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It has been ages since I've recorded anything. Yet lo and behold, I recently did. I just finished uploading some new guitar rhythm tracks to my site. During a few parts, my picking and muting combinations sound real tight. These are from a fifteen minute jam session the other day. About half of them were improvised and the other half were jams I've been working on a while. I still have about 5 more tracks to edit and upload, which I'll do soon I hope.

A little bit about these recordings. My basic setup starts with my Spyder amp and my Ibanez guitar. Here is my amp settings: Model = Insane, Drive = 10, Bass = 10, Mid = 1, Treble = 8, Chan Vol = 10, Effects Off, Delay = halfway on Tape Echo with Tap at Max, Reverb = 1, Master Vol = 4. I recorded the whole session as one track on my fourtrack. I just set up my mic about 9 or 10 feet across the room from my amp and ran directly into my XLR jack on Channel 1. For the longest time I had been running straight from my amp out of the headphone jack into the 1/4 inch jack on Channel 1. This time around, I thought I'd change the approach and room-mic the amp instead. To me, the tone sounds so much better when mic'd. OK, I'm obsessively rambling, sorry about that shit. Anyway, my eq levels on channel 1 basically mirror the same settings as on my amp. So I record the track and run the mixdown to my Denon dual tape deck the has L/R audio jacks on it. Then I test all my various levels on the fourtrack, along with the input level on the deck. Once everything's balanced, I go ahead and do the final mixdown recording to the deck. Now at this point, I have to run the L/R Line Out from the back of the deck into the jacks on the front of my tv. The speakers and the sound kick ass out of this thing so I use them as monitor speakers. Then I take this pair of headphones that have a small mic to speak into at the end of a flexible wire, and then I just position it directly in front of the speaker. From the tv to the mic, and the mic to Nero Wave Editor. MP3, edit; done deal. Upload, madness ensues.

I truly have so much work to do with all of my music. At this point, I'd prefer to let the riffs do the talking instead of my mouth. So yeah, go check out my new tracks and please let me know what you think.