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Worked on a new song recently. It's not really finished, but I like the sound of it so I figured I'd put it out as is, and update it in the future as it gets more complete. Lots of guitars, and freakin' chimey bells! It doesn't get any better then that ;-)

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Picked up a Sennheiser e609 mic earlier today after reading a few reviews of them a while back. Tried it out by recording a quick 15 second loop with 3 guitar tracks. Hard left is a mellow Strat picking thing, hard right is a crunchier Strat playing chords, and center is an SG lead line.  What blows me away is how well the multiple guitar tracks blend (without me doing anything in the mix but setting volume levels) while each track still sounds clear and distinct.

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Last weeks Colin Hay show got me hooked on a bunch of his songs. This morning I worked out the chords to "Beautiful World" and enjoyed playing it so much that I thought I'd make a quick recording of it to test out the studio Im putting together. It's just me & my ej200 acoustic, which if Im honest was always my favorite combination - must record more acoustic stuff like this!

If you want to hear the way better original version, its on Colin Hay's album "Going Somewhere" (here on iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beautiful-world/id65116418?i=65116242)

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Last Friday night I saw Colin Hay (songwriter & frontman of Australian band 'Men At Work') playing an acoustic gig in Cave Creek, AZ. It was a great show, and he's a fantastic songwriter & singer - man would I kill for a voice like that! 'Gathering Mercury' from his new album of the same name has to be one of the best songs I've heard in a while. Also did you know he's actually Scottish, not Australian?

Anyway, after getting to bed around 1am - long drive home! - I wake up at 4am singing a song. I had the chords & lyrics, everything! So I had to get up & write the words down, and figure the chords out. Here's a first pass recording of it - crank it on some good speakers :-)

And yes, I must have been dreaming about William Blake... :-)

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Started messing around with that "Tele Shimmer" loop from last week, and ended up going in a completely different direction with it. Its still only a minute long and completely unfinished, but man it got kinda funky with some big beats, groovy bass, and a vocal effect that kinda reminds me of Matthew Sweet...probably because I was listening to him this morning :-)

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Just a little noodly something I've been messing around with for the last hour :-) A few tracks of Tele through a Pod HD, USB'd straight into Ableton Live - recording has never been so easy!

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