audiot

as you already know, i was away for three weeks to prepare the new apartment and to record guitars for the garden album. now i posted a bunch of pictures to my flickr-site, where you can see the amps, cabinet, mic and guitars used. nothing fancy, though. two guitar amps (Laney and Sovtek), one Laney cabinet, one Shure SM57 mic and two guitars (Gibson and Heritage).

there’s some pics of my new drum setup and of the two guitars that are for sale (Sandberg and Epiphone). if you’re interested, drop me line through the contact form right here…

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so here’s some (not really) news from the garden: i tracked five guitar takes so far, clean through a d.i. box and am trying to do some reamping now. it seems to me the sheer unlimited possibilities are the no.1 problem there. when i bought my first real guitar amp, i had two sounds: the normal crunch and the overdrive crunch :-) and no matter what i did, knobturningwise, it sounded great. with software this is different, because now there’s a downside: you have to know what you’re doing or it will sound like crap. and although i did a lot of research recently, know about proper gain-staging, about a decent signal-chain, about how distortion really works and other effects as well for that matter, it’s still more trial and error than it should be. anyway, those little troubles are exactly the reason why i’m doing this the way i do. it’s simply the best way to learn something. but somehow the feeling remains, when i’m done with this soundshaping-mess and am happy with what i created – i just might hit delete, take my amp and a mic and do it the ‘real’ way…..for the heck of it :-)