Recording Diary v42
Another evening at the Theosophy Center.
We started tonight by recording the Hummingbird acoustic for the B section of "armies" This was followed by a quick singing of the two verses.
Next we fired up the Ebow and played it on the Les Paul via the Pod Ground Control using a thick fuzz tone. I played 4 tracks and handed the guitar over to Craig who played two more, creating a "Here Comes The Warm Jets" texture. Eno Fantasies are being lived!
After that I pluged my old Roland SPS-808, which has a wonderful "Radio" effect (NAME DROPPING ALERT! I used the same effect on the Tom Waits tour I did a few years back..When he played "What's He Building In There"). We recorded this Short wave radio tuning sound throughout the whole tune, to be mixed later.
Then Craig played some weird fretless Bass via his Sony Reverb effects box. Neat sounding.
After that we felt the song was missing a rhythmic element so Craig and I played a very simple two chord eighth note pattern over the out section. Craig played a seriously thick fuzz bass via the Wooly Mammoth Fuzz Box and I played a Reason Piano. This was followed by a eighth note high octave on piano played by Craig.
Then I tried a few guitar melodies and harmonies that we quickly abandoned and deleted.
That's it. We just need some guitar on part A. Otherwise it's a wrap for "Armies".
We started tonight by recording the Hummingbird acoustic for the B section of "armies" This was followed by a quick singing of the two verses.
Next we fired up the Ebow and played it on the Les Paul via the Pod Ground Control using a thick fuzz tone. I played 4 tracks and handed the guitar over to Craig who played two more, creating a "Here Comes The Warm Jets" texture. Eno Fantasies are being lived!
After that I pluged my old Roland SPS-808, which has a wonderful "Radio" effect (NAME DROPPING ALERT! I used the same effect on the Tom Waits tour I did a few years back..When he played "What's He Building In There"). We recorded this Short wave radio tuning sound throughout the whole tune, to be mixed later.
Then Craig played some weird fretless Bass via his Sony Reverb effects box. Neat sounding.
After that we felt the song was missing a rhythmic element so Craig and I played a very simple two chord eighth note pattern over the out section. Craig played a seriously thick fuzz bass via the Wooly Mammoth Fuzz Box and I played a Reason Piano. This was followed by a eighth note high octave on piano played by Craig.
Then I tried a few guitar melodies and harmonies that we quickly abandoned and deleted.
That's it. We just need some guitar on part A. Otherwise it's a wrap for "Armies".
posted by MBO at 12:33 PM
2 Comments:
Wow! Frettles bass and radio effects!
Can't wait.
How many recordin diarys was there for the first one? 20 or something?
You guys are gonna hit 60.
Wait a minute! You toured with Waits and somehow I never heard about it?!? WTF? I think I have to go kill myself now.
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