i forgot to do this on the 25th so here’s my recap.

king forever had about 95% of all the electric stuff. there is this one line that i have in questions that i did, but that was it – everything else was king forever. not the end didn’t have any at all.

for questions it was pretty simple; just a clean, wet reverb kind of simple line where each note lingers for quite awhile. i used darian’s guitar for that – a fender strat of some kind which was better quality than my telecaster. actually come to think of it, i don’t think we used my guitar at all.

king forever had a lot of parts. there was a rhythm track we did first basically for the choruses and bridge. he actually had me double that part – we recorded it twice on two different guitars (the same strat from earlier and another older model one with a different tone a friend of his had left there). the biggest trouble for me with that is the sound of the distortion. i don’t really love any of my distortion effects pedals, and i even borrowed some and didn’t love the tone of any of them on that particular song. i really wanted something fatter. so that will be something that’s revisited in the post stage and we’ll see if we can fatten it up with some software effects. other than that, no problem.

then there is the main lead line which is this delay heavy part that i used my line 6 pedal for in the rough version. darian prefers to generate those parts through software so that the signal coming in is clean and easier to manipulate. so we had to fool with his software a bit to get the delay right, but i like how it sounds now – it has a fuller quality than the original did which is cool.

then there were some fill bits for some of the verses, bridge, and ending of the song that were fairly simple to do. nothing of note there; pretty much everything was done with his strat if memory serves.

then there was the intro part, which is just a driving clean chord of sorts and a swell. we tried a lot of things for the swell; an inverted piano chord, an inverted driving electric chord, but none of it was what i wanted. but the next session time i came back and did ebow on it which, when combined with the previous distortion effect (and altered some) it came out pretty cool, so i’m happy with that now.

all in all it took much longer than i thought it would – which could easily be a mantra for this whole experience.

now onto vocals…