Dónde está la guitarra electric? Forgive me if that’s incorrect. Yo soy un duogringo. Regardless of my Spanish skills, the answer is that it’s in midtown Manhattan, specifically in D’Angelico’s showroom.
Remember last week, when I was showing the different guitar sounds elicited from their Premier Brighton? Of course, that was for the benefit of our current project!
¿Dónde Está El Baño? electric guitars: rig run down
- ASUS Chromebook Flip C100PA
- Beyerdynamic DT-240 PRO headphones
- BandLab Link Digital audio interface
- MXL V67G microphone
- Pig Hog 10ft XLR cable
- D’Angelico Premier Brighton
- Fender American Standard Stratocaster
- Fender Blues Junior
- Pig Hog 10ft instrument cables
- Hotone Tuner
- Palmer BatPack 8000
- Dunlop Gator Grip 1.14mm picks
- BandLab free, online, in-browser DAW
Recording
As I have noted in last week’s review of the D’Angelico Premier Brighton, with Dónde, I wanted to see if all the electric guitar sounds I like could be generally emulated with that single guitar.
As can be seen in that review, by and large, I pulled it off!
But, in terms of actual setup and recording, everything was very much standard.
- Firstly, I set up my gear; in this case, that meant…
- Audio interface into Chromebook
- Microphone into audio interface
- Microphone positioned in front of amp
- D’Angelico Premier Brighton plugged into pedalboard
- Pedalboard plugged into amp
- Secondly, I did my admin; in this case that meant…
- Exporting a mixdown of drums, bass, acoustic guitars, and ukulele
- Creating a new project for electric guitars
- Importing the mixdown into the project, and changing it to the correct BPM
Thirdly, I got a level.
Finally, I recorded some electric guitar!
In conclusion of the session, all was not well. But, I didn’t learn this until I got home and started adjusting the samples I recorded for latency.
The guitar solo I recorded in the showroom sounded terrible. However, it wasn’t the Premier Brighton or the amp that was at fault – it sounded massively out of key. Perhaps it’s something that got lost in the lack of direct monitoring?
In any case, it wasn’t that big a deal – I simply set up at home and laid it down with my Strat.
Conclusion
To conclude, here’s what the electric guitars for Dónde… sound like.
Despite the lack of diversity in guitars used, I think I managed to capture enough of the varying sounds of the D’Angelico Brighton Premier to give it the full guitar sound that I aim for.
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