Kilimanjaro (December 2008)

Here is another one. At 80 bpm somewhat slower, darker. Very reduced. Only 2 guitar tracks, bass, BFD 2 drums and an echoed clavinet. The two guitar tracks were recorded in stereo with 2 SPL transducers, 2 Marshalls and Leslie effects.

Swag (October 2008)

I had new stuff to check out when i recorded this one. A Hendrix tribute Strat, an MKII Plexi and bass directly into the console. No synths this time only bass, drums and guitar. All guitars have been miked this time using a SM57 and Celestion Vintage 30 speakers. The song starts slowly, then centers arround a chromatic lick that has a cool groove. At least thats what i think. I have another 3 songs ready but no time for recordings ...

Swamp (December 2007)

This one was done over christmas 2007. This was the first recording, where I used a valve amp (Marshall 30th anniversary) together with an SPL Transducer. For the recording software Logic Studio 8 was used together with various Strats and Les Pauls.

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Swamp

I had this idea on my flight back from a business trip to India. Unfortunately i could not record this during the next days because i was really sick. So i did this after my recovery. This is basically a nice groove with some blues and funk licks arround it. Recorded with my 65‘ Strat, and a J. Page Historic together with various effects, a Line 6 Marshall Plexi simulation to Garageband and Logic.

Italy (September 2007)

This was recorded in Italy, during our vacation. I listened almost exclusively to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and it shows quite a bit. Recorded with a Brian Moore iGuitar, connected to a Line6 UX1, Riffworks and Garageband.

A slower song with a Fender Stratocaster rythm guitar with a Marshall Plexi, and an extensive solo on a Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty connected to a Line 6 with a JCM800 emulation.

I tried to emulate a Jon Lord type of organ in the phase out of this song. Recorded with Garageband and Logic.

Page me (July 2007)

I created this one after listening a lot to my Led Zeppelin albums during summertime. I copied the whole bunch of records to my iPod and played it continously. The theme is based on a riff Kurt Mitchell did on one of his internet sites and i liked it so much that i wanted to mess arround with it. Recorded with 65‘ Stratocaster, Les Paul R9 Historic Collection, JVM Marshall, Garageband, Riffworks, plenty of effects and various drum loops.

The crow (June 2007)

I listened to quite a lot of Black Crowes at recording time and it shows.

Rocksong (April 2007)

I really like this one, tone, rhythm, guitar track over guitar track (lots of overdubs). Probably i got carried away too much with the mixing of the solo too much in front. Just Gibson Les Pauls with a JCM800 emulation and a tubescreamer for rhythm. The synths are not synths but several guitar effects combined. Not much after this a started with Garageband and had several synths available. Because i don‘t have a good name for this one it is just called rocksong.

Haze (January 2007)

Like usual a recording done on a sunday.
I had this idea of a crunched guitar sound Hendrix like, with a lot of a Cry Baby Wha, i used my Plexi plugin, a Univibe effect, some Tubescreamer in the solo. Some chorus and flangers in the clean rhythm guitar track.

Luke (August 2006)

I really had a hard time making the guitar rhythm section in the first part of the song because the bending was not too easy in the beginning to me at this speed. I really needed to practice this.

For the chorus i thought of Lalo Schifrins music for „Streets of San Francisco“ because i really like the WhaWha sound in the title music of this TV show.

Furious (May 2006)

This song is just a wall of sound. Experimenting with my new Line 6 stuff.

I used the riffs in a former band and just wanted to record something quickly to get used to hard disk recording.

Stampede (January 2006)

Done for Arnos 40th. birthday just because he thought i will not do it.