Demo Of A Song From August/september...

...or actually older, but the recording is not that old.



The wheels (of motivation) have kinda come off in regards to recording my album, even though I was about 7 songs out of 10 into it. I hit some road blocks and got some critique about the mix sounding flat, so I want to go back to it again and re-do everything at some point.

Ideas For Christmas Wish List?

Christmas time is coming over us soon, and my parents have been bugging me about writing them some wishes for things that I would want, but honestly I'm struggling a bit, though I have come up with things like picks, new better cables, strings and such.

Do you guys have any suggestions? What do you guys have on your wish lists? Budget isn't too important, as I'm just trying to get some ideas flowing and going here

Steinberg Ur816c Interface Experiences?

My otherwise trusted Focusrite 6i6 has become a bit too "small" for my needs, inputs wise, with the things I want to mic up and do. Long story short I was looking at the Focusrite 18i20 3rd gen without checking other options, but I've now started looking at other options as the Focusrite is out of stock here in Denmark till 3-5 weeks from now.

Basically it needs to have at least 3-4 mic inputs, as well as some line inputs of course. My 6i6 only has 2 mic inputs. I have been eyeing the Steinberg UR816C, which is slightly more expensive than the Focusrite 18i20. I'm reading mixed reviews on both of them of course, but also very good things about both.

Does any of you have experience with Steinberg interfaces? Are they any good?

Approach To Double Tracking, Re-amping, Recording?

So while I've been recording my upcoming album I've suffered some setbacks, learned a thing or two and so on. I had 7 tracks out of 10 done more or less, but I now want to re-record some parts with new knowledge.

1. I've learned that it can be beneficial to be able to re-amp, but I wasn't recording a DI-signal, as I didn't have a DI-box. I've now bought a DI-box and had also bought a re-amp box (which I returned as it was noisy as hell, probably as it was a very cheap one). On the other hand some people say re-amping is actually not THAT ideal compared to just getting the sound right from the start. Some people say that the amp is an extension of the player and that you react differently to and thus play differently on different amps. I have been recording directly from a mic'ed up Laney IronHeart. What do you guys reckon?

2. I am of course double tracking guitars, but on the first iteration of the album, that is the 7 songs I had already recorded, I had double tracked using the exact same settings on my Laney IronHeart and only slightly tweaked EQ to get a different sound on each side. I'm wondering if it would be worth having more drastic differences on the amp before recording the second guitar track? I keep reading different suggestions.

In relation to the 2nd question above here's a track from the album:

https://soundcloud.com/benjamin-storm-linnebjerg/06-trapped-in-ice

Do you think it would benefit from having more distinct guitar sounds on either side? I think that might create a wider stereo sound/effect?

Eddie Van Halen Dies

https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/06/eddie-van-ha...dies-cancer-65/

Lost the battle to cancer.