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Thanks guys.

I also just want to mention it again. Big thank you to TwistedThoughts for the loan of the awesome sounding Maton acoustic for that video/recording!
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Hey cool! I love that guitar. I feel lucky that I get to play it every time I pick it up.

Was that recording just one rhythm track + solo?

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twistedthoughts wrote:Hey cool! I love that guitar. I feel lucky that I get to play it every time I pick it up.

Was that recording just one rhythm track + solo?
Yeah that guitar was amazing, I'm really on the look out for one myself now!

It was one take split on two tracks, the DI through the LR.Baggs unit on the left and a condenser mic on the right.
The solo is just the DI, recorded afterwards with some effects applied in Logic.
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Thought it was about time for an update with where we are at.

I guess the big news is that we are heading up to Auckland next week for a week to record two songs for radio play at Roundhead Studios.
We've signed on Sam Browne (Black River Drive) to produce two songs with us, and engineer extraordinaire Zorran Mendonsa to do all the technical 'engineery' stuff.

We are taking our photographer up with us, so will hopefully have a pile of pics and footage of the process.
You can follow along at our facebook page if you want: https://www.facebook.com/SettingFireToStacey

We're all pretty damn excited about the opportunity and are looking forwards to seeing what we can come out of it with.
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Wicked news!!
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Yeah awesome :)
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We have just uploaded the first of the tracks we recorded up in Auckland at Roundhead Studios with Sam Browne from Black River Drive Producing and Zorran Mendonsa doing all of the technical stuff. Some of you will have already heard it, but it never sounded this good! Check it out here:

https://soundcloud.com/setting-fire-to- ... othing-mp3

If you like what you hear please like our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SettingFireToStacey
If you feel like being really nice, how about sharing our latest post about the new song on your own FB page!

Cheers, I hope you enjoy it.
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Yarrr it sounds freaking awesome!!
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Liked, shared, tweeted - I drew the line at "pinning" it though. Pinterest is making me fat.
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Haha. Thanks Hamo!

I have to admit, I've never actually looked at Pinterest. I don't need to be any fatter. So might stay away.
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sopachrga wrote:Haha. Thanks Hamo!

I have to admit, I've never actually looked at Pinterest. I don't need to be any fatter. So might stay away.
I don't look at it either. My wife, her mum, her sister and sister-in-law all look at it. Then they see recipes, and then they make them. Then I eat them. It's a vicious circle.
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hamo wrote:My wife, her mum, her sister and sister-in-law all look at it. Then they see recipes, and then they make them. Then I eat them. It's a vicious circle.
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I think it was a good move both commercially and artistically to remove some of the F bombs. Sounds much better now.

I can hear what I think are Sam-isms. Maybe they're not, but the parts that sound Sam-ish to me are the post-first-chorus melodic part and the repetitive guitar melody during the chorus. These changes are good and leave space for you to breathe a little in live performances.

What happened to that fucking blazing solo you did on the video? Man that was killer. This one is still very good (very professional sounding), although I was anticipating some kick ass shred lick from 2:31 - 2:37 which never came :cry: . I suppose I should remember that 99.9% of your target audience will probably see guitar solos as "things that get in the way of the singing". They're probably right.

But then what the fuck do I know? I currently have 0 hit songs. In fact, if you count the songs I've written that aren't hits, I actually have negative-something hit songs.

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