Acoustic single

Take Me Down

Guitarwar

Patrick's Rune

Little - Wing - Acoustic - Jam

Cheap Shot Blues

Ashokan Farewell

This is a piece I wrote and recorded in 2017, over an 8-month period from approximately March to November. I am extremely proud of this piece. It represents an absolutely back-breaking amount of work, and I can honestly say it sounds pretty much exactly as I had intended it to sound, from the guitar tone to the string orchestrations and right down to the mix EQ. In particular, I owe the string players a tremendous debt of gratitude for their performances. I'm also sharing this on Facebook and elsewhere for those who haven't heard it yet. 

Thanks for listening.
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All guitars, bass, acoustic piano, drum programming, orchestration, engineering etc., partridge in a pear tree: Me

Allison Bengfort, Teresa Hayden, Anna Cullver, Kendal Keyes, Tania Halladay, and Dell Wade helped me out on strings. It has been my great privilege to work with these fine musicians on this project. I owe them big time.

Guitar tones courtesy of the Korg Ampworks box Jay got me a deal on that time in Reno.

Mixing this monstrosity was a nightmare. By the time I was done I was literally crossing my fingers hoping my laptop wasn't going to catch fire and melt before I was finished; the Audacity session was ~3.2 Gb and my hard drive was starting to make funny noises.

Thanks to Danny Danzi for everything he's ever taught me about mixing and mastering, I learned more from him while working on "45th Street Blues" than I learned in my previous 8 years in college. No joke, that.

Thanks to Ross for giving the final mix that last little necessary push by stating the obvious ("Maybe just bring the lead up a little").

Thanks to Ender, Jay, Ross, Brett, Justin, Piney, Lou, Shawn, Viv, Ulnie, and everyone else who has always made Guitarwar a fun place to hang out, whether it be at 3:00 in the afternoon or 3:00 in the morning. (Are all guitar players insomniacs? Do we all drink too much coffee so we can play faster or something? Probably yes.)

Thanks to Music Center Of The Northwest <mcnw.org> (especially our executive director Michael Alstad) for allowing me to set up shop on the premises, record string parts in the auditorium, and just generally leave a trail of chaos and befuddlement pretty much in one door and out the other. Coolest place I've ever worked for, and one hell of a non-profit music school. 

GEAR:

Godin Freeway Classic guitar
Yamaha RBX bass
Korg D888 mobile recording console, assorted Shure mics (string session)
Korg Ampworks
Presonus Audiobox USB
HP Pavilion laptop POS
Sibelius 7 notation software (scoring, MIDI drum programming, string orchestration)
Studio One 3 (drum samples)
Audacity (multitrack audio)

"Cascade Point" is the title of a 1983 science fiction novella by Timothy Zahn.

David M. Shere

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