I've not written or recorded anything particularly pretty recently so I cracked out the clean tones and had a bit of a noodle.

Electric: Strat w/EMG 85 + Pod X3
Bass: Aria IGB-40 + Pod X3
Acoustic: Martin DCX1KE direct.

Squeaky Clean

NorthField - WIP

NorthField - WIP2

Tech metal Jam

My Last Serenade acoustic cover w/Jason McRobbie

Stuck in bed with a trapped nerve so I did a rough mix of a little progression I put together yesterday with some new tones in Amplitube.

Kevin Spacey

Noodling this morning after a heated JP discussion with the NF boys last night.

Northfield JP Theme Japes

I was digging through some really old hard drives yesterday and came across this gem of upbeat pop-rock cheese amongst a load of dreck I recorded in 2008 when I was first figuring out how to use Garageband.

Christopher Short's Album

2008 Garageband Jam

Collaborating with a mate of mine in Devon to get back to our roots and whip up some straight up KsE-esque melodic metalcore. It's going to be wild.

Aleort Collab Idea

Really quick test of an EXS24 hang drum.

Can't wait to play around with this some more.

Hang Melody

Aleort - Henchery

I was messing with a really over the top sparkly, verby clean tone in Amplitube this evening and fancied learning this intro so I combined a tonetest with a scrappy runthrough of the first section of this Timmons masterpiece - "The PrayerThe Answer"

IAL sparkly clean tonetest (Andy Timmons - TPTA)

My buddy Andy asked me to cover this outro with a McCruff twist. Et Voila.

Saosin - Sleepers (outro cover)

Northfield - Lockdowns

Busting out some chops. My buddy Ant had some badass cockrock bass licks that needed some filling out so we drank some beers and did some rough tracking.

Bass: Anthony Wilkinson.
Guitar and drum sequencing: Chris Short.

Hair Raid - Superhands/McCruff collab

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DJ Pip feat. MC Japes - Badman

Chris, 33, Northumberland. 

Self taught 4/5/6-string noodler, rhythm guitarist, reluctant vocalist and digital drummer/demo producer for Northfield.

Welcome to my collection of random snippets of riffs and unfinished songs.

Everything's been written and recorded (unless otherwise stated) by yours truly in my basic little studio using the following:

IAL Proto-1
Parker P-42
Parker P-44
Ibanez RG550 w/Evo bridge
Squier Strat w/EMG 81/85
Aria IGB-40 bass
Martin DCX1KE
Takemine G-Series
Focusrite Saffire LE interface
Behringer UPhoria UMC404HD
Macbook Pro 13" i5 8GB
Yamaha HS50Ms
Logic Pro X
GGD OKW Modern Fusion
Neural DSP Plini & Parallax
Sneap impulse responses
Superior Drummer 2
iZotope Ozone 4/5

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