Introduction To & Evil Is In The Hand Of The Beholder

Er... and BBZ is:
 
Bapu - Bass
Beepster - Guitars
Zargg - Vocals

Beepster
Er... and BBZ is:
 
Bapu - Bass
Beepster - Guitars
Zargg - Vocals

How DID you guys ever come up with that name??? 
 
(I guess the drummer's name didn't fit?  )
 
Ok, ok!  Jokes are done (for now)!  
 
Good job! 

Also I think since we put him through quite a bit more shenanigans than he charged us for I'll mention the drummer, Hugo, on this is a for hire session player.
 
So if anyone needs some drum work in this style done we could pass along a message to him to see if he's available. His rates were surprisingly reasonable for what we got.
 

eph221
The guitar at the beginning sounded stellar!  Overall FIVE STARS!

Thanks. That's my Yamaha Pacifica "Strat" set to a mix of neck and middle single coils run through my old Traynor TS140 (sadly not a tube amp but still sounds pretty nice for this type of thing). I ran the signal out from the TS140's balanced line out (XLR) into my old American made Mackie CR1601 mixer (the old modular behemoth model... not one of the newer models) where I gavee it a slight treble boost before sending it out to a line in on the interface (Focusrite Scarlett 18i6).
 
Once in the box, since it was a direct signal from the Traynor, I needed to apply a cabinet sound. I used GR5 and loaded up the 5150 cabinet* (no head or anything, just the cabinet) and the Little Reflektor reverb module which is turning into one of my personal faves. After that I ran it all through an instance of CA2A and IIRC the Softube Sat Knob to give it all a little extra bite.
 
I manually drew in a level automation envelope at the end of the chain to knock down the peaks/raise low parts and used a send at the bus level to split part of it off to a verb bus (Breverb) which was also being fed by the DimPro cello/double bass parts (Garritan Pocket Orchestra) thus putting them all in the same "room" (at least that was the intent... I think it worked).
 
Baps asked me to work out a little intro based on a short clip OhGrant had sent him and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to show off that I can do clean tone stuff as well (not just screeching high gain). The composition and performance angle was actually quite challenging because it's in Cminor which, I don't know about you, but I find to be one of the more awkward keys for guitar but it also led to some licks/positions/chords that I might not have tried in a simpler key with more accessible "open" notes.
 
I decided to do it "free time" (well it's 4/4 but no click) to let the part move as it wanted to but that of course meant it had to be nailed in a single take without any comping editing so there was LOTS of practicing and test tracking beforehand.
 
And that's what came out.
 
Just thought folks might find that useful/interesting. I'm pretty happy with it but I do really need to get a nice little tube amp for this type of thing.
 
Cheers.
 
*my intent originally was to used a Fender Twin modeled cabinet because ideally I would have tracked this through a twin and the TS140 is actually kind of like a tubeless Twin but once I started mucking about with it I was surprised to here how nicely the 4x12(?) 5150 cab sounded. I guess it might have even provided a bit of consistency since the bulk of the guits in the main song are running through 5150's. Dunno but usually the Traynor works nicely with the Twin cab sound so that was pleasant surprise. Just a bit meatier/darker which suits the composition.