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Skullcrusher Crunch Guitar

from Flotsam and Jetsam by Common Lisp

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The first thing I recorded for the Mandelbrot Set's version of "Skullcrusher Mountain" was this crunchy distorted guitar part that acts as a low sustained drone under the other parts. I got this tone by using an old Peavey T-60, through a Roland Cube Street amplifier. I put the amplifier inside the toilet stall in the unused women's rest room at my office, and recorded the reverberant sound (bouncing on the tile floor and metal stall) with my Sony PCM-D50 digital recorder.

I know this track doesn't make a lot of sense on its own, but it is here because I just love the tone. Keep in mind this is an inexpensive solid-state amp, not a boutique tube amp. Tube emulation has come a long way since the days of my old practice amps back in the early 1980s. I also love the way the old pickups on this T-60, with their mellowed magnetic field strength, generate this harmonic-rich but "soft" feedback. It sounds very different than the feedback I'd get out of modern high-gain pickups.

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from Flotsam and Jetsam, released January 17, 2010
Guitar: Paul R. Potts, based on Jonathan Coulton's guitar parts for"Skullcrusher Mountain." See: www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Skullcrusher_Mountain If you enjoy my track, please support the original artist.

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Common Lisp Ann Arbor, Michigan

Common Lisp is Paul R. Potts, an amateur musician living in Saginaw, Michigan.

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