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