Development Of In Harmony Part 6 Electric Guitars Used

Development Of In Harmony – Electric Guitars

In Part 5 of our Development of In Harmony series, a video tour of the recording studio where our song In Harmony was recorded showed my big Marshall guitar amplifier. In this post I’m going to show you the actual electric guitars that I played in this song. What might surprise a lot of folks especially when they see the music video of the full Extended Monster Guitar version of In Harmony, I’m seen playing three different electric guitars. The new video below will show you these guitars and I explain why I use three different ones in the song.

Different Guitars For Different Sounds

As explained in the above video, I like to use different guitars since each one produces different sounds. I experiment with each guitar for the different parts of the song and then I choose which electric guitar to record with on each part. As you see in the music video although it might not be noticeable if just listening to the audio of the song, different sections of my lead guitar solos use different sounds produced by the different guitars.

For my lead guitar solos in our song In Harmony, I played both my Gibson Les Paul Deluxe as well as my Gibson Flying V. For the clean rhythm guitar tracks, I used two different guitars, my Gibson Les Paul and a black Lado guitar that was made in Canada. One of these guitars will be heard on the left side and the other on the right. Since they sound a bit different, by combining both of these two guitars gives the song an overall bigger guitar sound. Many of the other songs that Unity Power Force will release in the future do feature at least two different guitars in order to get a wider sound that could not be achieved if I played just one guitar in the song.

I’ve had all three of these electric guitars for many years with both my Gibsons since my high school years. So the Gibson guitars in particular, were made many years ago during the 1960s and 1970s. One thing I can tell you is that many guitars today are not made as nicely as the guitars made many years ago like the ones I have.

I will post a separate article along with video in the future to show the acoustic guitars I played in some of the songs that have acoustic guitar tracks on them.