20200301

#vmGuitar: Ticket to ride (Lennon - Mc Cartney), Catatonic variation on The Beatles

Ticket to ride (Lennon - Mc Cartney), Catatonic variation on The Beatles



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Briefly about gear used and recording process

Guitar:
- Squier Tele MIJ E6 Series, 1986-1987.
Guitar is stock, except:
- Wilkinson compensated bridge
- Neck PU was rewound at one time, to unknown spec. Guy who did it said he made it stronger.
- Strings: Tomastick BeBop 12, about 3.5 years old.
- Attached Roland GK3 MIDI pick up

Synths:
- Yamaha QY70
- Some soft synth loaded in Multitrack DAW
Recording gear and routing:
- Squier to Boss SE70.
- GK3 to GI20 converter, sending MIDI data simultaneously to Yamaha QY70 and to PC DAW.
- Boss SE70 and QY70 audio outputs plugged into Behringer BCA2000, connected via USB to PC DAW.

Sounds:
- "Chords", panned mid left: neck PU to Electro Acoustic preset on SE70
- "Solo", panned center: Squier/GK3/GI20 triggering Yamaha QY70, some flute preset, don't know for sure. Recorded into DAW as audio.
- Doubled solo, panned mid right: MIDI data from GK3, recorded simoultaneously with audio from QY70, triggering some DAW soft synth sound.
- Backing track, one repeating pattern, stereo: drums and bass QY70, from "Goa style" pattern, with "out of sync" percussion from some other "style".

MIX:
- EQ, compression, some delay and reverb on "chords".
- No editing, except fade out,  each track recorded in one take, no punch ins.