HEVYDEVY FORUMS

I have posted the link in the Devin Townsend Band discussion page. Please feel free to ask me anything you want about the process here. The basic details are as follows:

I played a few different Gibson Les Pauls for the rhythm (a Custom and a Standard), a Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 for the bridge overdubs and my Ibanez RG7620 for the solo. I used a Marshall TSL100 through a Marshall cabinet for this recording as it was done over a year ago and I had not yet bought my Mesa Boogie. I also used a Digitech preamp for some parts and Amplitube for the bridge section. The guitars were miced with a Shure SM57 and a weird raygun looking Senheiser.

I played a Paul Reed Smith bass though a Trace Elliot tube combo, plus DIed the bass using an STK direct box.

I played/programmed the keys using a MIDI controller keyboard triggering sounds from a Roland JV1010 sound module.

I programmed the drums in Logic Audio using sounds from a friends sample bank.

I sang into an MXL condensor mic.

I produced and mixed this in Pro Tools LE, the experience of which made me realize how much I prefer Logic Audio. That is the platform I have used ever since.

The acoustic was used for the original tune that I recorded. This one is a fourteen thousand dollar Martin! Crazy shit! I would never pay that but it is a nice guitar.... but then, it would want to be!



Then there's the mics. I forgot about the little Shur eone, it looks like a 52a or something.



and then there's this bum...

Hey Greg, good stuff!

I think you have the vocals down almost perfectly, the part where Devin starts singing in the song, i could have sworn it was him... i like it!

one thing that bothered me though, is that synth are noy quite in tune with the rest (or the other way around).. the guitars are a bit far away, the electric ones, that is... the rest sounds good.. can't think of anything else, but i would love to hear more covers!

I was wondering when someone would pick that. I don't know what happened but somehow the guitars must have gotten out of tune between takes etc. It bugs the hell out of me but I'm glad most people seem to not have noticed..... *keeps fingers crossed* heh.... Oh well....