… recording guitars for Atlantis …

Today I tracked the electric guitars for the song “Atlantis”. It is a fuzzed out, futuristic, electro ballad.

I didn’t get a chance to record vocals or the small acoustic guitar line … I spent a while figuring out the problem with one of my guitar amps. I think I solved the problem.

I think the 1/4″ speaker jack that comes off of the internal speaker is too small for the receptacle. When the amp heats up, the jack pops out a fraction of an inch. I’m hoping that this bad contact point was responsible for the intermittent shorting I was experiencing. I wedged the cable against my other amp to hold it firmly in place and I was able to track for several hours today.

I’m at the point where I don’t know if any thing that I am recording sounds any good. Maybe that’s what has been keeping me from recording vocals the last two days (other than a broken amp).

When I feel like I’m losing perspective, I just head out back and stare out at the Palouse Hills. It helps to remember that I have no label, no band, no tours or deadlines. I’m just doing this because I want to. That also makes it harder in some ways. I have to be entirely self motivated. Part of that is knowing when not to work on something.