Studio diary: day 11

Last day recording my guitar parts. It was meant to be a short session, so without further ado, we immersed ourselves into "Talking To Nobody's" intro, the one that didn't work out last time. We decided to try a few different pedals for it, Big Muffs, Overdrives, Marshalls, but none of them really gave us what I was looking for, so after some puzzlement and head-scratching, we changed the guitar, brought out the new ES-335 and plugged it directly into the amp. And there it was, exactly what we had in mind. Sometimes the easiest path is the best one. And the 335 is a fucking great guitar, that has to be said too. She can be gentle and smooth or scream like a hysteric bitch on coke, and everything in between. Lovely.

While we were at it, I decided to re-track the dirty rhythm guitar with the 335, just to annoy the mixer later with more tracks (one guitar take more adds 4 to 5 tracks to the project), but mainly to blend different sounding guitars playing the same. The results are quite cool and broad-sounding. A wall of sound, more or less.

With "Talking" finished for now, we did the missing clean guitars and solo on "Don't Lose Your Head", which officially concluded my guitar parts. But as we still had a little time left, we listened to a few songs just to check that no more guitar work had to be done by yours truly. And of course, after a few playbacks, we decided that "One Another" needed an little bit of beefing up and did a few takes on it with the 335 at full blast through an overdrive pedal just for the sake of it.

And then finally took out the Telecaster to double some acoustic guitar parts on "Twelve Years". They blended very nicely together, so we tried the same trick again on the solo part, this time again with the 335 doubling an acoustic guitar on a darker tone.

And almost without realizing it, we were done with my guitar parts. Of course, sure as hell that after Jorge does his bits next week I'll have to redo a few details here and there, but the bulk of it is finished. Whopee! I hope the vocals go as swiftly as the guitars, I am really not looking forward to recording them. Vocals are a pain in the ass, but I guess it's a necessary evil, don't you think? And to top it all, I still have to write lyrics for 3 of the songs... fuck.

Have a nice weekend.

St

Songs recorded (Feb 12) Talking To Nobody: guitars
Don't Lose Your Head: guitars
One Another: guitars
Twelve Years: guitar