Band and Recording
Well I’ve taken a little break from development and gone back to playing guitar and writing songs.
Megan and I have decided to finally get our act together and make a band, which is just the 2 of us at present, but we are recording stuff in my home studio and coming out with some pretty decent stuff. If you’ve read my previous blog post you would know this and that I was thinking of building a 7-string guitar. I went against that idea in the end and bought a lovely flame maple green, super srtat style 7-string. So far I love this guitar and I’ve actually started to use it more than my 6-stringers.
I have yet to mod the guitar, but that will come when money allows me to do so. I plan to rewire the guitar completely with custom pickup switching including coil taps, and a varitone control. I also plan to replace the existing tone control with a built in distortion circuit, and also to add piezo pickups to get an acoustic sound from the guitar. I will eventually replace the pickups with active pickups, but I’m currently waiting for some reasonably priced units from EMG or Seymour Duncan.
My biggest hurdle when it came to writing songs was writing lyrics, however recently I have been tapping into my feelings, and thoughts on things which has helped me loads in getting some lyrics written. I currently have nearly 3 complete songs in draft all waiting to have the instruments added to them, which I will start doing once I am happy with the lyrics, some of them are venting a little too much at some stuff going on in the world today.
As for the guitar parts, I handle nearly all of the heavy riffs as I’ve always been into writing the kick you in the balls riffs, whereas Megan is awsome at melodic clean riffs, and has come up with some killer intros and verse sections for songs. There is also a plan to write a completely instrumental guitar epic, but this is taking longer than we expected and we are also thinking of bringing in a third guitarist we know to add another level of complexity to that piece.
The recording is all being done in my home project studio which I’m currently running on Mac with a DigiDesign Digi002 Rack which powers ProTools 7.4.2. I also have Logic Pro 8 however I’m not a huge fan of Logic as it’s aimed more at the MIDI composer. We’re using a wide variety of plugins including the entire IK Multimedia AmpliTube series for the guitars, and a massive selection of plugins I’ve collected over the years for EQ, compression, etc. The aim is to get all the songs to the point of mastering in the home studio, then we will take everything to the MultiTrack ProTools mastering studio at Uni and see what we can do there, as they finally have the Waves Bundle installed on the system, which is great for mastering.
Anyway I shall leave you now with pics of the studio and guitars, just because I can really, nothing more.
More to follow as always 
Adam
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