Track #1
There was a major beach crowd today, despite the overcast. Being a late riser, the El Porto parking opportunities were not-existent, so I surfed with my two nephews a bit north of the Manhattan Beach pier. It was the first time out for the younger one - he will definitely be working out those "lat" muscles to prepare for next time! The waves were messy and closed out quickly, and I was only able to grab a couple of short rides. Of course, it was only soup for the kook!
OK, back to the music. I will post some background info for each track on the album. Track #1, entitled "Arise" only requires a bit of discussion, given its short length. Some of you will remember it as "Prelude" from my original 4-track tape from quite a number of years ago. I retained the basic chords of Am-Fmaj7-G-Dm, but lowered the lead an octave and used a cleaner tone with no harmony lead. The lead tone was my "Limp Bizkit" clean patch that I created to play "The One", and I used the neck pickup on the Strat. The choir and percussion were created with the Cakewalk TTS-1 software synth. The rhythm tone is my "Crunch" patch with bridge pickup. Whenever I recorded, I disabled the reverb on the GT-5 and mostly relied on the Lexicon Pantheon in the computer (convolutional reverb was used a bit on other tracks). All of the bass guitar tones were created in the computer using Amplitube with the bass plugged directly into the audio interface. Amplitube only worked well for bass, and I really didn't care for any guitar tones that I tried out. Therefore, I stuck to my Boss GT-5 for all guitar, with the exception of the intro lead in track #8, "Twang Opus". I tried to keep the Strat tone controls consistent throughout the album: Bridge 7, Neck 8.
Overall, this track created a wonderful "sunrise" impression and served as a great lead-in to the album. One friend who gave some early impressions (thanks Vinz) cited a "Spaghetti Western" influence. That was a very unexpected but relevant sonic DNA connection, and I took it as an extreme compliment! Just call me Ennio ;)
OK, back to the music. I will post some background info for each track on the album. Track #1, entitled "Arise" only requires a bit of discussion, given its short length. Some of you will remember it as "Prelude" from my original 4-track tape from quite a number of years ago. I retained the basic chords of Am-Fmaj7-G-Dm, but lowered the lead an octave and used a cleaner tone with no harmony lead. The lead tone was my "Limp Bizkit" clean patch that I created to play "The One", and I used the neck pickup on the Strat. The choir and percussion were created with the Cakewalk TTS-1 software synth. The rhythm tone is my "Crunch" patch with bridge pickup. Whenever I recorded, I disabled the reverb on the GT-5 and mostly relied on the Lexicon Pantheon in the computer (convolutional reverb was used a bit on other tracks). All of the bass guitar tones were created in the computer using Amplitube with the bass plugged directly into the audio interface. Amplitube only worked well for bass, and I really didn't care for any guitar tones that I tried out. Therefore, I stuck to my Boss GT-5 for all guitar, with the exception of the intro lead in track #8, "Twang Opus". I tried to keep the Strat tone controls consistent throughout the album: Bridge 7, Neck 8.
Overall, this track created a wonderful "sunrise" impression and served as a great lead-in to the album. One friend who gave some early impressions (thanks Vinz) cited a "Spaghetti Western" influence. That was a very unexpected but relevant sonic DNA connection, and I took it as an extreme compliment! Just call me Ennio ;)
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