Mr. Moyer and I were discussing this one the other evening and I realized I had not posted a copy. Unfortunately this is a safety duplicate, I don’t have the original master. Still, it doesn’t sound too bad – my attempt at “Mutt Lange” production on a good song back in the day:

Another song from my live recording of the 2/22 Churchwood ABGB gig. This one is from the first set, called “Abraxas”.  Great playing by everyone and I love Joe’s lyrics.  “…I wrangle serpents because they rankle me…”

Another song from my live recording of the 2/22 Churchwood ABGB gig, “Duende”:

I setup my guerrilla recording rig at ABGB on Sat 2/22 to capture the “Churchwood” show.  This band is awesome – redefining roots, rock and progressive music at the same time. Thanks again to Paul Minor for helping make it happen, here’s the first rough mix “Aranzazu”:

Quick demo of parallel vs. series wiring on a Duncan Hot Rails Strat bridge pickup. I recorded my Strat “Rosie” below direct into the computer. The Hot Rails bridge is wired series/parallel on the “tone” pot (actually a variable split pot).

THESE ARE NOT MEANT TO BE GREAT TONES JUST A COMPARISON. I played some snippets of an old Trapeze song, there are 4 snippets on the track. Parallel first, Series 2nd, Parallel again 3rd, Series 4th. I added a little doubler/slap effect to try and make it sound less crappy, the ONLY thing that changes during the clip is parallel/series. I’ve posted the same clip twice, direct and with a simulated “amp”.

This first clip is the guitar direct (no EQ) with some slight compression to smooth out the level (series is quite a bit hotter in output).  Recorded direct the tonal difference is pretty dramatic. Parallel first and then it alternates.
Direct only:

Next I used the same clip but added a basic guitar amp plugin to simulate what an amp does. Notice the difference is not so dramatic, the crunch of the “amp” helps the series tone be less muddy. Parallel first and then it alternates.
Amp plugin added:

Captured a little audio from our gig on 12/21 and thanks to Laura for taking pictures!

House of Blue Light:

Lights/Caroline:

Uottaknow:

BadBoy:

Another one from my Austin Recording “residency”.  Real B3 and Leslie. I’ll post more details soon.

We were messing around with this old Police song the other night and managed to get a decent take. We played it live as a trio (I’m enjoying playing bass for a change of pace), I sang the low part as a guide track and then we overdubbed the high vocal and guitar solos. We had fun, more Police songs to come…

Brian Harmer: Guitars
Dennis Bruhn: Drums
John Viehweg: Bass, Vocals

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