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Don't forget there's a JEM7WVH in the Strat pile! I won't allow it.
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Jul 8, 2022 16:40
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new thread new rule no e/n that means you lg E: stairway is permitted
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Jul 8, 2022 16:42
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I kid because I LOVE.  I made a patch this afternoon with a Friedman HBE and an ENGL Savage, panned hard L/R in stereo. Those two kids play exceptionally well together and I played for over an hour. Hadn't played my JB in awhile and boy does it make me happy. Also, Gramps is 100% right on about how to start making a toan. I'm in the modeler world for almost a year now and I do think IR choice is top priority.
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Jul 8, 2022 23:20
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This is related to modeler chat. My decision to adopt modeling tech started with my experience with the Line6 Helix HX Stomp. I didn't like the amp sounds, and in hindsight I think it was because I didn't understand just how important speaker cabinet IRs are. I landed on Fractal because they had a $1K modeler called the FM3 that I decided to try after sending a Stomp back. It gave me goosebumps on the first play and I sold it and went all-in on the Axe-FXIII MkII (only to return it for the Turbo version a couple weeks later.) Since then John Cordy has proven the Helix gear can sound great if you know how to use it. He's a very musical guy who put in the thousands of hours of work to achieve really astounding skill especially in lead lines. His control and smoothness wreck me. And he sounds amazing no matter what he plays through. On his channel he plays every modeler out there and real amps with IRs, and real amps with mic'ed cabs. He's got the technical aspects down. So when he revisited the Quad Cortex I had to go see what was new. I thought it was good enough to share, hope I was right. The topic is the looper but in demo'ing that he ends up showing lots of things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jppyodJxXKw
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Jul 10, 2022 06:38
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Agreed posted:(brown sound modded Plexi) There's a bit of the intro to Mean Street where Eddie just snaps out an open G5 and it slays on the record. I mean, the intro to Mean Street is one of the most astounding bits of guitaring Eddie ever put to tape but who can actually play all of it? Sure as hell not this guy. But I am amazed a modeler can do this at all. I'd love to hear the one you reference, because if there's one thing I believe it's John Cordy's assertion you can get great tones from all the modeler options out there. I just went for the expensive one because a) I wanted to be able to run two amp blocks at once, and b) I was turning 50 so I justified it as my mid-life crisis sports car expense, along with a new Tele and stuff. Here's something I threw down just to enjoy it. I can't see myself trying to attempt the whole song without the full intro so maybe someday? https://soundcloud.com/dr-faustus777/mean-street-test Now, same preset but an Ibanez RG1070 with a ToneZone in the bridge, which is a much hotter pickup with a very different treble character than the PG. https://soundcloud.com/dr-faustus777/little-dreamer-cover My bassist asked me to record him a clip of this Freidman HBE/ENGL Savage rig I am working on, and I'm gonna try the Evolutions in the JEM7VWH with that. I'd like to make a clip of the 5150 BL and Soldano SLO100 I've been playing with, too. I told him I would do it today but  .
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Jul 10, 2022 20:11
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Helianthus Annuus posted:Let's talk about modeling amplifiers, then! There's something about modeling amps vs tube amps that I want to understand. It comes up in this video, at 595s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH-4eT9qrDY&t=595s Regarding replacement humbuckers (get ready for a bunch of general claims that I do support but YMMV): General rule of passive humbuckers is more gain = more resistance = more treble signal lost. (Hotter = darker, mostly) So if you're looking for replacement buckers (and you don't mind adding a gain pedal, or have extra gain on tap that you can turn up on the amp when you need a saturated distortion) you'll find vintage/low gain pickups have more air/presence to them. Lots more. That leads to really pleasant and expressive pick attack that will respond far more to your picking dynamics. Another thing I find is you can push low-gain pickups as far as you want and they will give you a cool sponginess that retains clarity due to the high-frequencies present. I have several DiMarzios and my favorites are the FRED and the ToneZone. The FRED is mid-gain and the TZ is much hotter but designed to introduce its own kind of treble boost, which can be off-putting. But the pickups that really disappointed me the most were the PAF Pros that came in my first JEM. They sound really good at first, but they are super generic-sounding and just don't have that expressiveness. I think they lack harmonics, but that's getting past my technical knowledge. All the Duncans I have sound amazing in the high end, and I think the hottest one I have is my JB. Sorry, this topic is SUPER subjective and very hard to describe in a way that people can follow with any consistency. Thanks for listening to my little Van Halen thingy. muike posted:DiMarzio PAF of some variety/maybe Humbucker from Hell in the neck position Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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Jul 11, 2022 02:33
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luchadornado posted:I played a 335 the other day and I can't believe how much I liked it. How close can it get to things like Knopflers LP on Brothers on Arms? Brothers In Arms is actually the only Dire Straits album I have, I got it and The Nylon Curtain on vinyl with my first bedroom stereo, and I played the hell out of those records.
