Day 45: Let's Get Our Guitars

Finally we start tracking guitars. Drums and bass are all finished, Matt and Chris did an awesome job, everything sounds amazing. But now the real fun starts...it's pretty much Christmas for Rob and I. We rented a couple of amps, one being a Marshall from 1959 that comes up to my neck, and another by Mesa Boogie - both will knock your socks off. If you're aiming for high quality guitar Rob put a sign on the recording booth that reads "Enter At Your Own Risk". Whenever one of us goes in there to make an adjustment on one of the amps, we suddenly become overwhelmed with fear. If the other, the one sitting in the other room with the guitar, happens to hit a note on that guitar, the one in the booth could possibly die. That's how loud it is. Well maybe not, but if the guitar was strummed pretty hard for about a minute, the person in the booth would definitely have some serious hearing damage. Needless to say, we're very careful when someone's in the booth.
We started with one of the more rocking songs first, probably one of my favorites too. But first we played around with the different tones of the amps, mics, pedals, and guitars. This takes a while, or so I'm learning. I normally don't spend too much time on it personally, but when you're working with Tim and Rob you learn different. It definitely pays off in the end though.
After getting an amp setup, I started on the tune. The parts haven't been totally worked out yet, so we did some experimenting with different chords...which did get a bit frustrating. Probably my most frustrating moment of the recording process thus far. But thank God after taking a little break to chill out and think about the part it all worked out. We eventually reverted back to the original way I first played the part - this was a lot better. It sounds awesome too. I'm really excited for everything else to be recorded on top. It just keeps getting better and better, thank God.
We ended up getting off early tonight too, around 8:30pm I think. Rob and I hit up the Royal Bank - which has an amazingly smooth floor for moonwalking on - and then caught the Subway Home. Tonight we will get more than 5 hours of sleep. This is great news.
Until tomorow,

Jordan