Rolling along

Started working on my newest song called "Coffee".
Its about the devastation in Haiti and selfishness.

I wanted the 2 rhythm guitars to contrast heavily from verse to verse so this is what I did.
I used an electric guitar for one and an acoustic for the other. I wanted the electric to sound lush and swirly. So I ran my Telecaster into a GT Brick pre-amplifier > Peavey ValveVerb > Leslie 60 speaker system.

I miked the Leslie system with 2 x TnC AMC 900 ribbon mic's into API 3124 pre.


Awesome sound!
The left and right separation is incredible and the sound is full, swirly and lush.

For the contrasting acoustic rhythm guitar I wanted something that sounds LoFi.
So I used my Martin Backpacker travel guitar. This guitar sounds great but it sounds very small. I miked the Martin with a single Beyerdynamic M-130 ribbon mic into the API pre.
Really nice LoFi sound that contrast nicely with the Tele/Leslie track.

Next will be drums.
I have already sent Neil Symonette an MP3 to listen to. He will be coming iether tonight or tomorrow night.
Hopefully if we have time he will also put drums on "Mr Jones".

Neil also has an old song that I did with Donny Ferguson on bass. When it was originally done we had used a drum machine. Neil is going to replace the drum machine with real drums. This song has a jazz vibe so I asked Neil to do the drums at his studio because he is set up for jazz and has an awesome drum kit.

Rolling along.