Lately, musically, I have finally gotten a break in the heat and humidity. This allowed me to break out the condenser mic and work on a tune that has been on the go this summer. The problem is this, I wrote it from the bass. I wrote it to be tricky, on the bass. I took maximum advantage of being all over the neck and seeing exactly what I could do. The beast is in 7.4, 6/4, 4/4 speeds ranging from 90 at the break, and 120 for the rest. I recorded about 1/2 the guitar yesterday, this is a 6 minute monster btw, longest piece I have put together. The issue is this, my ability on a bass, and understanding of how to make things work is much higher. I literally made something out of my league on guitar. I have to use all my meager knowledge of chord construction and chord voicings, just to break even on this and most of the time I am just adding ambience to some rocking bass (not that that is a bad thing, but I feel I should do a bit more). On top of that this is my first experience micing amps, so the tune is a bit quieter as I cannot get the amps to a point I want the mic to record at in my apartment. Recording at bedroom /practice levels is a bit tricky as the mixing is delicate, and I am not sure how loud the final cut will be. I suppose one way to look at this is when completed, I will have expanded my repertoire and intrinsic understanding of how these things work. Any of you ever placed yourself out of your league composing?
As far as G&L content goes, today is official day 2 of my agonizing wait. I still dream I could have just bought that nice blonde with a RW board and been done with it. Played it through a very nice little amp too, a orange AD -30. This store is a 'small' store, family owned (I talked with father and son, the rest look to be family also.) that deals G&L, PRS, Orange, drums, and some other neat stuff. The only thing that really didn't agree with me was the 7.5" radius, I have never gotten used to heavy radius guitars, even a strats 9.5 is too much for me. I feel at home on a 14 though, and don't mind a 12. Either way Approx 89 days til my baby
. BTW, if you have not seen my order, although not listen on the G&L site, you can order front arm cuts on ASATs. They call it an 'arm body contour', I am pretty sure it = no binding though, just like the rear cut omits double binding options. I felt the need to get an arm contour as I do a lot of my playing seated classical. I had a guy on the Carvin forums ask me 'why I bought the ASAT and not just a bolt', and that he was unfamiliar with G&L. I told him that the pickups are neater, the necks are beautiful and a bolt will never be an ASAT essentially. But this really brings us to brand loyalty, I don't have any. If I find a comfy guitar, that I enjoy playing and want it, I really don't care whose name is on the headstock (unless it says something like super hitler SS or something, that might work as a deterrent). I love how G&Ls play, I love how Carvins play, I don't really care for the feel of Fenders and Gibsons, nor do I like the ultra thin neck of Ibanez, or their close string spacing on 5 bangers. I feel that limiting yourself to one company is silly, as they all have different strengths and applications, what do you guys think/what is your take on brand loyalty?
. It is more the signals I am getting to work with and I am wondering how the masterred track will come out total volume wise.