Modern Rock guitar vol 134 "Guitar Shrimp"

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Modern Rock guitar vol 134 "Guitar Shrimp"
Ok, I am pleased to announce that I completed and released my 134th modern rock guitar album. This was not my usual style, but rather was a traditionally recorded album that I was inspired after hearing some modern heavy metal albums or whatever you call 2000-2008 metal guitar, detuned 7 string, death metal, etc... I had a lot of fun with this album, and there were some tracks I really liked as they really hit the spot of what I had intended. This album is not fo the fint of heart though haha. Still very musical, but geez it is heavy!! Oh thats a hale shark on the cover and there are little guitars (guitarshrimp) swimming around it .....cool!!
Ok for the metal guitar sounds, I used the Crate v33 tube amp $xxx new and the digitech rp-50 multif/x pedal ($59 new at the time, now can be had for $30-40 if not less?!?!). The rp-50 is one of my favorite pedals!! Cheap and does so much and soudn is of really good quality. Ok, I came up with some crazy guitar sounds, some really are pretty unique and I think I did nail the typical modern metal guitar sounds, even down to detuning my guitar low e string to a B to imitate the seven string stuff on two tracks. My cat tiny even makes a vocal appearance as he meowed into the microphone. Anyway, I just did this album for fun and its not my normal style or gear at the moment

the crate v33 tube amp and rp-50 make a potent combination of guitar sounds..wow!! Though the crate is inherently noisy when on idle, so a noise gate or a rocktron hush unit would have been nice. Still that simple setup gave me the guitar sounds I was looking for. Granted a couple are over the top bordering on sheer controlled harmonic musical noise.


I also used a fender mexican strat with a crazy humbucking pickup seymour duncan sh-8 invader pickup which has a super high output and makes notes feedback and easy to get that zakk wylde harmonics. The guitar I had bought used for $xxx which was a good deal as the invader pickup is $80 by itself. If you look in the picture, you can see the invader pickup (the other pikups are white, the invader is black). I have no regrets buying this guitar and when I need a rock guitar sound or a feedbacking guitar, this is it!! The mexican strat has a fender type neck rather than a fast ibanez type neck and in fact this one has a weird setup for now, where the bridge comes forward against the body of the guitar to make it almost like a guitar with a locking nut. I plan on changing it back to a standard setup eventually.

Overall, I like this album, however, I found it tedious, to record track by track, I am so used to improvising and looping that this was a bit like pulling teeth, I am pleased with the results but it is no where near as fun as how I normally record. Less stressful because you can go back and fix mistakes, but geez. especially the bass. My hats off to all those bassists out there who have the patience to play bass. It is quite a repetitive task. Anyway I am really pleased with this album and it made me really appreciate my normal approach to recording which I took for granted after all these years.