recording blog #5: guitar
Guitar is the first instrument I learned to play in a live band setting. Generally I use it to either fill out a part or play a specific hook. For the verse and chorus of “Constellation” (formerly known simply as “!!!”), I came up with this:
As you can see, I like to keep guitar parts simple. I want them to either be twangy hooks, spooky echos, or good clean punchy accents. To get those sounds, I use a 60’s Hopf Telstar guitar with flat wound strings, a 60’s Fender Vibro Champ amp, and often a Memory Man (analog delay) and Fulltone Fulldrive 2 (clean gain). The summer before I recorded “Pleasure”, I found the guitar at a flea market in Germany for 100 euros. SCORE. It may be the only flea market find of my life.
This album has quite a bit of guitar in it, generally as a punchy accent or spooky backdrop.
Next time: tenor sax.