I just repaired an old guitar today. An old Ibanez RX guitar. The input jack wasn't soldered correctly and it came out of the jack. In the process, I cleaned it up at the studio. Polished the frets, restrung it and set the action a bit lower than it was. It was like a whole new guitar to me. I immediately wrote some riffs on it and I played it all day today, except for Fear The State rehearsal. I think I might track some parts tomorrow with it, and there was talk about doing a video with it as well, due to it's color. Go grab your old ax and recreate it!
BTW...Hard Luck Kings out of Los Angeles has me up on their website as a KING! www.HardLuckKings.com along with the Likes of Jason Ellis of XM Radio! go Check that out! -Marc
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Cassette recording in the Digital Recording Age
I love the cassette. I know. It sounds bad, and it breaks and it "warbles", but it's cheap, it's quick and it's amazing at hearing what I just did five minutes ago that I think might be my next big riff!
Ever see the movie Pic Of Destiny? There's a section where they didn't hit record and they missed the great idea. That's what I'm talking about.
This past week I watched Jimmy Page play in the Documentary "This Might Get Loud".
I can't get over how amazing he produces sound from the guitar. I FEEL IT when he plays...on video. (Imagine if I was in the same room? I'd explode from Feeling, for sure.) I spend hours of days of years trying to do what he does.
So This week, I dropped the handheld radioshack cassette in front of the practice amp in the room my daughter calls the "guitar room" and I recorded 30 minutes of guitar music that will eventually morph into 5 or 6 songs for something. Maybe a Fear The State song, or a riff for TV production or for the many Hip Hop people I've been working with in the studio this summer...who knows. But the point is, I captured the music while I jammed through it on my cassette and I think you should too. Don't whine & don't cry it sounds bad. Just get those ideas down and get it done. This might be your next big hit.
Ever see the movie Pic Of Destiny? There's a section where they didn't hit record and they missed the great idea. That's what I'm talking about.
This past week I watched Jimmy Page play in the Documentary "This Might Get Loud".
I can't get over how amazing he produces sound from the guitar. I FEEL IT when he plays...on video. (Imagine if I was in the same room? I'd explode from Feeling, for sure.) I spend hours of days of years trying to do what he does.
So This week, I dropped the handheld radioshack cassette in front of the practice amp in the room my daughter calls the "guitar room" and I recorded 30 minutes of guitar music that will eventually morph into 5 or 6 songs for something. Maybe a Fear The State song, or a riff for TV production or for the many Hip Hop people I've been working with in the studio this summer...who knows. But the point is, I captured the music while I jammed through it on my cassette and I think you should too. Don't whine & don't cry it sounds bad. Just get those ideas down and get it done. This might be your next big hit.
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