New Original E.P. - singer/songwriter influenced by Nick Drake, Bert Jansch etc

[Jack Orion]

Hi everyone,

I've just released a new E.P. on my Bandcamp page:

https://benmorganbrown.bandcamp.com/...cold-rooms-e-p

Be great to hear what people think of it!

Cheers,

Ben

[UKPhil]

This sounds absolutely great Ben, lovely songs and voice and excellent guitar work as well.

Did you use the Martin OM28 on this recording or the Collings OM2H VN SS? It sounds fantastic and its a great recording - you must be well pleased.

Good luck with the project

[Jack Orion]

Originally Posted by UKPhil

This sounds absolutely great Ben, lovely songs and voice and excellent guitar work as well.

Did you use the Martin OM28 on this recording or the Collings OM2H VN SS? It sounds fantastic and its a great recording - you must be well pleased.

Good luck with the project

Hi Phil,

Thank you! This is all the OM28v (I actually had my Collings up for sale at the time but have changed my mind now!) although there's a bit of studio trickery going on - the guitar was mic'd as you'd expect, but I also ran the pickup through two electric amplifiers (a 65 reissue princeton reverb and a homemade champ clone) which were mic'd separately.

so the guitar sound is a mixture of those three signals in different combinations and amounts - the basic mix is the true acoustic first in the mix with the princeton backing it up, but we changed the mix of the three signals at different points to emphasise different parts - obviously there's some pretty obvious delay and reverb effects going on as well!

It was fun to do and I'm glad with the results as I wanted something that had a bit more of a 'produced' shine to it compared to my home-recorded stuff I put out last year, but, next time, i quite fancy doing a raw straight-up acoustic recording but we'll see..