Showing posts with label guitar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guitar. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

My Growing Guitar Fantasy

I've been working on tracks for an album I want to release sometime this year. On one of the tunes, I decided I wanted to lay down a real electric guitar track. I've used sampled guitars for some of the royalty-free music I've created on Pond5, but wanted something a little more realistic and expressive for this track. So I pulled out this old guitar of my son's - a Chinese knockoff of a Fender Strat, I think - and wailed away.

I'm no virtuoso by any stretch of the imagination. It was a struggle to get what I wanted. The intonation on the guitar isn't that great, but with processing (love that digital technology) I was finally able to get the sound I wanted. In fact, I'm so happy with the final outcome I plan to pull out an old classical guitar I've had forever and use it on some of the other tracks I'm prepping. Wish me luck.