Session Diary - Styling & Profiling

With no time for the January Blues Adam Goldsmith got nerdy in the studio with his Kemper profiling amp

- Adam Goldsmith

Traditionally the first month of the year is a quiet time for session musicians, but I was lucky enough to have a week of continuous sessions starting on 2 January, just enough time for the hangover to clear up and to take my mind off the dreaded self employed tax bill.

I spent this week in renowned drummer Ralph Salmins’ Bunker studio recording 50 minutes of music per day in every style imaginable, from a tango classical guitar feature to a cover of Metallica’s Enter Sandman, via The Sound of Music. This was all recorded for a company who sell show backing tracks all over the world, and in order to make it financially viable, we didn’t do more than two takes for anything, and they all needed to be perfect by that second take. The charts were expertly written and arranged by pianist Rob Eckland, keyboards played by the Strictly Come Dancing band and Brian May Keyboard player Jeff Leach, and upright and electric bass by studio supremo Steve Pearce.