New/Old song Posted...OK Reposted...
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:22 pmPosted a partial copy of Kenny Wayne Shepperd's "While We Cry" a while back, mainly just to get some audio up, it was already recorded (2001) and ready to go but for some reason I cut it to 1:45. Can't remember the reasoning, probably didn't make sense anyway.
Finally decided to rip the entire thing off the CD and repost it, it's one I did in 2001 by the "ping pong" method, using a reel to reel and a CD burner. The then band leader decided, against my specific instructions, to add a blurb at the beginning saying it was called "Cry Baby" and that I wrote it. I edited that out, no way I want to claim I wrote someone else's song. Otherwise it's untouched.
I played everything myself except drums, which were done with a keyboard drum machine. The rest was played on real instruments by yours truly. I intended to use my strat, but broke a string while setting the record levels (and discovered I had no spares) and had to use the Peavey Patriot, which is a brighter guitar. It's running through my Peavey MX and Kustom 2x12 cabinet, my only amp at the time. I used both pickups, the best sounding setting for that guitar. Volume and tone controls both dimed, no effects no volume pedal, just guitar and amp with a touch of reverb. Somewhere around 2/3 through I switched to the lead channel, set for light gain, you can barely tell it. I wanted a bit more gain, like an overdrive, but it was after 3AM and I had been recording for around 7 hours so I left it alone since it was the best take all night. No, it wasn't the only song recorded that night...I didn't spend 7 hours on this one, I think it took around 3 hours to do all the instruments.
I've mentioned several times here and there what a nice clean sound the MX gets, this recording is a very good example, I had the volume low, around 2 1/2 or 3 for recording, but it sounds exactly like this at stage volume too.
See what you think, this is one of my best recordings to date, especially for the way it was done. When you ping pong you lose highs and gain noise with each successive take, and I don't know how but we got a really nice sounding one on this tune.
Finally decided to rip the entire thing off the CD and repost it, it's one I did in 2001 by the "ping pong" method, using a reel to reel and a CD burner. The then band leader decided, against my specific instructions, to add a blurb at the beginning saying it was called "Cry Baby" and that I wrote it. I edited that out, no way I want to claim I wrote someone else's song. Otherwise it's untouched.
I played everything myself except drums, which were done with a keyboard drum machine. The rest was played on real instruments by yours truly. I intended to use my strat, but broke a string while setting the record levels (and discovered I had no spares) and had to use the Peavey Patriot, which is a brighter guitar. It's running through my Peavey MX and Kustom 2x12 cabinet, my only amp at the time. I used both pickups, the best sounding setting for that guitar. Volume and tone controls both dimed, no effects no volume pedal, just guitar and amp with a touch of reverb. Somewhere around 2/3 through I switched to the lead channel, set for light gain, you can barely tell it. I wanted a bit more gain, like an overdrive, but it was after 3AM and I had been recording for around 7 hours so I left it alone since it was the best take all night. No, it wasn't the only song recorded that night...I didn't spend 7 hours on this one, I think it took around 3 hours to do all the instruments.
I've mentioned several times here and there what a nice clean sound the MX gets, this recording is a very good example, I had the volume low, around 2 1/2 or 3 for recording, but it sounds exactly like this at stage volume too.
See what you think, this is one of my best recordings to date, especially for the way it was done. When you ping pong you lose highs and gain noise with each successive take, and I don't know how but we got a really nice sounding one on this tune.