The 80's!!!! lol.

There was a rumour that a Def Leppard overproduced the Hysteria album so much that all the guitars were recorded one string at a time, so I had to give that a try. Was legitimately one of the most expensive albums ever recorded. You could say it literally cost them an arm and figuratively a leg.

Because I planned to do so many damn tracks, it meant that I totally phoned in the song itself, Im pretty sure I have already used something very similar to the intro riff for example. Oh well, the restriction of a song a week will happen sometimes.

Main powerchord riffs are recorded one note at a time, the root is hard left, fifth in the centre, octave hard right, then reversed for track 2, then a track of actually playing it like a real person in the centre, but made of a stereo source.
Then did the cleans and overdub bits to jump around left to right etc, seriously was a lot of tracks.

While I set the pedal challenge for myself, I kind of ignored my bass pedals, because I aint no bass player, but have decided to include some just to be a completionist.

Pedals:
BYO Clone of the Fulltone OCD: Because the source material was recorded direct through a rockman XP100, I had to find a low gain tone that could stack over and over without being too muddy when laid together. The OCD has a band pass setting that thins it out, and that really helped make all the tracks gel together as much as possible.
Tech 21 Bass Driver: Another direct in classic, but one I actually dislike, I can never get a decent dirty sound out of it. But for a direct clean sound it definitely worked quite well, and had a bit more fatness than my usual straight into Bias FX bass tone I reckon.

Tags: 80s, guitar, overdubs, shred, week 32 2022, View by:Nyarlos