Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: AndyR on March 09, 2015, 07:27:06 PM
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Not really a clip that shows them in an exposed fashion, but I'll stick it here anyway.
This is my latest recording, a song called Dancing Girl, posted on alonetone:
http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/dancing-girl (http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/dancing-girl)
I'd just written the song (on a Riff-Raffed SG, incidentally - I was originally intending to use that).
Then I got the Stormies installed in my Les Traditional. I was so stunned by the effect on the guitar and the versatility it had that I decided to try and use it as the only guitar on the recording.
Usually, I'd be using telecasters or similar for a lot of the parts in this arrangement. But as it turned out, the Les Paul did all of them.
Every single part was recorded with the same amp set-up, I didn't touch the settings on the amp at all. It's a Laney Cub 12, gain was on about 7, master around 5 or so, and I was using the 15W input. No pedals or anything, just the guitar and amp. I used an SM57 to mic it. On the input (I use a Boss BR1600 standalone multi-track recorder) I used a 50Hz Hi Pass, rolled off about 6db above 16KHz, no noise reduction, a little light compression/limiting to protect the input (8:1 at -3db), but that probably didn't come in to play for most of it.
All the variations in sound/tone were controlled from guitar pickup and volume/tone variations.
Aside from the bass, vocals, and all the guitars, there's some keyboards added from the first chorus onwards - a little electric piano doing "left-hand" stuff in the left channel, some organ doing "right-hand" stuff on the other side.
The guitar itself suggested the "southern rock" harmony lines on the last chorus - that wasn't in the original plane at all!
The guitars were mixed into various groups/layers, these were EQ'd to blend them all together with the rest of the thing - different reverbs were used on different layers, some left dry, and a bit of delay was added to at least one overdub... so they've all been futzed with a bit. But this is a reasonable example of pretty much what my Les Paul does for me now...
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Had to sign in to say that's really very good, great singing & arrangement.
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Really like it - I can hear it as a sound track