Jason Burns Music

Today I got the guitar I have coveted for years, an Ibanez Jem JEM7V, the same guitar the legendary Steve Vai plays. The day wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t post a sample of me playing it. This is two guitar tracks, a bass track and some drums, a simple background guitar looped with me playing some improv leads over it. It’s all one take and just for fun, hope you enjoy it.

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Footage captured with a Kodak Zi8 camera, audio captured with a Rode Video Mic, edited in Final Cut Express. Ass kicking intro riff played and recorded by me.

I still don’t have all of my mics in yet, the rest should be in tomorrow, but without anyone to help me run the board from the upstairs to downstairs, I set some basic levels, recorded a sample, and played with the sound a bit in Logic Studio. So far my levels aren’t nearly hot enough, and my Ride and HiHat aren’t mic’d. I am surprised at how much thump I am getting out of the Shure Beta52 without the Yamaha Subkick in yet.

The basic drum/cymbal mic rundown is as follows (* for the mics that will be here tomorrow, not recorded in this sample)

18×22″ Tama SuperStar Custom Bass Drum – Shure Beta52, front head, just inside the port, Yamaha Subkick*

Tama 14×5.5″ Snare Drum – Shure SM57 on top and bottom

Tama SuperStar Custom Hyperdrive Toms 10″, 12″, 14″ Floor and 16″ Floor – Sennheiser e604 on each

Sabian 16 and 18″ AAX Crash Cymbals, 20″ Sabian AAX Ride, Sabian B8 10″ Splash and 18″ China – Rode NT5 Matched Pair for overheads, AKG C430* on Ride and HiHat

Drums are coming in from the basement in on XLR Snake into a Behringer MX9000 Mixer, with 8 Subs (Bass, Snare, TomL, TomR, HH, Ride, OHL, OHR) into an M-Audio Profire 2626 audio interface.

There has been no EQ applied at the mixer and the levels aren’t even close to optimal, I had to squeeze it a bunch to get it semi loud so the MP3 sounded ok.

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The rest of the mics are in and I have been spending some time getting position right and levels, it’s getting there!

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