I do a Christmas tune every year, and this is the latest one. How does the mix sound? Some people have issues with my jazzy (weird?) chord substitutions.. What do you think please!
I love the guitar tones. IMO the playing would really open up if you were working with a drummer. The guitar lines get kind of pat when paired with the canned drums. Too much stuff falling right on quarter notes. No problem with weird chord substitutions here
Well the guitar is an Ibanez AF75, about ten years old, upgraded with TV Jones pickups. That goes into an M-Audio preamp, and then my old Echo Mia sound card. The amp is a virtual Orange Tiny Terror in Amplitube, also with a single delay pedal in the program. Then it goes through an SSL compressor and some EQ during mixdown.
Actually, a little after I started recording the lead I'm thinking, this guitar doesn't sound right... I found that the volume pot for the bridge pickup was bad, so I took it out and ended up recording the whole song with the pot sticking out of the f-hole with an alligator clip on it!
