Overdubs -
After tracking the basic tracks (which included one songs worth of piano instead of a guitar) we decided to move onto overdubs. Every song has two guitars and at least one piano/organ and on one song two organs.
The second guitar was provided by Leon. We set him up in the bedroom where the bass guitar was earlier. Used the real 57 for his guitar since it was free'd up and mic'd it good n close. He plays an older fender combo with two 12's. He likes to play with tons of verb, which is fine, but i'll say it does make recordin a little tougher when the guitar is *soaked* in verb. At one point i turned it down and gave it a good listen and it sounded so fine when it was clean and all, but Leon is firm about where he wants his reverb and that pleases me. I like it when dudes know where they want their sound. Most dudes say, "i dont know what sounds good", yikes!
Anyways he had some hard times with one song, but after awhile (and some Zeldas pizza) we got it all done up.
I decided to pick up a headphone amp for this session which was a pain in itself to pick up. The dudes out at guitar center had one for 70$, but i was looking for super cheapo 30$ one. Off to skipps. they had one for 49$, so i picked it up and headed back home. Later, i looked at it closer to play with it, and i realized i grabbed a 4in,1out box. they look sooo similar and the box even said "headphone amp", so the product inside the box was wrong.
Went back out to skipps to show them what was up and they laughed and went off looking for the right one. It had appeared that they didnt have the one i was looking for (Rolls) at that price, so i went to get my money back and the guy at the cashbox got the manager to approve the return and he said, "Oh i got one over here, hang on!" and sure enough it was in the guiar book section. Perfect place for it. But i was happy that i got it and headed home.
Ok so did some organs next. The two organs and electric piano were run through the amp in the bathroom, since it was all setup and ready to go. But i wanted to try the big organ direct. Bad idea, cause the line was realy dirty sounding. some of the keys didnt sound hot at all. So we scrapped that idea and just used the amp which sorta leveled it all out.
Got the overdubs all finished up and we decided to call it a night. there were some mistakes to fix up that was easy enough. An extra guitar part to cover up a missed ending. I think thats about it for the recording session. Oh a brand new snake takes years to roll back up. The next step was to dump these tracks into Dougs computer.....
