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Original RockerBob tunes:
This is a new tune I’m working on. I don’t feel like it’s done
yet, but I don’t why yet either. I guess a recording is never done. When you
record at home you can burn endless hours.
I got a Line6 Variax 700 a few weeks ago and I’m having great fun with it. I’ve
had a Line6 POD Pro for a few years now and it’s my studio amp(s). All the guitars
are run through various POD Pro amps, all in manual mode. Brit Class A, Black
Face and Small Tweed for pretty much everything. All the guitars are the Variax
except the distorted, tremolo lead guitar. That one is my Tom Anderson, but
still running through the POD Pro. I had been wanting to use the Rickenbacker
12 string sound from the Variax, so I wrote (ripped off ) this Beatles homage.
There are obvious similarities to a Beatles record, but none of the licks are
complete rip-offs. I changed the chords and the bass lines. Then my bass line
was replaced by my friend Carl, who really captures the groove.
This is an idea I started working on over a weekend. I wanted to do a "Cowboy" tune for fun. So with "Happy Trails" as my inspiration I started fooling around with some chords. All the guitar tracks are a Line6 Variax. The only thing not recorded on the Variax is the bass and drums. There is a noticeable Stratocaster sound for one of the lead guitars. There is an acoustic guitar rhythm all the way through. Most of the rest of the guitars are Grestch 6120 with a little Rick 12 string here and there. There is even a touch on Variax banjo and Reso near the end. The guitar amps are all from a PodPro. In manual mode I used the Brit Class A (Vox AC30 top boost) Small Tweed ('52 Fender Deluxe) and Black Face ('64 Fender Deluxe). Let me know what you think.
These samples were recorded direct. The electric guitar simulations are running through a Line6 Pod Pro. I'm using the Fender Deluxe reverb amp simulation with the gain set low and the tone all set to flat. No EQ added, no effects of any kind added. The acoustic simulations are running directly into my mixing board via the XLR connector and again, no EQ and no effects of any kind added. This is pretty much the raw sound of the guitar. All the tonal differences are from the guitar as I did not change any settings from one sample to another, except of course the settings on the guitar itself.
Mostly short, solo clips of a single guitar model, but there is a sample with a carved top jazz guitar, a Gretsch electric lead and a small clip of resonator. Please forgive some of the weak playing. I was just trying to find something that would showcase the sounds, and in some cases I played poorly, but I'm too lazy to do it again.
Parlor acoustic guitar simulation
Rickenbacker Electric 12 string simulation
JazzBox with Gretsch and Reso lead
