This week's recording project(s) - Empty Walls / Perspective

Here are this week's tracks from the depths of the basement studio, hot off the press, er, mixer: First up is Empty Walls, which is a tune we wrote earlier this year with Necessary Distraction that was pretty much forgotten about until the past few weeks. We've been jamming around on Perspective for just about as long; however, the chord progression is about 10 years old... turns out it was one of the first songs I wrote and attempted to record in my apartment back in 1998.

Empty Walls:
- Left rhythm guitar - G&L ASAT Classic into Egnater JTM45 head
- Right rhythm guitar (clean) - Gretsch G6120 into Hughes & Kettner Edition Tube 20 combo
- Right rhythm guitar (distorted) - PRS Singlecut into Mesa Recto preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp
- Lead guitar - PRS McCarty Korina into Fulltone Clyde Deluxe wah + Mesa Studio preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp

Perspective:
- Left rhythm guitar - PRS McCarty Korina into Egnater JTM45 head
- Right rhythm guitar - G&L ASAT Classic into Hughes & Kettner Edition Tube 20 combo
- Lead guitar - PRS McCarty Korina into Mesa Studio preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp
- Harmony guitar - PRS McCarty Korina into Egnater JTM45 head

Common gear:
- All of the above - through V30-loaded Randall R212C cabinet mic'd with Cascade Fat Head ribbon and Blue "The Ball" dynamic into Presonus DigiMax FS
- Acoustic guitars - Guild DC5E-NT, Guild F47M-CE, and Takamine EF-385 12-string mic'd with Kel Audio HM-1 and Audio Technica AT2020 condensers into Presonus DigiMax FS
- Bass guitar - G&L Tribute L-2500 direct into Line 6 GearBox
- Vocals - Studio Projects C1 condenser into DigiMax FS
- Drums - Drums on Demand

Next up... I'm taking the week off work and am planning on spending a good chunk of time in the studio. There are three more tracks that need to be finished up (Last Forgiveness, I'll Find You Hiding, Rock of Gibraltar) and several new song ideas to be explored.

--B