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BigRed360
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Okay...so I'm a nut for tone. Been playing and recording for like a gazillion years. Problem is, those two pursuits aren't always nice to each other.
Case in point: the other night, I'm just trying to flesh out some ideas. So I've got my studio fired up with a fairly generic drum loop at 112 bpm. I'm just recording over that loop for hours. (Okay, not hours, but you get my point.) I'm going from light to heavy, clean to dirty, just sketching out every idea that's in my head.
At the end of the night, I sit back and listen to the painfully protracted track that I've created, and there--RIGHT THERE--in the middle, is absolute tone nirvana. Rock star heaven. I have perfectly matched the guitar, the tone of the amp, the mic and preamp in a way that gives me both goose bumps and a musical woody.
Problem? I've long since tweaked the amp and lost the settings that sent me to sonic heaven.
So 20 minutes of jamming two nights ago has led to 8 hours (so far) of tweaking, recording, re-tweaking and re-recording--just to find what I accidentally stumbled upon to begin with.
The bright side? I'm having fun playing as I search! Stay tuned. More to come...
Case in point: the other night, I'm just trying to flesh out some ideas. So I've got my studio fired up with a fairly generic drum loop at 112 bpm. I'm just recording over that loop for hours. (Okay, not hours, but you get my point.) I'm going from light to heavy, clean to dirty, just sketching out every idea that's in my head.
At the end of the night, I sit back and listen to the painfully protracted track that I've created, and there--RIGHT THERE--in the middle, is absolute tone nirvana. Rock star heaven. I have perfectly matched the guitar, the tone of the amp, the mic and preamp in a way that gives me both goose bumps and a musical woody.
Problem? I've long since tweaked the amp and lost the settings that sent me to sonic heaven.
So 20 minutes of jamming two nights ago has led to 8 hours (so far) of tweaking, recording, re-tweaking and re-recording--just to find what I accidentally stumbled upon to begin with.
The bright side? I'm having fun playing as I search! Stay tuned. More to come...
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