Last week I recorded tracks for a truck ad, and picture is going through revisions, so I started cleaning up the track to conform to new picture (this is what we do in Ad Land).
One of the things I had to do was record a couple of different phrases and add them to an existing track, cutting out parts the clients didn’t care for. I remembered that I used my 594, so I used it again; the amp and the mics were set up exactly as before.
I couldn’t figure out why the tone wasn’t matching!
Try as I might, I couldn’t get it sounding anywhere near the same. Then it dawned on me.
Wrong 594. I cut the original tracks with my soapbar 594!
Duh! I am a doofus. But it goes to show how different tracks sound with everything the same but the pickups. And I mean, huge difference! Might as well have been cut on two different planets.
As soon as I cut in the parts with the soapy, I was in business! Whew!
Maybe it’s safer to only have one guitar, but it’s nice to be able to really pull in the exact tone I want for a track by having a few. Don’t get me wrong, I always knew this, but often maintained I only need one guitar at a time. I guess it’s nice to have several.
“Les, we’ve been telling you that for like umpteen years.”
“I like giving everyone the opportunity to say, ‘Told ya so’.”
One of the things I had to do was record a couple of different phrases and add them to an existing track, cutting out parts the clients didn’t care for. I remembered that I used my 594, so I used it again; the amp and the mics were set up exactly as before.
I couldn’t figure out why the tone wasn’t matching!
Try as I might, I couldn’t get it sounding anywhere near the same. Then it dawned on me.
Wrong 594. I cut the original tracks with my soapbar 594!
Duh! I am a doofus. But it goes to show how different tracks sound with everything the same but the pickups. And I mean, huge difference! Might as well have been cut on two different planets.
As soon as I cut in the parts with the soapy, I was in business! Whew!
Maybe it’s safer to only have one guitar, but it’s nice to be able to really pull in the exact tone I want for a track by having a few. Don’t get me wrong, I always knew this, but often maintained I only need one guitar at a time. I guess it’s nice to have several.
“Les, we’ve been telling you that for like umpteen years.”
“I like giving everyone the opportunity to say, ‘Told ya so’.”
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