Today's recording project - Rock of Gibraltar

Here's the latest track to emerge from the studio after adding a few final touches and doing a bit of mixdown this weekend... The tune is called Rock of Gibraltar, and it's a song we've been jamming around with Necessary Distraction on for just over a year. It's probably one of the more uptempo, straight-ahead rock songs we've got. Oddly enough, while the majority of the tracks were recorded during the past couple weeks, the guitar solo was flown in from a scratch track recorded in January 2008 to showcase my long-gone Egnater M4 preamp... I always liked the tone and feel of that solo take and figured it was easier to steal it from myself than try to nail it again.

Anyway, without further ado, here's the MP3: Rock of Gibraltar

Also, here's the rundown of the gear used:

- Left rhythm guitar (distorted) - PRS McCarty Korina into Egnater JTM45 head

- Right rhythm guitar (distorted) - G&L ASAT Classic into Hughes & Kettner Edition Tube 20 combo

- Left/right rhythm guitars (clean) - G&L ASAT Classic into Carl Martin compressor + Hughes & Keggner Edition Tube 20 combo

- 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

- Lead guitar (recorded during a previous session) - Voodoo Guitar Works custom archtop into Egnater M4 preamp (EG3/4 module) + VHT 2/50/2 power amp + V30-loaded Randall RA412XLT cabinet mic'd with Cascade Fat Head ribbon and Blue "The Ball" dynamic 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

This week I've been working on revamping Last Forgiveness and putting down scratch tracks for a couple new concepts... more to come soon.

--B