New
York, NY (November 17, 2004)--G&E Music recently delivered an album's
worth of modern rock tunes to ESPN, a custom sound library for use on
its popular game highlights program, SportsCenter. Nope, it's not Incubus
playing those hard-hitting chords you heard accompanying Johnny Damon’s
World Series home run, but G&E's Glenn Schloss and Erik Blicker,
rocking out in their NYC recording studio.
According
to Blicker, the duo wrote and recorded ten songs all over the modern rock map
in just two weeks, covering many bases with tunes echoing
Dave Matthews and John Mayer to the more aggressive and raw sounds of Lenny
Kravitz, Jett, and Linkin Park. With only a week to compose the music,
Schloss and Blicker ramped up production, hashing out ideas on Roland V-Drums
and Line 6 Pod guitars, and later re-recording live drums and guitars on
the best 10 of 15 songs written.
G&E used the V-Drum kick in addition to the live drum kit, maintaining
the ability to change kicks later to match different bass sounds. Rock
guitars were recorded using a Marshall stack, occasionally doubling up
on some of the Pod tracks. Schloss reports that as opposed to some of G&E's
recent creations, there were "not too many bells
and whistles on this project--just pure rock-n-roll.
Lots of
drums, lots
of bass, and
a ton
of screaming guitars."
Under a tight deadline, Schloss and Blicker were still finishing up arrangements
in Studio B, while G&E's Brian Quill was mixing on Pro Tools HD in
Studio A. Working in tandem, G&E delivered the final mixes to ESPN
creative director Claude Mitchell at the end of the two weeks. G&E
delivered more tracks than originally contracted and
ESPN had a tough decision selecting their ten favorites.
The
guys really
hit
a home
run on this one.
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