From the Armistice Vaults 3 - No Way Back From Here

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OK - this time from the other end of the time continuum, by whence I'd moved on from my "too much reverb is barely enough" stage and was using microphones and had a much better handle on mixing and indeed a much better set up - the venerable standalone Yamaha AW4416.

The sort of title track from the third and last Armistice album "There Is No Way Back From Here" the tune itself is more simply title "No Way Back From Here". Probably the only thing I would now change in this is the drum machine - but it is 20 years old-ish so there's a limit to what could be done. It sounds OK but these days I could make it sound so much better.

I was well into open tunings on acoustic guitars at this point - a rabbit hole I dived deeply into. My favourite tuning was open D - DADF#AD - and I'm pretty sure that's what was happening on this tune. You can really hear that's it's open tuned at a particular point just after the "chorus" after the electric guitar stops. I'm still impressed by how accurately I tracked the L and R acoustics which were playing identical parts. No overdubbing here, this was all single take stuff. I was going for "uptempo" and "epic" in feel.

The album still had melodic acoustic only tunes but there was much more uptempo, keyboards, electric guitars, drums at this point. Oh, the freedom of having 16 individual channels to record onto... :lollers:

Still one of the best things I've ever done, IMO... :like:

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I'm not even going to bother opening the link for a listen, especially when some guy known as Ausrock gets a mention in the "liner notes" :coolstorybro: ............the fact that the CD is about 18" from where I'm sitting may have some influence. :like:

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Ausrock wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:49 pm some guy known as Ausrock gets a mention in the "liner notes" :coolstorybro:
Yeah, whatever happened to him? :confused:


Somewhere along that album's journey I realised that most of the good souls at HR offering up sage advice and wisdom on recording acoustic guitars didn't actually fucking know anything about it, but they gave advice anyway. 'Twas ever thus. But that Ausrock guy had a clue... :wink:
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Mate, yesterday, I picked up a guitar (CW80) for the fist time in around 12 months (health issues to blame) and I couldn't play it.........I'm going to have to figure this one out and start strengthening fingers from scratch and getting over some associated psych issues.

I may start with an electric rather than an acoustic...........God knows between my son's collection and my own I have choices where electrics are concerned.
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I like this one. Would make for some nice, chill background listening.
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So chill, I love it. This would make great background for a movie or TV show. It's beautiful, send it in for sync licensing!
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It does sound a little dated but that is probably the drum machine.
There's the odd rim shot that sounds not quite in place around 2.19 - just before the snare starts.
Nice playing and capture as usual.
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Excellent! Really nice all round!
I liked the way you changed it up just a bit and brought it together at the outro around 3:29.
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