An update on my amplifier situation:

I am having a mini ordeal with my latest guitar amplifier: The Princeton Recording Amp. It sounds great, but it has a fault, which renders it pretty much useless most of the time. The sound keeps cutting out and it has been back to Fender for a repair, which has not fixed the fault.

It is a known fault, but alas, so far has not been remedied by the Fender technicians. I will persevere with them until this is fixed however because I want this amp working and I want to keep it too. I was so looking forward to getting this thing back working this week, so I could begin recording and filming for an Electric Guitar special podcast, which would form episode 1 of the PowerBook Producer’s Studiocast.

Seeing as the that will be delayed further now, I’ll try and describe breifly what it will contain.
3 different amplifiers, same guitar and various ways of getting great sounds from them onto tape (well file!). I spend a lot of time fine-tuning things to record great guitar sounds and use a variety of methods to suit also including standard mic’ing and speaker-emulated DI’ing too. Anything from clean sounds to overdriven and my main tip, which is not being tempted to use any distortion pedals, well any pedals for that matter throught the amp. Cleaner, more natural sounds always end up sounding bigger when recorded, especially when there a number of guitar tracks all vying for space to be heard in the mix.

Still if you want to have something to read that is updated more regularly then you could do a lot worse than to pop over to The Weekly Songcast. I’m hoping I can get to work on Studiocast episode 1 in the next couple of weeks.

Please be patient all you would be guitar Gods!