| Every
guitarist wants to capture a killer sound, but how do you do it?
There are so many variables that need to be taken into account. In
his CD and its companion book, Recording The Electric Guitar - It's
All About Tone, Jon breaks down these variables so you can
understand them fully. He then demonstrates how he developed the
guitar sounds for the hit recordings of his group, The Killer Whales. |
| Jon starts off
with demonstrations of one guitar part with seven distinctly different
guitar tones. Jon then presernts you audio demos that give different
results because of different guitar choices, different pickups, new or
old strings, how the strings are plucked and by using different
amplifiers etc. Jon points out that as a recording musician you
will have to learn what works for yourself as a guitarist. Jon is
not encouraging the listener to use his sounds but develop one's own
sound. |
| Jon describes a recording session
where he had nine guitars available and how
the first part of the session was reviewing the different guitar sounds
that could be obtained with these different guitars.
He then reveals how, by wiring pick up switches in a guitar,
he can get 10 different basic tones out of one
instrument. Jon then moves to different
amplifier and speaker sounds. After getting through the numerous
audio examples in the first eleven cuts of the CD (out of a total of
25), the reader gets a real good idea of how to develop and test out
one's own electric guitar sounds, |
| Jon has many
examples of how guitar processors, delay, compression, gating, guitar
amp simulators and other "tricks" that can be used to get the final
recorded sound. Jon doesn't seem to be holding back, but genuinely
willing to share his experiences with the listener. After you get
through listening to these, you probably will not be confused or bored,
but instead be sort of itching to try these out in a studio for
yourself. |
| In the
multiple micing descriptions in CD track 16 and later
in tracks 22 & 23, Jon shows with demos how each microphone in his
setups contribute to the guitar sounds he recorded on two different
Killer Whale releases and other setups he has tried.
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| Jon describes
the electric guitar as being "one of the most expressive instruments
ever invented by man" with the "ability of making music exciting."
You would find it pretty hard to disagree with him after listening to
this CD. |
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