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:

Ashley Huizenga-Cardboard Signs Video-Music by crudbot (Snakes and Rizzles)

You Got it Honest (New Song Up-Free)

You Got It Honest  by  Jonathan Clark

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

Between Us The Raging River.

Between Us The Raging River  by  Jonathan Clark

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.

Our New Record.

Girl Of My Dreams  by  Jonathan Clark
Our new album will be finished pretty soon. The majority of it was recorded this past December at various locations all across America. And by America I mean My house, My office and my Church. The latter of the three would be Calvary Chapel Boca Raton thanks to one kind hearted Andrew Strickland. My office can be seen in major film releases such as "White as Snow" and "MXR Analog Delay".  My home can be seen in last year's Blockbuster "Bass and Rhodes Ableton Jam". 


One of the "Singles" on our new album is called "Girl Of My Dreams". It is basically "Don't take the Girl" by Tim McGraw lyrically but way more shallow. It follows a couple from the time they rode BMX bikes on the Avenues during the summer in Elementary School to a Proposal later in life. 


For the people who like recording nonsense:
Drums were recorded with three mics: Kick, Snare and Overhead into a Digi 002 at 24/41 into Ableton Live by non other that Tony Scialabba. 
Bass was recorded in my house by one Daniel Diaz. We ran his Music Man Bongo 5 string through a Groove Tubes Brick pre-amp into Ableton as well.
I recorded the rest of the Vocals, Keys and Guitars at home as well using various techniques including The Brick, Vox AC4, 70's Fender Rhodes, MicroKorg Vocoder and a Roland SH201 Synth. The Pizzicato Strings part is one of Ableton's EIC instruments as well as the Shaker on the choruses that has a heavy Swing.  


In general, We went for a more organic sound rather than a heavily programmed one which in retrospect can be quite laborious with some sections having over 100 takes just to get the right sound which sometimes still has to be edited. The basic outline of the song was developed on my laptop en-route to Germany last year and has gone through a few different choruses (Lyrics, Chords, Everything) to get to the point that it is now. 


Though I mixed it at home I did send it to Alexander Lowe in Atlanta Georgia for mastering who did a great job and was a pleasure to work with. I would recommend that any one who is writing and recording themselves (who pretty much everyone these days) to get your final mixes mastered by someone else. It is more than worth the money. 


-Jonathan

It is debatable as to whether or not we actually look like this:

Michael Seay

Michael Seay and I filmed/recorded a live performance of his song "White as Snow" tonight. He played Guitar, Harmonica, Bass Drum, Hi Hat and Sang all at the same time. What we lack in proper camera technique we more than made up for with lackluster editing and here is part of the process...

MXR Analog Delay

Tommy Gunz let me hold this pedal so that I could let him know if it worked or not. I fell in love. I also have a broken finger if you are worrying about my right hand "Technique"
-Jonathan

Peter Grano

I could be way off but that is highly unlikely.

I think this guy:

Looks like this guy.

Passion Pit

Jake the Jeweler took me to a very commercial district of South Florida to meet up with one Mike Cupino this past Friday Night. Mike is an uber talented Drummer/Keyboardist/Engineer/Teacher and was kind enough to let Jake and I into his studio/workplace for an Ableton/drums/guitar/keys jam session. He also introduced us to a terrific band who goes by the name of "Passion Pit". I have made a $7.99 investment into bettering my life (and hopefully theirs) by purchasing their latest album "Manners". This is the track that Mike showed us.





Mike and Jake, Early 60's Gibson ES335 w/Bigsby, Jake on the traps.