Some live recording with the new Soloway prototype

[Jim Soloway]

I've been recording with this guitar for about 6 weeks, finally hoping to get that follow up album done (just 10 years and endless attempts later than planned). It's been all original material. This one is a swing blues that I came up with a few years ago called Ellis Avenue Bypass. It went down in one take this afternoon. It's not perfect but it's a nice start and I think the guitar sounds glorious.

[wzpgsr]

Playing is great and the recorded tone is excellent—nicely balanced with no boominess or shrillness.

[Jim Soloway]

Playing is great and the recorded tone is excellent—nicely balanced with no boominess or shrillness.

Thanks. After 8 weeks or so with this guitar it feels remarkably like home right now. It's been a constructive time with it. I started, once again, to get a new album recorded only using the prototype. Fairly early in the process I decided to make it all original material and it's come a log way since then. If I get this one finished today, I'll have eight sons in the can, all played on one pickup of one guitar.

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

Sounds great, Jim - and so does the guitar! The clear definition of every note among your tight intervals is very impressive - I suspect it helps make your composition sound better (and more like you heard it in your head when you wrote it) than it will on lesser instruments.

[2bornot2bop]

Sounding very professional there Jim! I can’t believe how warm that guitar sounds!

[Jim Soloway]

Sounding very professional there Jim! I can’t believe how warm that guitar sounds!

Thanks Greg. I've made recording a basic part of my daily routine for quite a while now. It's become very rare for a day to go by in which I don't do at least some recording, even if it's just to test something. I feel like it's really paid off both in my production and in my playing. I've learned to remove my ego a bit and recognize my limitations. Sometimes simplifying my playing when it's the right path forward and I only get that information from recording. I've also found a workable method of recording and put together a really nice set of tools that allow me to overcome my lack of either a studio or a lot of hardware. (And most of those tools were free! It's amazing the quality of free legal software that's available)