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Jul 12, 2022 23:38
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In my experience coil split is of limited usefulness because 1 coil of most humbuckers by themselves are way too thin-sounding. Just too weak. I have found that, especially with the mid-gain vintage output pickups I seem to prefer, switching between series wiring (full gain humbucking) and parallel (1/4 gain humbucking) is a better solution for getting close to a single-coil sound. It's a mod pretty much all of my bridge humbuckers have,and more recently I started modding my neck humbuckers to have this as well.
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Jul 14, 2022 04:45
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This is really pretty. Andy Timmons on TPS playing through a couple Mesa Lone Stars and demoing his pedals. I've set the video to start when Andy begins playing a piece, and it's fun because the TPS guys get emotional. The video is really sweet because there is clearly a sincere musical connection and friendship going on here. What you won't be able to tell from the video right away is they're running the amps into that 2x12 cab loaded with EVs, and it's cranked pretty loud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdG-WjTtgk&t=795s John Cordy saw this clip and decided to learn the little piece and to make a video to teach how to play it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ChtqEiGCw It's not difficult at all, and it's not particularly bad rear end. It's just very sweet and simple and I thought it deserved to be shared.
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Jul 14, 2022 10:48
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Lumpy posted:Andy Timmons is so outstanding I can't fathom just how good he actually is. If that makes any sense at all. I play one on the internet but I am not actually a doctor.
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Jul 14, 2022 17:54
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I know how you feel, lg. My RG471AH seemed like the best cheap guitar I ever bought, until one day I realized I could hear the truss rod rattle in its channel and put the guitar down in anger. Since then I've recorded with it and love it despite the flaw. My JEM70SFG came to me with ALL of the frets standing a tiny bit off the fretboard treble-side. When the high E got stuck under the 24th fret it took me days to realize it was all of the frets and not just the 24th. This was not a cheap guitar, either. It was an Indo JEM that cost me $1500. By the time I figured this out I'd had the guitar just over a year and I was very lucky Ibanez was willing to fix it under warranty. Just trying to say there is always something. Hopefully it is not a show-stopper like a sitar-buzz in one spot on the neck! But it's guitar and you just have to roll with it. You will drive yourself nuts if let yourself dwell on it. Raise the bridge just a tiny bit at a time on the treble side until the G-string stops buzzing. If that's too high, start lowering it again until the buzz becomes unbearable. At that point reassess if you can handle the imperfection or not. If the answer is certainly not, then you will know you need to spend some money on a new neck or, far preferable, a fret-level or partial fret-level. That is the very best advice I can give, apart from looking on the bright side. The bright side is look at where you are now, lg. I remember when you were asking about song-writing and you lacked the theory to ask the questions correctly or get the answers. You've come incredibly far since then. Be proud of yourself and know that hating the instrument, and your own playing, is natural.  Page one of this thread I took some of the meanest loving knocks I've ever seen here and it was because I was teasing you. You are loved, kid. Don't doubt it. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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Jul 14, 2022 18:47
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:That Ibanez is gorgeous.  NGL I have been looking at this thing all day. I think I want one. I'm trying to decide if I'm willing to part with my SFG JEM to get one. It's one of the guitars I pick up least frequently, but it's my metal machine (if I ever play any) because I put a Crunch Lab in it. Last time I thought about putting it on reverb I went to put some notes on it and I couldn't put it down, decided I could never let it go. Not to mention it is the guitar made infamous by the Ugly Guitars/Stupid Music poo poo thread so I kinda need to own it. If I was working I wouldn't be thinking about letting it go, but people are paying good money for used gear. And I don't have any roasted maple necks! This would be my first. I'll just wait. It's definitely on my list. Except I still need a Les Paul with P90s. Dammit. Tonight I am playing with the Andy Timmons "Halo" modulated & diffused delay. I don't have the pedal, I looked up the settings. 375ms/500ms stereo with modulation for chorusy repeats and diffusion to make it 'verby. The AxeFX has all of those parameters right there so it's super easy to get there in the Plex 'Verb block set to stereo tape delay. Makes me wish I knew some of those neat jazzy chords Eric Johnson likes to play with his ambient delays. The Fear posted:hearing Andy play electric gypsy is one of the things which inspired me to start playing again
