Well, guitar recording was exactly as uneventful as hoped. Sure, a few hilarious disasters would make for better reading, but no, nothing broke, no complaints from any neighbours, nothing. At one point we thought the cat had stumbled into the amp room, and was brushing against the microphone, but she was nowhere to be seen.

The only minor annoyance was that we used about 1% of all the stuff we scraped together, but if it ain’t broke… and all that.

Sigh, soz, anyway, have some pics…

Control Room:

Crabb on the tele:

Amp Room, complete with microphone fort:

We’ve finished about 1/2 the basic guitars, after they’re done we’ll start on the wacky ones.

Damn straight, he’ll be there for those.

Crabb

Because we’re smug bastards, and also because we’re fairly poor (but mainly because we’re smug bastards) me and Ian like to dabble in guitar pedal building. In my case, they normally come out FAR worse than the stock pedal, but this can always be passed-off as boutique, hand-wired “character”. Ian usually fairs better.

Anyway, with guitar recording approaching quickly, weather permitting, this next week will be spent hastily assembling anything that might be useful.

Here is an unassembled MXR Distortion+:

If you’re thinking, “there’s not much in that for an RRP of £79.99″, you’d be right.

Hardware is in short supply, so fully working pedals are being frantically sacrificed. One such beneficiary of a maimed donor case and jacks is this Fuzz Face clone, which couldn’t be any uglier:

Pride of place though has to go to Ian for this horrific orgy of unboxed pedals:

If I remember rightly, that’s a ZVex Super Hard On, a snooty op-amp version of a Big Muff and some kind of vibrato pedal.

So yeah, soz for the geek-out, but it’s a means to an end. The end being copious guitar gurning pictures.

In other news, we’re working on a track for an album of Mo*ho*bish*o*pi covers. Project details are here.

Crabb

Barely stopping even to tune the thing, we’ve been romping through the bass parts this week.

Here is Ian tackling a particularly serious low G:

Coffee-time is essential, of course, but left hand must always be in position and ready to RIFF.

Later on, we heard high-pitched chuckling from the end of the garden, and, peering into a disused watering-can, were delighted to have discovered a marshmallow party in full flow.

A full-on, sexy weekend of guitar recording has been both PENCILLED-IN and EARMARKED.

Crabb