I actually wrote this song a couple of years ago, and have played it live a ton of times since then. Don’t know why I didn’t record it earlier, but I think I was a little scared of the arrangement of the guitars – I needed three to pull it off, with each one doing a different thing. It was a little daunting, especially considering this is a really straight-forward song. It’s loosely based on Saint Paul’s “Faith, Hope, and Love…” passage, but I added a bit more to the message; mainly dealing with putting your full trust in God, and leaving it up to Him to guide your life. Of course, we all have our choices, but why worry when we’ve got Faith, Hope and Love? 🙂
Anyway, give it a listen. Frankly, it’s one of my favorite songs because it’s loud and rockin’, but in a real fun way!
Equipment Used
Amps:
- Fender Hot Rod Deluxe – I’ve got THD Yellow Jackets in the power tube section – very sweet, early distortion.
- Fender Champion 600 – This is my debut of this cute little amp. I played my ES-335 with it stock for the base rhythm track, and drove the 1 X 12 cabinet on my Hot Rod with it, when playing my Strat for the “counterpoint” rhythm part.
Guitars:
- Gibson ES-335 – This sounded so very sweet through the Champ, and I haven’t even full broken it in yet!!! That’s a testament to how great that little amp is!
- Fender Strat – Admittedly, the Champ sounded a little tinny with the Strat, which is what I expected, but driving my 1 X 12 cab on my Hot Rod really did the trick!
- Epiphone ’58 Korina Explorer Re-issue – Used this with my Hot Rod in the drive channel, which create an ever so sweet distortion with the EL-84’s. Combined with the fact that the Explorer just wants to overdrive naturally, this was a great combination.
All other instruments were MIDI (bass and organ). I used a combination of several GarageBand drum loops to create the drum track.
Note: This was also the very first time, I used extensive volume automation in a song. I’ve avoided it because I felt it was too much work. It is a lot of work! But I wanted to mix down the song without normalization this time because GB normalization can make a song too quiet. And in this case where I was hitting the red zone in gain – it was in a place where I wanted to get a bit of breakup anyway – but it’s so slight, you barely notice it. Once I get into the studio, we’ll be able to master it properly. But for now, it’ll do for a
Guitar Gear 
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