Hey guys I got something to share that I think y'all may like. If you don't care for history just skip down to the song lyrics if you want. A few weeks ago I recited an old WW2 era army legend/ to my buddies about a Japanese pilot that the troops dubbed "Washing Machine Charlie". I'll give y'all a retelling that my great uncle gave me before he passed. Note: he didn't fight in WW2 but was a Bird Colonel during Vietnam and so was around quite a few career guys that had served in WW2 and heard this story from one of them. Basically I'm like a tertiary source so don't be taking this one to the bank. But ANYWAY early on in the war in the Pacific, right after American troops landed on Guadalcanal they had taken the airfield on the island(which was the main objective) and used that as their local base of operations while the island was cleared. To cause a decrease in morale, every night in the early AM the Japanese would send a lonely twin engine bomber to drop a single bomb over the airfield and fly away. The plane's engines were out of sync (whether this was on purpose or if the plane's were simply built like that I'm not sure) and this caused tremendous noise, forcing the troops to wake up and dive in the nearest foxhole to avoid his bomb. The troops likened the sound of the plane to old washing machines and so that is how the pilot got his infamous name. Despite there being anti aircraft guns, Washing Machine Charlie would always get away, and always prevent the American soldiers from getting a good night's rest. This went on for something like a month and still nobody could shoot down Charlie. Finally a fighter plane (probably a p-38, I've seen a separate interview online of a soldier telling this story and I believe he says p-48 or p-58 but there were no planes of that description during ww2 so probably an accident and he meant p-38) was requisitioned painted black, and left on standby, ready for Charlie to make his fly by. This is what did Washing machine charlie in. From the scarce interviews and articles there are about him on the internet it seems like he didn't kill a single person. Only prevented a good nights rest for everyone involved.
Anyway I was telling this story to my buddies a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it ever since. Then I started to get some lyrics in my head and finally today I've put pen to paper. Here's what I've got...
The Last flight of Washing Machine Charlie
At last we have come to the time
For Charlie to take off and fly
He Keeps awake those boys in Green
Using his old washing machine
Flying low O'er the canal
He drops his bomb and starts the royale
Tracers fly yet he remains unscathed
Looks like Charlie will fly another day
Then Charlie sees in the corner of his eye
A yankee plane painted like the night sky
The washing machine becomes a ball of fire
Causing ol' Charlie to Expire
If y'all have any comments or criticisms, like words you think will fit better or stuff like that I'm completely open to those! Best part about this though is I already have a bass line that I've been keeping in my pocket that I think will fit this song well. Maybe I'll have it made soon, only problem is idk how I'll sound in recording. But it just feels cool to have like an actual song in the works rather than just a bassline or a collection of a few riffs that I thought sounded cool. Thanks for reading
Anyway I was telling this story to my buddies a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it ever since. Then I started to get some lyrics in my head and finally today I've put pen to paper. Here's what I've got...
The Last flight of Washing Machine Charlie
At last we have come to the time
For Charlie to take off and fly
He Keeps awake those boys in Green
Using his old washing machine
Flying low O'er the canal
He drops his bomb and starts the royale
Tracers fly yet he remains unscathed
Looks like Charlie will fly another day
Then Charlie sees in the corner of his eye
A yankee plane painted like the night sky
The washing machine becomes a ball of fire
Causing ol' Charlie to Expire
If y'all have any comments or criticisms, like words you think will fit better or stuff like that I'm completely open to those! Best part about this though is I already have a bass line that I've been keeping in my pocket that I think will fit this song well. Maybe I'll have it made soon, only problem is idk how I'll sound in recording. But it just feels cool to have like an actual song in the works rather than just a bassline or a collection of a few riffs that I thought sounded cool. Thanks for reading
I used an AKG D112 and a condenser mic as an ambient mic (AKG perception 170).
), but for the former question I'd at least evaluate your signal at each point to see where the flabb gets introduced, starting with bass using the amp's direct (if there is one), then going backwards through the signal chain to amp pre/effects, instrument, and whatever lies in between. That should help you determine where that feeling comes from and make it clearer what the issue to address is and what you can do to mend it.
With 2 it goes closer... 
