Gene plays guitar-oh-ar!

Eugene Corduroy flew in from NYC over the weekend to do some tracking in ye old Workshoppe d' Romantic Air. Good Gene did his homework and had a slew of slippery lines written for You Were Too Old For Me. We started with some acoustic single-note pluckery with a 40+ year old, small-body Gibson acoustic that belonged to Momma Corduroy before him. Although I closed mic'd his guitar, to match my idea of creating some amount of obvious distance in this song, I also set up a spaced stereo pair of Oktava MC012s about 7 feet away and as many feet up in front of him; there are some quieter moments in this track that truly benefit from this. Secondly, we set up my lovely ol' lil' Gretsch 6161 tube amp (late-late-50s era) sitting perfectly perched upon an old dining room chair (appropriately belonging to Casimer, Sr. way back in the day). We closed mic'd the amp with a AT4047, but kept the pair of Oktavas up to capture the room as well. The amp (with the ol' Harmony semi-hollow body) sounds lovely...it breaks up just like you'd hope, but we had to keep on turning the poor thing off betwixt takes since it tended to exhibit a thunderous hum as the tubes glowed wildly.

We worked two days straight (w/o bathing, eating, or urinating) in order to tighten up the bits Gene previously worked out, as well as writing some new gems including a rather pretty "solo" during a poignant instrumental passage...All in all we were thrilled with our progress & sounds we conjured. Until next...

ta,

{csmr}

...outside of the Workshoppe looking a bit miffed for no good reason...