AMAZING!!!! A gourmet feast for the senses. Thanks Bro.

Awesome, man.  A little cliche in some ways, but I love the sprit, the guitar sounds, and the mix. Big ups!

I have been a huge Eric Johnson fan since I first heard him play. I have always loved his song Trademark, so I spent some time to learn and record it. This is my band recording it live in my home studio as a three piece, with a few minor guitar parts added later. I am playing my 1962 Strat direct into the Scuffham Amps.

Jens Bornemann on drums, Alec Lee on bass and Tim Zurowski on guitar.

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Mark Lettieri is a really big influence and after hearing his thoughts on composing and hearing a lot of his tunes, I wanted to try to write a tune to try my funk out.

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Zabukowski writes about '57 Guns:

This is a very special song to me – it contains many specific musical elements and it was a real challenge & fun to make. I think it is worth to write down a few interesting facts about it :)

The song is a combination of my authentic work and some elements/variations of the old Macedonian traditional folk song 'Jovano Jovanke'. A well known adaptation of this traditional song comes from the legendary Macedonian guitar guru Vlatko Stefanovski and his band 'Leb i Sol'. Being a huge fan of Vlatko and his work for as long as I remember, it is no surprise that '57 Guns in many parts feels very inspired & influenced by him. At least I hope so :)

You'll immediately notice the unusual 7/8 time signature, which makes the song not only more demanding to play (just ask my drummer, he really did a great job on this one in the studio), but also more attractive and interesting to listen to.

I played all guitars and a bass guitar in my living room ... no kidding !!! How is this possible, some of you may ask? Well, for all guitar work, the excellent Scuffham Amps S-Gear guitar amp simulator plug-in was used. Furthermore, the challenging task was to use only one amp for all duties. As the latest S-Gear v2.4 release contains the brand new Custom '57, it was a logical choice to use it.

As you can hear, the amp was pushed to its limits, covering all kind of stuff with the excellence: clean, crunch, overdrive & heavy. Only factory presets were used with some minor tweaking. Definitively, a small amp with a BIG soul, very dynamic & musical ... uh, I like things being musical =:)

Additionally, Electro Harmonix Q-Tron+ envelope filter pedal was used on some minor parts and Ignite Amps TS-999 overdrive plug-in was used with some 'heavy' solos.  The song was recorded/mixed/mastered with Cubase 7.5/Nuendo 6.5 using a bunch of plug-ins – I won't go further into the details, because it would be beyond the scope of this information.

The following guitars were used:
- G&L S-500 strat (G&L MFD single coils) for clean/crunch parts
  - Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 20th Anniversary Edition (humbuckers) for hard & heavy parts/solos  
- G&L L-2500 custom shop bass

Drums recorded in studio "Garbage", Ljubljana – studio technician: Drago Popovič 
Drummer: Boštjan Vajs 
Mix/Master: me & myself :)

Enjoy listening to this one, I really hope you'll like it :)

Franci Zabukovec – Zabukowski
www.zabukowski.com

'57 Guns

This track is dedicated to and written for my wife, Jan. We've been together since the early eighties. I am so lucky to have found her!

Finding Her

The intro section draws inspiration from Carson Brock & Eric Johnson. 

S-Gear by https://www.scuffhamamps.com/ was used for the guitar tones. This track and Zenland, https://soundcloud.com/david-wayne-hardy/zenland-hybrid-version will be used by Scuffham Amps to demo there software at the German Guitar Summit this September. 

Damage, Scarbee Bass, Zebra 2, Rapture, Padshop and VB3 were the plugins used for the backing track. The guitars for this project were 2 Fender Stratocasters and a Fender Japanese Telecaster.

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Recorded at Knucklehead Studios in August of 2019.  Wesley B. Wright was the guitarist in the "Miami Sound Machine".

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Recorded at Knucklehead Studios in the summer of 2019.

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Here's a track recorded with S Gear (for all the guitar tones) using a variety of different guitar tones (I've posted the main presets I used on the S Gear forum)

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