Ever since I completed the B2B course, I’ve been learning songs that I like and that I think are not too difficult. Yes, I’ve been neglecting the 50 Songs Challenge, but I intend to get back to that. In the meantime, I’d like to submit this cover of Everclear’s “Santa Monica”, a song that may not be that well-known, but that I really like myself.
For the tech nerds, this is my signal path: fingers > Harley Benton BZ-4000 NT (with D’Addario EXL 165 or 170 strings) > Zoom B1 Four > Behringer U-phoria UMC22 DAI > Cakewalk by BandLab DAW. I created the patch in the Zoom (160 Comp > Room reverb > Ampg SVT amp sim > ZNR noise gate) myself. I know I could have done this in the DAW as well, but I spent quite some time tweaking the Zoom patch, and I am as yet unable to do the same in Cakewalk. I quite like the resulting tone, and I think it matches the original tone for this song quite nicely, so I just went with it. Let me know what you think!