#1 · Jan 14, 2010 02:39 UTC
My niece Grace is in town, she is a music major at Sonoma State in Cali., and lives way up there near Clear Lake California. Anyways she is a killer pianist, and we put together a BT for Hey Joe the Hendrix version, mostly from a MIDI file. Yesterday after I had it fleshed out she came over and she did the vocal track, which came out killer. So today I went in there to try and learn Hendrix licks, but I bagged it after an hour, and put my own licks in. (I never learned to copy and cover tunes like the record, not ever.
So anyways I was not liking the Tonelab through the reference monitors, although the recorded tones are very good. So I plugged the Valve Jr into an EVM12 open back cab, slapped a sm57 up near the grill cloth aimed at the rim of the speaker, and ran the whole schlemiel into my vocal preamp (Presonus VXP) and started plunking around using that for the clean rhythm guitar, then I plugged in my Nady TD1 tube stomp into the signal chain and did the leads and fills. Not bad for my first time, as soon as I can find a place to upload it I will post the finished product. Since it is someone else's tune I can't put it on my Soundclick page I don't think.
So anyways I was not liking the Tonelab through the reference monitors, although the recorded tones are very good. So I plugged the Valve Jr into an EVM12 open back cab, slapped a sm57 up near the grill cloth aimed at the rim of the speaker, and ran the whole schlemiel into my vocal preamp (Presonus VXP) and started plunking around using that for the clean rhythm guitar, then I plugged in my Nady TD1 tube stomp into the signal chain and did the leads and fills. Not bad for my first time, as soon as I can find a place to upload it I will post the finished product. Since it is someone else's tune I can't put it on my Soundclick page I don't think.