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  1. I don't recall what the recording gear was for my contribution, but the guitar > amp > cab was a Hamer Mirage II > Soldano Avenger > Friedman 1×12 with a Creamback. Kiss recorded a song called "Do You Wanna Touch Me Now?" for the Revenge album but never released it, and no one has ever heard it. This version was an attempt by my podcast partners and I to speculate what that song might have sounded like, and what lyrical content it might have had. The most notable thing about this song for me was my first attempt in 40 years of playing guitar at double tracking a solo. Came out pretty good. Great way to conceal clams! More than you ever wanted to know about the song here:
    4 points
  2. ok...The music to Beautiful Mess was written around 2009 with different lyrics. Then it was called These Are The Good Old Days...when me and my collaborator AC decided to record it for an upcoming 2021 rock album, the lyrics just didn’t fit with the shit show of a year 2020 turned into. So I wrote new lyrics and we recorded the song this Fall. I used my Hamer Newport through my blonde Bassman with Greenback 10s in the cab for the main rhythm part and for the fills. I changed to the bass channel of the amp for the fills cause it is nasty. AC played the Hamer Special I found in the pawn shop and sent him for the solo through with a tweed Deluxe or his Muleskinner tweed Princeton. I played my 2-tek Cruisebass with Gravelin Jbass pickups for the bass line direct. AC played the drums. I sang lead while he provided BGVs. We both recorded in Reaper as our DAW with a combination of outboard gear (preamps, compressors, east) as well as plugins. I mixed and mastered this one myself. It will be on the A.C. Rev 2021 rock album which I hope to have done in the March-April timeframe.
    3 points
  3. 1978 Hamer B&C Sunburst into a '64 Pro Reverb. MXR Distortion + pedal. The only pic I have is from my seventeenth birthday in 1979. Recorded the tune in 1981.
    3 points
  4. BingBong did a live recording with a limited audience in 2019, both audio and video. It took us a while to finish the recordings. Some friends rent rehearsal warehouse space and they have a collaborative studio. We hired the sound engineer from the studio and brought in a video team. The landlord limited us to 25 guests (he thought we were younger than 50ish?!?!?). I cowrote Catch My Breath with a bandmate around 1990 and the song was brought back to life with my current band a couple years ago. It's a nice change from our powerpop tempo'd music in a live set and has received nice comments from listeners. I chose this song because it's one where our singer doesn't play guitar... it's all Shishkov 0059 with Charlotte at the bridge. I'm playing through a Carr Hammerhead. The effects are a Barber Half Gainer & Keeley Red Dirt OD, Strymon El Capistan delay, and I hit the Boss Harmonizer set to detune a couple times. Brian's drums are a recovered '64 Rogers kit and Julie is playing a Teye bass through a house bass amp. I don't have info on the mics or recording gear. It was a fun show and we ended up with 9 songs; we're releasing a video here and there via our email & FB page during the live music shutdown (C19). We'll probably do a CD run at some point. Link to BingBong.
    3 points
  5. Brooks Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 8:22 AM to kiz Keeping w/ the VOL 4 theme, I recorded this V4 classic live in the jam room this week w/ one of those handheld Tascam things w/ the built in mics. Guitar was my pal Dave's Echotone w/ GFS pups, run thru a Pod Go into the power section of a Quilter 101 feeding a 1x12 Creamback loaded cab. I'm also on vocals, Kolton from Generic Hustle is on bass, with new guy Donovan on drums. EDIT - We've been getting together for fun a few times a month since October, kicking around some Sabs/Mountain/ZZ Top/Thin Lizzy/Metallica/Rick Springfield, etc
    3 points
  6. Encyclopedia = 1979 Internet. I was there.
    2 points
  7. Kizanski will undoubtedly mention the pants and the encyclopedias. As well he should.
    1 point
  8. Aren't the vast majority of songs? I mean, directly or indirectly?
    1 point
  9. My tune was recorded at Marshall Sound Studios in Marshall NC by myself and the rhythm section from my Floyd tribute band. We tracked live w studios kit and amps ( deluxe reverb )
    1 point
  10. Hey guys! My tune is called "I don't know". Here's a breakdown: I wrote it during the Covid lockdown for my wife. We were both really frustrated and saddened because we had to delay fertility treatment because the clinic was closed. Anyway, the recording: My friend played drums on his electronic kit, I took his midi tracks and used the samples from Native Instruments for the drums. Bass was another friend, he send me a DI signal and I manipulated it with Guitar Rig and some other effects. I played and recorded acoustic, electric, keys, sang and mixed it. It took me a long time to mix, it was the first time I had tried mixing drums (even sampled ones). Also, I got new monitors at a certain point, so I went back and redid it. The monitors made a big difference for sure. Oh yeah! Almost forgot the Hamer content, all the electrics were done with one Hamer. A silver studio that I got from Toadroller. It's a mix of mic'ed amp sound and models from Guitar Rig. I tried to use different sounds for each electric track to thicken up the sound. I recorded it in Reaper with a mix of stock and waves plugins. I've since got some FabFilter and Slate stuff that I like better, I'm tempted to go back and do it again, but I might let it rest for a while since I've listened to it so often. Maybe go back in a couple of months.
