I got this from IHeartGuitarBlog who got it from the Seymour Duncan User Group Forum Here are a set of questions to answer about your own fantasy signature guitar... Q1: Which company called you? Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours? Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar? Q5: What special piece of “case candy” goes with it as a collector’s item? Right here goes... Q1: Which company called you? Fender Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? Strat. Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours? Ash body, rosewood fingerboard 12" radius, large 70s style headstock but four bolt neck joint. Non trem! Twin humbuckers, with tone and vol each and coil taps on the tone controls. Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar? Locking machine heads - not really needed but make string chan
Thank you, Graham. I really enjoyed that. What a beautiful, rich sound. Who did the percussion track?
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DeleteLong answer... I use a Boss BR-600 to record - it's a four track digital recorder. I like simplicity when recording so whilst I'm an IT professional avoid getting bogged down with it.
Anyway - that has a built in drum machine.
How I work is, I normally have worked out the beats per min before I start recording via a metronome. I then set that prior to recording anything. I then find a suitable simple pattern. I use that as a count in and to play along to to keep everything in time and synced up. Once I've got everything recorded I can go back and program in something more interesting, take out the count in, make sure it finishes appropriately etc. So with this one just a couple of fills into the break in the middle and back out of that. When you then bounce that all into a stereo master you record the final drum track alongside all the other tracks. It's nice as essentially you never have to use up tracks for a drum pattern until that final bounce.
That's fascinating. What about the lyrics? They come before the beats per minute start, correct?
DeleteNormally yes but occasionally I'll change the tempo as or after lyrics come to me
DeleteLoved it. Just the thing to play in the car at full volume when driving through London!
ReplyDeleteThank you Addy
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