Is this a song or a track? It doesn’t have lyrics (at least not yet), so I guess maybe it’s a track.
What to say about this one? Well, it was recorded sometime late last summer, and madrugada means dawn in Spanish and Portuguese.
The main guitar is a baritone guitar (though not the baritone tenor of my Orange Peel tracks). There’s also an acoustic part, which is probably my Epiphone Casino mic’ed and unplugged. Finally, the topline is the same baritone guitar played with an attack/decay swell effect modeled on the Boss’s famous (and now very expensive) 1979 Slow Gear pedal1. You can get a similar sort of ‘bowed’ effect by using an Ebow, but the pedal requires less skill.
The kick drum sound is me hitting the bass guitar or the baritone with the palm of my hand. I like how that came out. It’s certainly a lot quicker and easier than setting up mics around a drum kit.
I’ve written a melody line for this one and some scratch lyrics, but somehow they keep getting in the way of the slow gear melody line. Anyway, this one is still very much a work-in-progress. Thanks for listening regardless.
JCV
The pedal in the photo is from Reverb. Unfortunately, I don’t own this pedal - only Boss’s digital rendering of it.
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