In The Studio

[Sailor Steve]

DAY TWO-AND-A-HALF

I went to the studio alone today, to start fixing and finalizing bass tracks. Unfortunately I didn't have my processor with me, which messed everything up. The first day I had recorded with one of my two Peavey six-strings, going through a Digitech bass processor, which lets you program different sounds. The second day I used the other Peavey, which has aftermarket EMG pickups, again with the processor. Today I tried a borrowed Fender Jazz Bass. The sound was good, but several of the songs require the six-string. So we spent some time trying to get the right sound, and then made one song perfect, drums and bass both. Later in the day I went by our practice place and picked the processor up, so Thursday should be more productive.

No pictures, as it was just the two of us, but Chris the drummer put up a new one from last Saturday, and it has Clay in it, even though his back is to the camera.


Clay the lead guitarist, Kelly the engineer, Steve the bass player and Charles the singer/songwriter. Chris the drummer isn't in this one, since he took the picture, but there are lots of him anyway.

I can tell exactly which song we're playing. We're doing Clay's song 'Lady In Black', and the intro and exit have no drums, which is why Chris was free to take the picture. The other clue is that that intro is why I wanted a six-string in the first place. I play a run that goes from the very top if the high C-string to almost the very bottom of the low B-string - almost four octaves. So this was taken at the very start of that run, when I'm playing up near the top of the neck.