… tracking Kaboom! …

Some of you may have noticed that my website was gone for a while. I noticed too. It’s back now.

Today’s song was “Kaboom!”. I spent a large part of the day writing guitar parts. I used dual tracking for each take (good ol’ 57 on the Bitmo Modded Blackheart cab into a N72 preamp and a isolation cabinet into a C84 preamp).

Everything sounded great. Somehow my guitar sounded a little like a distorted fender Rhodes. There are a few tonal variations throughout out the song including one full out rock on zone, so I documented every setting for each link in the chain with my digital camera.

I made it through just about half of the vocals for the song in about 3 and a half hours. Much of that time was spend arranging the harmonies.

I went out a shot some night time photography at about 10:30pm. These pictures were taken in the dark with between a 30 second and minute exposure.

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