    1 point
  11. I wrote and recorded my song (So the Story Goes) specifically for the project. As such I made sure that I used only my Hamer Cali with the J.O'C graphic. Recorded using NI's Guitar Rig Pro 5 through my M-Audio Profire 610 interface into Reaper. I've recently re-floated my Floyd Rose after having it blocked with the Tremol-No for years so I knew there would be some whammy bar action. I wanted a deep groove with some sex appeal and played a lot of diads and triads instead of full chords trying to capture a really early 80's rock sound and vibe. The main guitar part (left side) is a single continuous take as is the bass. Solo was improvised and a comp of two takes - I kept the lines strongly melodic but put a little speedy run in there to let you know I could, and used the whammy in a very traditional early 80's way as a nod to EVH. Bass was my Fender P - also through GR5 Pro Drums were going to be real but ended up being Superior Drummer 3.... but I'll talk about them later Vocals all triple and quadruple tracked and slightly thickened with an Eventide plugin via micro-pitch detuning - only one vocal harmony part in the pre-chorus section to allow the guitars to dominate that section (3 guitar parts in that section where you first hear the wha and it gets super full... Wha was my Dunlop Crybaby -- slightly modded with extra shielding to help with noise Keyboards were all done on my Arturia mini-lab using various keyboards from the Arturia V collection and other soft synths. Used them more as sound effects and as pads to add some depth to the mix again keeping with an early 80's rock style. Since I mixed this and released it here I've continued to tweak a few things -- removed one keyboard part on the instrumental verse sections before the second verse and after the solo before the 3rd verse., It stopped sounding good to me... basically at lower volumes that part (which is slightly detuned as a patch) doesn't sound right - it sounds better cranked, but the ear hears it differently at lower volume so I 86'd it on later revisions. Drums: I really wanted to work with a real drummer for this as I am starting to feel more confident in my playing and production to allow myself to surface a bit in my music community after being AWOL for almost 30 years. In my past I was fortunate to work with world class drummers so my first call was to my friend Zoltan - probably the best technical drummer I ever played with (Jazz and Rock) - a total straight edge dude who turned his back on the rock star calling in the 90's despite being heavily recruited by Canadian Rock royalty for years..... I was too late -- found out Zoltan had passed away suddenly 2 years ago from a heart attack at the age of 49/50. Huge shock. He was an amazing guy and a totally healthy straight living guy.... that was a gut punch. My second choice (If Zoltan wasn't to be available) was going to be is another drummer friend I used to play with who did play and tour for years with some A list Canadian recording acts.... I knew he had a studio and did regular session work -- but COVID had forced him to give up his studio this summer so he just wasn't available to take the gig and there was no time to book sessions anywhere...... So I went with plan C in the end -- Superior Drummer. Song Theme: Boy meets girl - open question about life and timing and will they last - love perseveres.... a Universal theme slightly based on real life. Hopefully Universal enough - innocent in keeping with the early 80's rock theme of my adolescence. I really wanted the guitar to shine here in keeping with the Hamer theme - so I hope I accomplished that. I still struggle with the Musician I used to be vs the one I am today --- but I love music and I am tickled to death to be able to record like this in my bedroom. It was you guys here at the HFC that inspired me to try to play again - and it was sharing stuff here that helped me overcome my fears of being judged as less than I used to be -- you guys were such a great audience and your encouragement really drove me forward to finding a creative outlet where I could call myself a musician again. I am eternally grateful for that kindness and was happy to contribute to the project - it was an honour and privilege to do so.
    1 point
  12. My song "Systems in Place" was created by my Hamer Prototype II. It was the beginning aspiration of this song so I thought it was the best choice to submit. I had just bought it for my 50th birthday. was noodling and recording and made the simple opening rythym track and put a small change part in. It was my first guitar with a decent tremelo system so I wanted to play with the tremelo. I recorded a jam solo over the rythym track using as much wild bending as I could. Parts of it I liked, parts of the solo sucked. So, why not make it a song. Added a bass track and drum track using Drums on Demand apple loops. And left it there for a few years. Started listening again and thought I should put lyrics and was dealing with frustration at work because of stupid people in charge. You probably know how it is. Things are working well, we should think of a better way. Nope we have our ways of doing things. Can't change. Systems in Place Then I thought about the mental state of avoiding what we need to do. System in Place We have systems of avoidance we use in our life methods of madness to limit our strife With pre-planned procedures of simplistic scope limits our thinking and ways we can cope We have systems in place We have systems in place you build up defenses like building up walls You don't take the chances you won't take the fall Don't peak out your window or crack open your door You won't reach your limit, Can't take anymore We have systems in place We have systems in place Worked on the song off on on for years but never liked the drum track. Then logic came out with their new Drummer Tracks and I decided to try them out and decided I liked it. It felt like a Peart who beleieved in Off-time rythyms. 😉 All guitar tracks are my 1984 Hamer Prototype II. The bass is my 83 Cruise bass. Drum is the logic drummer and vocals are me. Recorded and mixed in Logic Pro. The guitar amps are all Amplitube 3 and 4. I did some mastering in Adobe audition using T-Racks 5 and Izotope software a few years ago when I decide to finnally put out an album and mastered or tried to master all my songs for the album.
    1 point
  13. Really really good compilation. Like has been said before, all songs kick ass. I enjoyed each and every one. Any chance the artists on the compilation could detail what they performed on each track, how it was recorded, what Hamers/gear was used and maybe a songfact or two? I’d also like to know who had real recorded drums and who used samples... and if drum samples were used, which samples were they. I’m dying to know the stories behind the tunes... EVERYONE should chime in. Special thanks to Mike, he did a great thing with this compilation... it is seriously probably the best compilation any fan club has ever made. I am just so blown away by the level of talent here... seriously... there was ZERO dogs and even the members that aren’t confident about their playing should be proud and bold since they all ripped and shredded their guitars like pros!!!
    1 point
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