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Recording: "This Little Light Of Mine"

I did some recording yesterday evening, roughly between 9.45pm and 10.30pm. It is part of my ongoing process of trying to "learn the ropes" with the Tascam 2488MkII, and this track is therefore probably not going on any albums, though I might make it available in some other way.

The recording itself is a more or less straight copy of Roger McGuinn's Folk Den rendition of "This Little Light Of Mine", which he plays very much in a Byrds sort of style, using his Rickenbacker 37012RM "signature" electric 12-string. I wanted to see how close I could get to his recording, using my Steinberger Sceptre electric guitar and Roland VG-8EX V-Guitar System (which has a pretty good McGuinn-style Rickenbacker 12-string patch created by VG-8 user Les Fradkin).

Anyway, I didn't finish the recording last night, but managed to lay down the following tracks (all using patches on the VG-8):

1. "Rickenbacker 12-string" - accompaniment
2. "Rickenbacker 12-string" - lead
3. "Electro-acoustic 12-string" - rhythm
4. "Fender Jazz" bass

I'm definitely going to replace the VG-8 bass part with one played on my Squier Precision Special, and the VG-8 "acoustic 12" part might not survive either, but at least I have something to build on here. Hopefully I will get the chance to record the rest later this week, and will let you know here how I get on.

Labels: recording

posted by Tim @ 08:49