Betty Donelly's gear used for the four demo songs

	INSTRUMENTS
		
		A Schecter ULTRACURE guitar, designed by THE CURE's Robert Smith was used
		in three out of the four songs ... IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH's rhythm
		guitar was played on a FENDER Stratocaster USA custom made, which 
		features a grey body and black metal plates and black custom buttons 
		and black tone switch ..
		
		A 'made in Japan' Fender Jazzbass Special from the seventies, is used for 
		all of Betty Donelly's recordings ...
		
		For singing purposes as well as picking up the sounds of speaker cabinets,
		Betty had no other choice until now than to go with a Shure SM 58 
		stage microphone ... but just recently she purchased a Shure SM 57 so 
		the sound of amplifiers will hopefully be much better in future recordings.
		
		The rhythm guitar on IN THE BEGIN was recorded with Betty's electro-acoustic 
		STAGG guitar with a matching mini 20 WATTS amp with inputs for guitar (jack) 
		and microphone (XLR) ... 
		
		Other amps include Betty's old Fender Deluxe 112 Plus guitar cabinet and a 
		STAGG 400 WATTS CA 100B/115 bass amp model
		
		it's interesting to look into the difference between the recording of 
		IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, which was recorded using direct input of all
		instruments into the mixer console, as oppsosed to all other songs where 
		the sound went through amps and got miked via my Shure SM 58 microphone.
		
	MIXER and SOUNDCARD HARDWARE
		
		Betty Donelly has been using her mini mixing console since the days of 
		her former band THE ELEPHANTS ... it's a FOSTEX X-26 Cassette Multitracker 
		from the early nieties and it serves as an interface between the instruments'
		JACK cables and the Creative Soundblaster Audigy soundcard.
		
	SOFTWARE
	
		Betty Donelly seems very pleased with Kristal Audio Engine as her audio sequencer
	   	(the program that actually records the audio parts on her computer) ...
		
		Only for her latest single, IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH did Betty Donelly 
		make use of a wave editor for overall mastering and equalising .. her preferred
		one is NCH Software's WAVEPAD EDITOR
				

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