Hi folks.
Right back in the recording saddle, so I am. The covers gig is out of the way, and now that recording/mixing/mastering duties for Afterlives are winding down. '...Samosas' is back at the top of the priority list.
This afternoon and evening I got an awful lot of work done. I recorded electric guitars for 3 songs. A total of 5 different guitar parts nailed! I'm rather chuffed. This means that apart from a guitar solo that I still have to write and any extra odds and sods I fancy putting in, ALL the electric guitar work is done! I feel this is a big achievement but at the same time I feel a little bit sad that they'll be getting neglected for the rest of the album.
So this is a bit of a scary point to reach. Time to down the electric guitars and bare all with an acoustic and a microphone. This will make it a lot harder to 'cheat' during recording; harder to do drop ins, harder to EQ stuff to sound 'right' without the sound changing so much that it is unnatural. No lush guitar amp models, chorusing or heavy distortion to hide behind. A guitar. A microphone. Totally unforgiving.
Maybe I'll get a few folks around to record their parts next to give me an excuse to delay the inevitable.
A lot of the songs I've finished off just contain guitars and drums as I'm getting other folks to play bass and extra guitars on them, so I'm not putting any sound clips up. They just wouldn't be interesting enough.
Will be back with more when things get interesting again!
Benz.
p.s. I stumbled upon this elsewhere on VOX. I've never really been a Korn fan, but sometimes it takes something just a little bit different to get you sit up and pay attention to a band who are now surely part of the furniture in the halls of the rock aristocracy.
