… working on Outlaw …

I spent the day working on the song “Outlaw”. It is based on the two player shoot-em’-up game starring two opposing cowboys.

Most of my time was spent trying to figure out how to record the electric guitar tracks. I ended up using my isolation cabinet and miking my Delta Blues 210 and combining the tracks. I have a total of four electric guitar tracks panned out in the song.

Actually … I spent a lot of time trying to overcome “Demo Kryptonite Syndrome”. It seems like every time I set out to record a song that I have previously recorded in some way, it is really hard to get the energy back into the song. I’m not much for repetition, so this situation manifests as a real mental roadblock. After what seemed like a zillion years of crawling across some gravel to get away from Lex Luthor clutching a sack full of evil green crystals, I was able to get overcome DKS … for now.

I put my cranked up amp in my sister Auria’s old room across the hall and closed the doors so I wouldn’t have to record with headphones on.

I tracked the bulk of the vocals for the song. There are some 60′ AM radio American Bandstand harmonies, a couple of punch-ins here and there and an acoustic guitar track on the way.