A couple of old recordings

[alerich]

My ex-wife was a big Crosby, Stills and Nash fan. She was on some fan based forum and they periodically would produce fan based CSN tribute albums. They did one around 1998 and she suggested that I submit something. I chose Neil Young's "Ohio". I threw this together over a week or so. I used a Marshall JMP-1 preamp into a Marshall 50 watt per side mono-block power amp driving a late 70s Marshall 4x12 with 30 watt Rola Celestion (G12H30) speakers. All the guitars (1992 Les Paul Standard with stock pickups) were close miked with an SM-57. The bass was an old P Bass that was recorded through the JMP-1 then straight into the board with the cabinet emulator. I did all the vocals with the SM-57 and the drums were a Yamaha RX-15 drum machine. This song was recorded digitally using N-Track recording software.

http://www.alerich.com/tunes/ohio.mp3

This other one is an old country standard that we rocked up and did in one of my old bar bands. The main rhythm guitar (right) is a 78 Marshall JMP 2204 (which I later sold to Randall Aiken) into the 4x12 cab mentioned above. The "fill" rhythm guitar (left) is a Mesa Boogie MK IIC with an EV speaker. The solos were the Marshall amp and cab. The guitars were either the Les Paul Standard or a Les Paul Custom with EMG pickups. I can't recall how I did the bass track. It may have been one of those little Marshall Bass 12 combos. Same mic for vocals and same drum machine. I recorded this on a Tascam 8 track cassette portastudio in 1994.

http://www.alerich.com/tunes/muddywater.mp3

Fun stuff. I haven't recorded any rock stuff in a long time. Just guitar/piano duets with my girlfriend. I have a folder on my pc with about a jilllion little riff wav files.

[sluckey]

I like it, especially Ohio.

[Ed_Chambley]

Really cool.  That is a lot of work and sounds great.  Love the high gain/high energy versions of these.

[alerich]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed them. The hard part is always programming the drums. After that it's all downhill. I like these software drum apps that allow you to assign each drum item to its own track. On that old Yamaha I panned the snare hard left and everything else hard right to get it to tape/disc so that I could control the snare tone and level. Of course, that means you have to get the levels of "everything else" right the first time. Some attempts were better than others. I do not miss that old Tascam 434 reel to reel I started out on back in the 80s. Bouncing tracks hella sucked. I did an updated digital version of "Muddy Water" some years later but I actually prefer this analog version. Not because it's analog necessarily but it's just a better performance.

While my ex loves CSN she really loathes Neil Young. Listening to me mix "Ohio" for several weeks did not help matters much.

[EL34]

Sounds good


Glad you posted the clips

[tubenit]

Yeah,  I liked those.  Thanks for sharing!   

With respect, Tubenit

[Ritchie200]

Great stuff!  I had one of those Tascams and everything I ever did sounded like crap!  Not that anything I do now sounds any better, but after laying down a couple of tracks on the tape it got really noisy.  Yours sounds really good!  Nice job, its good to hear our members jam!


Jim