Saturday, February 27, 2010

New Worship Song Up





This song is about God revealing himself in the darkest moments, and those moments seemingly being reserved for just that.

Aural Anomalies:

Tony Recorded two tracks of drums on this song. One track with little drum tuning alteration, and another where we tuned the snare much lower and the kick much higher. These tracks are panned hard left and Right. It was a concept inspired by Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" and The Myriad's "The Last time"

I recorded the Fender P-bass through a Boss Super Octave pedal and used a Big Muff Fuzz for the chorus sections.

The little bit of sporadic electric guitar was through a Boss RT-20 which is a pedal designed to simulate the Leslie speaker cabinet that Hammond B3 players use.

The Epic/Cheesy "Ahhs" in the beginning are from a Reason patch called "Isengard". I would use that patch no matter what it sounded like just because of the name. I am a dork.

Below is a chart so that we could practice the song yet oddly enough I don't recall ever playing this live:





Saturday, February 20, 2010

You Got it Honest (New Song Up-Free)

I can see your father's fear
When you run away
I can hear your mother's hurt
when you call me that name

But you got it honest I know
The fruit don't fall far from the tree
You got it honest I know
But I still love you 
Just thought you should know

I don't want to keep on wondering
But I cant stand to hear "no"
Because my hearts become your property
I just want you to know

That you got it honest I know
The fruit don't fall far from the tree
You got it honest I know
But I still love you 
Just thought you should know

Now I can tell that you don't love me
But you shouldn't lead me on
By the time you decide something
All you'll have is this song

But you got it honest I know
The fruit don't fall far from the tree
You got it honest I know
But I still love you 
Just thought you should know

Monday, February 1, 2010

Harmony Broadway

The latest addition to the instrument collection is a Late 60s Harmony Archtop. It was donated to Andrew Woodell and after I made the intial transaction via verbal agreement ("Yo, I can hold that?") it saw little attention until just recently. It was in arguably playable condition seeing as how the majority of the top was not adhered to rest of the guitar and it was equiped with the most bobo mismatched classical guitar tuners ever. I had a Semour Duncan Fat Cat P-90 pickup on hand from a previous guitar and was waiting on some tuners and various parts to make it fully electric as it was previously a fully acoustic instrument. Although the headstock says "Steel Reinforced Neck" it does not have an adjustable truss rod and my guess is that it sat in a garage or attic for a while or somewhere else debatably "Indoors", leaving the strings to win the battle against the neck. Basically it's only good for slide. And vibe.

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