Saturday, October 18, 2008

Multitrack

tracked-delay (mp3)

Playing with tracks: 1 guitar, 1 guitar dropped an octave for a bass and 2 drum tracks intermixed. Main guitar track has delay on it.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

SomethingNew

4chordpulloff (mp3)

This is a normal 4 chord "song" with pulloffs and keeping a baseline. Just the drum machine in at 160 and me playing live with it.

Haven't put much up here for a while since I was traveling and playing the acoustic alot.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Editing

Thingy (mp3)

The above is a track of guitar, two tracks of (alternating) drums, and another track of 1-note guitar shifted down one octave to fake a bass (for the first 65 sec). This is just a ton of right-hand muting; I'm basically just pounding the strings with the right side of my right palm.

Here is the raw guitar track with some drums Thingy2 (mp3).

Thursday, July 10, 2008

New Fender CD-60

NewGuitar (mp3)

Brought the Telecaster to the shop for a full setup, since several things were bugging me about it. Didn't want to be without one for a few days so I got an acoustic one with case, which I'm planning on bringing to Mexico. :-)

Fender Website

Much higher action, very confusing hearing myself in both the monitor and from the guitar when I tried to record this. Electric is easy cause I can turn up the monitor to drown out the guitar itself. This is recorded from the built-in pickup, which has a very bright sound to it, it seems, but there are some adjustments I can play with after I've played it a few days and get used to it physically. New strings always sound that way to me anyway.

Note that you can hear my drum machine in the background, being heard via the guitar's internal pickup.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Delay

Delay (mp3)

Playing with the delay settings and trying to sync my speed to the timing of the pedal... can't really play the drum machine with it, cause it can't get them accurate enough. I can see why a human drummer with a monitor from the delay or something would be a big help.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Metal mute

YourLove (mp3)

Simple guts of an Outfield song, just showing left hand muting while letting low note ring. Bad transitions into the A chord for some reason.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

LeftFingerMute

SomeStuff (mp3)

Using just the left hand 4 fingers to mute the chords when moving, letting the bass string just ring most the time. Marshal amp sim, which I'm starting to like more when I'm playing much louder. Still seems kinda muddy/drowned for the low end, but I'll play with stuff next time.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

More

2HandMute (mp3)

Muting chords with left hand and bass line with palm.
I recorded this kinda like I'm thinking, bassline first, chord fill and a twill on the top, so I could hear them separate.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

More Muting

LeftHandMute (mp3)

Only using the left hand to raise up enough to mute chords when I want them to stop ringing. :-)

ComboMute (mp3)

Using my right palm to mute the bass line string and the left hand for the rest of the chord.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Rain is Better than Snow

RainyTrain (mp3)
Acoustic mode, had to EQ down the low end for some reason.