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Sit down with a session player. If there's no drummer, then I'll hop on the kit and find a basic rhythm thats taking me somewhere good.
If its my main guitar player, then we'll come up with a cool rhythm part on guitar that interacts well with the pocket on the drum kit. Other times, we'll play to a drum machine vsti. For guitars we're using either my hollow body Delta King, G and L strat with upgraded pups, Ibanez 1976 Les Paul clone, Lauren Acoustic or Gibson SG.
Once we get a good groove going. He'll grab his Fender Jazz MIM with EMG active pups and we'll lay down some bass parts.
I'll hop on keys and run my rhodes vsti out to our Fender Hotrod Deluxe cabinet.
I'll mic that up, just like I did guitars and get some keys recorded.
We may go back over the music and add stuff like guitar noises or wah etc..
Then if we are providing the chorus, I'll fire up a mic, usually one of my tube mics and lay down some vocals.
For processing I might run stuff thru Izotope vinyl or put Ferric TDS on my serial drum buss. Usually drums are tracked with compression, maybe a mono overhead a kick mic, sometimes a snare mic too and a room. So little bit of processing to just tickle the sound of the drums.
After that we call up the client with an mp3 or call them over.
If I'm by myself, I'll do all the drums, keys and guitars, then call up a bassist.
Rinse and repeat.
For making things sound sampled and chopped, its cool to record things in small segments like 2 bars, 4 bars or 8 bars.
I'll fly stuff into short circuit and add small snippets of the sample out of time or slightly off beat etc.. to simulate truncation points.
Usually I can get alot of sampled tone via the recording chain, colored preamp, track with compression, might hit tape on the way in.
Lots of tone texture!
Its been going great this way so far!
Peace
Illumination
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