This week's recording project(s) - Turn and Run / Undone / This Way for Good

During the course of the past week, Jennifer and I spent a good chunk of time in the studio recording & mixing tracks down. This week we polished off three tracks (below) and made good headway on three more. The tracks below actually sample a couple of years of songwriting efforts... Turn and Run is close to two years old from when we were trying to form a blues band; Undone is just over a year old from the second batch of songs we wrote in Necessary Distraction (though the concept for the outro dates back to the Naughty Butterspoon song Too Far from 2002); and This Way for Good is relatively new (a few months old).

Here are links to download the tracks with a run-down of the gear used...

Turn and Run:
- Left rhythm guitar - PRS McCarty Korina into Egnater JTM45 head
- Right rhythm guitar - G&L Legacy Standard into Hughes & Kettner Edition Tube 20
- Lead guitar - PRS McCarty Korina into Mesa Studio preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp

Undone:
- Left rhythm guitar - PRS Singlecut into Soldano SP-77 preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp
- Right rhythm guitar (clean) - Ernie Ball JP7 into Carl Martin compressor + Mesa Studio preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp
- Right rhythm guitar (distorted) - PRS McCarty Korina into Mesa Recto preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp
- Lead guitar - PRS McCarty Korina, Ernie Ball JP7 into Mesa Studio preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp

This Way for Good:
- Left rhythm guitar - G&L ASAT Classic into Egnater JTM45 head
- Right rhythm guitar (clean) - G&L Legacy Standard into Hughes & Kettner Edition Tube 20 combo
- Right rhythm guitar (distorted) - PRS Singlecut into Hughes & Kettner Edition Tube 20 combo
- Lead guitar - PRS McCarty Korina into Mesa Studio preamp + Randall RT2/50 power amp

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 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
- Keys - Fatar Studiologic SL990-XP into Korg Triton rackmount
- Vocals - Studio Projects C1 condenser into DigiMax FS
- Drums - Drums on Demand

The goal for next week is to polish off the next three originals, including Perspective, Empty Walls, and Rock of Gibraltar.

--B