Worship Musician May 2018 | Page 18

was a game changer for me. I still do that with guitars and vocals. Sometimes when I start recording a vocal, the energy is too low, and I won’t know. I might have just been having a mellow day. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but if you have a Saturday evening service, when you play a high energy song, if the energy is great in the room, the song might feel a little slow. Then, you play the same song on Sunday morning, and it feels like it’s 20 bpm faster, even though you’re playing to a click. Our bodies really fluctuate in terms of their perception of what is going on. That’s why I really like getting my vocals produced by someone else who has a more objective viewpoint and can guide me to give a little more, dig a little deeper, or lighten it up in places, or pull it back in my throat. It’s really nice, and it’s one less thing that I have to think about. [WM] Let’s talk about your gear for a little bit. What is in your signal chain these days? [Lincoln] I’ve had a few different things kind of bumping around. Because I have the POD HD500X still programmed with my patch changes via MIDI, I’ve still been using that when I play live. We haven’t played out live very much the past year and a half, and that’s been on purpose so that we could take a break and make the new record. I still like the HD500X a lot. In the studio, I’m using a combination of things. I still use POD Farm 2 with my old Plexi Variax sound in there. I still love that sound. In fact, that’s the guitar solo on “Here I Am,” on the record. I also used a Kemper profiler quite a bit. I did a lot of the solos with the Kemper, along with a lot of the overdubs. I also used the Line 6 Helix Native plugin. When I’m recording, I like to have a plugin because I can keep recording pickups and putting amps on them and then monkey with it later. It’s nice to do that, especially when you’re dealing with a lot of tracks with a lot of keyboards and layers. You may want the guitar to do a different thing later. So, Helix Native has been really great. 18 I do use quite a few third-party cabinet IRs I’ve found though, that whether you use Line 6, (impulse responses) with Helix Native. I use Kemper, Fractal, or whatever… if you’re going a thing called mixIR2 plugin from RedWirez. I for a Plexi, the whole concept is that it should also used a plugin that’s a ’57 with an off-axis, sound like a Plexi. It shouldn’t sound like five darker sound on a Celestion 25. I love using different manufacturers. They should all sound IRs, and have even plugged my ’69 Plexi like a Plexi amp. And I’ve been finding that Marshall into a load box and run it straight into more and more, especially with the newer stuff, ProTools and put an IR on it, and that works everyone is doing a pretty good job of modeling great as well. the different amps now. May 2018 WorshipMusician.com