 This is my Fender reso recorded on a Zoom H4n, here are the ground rules - The short version 
    * Wake up on a Sunday morning
    * Turn on Zoom H4
    * Tune guitar
    * Start stop watch.
      I now have 60 minutes to record a tune using nothing more than the Zoom and the guitar.
      No dropins on a track, only the processing that is built into in the Zoom and only 4 tracks, no bouncing down tracks
    * Now play lots (the clock is ticking)

At the end upload the finished MP3 to my website and the elapsed time not to be greater than 60minutes.

In the words of Jeremy Clarkson “How hard can it be?” Well as it turns out… 

For Jools

Demo track done back in the Eighties, uploaded for my old bassist to have a listen to again.  Used guitars, c64's tons of midi keys

It was a weird experiment in precession. It took forever to program up by hand back then back then. The guitar bit drove me crazy.getting it to sit just right.

Precession

Another demo track done back in the Eighties, uploaded for my old bassist to have a listen to again.Used guitars, c64's tons of midi equipped synths.

Mainly programmed up using step time, don't know where I got the patience, except for some of the top layers of sound. They were all played in realtime. Really loved the guitar bits in this one they were a hoot to do.

4 Bumpy

Recorded on a Zoom H4n last night at the Madison Violet show. This was the encore track, they just unplugged walked up to the edge of the stage and played and sang. Just brilliant. Lisa is on fiddle and Brenley is playing a four string reso that I just love. The track is as it came of the recorder. 



20120303-MadisonViolet-live-GoodinGoodbye

Another track from Madison Violet's show at HarvesterMoon. Home features Lisa on mando, fiddle (a looper for kick drum) and vocals. Brenley is on 6 string and main vocals. Fell in love with this song  the first time I heard it ( their studio version is @ http://soundcloud.com/madison-violet/02-home ). Recorded on a Zoom H4n

20120303-MadisonViolet-live-Home

Thatch was a recovering musician - then his brother gave him a Fender reso guitar for Christmas a few years back. Now he's a dilettante with toys and trying to find time to play with them.

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