Discogs Updated

I’m about to research for all of my releases.

See the covers and links to iTunes here https://andrewcane.wordpress.com/discog/

Credits for songwriting etc. you will find here discogs.com

There’s more to come.

Cheers

Andrew Cane

‘I KEEP THE FAITH’ is Released

I KEEP THE FAITH is out. Get your copy @ https://t.co/kWX41KoFDi

I KEEP THE FAITH BOOKLET

The online booklet for I KEEP THE FAITH is up.
Read the lyrics, the cover an Pre-listen.

http://andrewcane.de/releases/ktf.xhtml

I KEEP THE FAITH

The front cover of the forthcoming single.

I Keep the Faith

Andrew’s forthcoming single “I Keep the Faith” will be released on March 7th.

Direct link:http://soundcloud.com/andrew-cane/i-keep-the-faith

Re-amping With A Passive DI-Box

Re-amping and it’s benefits

Re-amping is the process of recording the pure signal from instruments like bass or guitar into the DAW and then send this signal to stomp boxes and/or amps.
This turns your guitar amp or guitar rack into a real life plug-in.
And it could save you time and money once the final mix-down has started and you find out that you are not happy with the guitar sound recorded previously.
Instead of playing the same parts over and over again, until the sound is as you want it for the mix, you could record your guitars quietly into the DAW. Once everything is played to your satisfaction, you just blast it out to the real world and make it fit to your mix.
Another benefit for home recordists is, that loud guitar parts could be cut any time during the night and re-recorded with full amp sound while your neighbors went to their jobs. Or go to a professional recording studio an do it there.

Some might say that it feels odd to play for e.g. heavy metal riffs with the direct guitar sound.
No doubt – it would so. In this case the help of a guitar plug-in in your DAW or a POD PRO by Line6 would be the solution. Plus you should record the emulated sound parallel to the raw signal for the feel of it, while working on other tracks of your song.
Once I had to play the guide tracks for 12 songs of mine, with a boring click (THX Kai), before the drummer came in and I did it with the unworked sound of the guitar – which was a real pain in the A.

Hear one of the songs on Soundcloud exclusively for my blog readers

In Our Hearts

How to
Since passive pick-ups supply an unbalanced load with high impedance, a Passive DI (Direct Injection Box) is needed to match the low impedance, balanced line-level input of your DAW.
The advantages of a passive DI’s is that there’s no need for supply voltage as the DI’s galvanic isolation avoids hum and other unwanted noises in your signal.

Make a long story short here’s how to do it.
Guitar → Passive DI in Unbalanced 47 kΩ → 600 Ω Balanced Out → DAW
Use of the same Passive DI vice versa
DAW out → Passive DI 600 Ω Balanced Out → Unbalanced 47 kΩ → (Stomp Boxes) → Guitar Amp

Now, all you have to do is to mic the guitar cabinet and re-record the new sound to your DAW.
It’s easy like that and saves someone’s money on specialized re-amping boxes.

Examples

Listen to ´Are You Gay?’ in this song all guitars are recorded this way, sending the pure tone to real Marshall’s.

Also check ´Waking Up` by Go Panic! another production of mine. Here I sent the piano in the Choruses and the Break Down to a distorted Marshall Amp.

Have fun with experimenting!

Sincerly yours

Andrew Cane

Track Listing and My Favorites of Dave Grohl’s ‘Sound City: Real To Reel’

Today, as I’m listening to the album for the second time, I made up my mind of what my favorite songs are.
Guess what?
It’s #10 and #11.
What’s yours?

Track listing:

1. Heaven And All – Robert Levon Been, Dave Grohl, Peter Hayes
2. Time Slowing Down – Chris Goss, Tim Commerford, Dave Grohl, Brad Wilk
3. You Can’t Fix This – Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee
4. The Man That Never Was – Rick Springfield, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear
5. Your Wife Is Calling – Lee Ving, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Alain Johannes, Pat Smear
6. From Can To Can’t – Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Rick Nielsen, Scott Reeder
7. Centipede – Joshua Homme, Chris Goss, Dave Grohl, , Alain Johannes
8. A Trick With No Sleeve – Alain Johannes, Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme
9. Cut Me Some Slack – Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear
10. If I Were Me – Dave Grohl, Jessy Greene, Rami Jaffee, Jim Keltner
11. Mantra – Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme, Trent Reznor

First Listen @ http://m.npr.org/news/NPR+Music+Mobile/172990757