Hello dear fellows,
Our recording session is progressing. Now we’re coming
to the more melodic part. After recording the drums, we do now instrumental
things like guitars and pianos. Let’s start with the setup of our guitar rig.
Basically, it’s the compound between my brother’s pedal gear and my stuff. That
means, we take my Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Head and my Marshall 1960 A Cab
and put some pedals in front of it.
As you know, usually I play all three channels –
Clean, Vintage Drive, and Modern Drive. Same for this record, although the
Clean channel has more gain than usual and is set to 100 Watt instead of 50 Watt. The latter is
necessary to give the Bogner Ecstasy Blue Pedal the right punch. Before I
explain the signal path through all pedals, you need to know that Julien and I
share the system. We just plug different guitars and then record. Let’s go back
to the signal path.
The guitar’s signal goes directly into the Morley
Wah-Pedal. Leaving this, the MXR compressor and the MXR phaser ensue. Usually,
I start with the compressor though the Waha pedal needs to be added at the
beginning. After the phaser, my MXR chorus pedal represents the follow-up. Then
the distortion pedals are up. First, the signal goes into the Bogner pedal.
From there it heads into the Boss SD-1. Last but not least, the signal path
ends up at the MXR Smart Gate which feeds thereafter the Mesa Boogie. Same as
ever, my T.C. Electronics Flashback delay is plugged as a send-return-loop into
the Mesa.
The Marshall cab has two microphones installed. One is
the Shure SM 57, the other the Shure SM 27. Both microphones working together
produce the sound picture we want for the coming record.
The electric guitars, we intend to use for the record,
will be the PRS McCarthy, the PRS custom, Fender Telecaster, maybe a Gretsch or
Gibson ES, and MusicMan Luke III. Hopefully, the latter is going to be in my
rig.
I will show you pictures of the guitar setup soon.
Stay tuned for more posts.
Enjoy Seasplash!
