This was the question today regarding Ace Of Spades. When I recorded it - back in May of 2018 - I did it on multiple tracks. So, today, we had some downtime and I asked a couple of our colleagues if they would mind helping me knock out Ace Of Spades as an experiment - in one take.
This was terrifying because it meant that I had to sings AND play all the guitar parts at the same time.
Since this song uses E-flat tuning, I drew out my 1987 Squirecaster for the role, since it is always tuned to E-flat. I plugged into a studio-owned Roland JC-120 with bass at 9am, mids and treble full up, gain in the middle and just a very light touch of a very flat sounding reverb. Amp was run direct out into the console.
Bass player was using a Fender Jazz bass through a Gallien-Kruger MB150S 1x12" combo with a EBS Billy Sheehan Signature Bass Pedal. The bass cabinet was miked with a kick drum microphone just off center.
The DW drum kit features double kick drums - both with their own mike - and several mikes around and above the kit.
The room has a light ambience to it and you can hear this on the finished recording. The vocals were recorded on a no-name suspension type microphone with reverb added to the signal.
The engineer du jour said he raised the lead guitar part 2db but left everything else as-is.
This is a rough recording, with volume levels spiking in certain places, uneven vocal volume levels and just about everything else you can think of. I also count off the song with 4 pick strikes against my bridge pickup - since the bass player is actually the one who kicks this song off and not the drummer.
So, here it is, in all of it's rusty splendour, but I think - at the very least - I proved that I can pull it off, even if it's rough.
Tell you what, doing this song like this really shows just how damn good Lemmy and company really were.
Enjoy, Metalheads...
ACE OF SPADES - MOTORHEAD COVER - 80 Proof Redemption & Drunken Friends
This was terrifying because it meant that I had to sings AND play all the guitar parts at the same time.
Since this song uses E-flat tuning, I drew out my 1987 Squirecaster for the role, since it is always tuned to E-flat. I plugged into a studio-owned Roland JC-120 with bass at 9am, mids and treble full up, gain in the middle and just a very light touch of a very flat sounding reverb. Amp was run direct out into the console.
Bass player was using a Fender Jazz bass through a Gallien-Kruger MB150S 1x12" combo with a EBS Billy Sheehan Signature Bass Pedal. The bass cabinet was miked with a kick drum microphone just off center.
The DW drum kit features double kick drums - both with their own mike - and several mikes around and above the kit.
The room has a light ambience to it and you can hear this on the finished recording. The vocals were recorded on a no-name suspension type microphone with reverb added to the signal.
The engineer du jour said he raised the lead guitar part 2db but left everything else as-is.
This is a rough recording, with volume levels spiking in certain places, uneven vocal volume levels and just about everything else you can think of. I also count off the song with 4 pick strikes against my bridge pickup - since the bass player is actually the one who kicks this song off and not the drummer.
So, here it is, in all of it's rusty splendour, but I think - at the very least - I proved that I can pull it off, even if it's rough.
Tell you what, doing this song like this really shows just how damn good Lemmy and company really were.
Enjoy, Metalheads...
ACE OF SPADES - MOTORHEAD COVER - 80 Proof Redemption & Drunken Friends
