2025 02 05 An Eternity

This was easy. Instead of recording specific microphones and creating a song with numerous clips I am playing for 6 minutes without pause and changing amplifiers and recording channels with my footswitch. Instead of recording single microphones I'm recording all 9 of them. So when an amp is playing there are 9 mics recording it.
Sometimes multiple microphones is problematic and can give phase canceling issues, but my speaker booth has sound barriers hanging between the two halves, helping with isolation. Also each microphone was checked to phase align them, so they'll add to one another rather than cancel. With the distances at random spaces, this is an impossibility. What typically happens with distant microphones is the bottom end is enhanced. They no longer capture the top end frequencies and mostly record resonance.
There is a background loop playing over the drums, and then a bass guitar was added. These loop 6 times throughout. Each clip is approximately 60 seconds. The lead guitar line is one single take, uninterrupted, 6 minutes long. Guitar is the ESP LTD Evertune 7 string limited edition in Cranberry Burst. The Fishman Modern Pickups are switched throughout, sometimes using the pair, sometimes the bridge, and sometimes split coil is employed.
This is perhaps my slowest of all songs, it's at 62bpm. I was thinking I should enter a shred contest with this one. ;)
Just kidding...
-Jim
Production notes:
FL Studio 21.2.3 32bit WAV 48k Sample Rate
EZ Drummer 2 62bpm
Singer Songwriter Mellow Backbeat Kit
Eighties Pop Grooves EZ Loving
Waves CLA-2A
Fabfilter Pro Q3
FL Limiter
Bass DI
Ibanez Iceman
RME Fireface UFX Hi Z Input
Waves IDX
FL Limiter
Background Guitar
ESP LTD M1007B-ET Cranberry Burst
Fishman Fluence Modern Alnico
Mesa Boogie Rectifier Recoreding Preamp
Peavey Classic 50/50 Poweramp
L 2x Celestion Alnico 100 -SM57
R 2x Celestion Alnico Blue -SM57
Rupert Neve Designs Dual Shelford
Eventide Orville Loneliness
Lead Guitar
Patch 1
Victoria Victorilux
2x Eminence GA-SC64 -Sennheiser e609
UK Sound 1173 Mic Preamp
Eventide Orville Loneliness
Patch 4
Victoria Sovereign
2x Celestion G12M Greenback
Shure SM57 -Phoenix Audio DRS-Q4
Eventide Orville Gorgeous Delay
Patch 5
Black Widow MGP-1a
Marshall EL34 50/50
L 100% 2x Celestion G12M 20w
R 100% 2x Celestion G12H (75)
Shure SM57 -Dave Hill Designs Europa 1
Eventide Orville Gorgeous Delay
Patch 10
ADA MP-1
L Marshall EL34 50/50
L 100% 2x Celestion G12M 20w
L Shure SM57 -Dave Hill Designs Europa 1
R Peavey Classic 50/50
R 100% 2x Celestion Alnico Blue
R Shure SM57 -RND Dual Shelford
Eventide Orville Gorgeous Delay
Mix Buss
Waves SSL G Comp
FL Limiter
Loudness Penalty -.1dB
Pixabay Video Footage
DaVinci Reslove H.264 MP4

[@autocrow]

Sounds great. Big and full. Thats a lot of mics!

[@ladygraceent]

Love it...beautiful music...❤️🎁🛎👍

[@jimshomestudio]

@@ladygraceent Thank you, sometimes I make recordings of jam sessions such as this, without going into a more elaborate song production. It’s nice when folks say positive things because I can be reserved, knowing there’s more to the process.

[@A.L.Gardner]

That was absolutely beautiful ❤

[@jimshomestudio]

@@A.L.Gardner 🙏 Surprisingly easy on the ears. 😜

[@ccjmusic]

This sounds great Jim! You are a real master at recording and know how to get the best out of your gear. I made myself laugh reading your description as I first thought you were going to enter a "SHED" contest. 🤣

[@jimshomestudio]

@@ccjmusic ‘SHED’ LOL. I counter your Shred Contest with the slowest and most beautiful simple music I can make! LOL. two total chords going on here… 2! Both Major!
😜 That’s me though. If you can coax something nice from your guitar, it can be one note. One gorgeous note and you can listen to it repeatedly. Because it invokes a feeling in the listener. I think about all the music from the 70s, just incredibly recorded and beautiful, where less was truly more.
But who am I talking to here, Colin? You certainly understand these feelings more than almost anybody.

[@ccjmusic]

@@jimshomestudio I agree about using simple guitar, but that is mostly down to me not being able to play anything more than that.

[@Troutflies71]

Love it, its a testament to the fact that simple is just as impactful as complicated. I have a track close to release, just ordered some condenser mics that I am waiting for to get the acoustic solo's down. Im over the SM 57 tone. Looking forward to you input when I post it.

[@jimshomestudio]

@@Troutflies71 I’ve been wanting to get busy recording acoustics as well, but there’s a lot to it, those mics are significantly more expensive than a 57! I’ll stay tuned, congratulations Bill! 💪

[@Troutflies71]

​@@jimshomestudiosweetwater has some reasonably priced 2 mic bundles. Sub $200 may not be top notch but decent enough to get a better recording and eq from there.

[@jimshomestudio]

@ The question was raised recently about acoustic recording on a metal forum, and in that reply I mentioned that if I were going to record acoustics I would try to get a pair of Gefell M300s. The chances of that actually happening are slim, I don’t have an acoustic steel string anymore. Just my nylon, and it has seen better days.
Since I have no more inputs available on my audio interfaces, I’m looking at the modern RME equivalents. They don’t often go up to 20 channels in any single offering so I need to hop on their forum and start making inquiries. That’s too bad because I am very happy with my current RME interfaces, not a single complaint, no problems in over 10 years of use.
There’s only a couple pieces I would want to help me say I’m done growing, and they are very low in priority. First would be a Neve MBT, which is a master buss transformer adding color and compression. The other is Audioscape DA3A, the modern LA3A outboard. And that’s VERY low priority.
This may all take another 10 years, if ever. And I don’t know why, other than curiosity. I will be happy to keep my head down and focused on the main priority, writing songs.