the bass recording. Equipment used is Cort Josh Paul Signature 5-string, DI box going straight into Digi 002R, split to POD (guitar) and via a BBE Sonic maximizer to the 002R. I think I used the POD Crunch ampsim with some slight distorsion... This is once again raw sound, not processed yet whatsoever... The drums has been treated with some comps and so on, just to tighten up as we record. BTW, I used a Dunlop JazzIII pick...

I'm really looking forward to this weekend as Henrik is coming up to record some killer vocals! Look out for an update next week!

EDIT: Due to illness we have to cancel this weekends session. DAMN IT! Henrik has a cold. We will try to set a new date asap.

I will begin recording the rhythm guitars instead. Stay tuned for more trouble...

Here's the bassclip