Monthly Archives: April 2014

New York – Getting Lucky with Mick Guzauski and Tallia Storm

Posted on April 22, 2014     Leave a Comment

London session guitarist, in New York

I’m back from an exciting week in NYC with Tallia Storm where we played a series of intimate gigs and private events attended by celebrities and several of NYC’s top music industry executives. One of those times where you might prefer to know who you’re playing for AFTER you’ve done it! They all went well, and […]

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Getting great guitar tone and recording it

Posted on April 21, 2014     Leave a Comment

March 17, 2014 There is a wide range of ways to record electric guitar, from plugging a guitar straight into a computer and using a free guitar amp simulator, to agonising over the impedance of guitar cables, using decades-old vintage stomp boxes, having the ‘right’ preamp valves, buffers, isolated power supplies, fiddling with microphone placement […]

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Producing some drums with @pringledrums for new @livausten track. Think this was during the end of session tiredness/mania. By the way INCREDIBLE drum sound at @copperbrownuk. Nice to just pop a pair of U87s up as rooms... #studio #ukcountry #session #drummer #manic #neveeverywhere #tapeop Looking forward to some relatively chilled soul and jazz with @raffandtheremedies at the Waterloo @parkplaza Florentine bar tonight #acoustic #guitarist #livemusic #soulful #cocktailsahoy #dishy Three good days in the studio with Liv Austen, taking two possible singles from acoustic sketches to almost completed productions: drum programming, guitars, bass, vocal arrangments, overall direction, tempos, keys and minor reharms. Very excited by the news tracks (and quite delighted to have not only snuck a fuzz bass in but have Liv totally green light it 👌🤔) Recording here with Shinybox Lundahl ribbon through new DAV BG1 pre which sounds rather fat with some distortion #recording #ukcountrymusic #studio #producer #arranger #guitarist #ribbonmic I'm so excited to add this to the studio this week - the DAV BG1 microphone preamp. It's an old Decca design, made in small batches by an ex-Decca engineer in his shed and renowned as being as good as preamps costing several times as much. It's not colourful but instead just sounds big and extremely clean, very neutral and somehow '3D'. Instant upgrade for all of my mics and the clean gain is making quiet vocals with an SM7 a breeze too. Thanks to Nick at KMR Audio for the great service - very happy. #recording #preamp #decca #madeinengland #sessionmusicisn #microphone #guitartracks #yesitsjustaboxthatmakesthingslouderbutitsHOWitdoesit I enjoyed this. Songwriters' round with @livausten, @jeffcohenmusic and @itsbeththornton. Great audience and also great stage sound at the @theslaughteredlambpub, London. #guitarist #songwriters #livemusic By pure coincidence MonkeySelfie were booked to play at Trinity College London's launch of their new Rock and Pop exam syllabus, a few weeks after I filmed some instructional vids for them. Brilliant syllabus and genuinely lovely people! #guitar #guitarlessons #musician #rockandpop2018 #guitarist A pleasure to share the stage with these guys last night at their songwriters round @thesoundlounge, S London. @livausten @jadehelliwell1990 @amywestney @emmamoorecouk #countrymusic #guitarist 📷 by @dmarrinermusic Onstage at Goatfest with The Dominos. Absolutely great festival for both punters and artists. Playing my @suhrguitarsuk Pro S4. #guitarist #livemusic #festival #notactuallyleathertrousers Free wheeling at Ronnie Scott's tonight #guitar #jam #jazz #soul #latenight #drumset Ladies and gentlemen, the best capo in the business: @g7thcapo Performance 2. Don't stay in a hotel without one! #guitar #capo #lifehacks #hanger #laundry #engineering Accidental 🤳from last night's gig #guitarist #guitar #musicianslife #blueskies @martinguitar So, yesterday was a good day, filming a series of videos for Trinity College London's new guitar exam syllabus. Really cool repertoire across the grades, including Foo Fighters, Hendrix, Jack White, Amy Winehouse - we did a Technique Focus demonstration and chat for each and hopefully it'll be useful information for any guitarists doing their guitar grades with Trinity. It was a pleasure working with the guys from Trinity and the @mockingbirdfilms production team too. #guitarist #guitar #camera #film #lightscameraplayguitar
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