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Orchestral Introduction
Inspiration & History
This was my attempt to record a piece along the lines of what Brian May would do, with a dash of Michael Romeo of Symphony X thrown in. Brian May is a huge influence of mine, and I wanted to see what it would entail to do an orchestrated piece ala Queen, but attempting to add in the speed, precision, and neo-classical-ness of Michael Romeo's playing. I actually wrote the main part, and I couldn't play it as clean as I wanted to hear it, so I practiced it a bunch until I had it pretty smooth. The final result is what 7 tracks of layered guitar played by Jake sound like. It was recorded in between 12/99 and 01/00.
I tried to re-record this after this version, to make it more suited to adding even more than 7 tracks, but it didn't come out as well as this one, so this became the keeper, even if it's not perfect. The volume swells at the end were done in the mix so all of the tracks would be perfectly even.
Technical Info
Guitar:
Mesa/Boogie Mark III with Rocktron Intellifex & Peavey AEQ 2800 in effects loop through 4 inch 1981 Toyota Corolla front kick panel paper cone speaker as a speaker cabinet, ultra close miking with Shure SM58, wrapped in a blanket for (almost) silent recording.
Recording:
All guitar tracks were recorded dry (no digital effects), and the final mix was run through my Rocktron Intellifex for a hall reverb effect. Recorded and mixed onto Yamaha MT120S 4-track. Mixed to Sony MDS-JE320 for final mix. Transferred to PC and mixed and finalized with GoldWave.
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