So I had a few days off in a row and decided to head home to my parent's house for a visit. My brother asked me if I wanted to mess around with my recording stuff so I said sure. we ended up covering Hattiesburg Hustle a Warren Haynes original off his album released just last year. My brother is a guitar player and a big fan of Warren Haynes, I am also a fan. It's not a note for note cover, my brother isn't Warren Haynes (man that would be cool though) and I'm no George Porter Jr. who played on the original but it was fun to do and I think it came out pretty good. It was kind of just a get the stuff out and go. I recorded the acoustic guitar first. So I blame the couple little timing issues on the guitar player (and my crappy drumming using garageband's "musical typing" I need a midi controler is guess) We did one or maybe two takes for each track. Perfection wasn't exactly the goal.
Share your thoughts, criticizes, and what have you or don't but thanks for listening. I have an allman brothers Melissa cover too if anyone wants me to post that. What I used and how I did it is covered below.
I used a few mic's I have, a yamaha audigram usb interface, and garageband. I have an audix kick drum mic a shure SM57 and a sterling condenser mic, I don't know that model but if anyone really wants to know I can figure it out.
My brother played the acoustic and electric guitars and did the vocals. For the acoustic I mic'ed it with the condenser about 2 feet away favoring the neck side of the sound hole. The electric is a strat through a Jet City JC20 and matching 112 and my brothers home built deluxe reverb. The amps were angled towards each other maybe about 120 degree angle and I placed the SM57 about a bit more than a foot off of them about right in the middle (not something I've done before).
Now for the bass. I used my 07 American std. Jazz with chromes. I am using only the neck pickup (kinda trying to cop a p bass) and have the tone backed off about half way. I actually used my brothers Jet City guitar amp and cab to record the bass because I didn't want to carry my 410hlf up 2 flights of stairs to his room. I mic'ed the cab just off center of the cone and a few inches off the grill cloth with the audix. I really like the sound I got.
(and my crappy drumming using garageband's "musical typing" I need a midi controler is guess) We did one or maybe two takes for each track. Perfection wasn't exactly the goal.
