New demo, 7620 and Nomad-45

[Drew]

I don't usually post here, but what the hell.

http://www.purevolume.com/drewpeterson

The first track, "A Pagan's Prayer," is probably the best recording I've gotten to date (on my admittedly ghetto recordign setup- a $30 radio shack mic running into a circa '99 Dell laptop with a sound card that just eats bass )of my Nomad-45 2x12.

Guitar was a 7620, Air Norton in the neck, Tone Zone in the bridge. Full humbuckers (it's got a three way and a coil tap in it) for the leads with either the volume rolled slightly abck or about half up, and middle or neck (I don't remember), tapped, for the sparse rhythm track. On the amp, the clean was Channel 1 Normal with the gain pretty high (i don't remember my exact clean settings) for a touch of bluesy breakup, while for the lead it was Channel 3 Vintage, gain about halfway, maybe a touch over (say, 5.25), mids about 7, treble about 6, bass about 4, prescense 0. I probably cut this with reverb at the amp, but I added some more verb and delay in Sonic Foundry Acid while mixing. The acosutic was recorded direct, Martin MC16-GTE with a Fishman Prefix preamp set slightly in favor of peizos.

This one was fun- I threw it together quickly and accordingly it's a little sloppy in places, but I like the contrast between the bluesy lead and the tool-esq bass riffing, and the relative major/minor stuff- it has sort of a Satch-meets-Gordian Knot feel, I guess. And I got a total kick out of the outro solo- while jamming on the backing I'd cut for this, I accidentally hooked my wah up backwards, clicked on it, got these crazy whistlings more-or-less in key, and thought, "that is the COOLEST thing I've ever heard- I gotta record this!"

Feedback of all sorts welcome!

-D

[Dew_Riffic]

Man thats a pretty cool song.

That nomad sounds pretty good. I like the riif's 2:15 in the song.

Good playing and Keep rock'in!

[Drew]

Thanks mate!

2:15 is a total Satch moment- always loved the bluesier side of his playing.

Just wish I could get a better recording of this amp, for some reason my room REALLY augments hum, and while I pulled the worst of it with a noise reduction plugin, it slightly constrained the highs a bit...

[Two hands31]

How'd you get that bass sound? It's really cool.

[keithb]

Great stuff all around. Good to see someone from the RI/Mass area

[Drew]

Keith, I lived in Providence until about 8 months ago. Should have looked me up then, we could have done some jamming.

Twohands, that's my dirt-cheap Squier P-Bass 5-string (actually, my former dirt cheap Squier P-Bass 5 string, my dad just bought it for a cheap bass to record with, and I'm about to spring for a 5-string Ergodyne; never could come to terms with the signlecoils. It did the Jimi sort of oldschool tone beautifully, but I had a horrible time getting Tool-like flavors out of it) running into the "Modern" bass model on my J-station. I don't remember how it was EQ'd, I'm afraid, but Cab simulation was off, and while chorus was on, the mix was set at 0. It seemed to SLIGHTLY change the sound, but I'm not sure it wasn't palcebo effect... Then, I EQ'd the hell out of it so it wouldn't sound so much like crap- i think I started with a multi-band compresssion to tighten things up a bit, forgot the settings, unfortunately, and then rolled off the lows below 40 hz or so, and tapered off the highs from around 3khz up through 10khz, and muted above that.

Then, it was just my hack attempt at slapping and popping a bass riff... Basically, I was trying to get a Tool-like bass tone out of a bass that REALLY didn't want to sound that way. The resuting tone isn't bad, but I just wish it was a little clearer.

Glad you liked it, though.

I still have to get a good recording of the rhythm sounds on this thing for you, I've screwed with my settings and the settings on my laptop a bit more, and the results are a bit truer to life...

-D