We also pushed the boat out and got Graham's guitar parts down for How Come I'm Never Around. We had hoped to get the vocals down too, but by that time it was between half 12 and 1 in the morning and it really wasn't happening ...
I have a personal preference for recording small combos rather than full stacks. There are much fewer phasing problems between speaker at the mic point and they don't have to be catastrophically loud to get a good sound usually. Graham has a really good sounding Marshall combo that we opted to use instead of his TLS half stack, and we found a really good on it with an SM57 close on the speaker and the omnipresent 414 about 2-3 feet away. Graham did his annoying usual trick of nailing everything on the first go, but its nice to truly capture the unique sound of a solo being played as the guitarist falls over. Niiiicce! Unique!
Steve also tuned up and effeminately played an effeminate bass. Mine.
Saturday, 5 January 2008
And as if that wasn't enough ...
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