Re: Allaire on new song “The Flow”

[Davoe]

☺ Thanks mfefc!

Sure – funny thing about why it sounds kinda “The Edgey”…… I was mucking about on the Vetta II Combo, trying to make a patch for the U2 song “All I want is you”, and using a strat came up with this patch. I have a Carvin Bolt Plus with a H-S-H config that I plugged in, just to see how the guitar would sound on that patch, and this song just spilled out in about 15 minutes. I basically recorded the rhythm guitar & melody in 2 takes, and I kept thinking, yeah I should redo this with the strat and it’ll sound better. I tried the strat and liked the Carvin better (I was kinda surprised but I just went with the ears instead of the brand). The only thing I redid was the outro which I wrote about a week later.

So it’s a mic’d Vetta II Combo, using the AC30 model, with an e609 on one speaker & an SM57 on the other. I used a DIGIMAX D8 Preamp & went optical ADAT into a Pro Tools 96 i/o. Almost all the effects were from the Vetta (which isn’t the best idea but I did track a DI guitar too to re-amp later if needed). No EQ on the guitar tracks, but I did compress using http://www.mcdsp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133&Itemid=271 on the guitar channels.

I’m working up some songs with vocals, but they’re decidedly more rocky than this one. This one is more mellow than what I usually come up with, but it was the easiest to finish since there are no vocals. 🙂