Hey Justin people!
It’s been (yet again) a long time since I posted a new cover. As some of you perhaps know, I work in the video games industry… and we recently released our latest game “James Bond: First Light”. That was a very tough release, and I never worked more overtime in my entire working career - and it left little time for recording 
But luckily the game was released and very well received!
I also felt that I had kind of plateaued a little bit wrt to my technique and how all my covers sounded. So I have been spending almost a full year taking a very challenging course on Yngwie Malmsteen style and technique. I don’t actually particularly enjoy his playing, if I’m being totally honest, but I was interested in learning economy picking, sweep picking and just overall getting my technique in better shape.
The course is extremely challenging, and it was actually a bit hard to see progress. Because as I “conquered” a small technique or exercise, the next would simply be even more difficult
BUT - I recently bought myself an Ibanez guitar - the Joe Satriani signature one with a sustainiac pickup etc. Joe Satriani I have been a long time fan of! Of all the “instrumental shredders”, I feel he is the most melodic and musical.
Summer Song has been a bit of a “dreamer song” for me for a long time, but honestly I could not pull it off. But now, with the new guitar, I gave it another try… and it turns out that all the hard work on technique HAVE had an effect - because now this stuff was actually doable!
I’m quite happy with how this one turned out, and I hope you’ll like the recording as well. As always I’ll post a link to the full mix, and then also a link to the “guitar only” render where you can clearly hear what tones I used and how the parts go. One thing I learned from doing this cover is how good a rhythm guitarist Joe also is… I really like the parts that goes under the lead work on this one…
To clarify the details a bit: I play all the guitar layers, but used drums and bass tracks from karaoke-version.com. No AI was (of course) used. Tones are from my Soldano X88IR tube preamp and effects from my Fractal Axe FX3. For rhythm tracks I used my ESP LTD 1000 Deluxe with the Evertune bridge to keep things perfect in tune. Rhythm is double tracked and hard-panned left/right. All lead parts is using my Ibanez JS2480.
The track:
The guitar only render:
… I listen to Satriani a lot and I wouldn’t hear the difference if you suddenly played in between two of his tracks.
As always, it is not easy to comment on any of your uploads, they sound completely professional level. Well done Kasper!
