Ok, listening to playbacks this morning and this song has really evolved into a much harder version, just what I was shooting for!!! This song doesn't sound like much, but let me tell you, there are some really unusual time signatures in the original. We spent quite a while listening to the original in the studio yesterday because it just wasn't coming out right. So, the drummer then laid a set of tracks down drumming along to the original song in his headset. That was the magic bullet so to speak. That got the tempo and drum arrangement exactly correct. You don't notice the timing changes when listening, but you sure do when playing it!!!
The bass track is very straightforward and also follows the original arrangement. Again, this was tracked on my "studio" $60 Ibanez Import and Fender Rumble 40 going line-out direct to the USD interface.
The original intro is played with very little gain, and I played this (as usual) with a lot of gain, heavy pick attack and choking off each phrase in the intro to try and keep the guitar under control....and it wasn't easy. I also kept the left/right speaker orientation, similar to the original, but put a lot more fury in the guitar work. Accidental pinch harmonics, volume swells, from the sudden release of all 6 muted strings - during the quiet sections - was all left in place.
On the right speaker, there is only a one-take, single-track for the rhythm guitar. On the left speaker, the doubletracked intro begins and carries all the way through the song. At the beginning of the yet untracked vocal section, a second doubletracked rhythm guitar parts kicks in on the left speaker and it also carries through the entire song.
In this version, there has been no reverb added or noise reduction. All guitar parts tracked on my 2016 Gibson Les Paul (498T) through my Blackstar ID-Core 100 Watt and no effects.
More to come!!!
MOTHER - DANZIG COVER IN B♭m (UNFINISHED)
