- pick up the guitar and plug it in
- jam out a guitar riff and develop it a little
- hit the record button and hope for the best because I was always open for 'things to happen' that were unplanned, a kind of improvisation that was always welcomed because sometimes that's where the really cool stuff is at
Sunday, November 24, 2013
re-amping guitars, working on vocals
Probably one of the most important decisions I've made early on in the music creation process of Melodic Dirt, as a solo recording artist, was to record the guitar tracks clean into Pro Tools recording software. By utilizing software plugins after the fact, I was able to create while hearing distortion, but not obligated to the distorted sound, while the raw recorded guitar tracks were clean. Sounds a bit confusing but let me explain why this was so important.
Before recording the guitar tracks for this project, I hadn't picked up the guitar in about 3 years prior to this. Though a little rusty at first, I had all this pent up kinetic creative energy that was waiting to be unleashed on the guitar. This energy and excitement was all captured once the record button was hit. Basically, the guitar track recording process was:
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