let's start the day with some warm man-love:
"they are ov the gay....."
"they are ov the gay....."Fortunately, not all of us were turned on by this cuddly behaviour, and I attempted to keep my mind off it by recording my bass tracks for Silver Stains instead.
The Construction
I am hereby about to expound a rather embarrassing fact.
It was not until last session that I discovered, to my surprise, that Nick has always been lining me up into the Fender Bassman. Ha Ha. Ho Ho. At the same time, he uses the parallel out from my MXR Bass d.i.+ to hook me directly into his spaceship pre-amp. So what you get are options to choose from, and with it different permutations of the levels of both inputs to mix around with. You could add more clarity, or drive, or a firm and full body, depending on the character of the low-ends needed for any particular song. mmHmm. I didn't allow this variety to take hold of me yet though, as the first thing to keep my mind on is my own playing. I'll only tie down my exact sound for every song during the mix-down process.
It took a few seconds longer than the song's length to get the bass tracks down, and I was quite happy with what I had. Silver Stains is a stark departure from most of our other stuff, and I'm a sucker for variation. Granted, the verse and chorus lines are pretty solid in shape, but the doobeedoobaps all happen in-between; at times even bringing the rhythm out of phase, but resolving it a split second later.
Then i wrapped my stuff up and it was Syafiq's turn to lay down the guitars.
It's always a headache whenever we have to put guitars on, but it's a good kind of headache. Variety is always at our disposal in the studio, and Syafiq tried on guitar after guitar to get the right tone. First it was the red Gibson 1315113(i think), then it was the Epiphone Lucille(i think), then he used the Gibson SG(i think), and finally the Gibson Les Paul Supreme(i think).
At this point, if I recall correctly, Fiq was just about to get his desired tone when we realised we had to jam, to prepare for a gig we had the next day. And we had to do it by 10.30pm(the neighbours next door is apparently a bitch), when it was already 10.15. ha ha ha what a joke. So all 5 of us rushed and crammed into the studio to set up for practice, and abandoned the recording for the day.
The Construction
I am hereby about to expound a rather embarrassing fact.
It was not until last session that I discovered, to my surprise, that Nick has always been lining me up into the Fender Bassman. Ha Ha. Ho Ho. At the same time, he uses the parallel out from my MXR Bass d.i.+ to hook me directly into his spaceship pre-amp. So what you get are options to choose from, and with it different permutations of the levels of both inputs to mix around with. You could add more clarity, or drive, or a firm and full body, depending on the character of the low-ends needed for any particular song. mmHmm. I didn't allow this variety to take hold of me yet though, as the first thing to keep my mind on is my own playing. I'll only tie down my exact sound for every song during the mix-down process.
It took a few seconds longer than the song's length to get the bass tracks down, and I was quite happy with what I had. Silver Stains is a stark departure from most of our other stuff, and I'm a sucker for variation. Granted, the verse and chorus lines are pretty solid in shape, but the doobeedoobaps all happen in-between; at times even bringing the rhythm out of phase, but resolving it a split second later.
Then i wrapped my stuff up and it was Syafiq's turn to lay down the guitars.
It's always a headache whenever we have to put guitars on, but it's a good kind of headache. Variety is always at our disposal in the studio, and Syafiq tried on guitar after guitar to get the right tone. First it was the red Gibson 1315113(i think), then it was the Epiphone Lucille(i think), then he used the Gibson SG(i think), and finally the Gibson Les Paul Supreme(i think).
At this point, if I recall correctly, Fiq was just about to get his desired tone when we realised we had to jam, to prepare for a gig we had the next day. And we had to do it by 10.30pm(the neighbours next door is apparently a bitch), when it was already 10.15. ha ha ha what a joke. So all 5 of us rushed and crammed into the studio to set up for practice, and abandoned the recording for the day.
Before i end off, i'd like to display the trucker-cap model of the decade:
"different strokes for different folks"
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