22 Oct Guitar Amp Recording (from Sound On Sound)
Sheesh… what was I waiting for before posting this?
Enjoy. We have stuff to study for a few months.
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21 Oct Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird”, Solo Tutorial Pre-Launch “Show”
Posted at 19:44h
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And with this one, our tutoring session is ready to start again. Prepare to Learn, it’s your turn now!
SoloDallas 😉 (more…)
20 Oct 1973 1960B G12H30s And Some Boogie
Update: Adding Simone’s song backing track:
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Update: adding another little thing I did for the wife’s birthday (next sunday). Used the ’50s Les Paul for all of it, and the Gibson “Dusk Tiger” for the acustic parts (piezo only).
I remember many times people asking me what were my originals like. This is what I have in mind usually.
19 Oct Playing with self-made backing track – Updated
Little update as of Oct. the 19th 2010.
I am always experimenting as soon as I have a minute available, so I tried what follows.
Now, one thing that also intrigues me immensely is “Powerage” and LTBR tone. Both of them.
So I replayed rhythm and re-soloed this track trying to capture a bit of that spirit, although re-listening to this it sounds more Flick of the Switch-ish probably. Don’t know, can’t say. The delay I put on the solo guitar was meant to be more LTBR-ish.
Now, the interesting – maybe – thing is the fact that I think Angus on LTBR was “overloading” the input channel of his amplifier somehow. NOT with a distortion pedal, but more with pure “volume boost”, so basically a unit of some sort (might be already the Schaffer-Vega Diversity Systtem, that had a “boost” feature on the unit that would in fact “volume boost” the input signal). Might have been anything. So what I did, is to use a pedal I have (and will show to you) that has “volume boost” only, NO gain! No dirt here: just volume. It’s the same as the famous “Klon” pedal, which I also have and tried prior to this other one. But this one is a little more “colored” and I liked it more.
I used the lower input of my 2203 (the 100 watt Master Volume Lead) and blasted the volume of the pedal to overload the Marshall input signal. This is the result, both on the rhythm guitars and the solo. (more…)
16 Oct 1976 Marshall Super Lead MkII & Back in Black – Update
Update of Saturday the 16th.
Brought the treble side of the Rhythm part down a tad. Replayed both solos, re-positioning the microphone, still only one microphone (I lack the second damn XLR jack, would you believe it? and I was too hectic trying the solos again).
Changed the equalizer settings for the solos slightly, see both new equalization settings.
Also, “bounced” Angus’ parts without the master track (i.e., you now can listen to me alone, rhythm and solos, no song).
Back in Black with the new settings, solos:
In order to get the amount of drive I needed (and that is heard on the record) I kept the loudness way down by using an attenuator, settings here were… all at 10! LOL. Except for presence that was still 0. All the rest, for the solos here, 10.
Parts ONLY (no original song):
New equalization settings: (more…)
16 Oct Steve Armond’s take on Back in Black (from his book, Rock and Roll will save your life)
Interesting excerpt from Steve Armond’s book:
Consider the famous chord progression that Angus Young plays at the beginning of “Back in Black.” A good writer could tell us about those grinding, seismic chords, the distinct rhythm of their deployment, even that sly, arpeggiated little five-note lick that acts as a segue from one volley to the next. But those are just pale approximations of what it feels like to hear that intro, the squirt of sinister glee that makes most people – even decent religious folk – reach for their air guitar. (more…)
15 Oct Which features would THIS community like to have? Update
Update as of Oct. the 15th 2010
So, we tried to implement a few new things and “improve” a few other things that were already there. How do you like it (if you can actually spot the differences)?
• PMs: (not Pre-Menstrual Syndrome) You now have Private Messages to write anyone on here. Just go to your profile page (HOW: if you are browsing, please go bottom of the page, right: Site Admin; if instead you just logged in, you will find it on the top right) and on the top, right side you should see “Messages”. The rest should be rather intuitive. EDIT please note: to say that these PMs work in an “advanced” state is like saying that Tiger Woods was a good husband. The PM system lacks many things still; won’t quote your original PM in the answerer’s reply; Will forget the recipient address when you are replying to a PM (LOL: you’ll have to re-type it; luckily, the recipient field is connected with the members database and will search for the members’ names). So PLEASE be patient. This is PM release v 1.2 (more…)
13 Oct Back in Black Song Attempts
2nd Attempt (replayed everything with mike up close, equalization, mastering… exceeded on the mastering, now sounds huge; wrong, sigh…) 😛
Okay, so the Audio Technica AT4707 microphone arrived this morning (one of two). Seems like an amazing microphone. (more…)