Two more variations:

Mic2 (mp3) As clean as a sound as I can make - the bass end is a little mushy. You can hear the drum machine across the room.

Mic3 (mp3) Absolute maximum gain I get, including a 15sec sustain at the end. Marshall amp simulator, lead pickup only. I had to face away from the speakers or it was feedback city.

Raw Mic

First attempt once I got some levels reasonable with the new microphone. This is adding all the characteristics of the amplifier and the microphone into the equation (instead of just using the digital output off the effects pedal), so it is gonna take some time to work this out.

Mic1 (mp3)

Compare this to the Snippet#2 in the last post... I'm playing basically the same thing. Night and day difference.

Stuff

Haven't posted in a long time... and I don't like how these recordings turned out. Brand new strings so stuff is very snappy/metallic, and the low end kinda drones. Two of these are kinda rehash for comparison and #2 is a little different. Gonna get a microphone tomorrow and record these off the speakers to see if I can get something way closer to how I hear it.

Snippet1 (mp3)
Snippet2 (mp3)
Snippet3 (mp3)

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.

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.

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).

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.