World Under Blood tracking

[James Murphy]

felt this deserved it's own thread (already posted it as a reply in the "NEW CKY" thread)....

just got home from 10 days in Southern California... spent 5 of them tracking Deron Miller of CKY for his World Under Blood album for Nuclear Blast. He gave me the new CKY CD, "Carver City", and it's very cool.... really digging it. We had a blast hanging and tracking... used my mobile rig in his spare room, borrowed a guitar and PODxt from Michael Keene of The Faceless, captured D.I. (Radial JDV mk3) for re-amping back at home. the album is shaping up quite nicely and will feature two cover songs as well: Malevolent Creation's "Alliance Or War", and Megadeth's "Wake Up Dead". Rhythm tracking is all we did (drums were already done at Raymond Herrera from Fear Factory's personal studio) and Deron KILLED IT!

hadn't decided to borrow the xt and guitar yet when i took this one.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

I love mobile rigs.
Looks like it was all smooth sailing then?

 

[ATLA]

sweet! looking forward to this!

 

[James Murphy]

yep, very easy going, unlike my rental cars... two flats thanks to tire debris from from a big truck on my first one, then another unexplained flat in the parking lot of the Nuclear Blast/Century Media offices (thankfully there's a garage right next door) and someone knocked the driver's side-view mirror off while i was in a restaurant eating shortly after i left the Metal Blade offices on my second one.

thankfully, i had paid the additional insurance.

 

[Jaymz]

Oooof ive spotted something else I like, that black clip the guy has muting his top strings, do they have a brand name? I hate using cellotape on my strings!

 

[Metal Overload]

James, really looking forward to this, i love this band, the songs on their myspace are killer, this gonna be one of my favorite releases this year!!

 

[Metaltastic]

Oooof ive spotted something else I like, that black clip the guy has muting his top strings, do they have a brand name? I hate using cellotape on my strings!

Ah, good eye dude - though masking tape works just fine for me!

 

[Uladyne]

Oooof ive spotted something else I like, that black clip the guy has muting his top strings, do they have a brand name? I hate using cellotape on my strings!

I like using the foam that comes with EMG packaging.

 

[James Murphy]

for me, tape kinda buzzes and works loose.... what you're seeing is a just a piece of the standard gray foam that comes with EMG pickups in the packaging and with other electronics... i save that stuff and cut it down as needed.... here i just stuck it under the B & E strings when he told me he wouldn't be playing them on that particular song. it's thick enough to stay in place and keep the strings dampened. i love that stuff.

 

[James Murphy]

I like using the foam that comes with EMG packaging.

ha, you nailed it.

 

[Jaymz]

Haha good man Greg! Ahh I see, looks like ill be ordering a new EMG set then hehe

Nice tip!!

 

[::XeS::]

Ahahah....I use that EMG's foam too

 

[M.Lehto]

for me, tape kinda buzzes and works loose.... what you're seeing is a just a piece of the standard gray foam that comes with EMG pickups in the packaging and with other electronics... i save that stuff and cut it down as needed.... here i just stuck it under the B & E strings when he told me he wouldn't be playing them on that particular song. it's thick enough to stay in place and keep the strings dampened. i love that stuff.

Maybe a stupid question, but is there a reason why it's not on the top of the neck (in 1st fret)? I usually put that stuff on there, as then those strings don't rise higher than the others on the "picking area". Damn, I'm bad explaining here.

 

[Kazrog]

Awesome! Looking forward to this as well.

 

[James Murphy]

Maybe a stupid question, but is there a reason why it's not on the top of the neck (in 1st fret)? I usually put that stuff on there, as then those strings don't rise higher than the others on the "picking area". Damn, I'm bad explaining here.

he's playing rhythm guitar... chords with the root on the first fret just lead to the player moving the foam. also, anything that he plays that causes a fret to be pressed inadvertently on those strings above the first fret will still produce an undampened sound since the foam would be below where the unintentional fretting happens.... putting it higher keeps it out of the range of anything he's playing and guarantees that even if a fret on one of those strings is accidentally depressed no significant sound will happen... c'mon now

 

[M.Lehto]

Ok, I'll try this next time,thanks.