This song is very much a half finished WIP.  I lost my voice last week after a cold, and when I tried to sing this on Friday I got only one terrible take done before my voice gave out again.  So I will definitely be redoing the vocals on this!

It has recently come to my attention, that there are people out there who don’t know what WIP stands for.  WIP = Work in Progress.  There you go.  I usually use the term to refer to something that isn’t finished yet, something that is in fact, a work in progress

I am trying out a new Wordpress plug-in called Podpress.  Unlike the previous media player I’ve been using (I think it’s called Wimpy) this one should show up in the RSS feed.  I guess I’ll find out soon.

Special thanks again to Michelle Klaessens (The Rock Factory) for a fabulous mastering job, Mark Towl (Stapleton) on drums, and Mike Johns (Revolution Brother) on lead guitar.

The Gear (because recording is always just an excuse to play with fun things!):

The song was entirely recorded and mixed at home in Cubase, with my ancient Tascam US122 USB interface.  I used Adobe Audition for a little wave form editing in the form of noise removal on a funny hiss from the piano (must try solve that some day).

The Drums are recorded from the line out of a Yamaha DTXpress electric drum kit – thanks to Go West Music Henderson for the loan.

The piano is a line out taken from my Yamaha CLP-230 Clavinova via a stereo headphone output

The rhythm guitar is my 1999 Ibanez RG520 (V7 and V8 pickups) played through my Peavey Triple X head and Peavey 5150 cab, which is mic’d up with an Audix OM2 dynamic mic and an Audio Technica AE6100 dynamic mic.

The lead guitar is Mikes Fender Strat played through his bizarre set-up involving an amp that’s rewired to bypass some bit of it and another external unit.  I’ll have to ask him about it sometime because I didn’t pay much attention at the time.

The vocals are me singing though an Audix OM2 straight into the interface, that was turned up to the max to get a bit of distortion going on. (In hindsight this was probably not the best way to do it! )