Funny Money » The Tunes http://funnymoneyband.com Official Web Site Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:44:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Mark and Dean tracking Slide Guitar http://funnymoneyband.com/2009/12/29/mark-and-dean-tracking-slide-guitar/ http://funnymoneyband.com/2009/12/29/mark-and-dean-tracking-slide-guitar/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:03:17 +0000 MarkS http://funnymoneyband.com/?p=249 Dean and I got together recently, got our waders on and took a walk through a southern swamp to channel Duane Allman for some paranormal inspiration to help us with tracking slide guitar parts to a new Funny Money song called “Right Things To Me.” The other rhythm guitars were already recorded using a ESP baritone guitar, a Randy Rhoades Super Lead Special Edition Marshall and my trusty ‘76 Hiwatt Custom 100 DR103, rumored to actually have been looked at by Pete Townshend himself once. Normally I wouldn’t use a POD to record a spotlight guitar track, I usually restrict PODs to overdubs only (and only if I don’t feel like going all the way downstairs to fire up the fire-breathing real amps), but the POD X3 Pro I have has some really cool mushy tremolo teeth-pullin greasy electric blues sounds, just reeking of stinky swamp gas. Perfect for what we wanted to do. Dean was noodling around with the chord progression on the slide and I thought it would be a good idea to use that as an intro. So check it out, it is once again a LONG video but there are some good comedy moments and Dean tracked some great parts. Go on YouTube and give us some ratings and comments for this video will ya?

-Mark

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Belting out the backing vocals at the McMansion studio.

Belting out the backing vocals at the McMansion studio.

Now this is how you edit Hi-Hats in Pro Tools - the hard way!

Now this is how you edit Hi-Hats in Pro Tools - the hard way!

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See the Featured Video on the right (same as the one below) – it’s long and boring but it tells some of the story of the hard work it takes to make a record.

Read Mark’s take on the proceedings here: Mark’s Blog

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