The Watering Hole

Here's another one we recorded this just today.  Drums and guitar played together "live" in Oliver's bedroom.

Here's the recording process:

- Zoom H6 stereo pair of mics picking up the roland drums (from the sound system, no DI from the kit) and the guitar in the room.
- SM57 into it's own channel on the H6 a couple of inches off the grill.  Mixed this in with the room stereo pair to add some focus to the guitar.
- import the project from the Zoom H6 into Reaper
- I played bass guitar and tracked that in Reaper whilst listening to the tracks from the H6.
- added a big of reverb on the guitar sm57 track on automation just to spread things out a bit occasionally, mostly dry though.

Guitar is Epiphone Les Paul in humbucker mode.  Amp is Jet City JCA22H with very little distortion, a fairly cleanish tone in fact but cranked via the THD Hotplate.

- No post eq to the zoom h6 tracks other than a 40hz high pass. Everything else is as it was recorded.

So for you pain, here it is in all it's 11 and a half minutes of glory.  This goes off in a few directions just as we felt like it ect.  Oliver reacts well to what I play and I try to do the same against what he is doing too.

Anyway, enough of my ramblings, here it is

http://www.mp3.mushroom-farm.com/download/JonG/Oliver_and_Big_Daddy_Jon_annoying_the_neighbours_again.mp3

p.s:  I tried my best to avoid dropping clangers here and there, but mistakes have been left in as it was "live" this is a true representation of what actually happened today :)

hey, joe shot his old lady down... so she bought a stairway to heaven. (yeehaw)

very cool, enjoyed listening to that!

ironsheep — Jun 23, 2014hey, joe shot his old lady down... so she bought a stairway to heaven. (yeehaw)

very cool, enjoyed listening to that!

"Yehaw" seems to have become the standard finisher for me :). I'm looking to get a new cab for the jet city.  Did have one before but sold it when I sold the previous jet city amp that I had. At the moment I'm going out of the hotplate into mxr graphic eq and then into the front of clean channel of fender superchamp x2, must get a new cab, it will simplify things enormously

Oliver's working on the ocean by zep and he has all those crazy kick drum triplets hat Bonham did down completely. He has been having drum lessons about a year now and never played drums before and he seems to have suddenly got very good. He seems to have a built in metronome in his head too.

More Jams later his week.  Excellent fun if nothing else :)