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Jul 15, 2022 03:09
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:I'm learning to love the strat neck pickup. It makes me want to bust out the ancient bullet strat to see if I like it there too. The trick to making a bad-to-mid neck pickup sound good is in your picking hand. Pick it hard, like you're loving pissed at it. Snap the string up with your fingertip or thumb. Behave as though you want to break the string. Reminds me: Check your pickup heights! Not up to writing a thesis on that atm but sometimes that set of pickups just needs to back off or come up a bit to really suck you in. landgrabber posted:when i went to see faust, he did an inspection and was like "oh these frets aren't really leveled" and did a bit of work.  Thirding Naptha and seconding spit (on your own guitars!)
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Jul 16, 2022 10:17
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BizarroAzrael posted:One thing though; I find dialing *either*volume down past a certain point mutes both pickups, is that normal?
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Jul 17, 2022 01:59
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luchadornado posted:This is like the worst possible combo.. why?
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Jul 17, 2022 13:34
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https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/uk-retailers-told-200-stolen-prs-guitars/quote:UK retailers told to be on the lookout for more than 200 stolen PRS guitars
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Jul 19, 2022 15:55
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landgrabber posted:how do you put a RAT on a pedalboard? it has these screws on the bottom that are pretty long, and they kinda keep the velcro on the pedal from making contact
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Jul 20, 2022 19:45
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Yeah just keep the screws with the feet. They shouldn't be holding the chassis together.
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Jul 20, 2022 19:54
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How banjos work.
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Jul 21, 2022 19:03
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Spanish Manlove posted:It's a joke about a semi-secret setup for tele control plates where you flip them around and change the order of the pots so it goes volume, tone, switch.  Wire length is definitely important and also you have to flip the switch direction too, or down will be neck and up will be bridge.
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Jul 23, 2022 18:21
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You have made me GAS for a green guitar. Guy I met in '89 introduced me to a very similar PRS around '91 but the green was closer to evergreen. Saw your new fiddle and remembered how much I liked that guitar (which was easy to forget because the guy sold it to make a generic Music Man EVH copy, which was nice but not close to the PRS.) Green and silver go really nicely together and when you add in some maple I get british racing car+camel vibes. What are the pickups and how do you like them, if I may ask?
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Jul 23, 2022 22:27
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massive spider posted:https://voca.ro/1hL05HeH6kbl On the topic of modelers: I am about to try something that will take a little explaining: Doing research into the best way to simulate an acoustic tone on an electric guitar. I'm aware of more than one technique to get there with varying degrees of success, mostly EQ-based. Along the way I ran across an Impulse Response a guy was selling for $10. Now, normally I'd be fine giving some rando $10 for something like that. Like how I paid whatever I paid for Moke's talk-box preset. In this case I decided to look around a bit more before spending anything, and that meant going to the Fractal forums and searching around for a free one. Instead, I ran across a post on how to just make my own, and there is a pretty good incentive to do it. I got out my Breedlove and a condenser mic. I'm gonna mic it up and record it to my PC, playing big barre chords to a beat to make a "tone match" source, and exporting the result as an IR I can run through in my modeler. What I hadn't anticipated about this process is this kind of tone match via IR technique is specific to both the source instrument and the target instrument. So if I get someone else's acoustic guitar tone match, my results will be based on whatever pickup they used on their electric guitar as the IR dictates the difference between the two sounds, and variations between their pickup and mine could throw off the match. Yeah, I am explaining this poorly, sorry. If anyone can help please do. If I understand this correctly, I can mic up my guitar and record this sample and put it on my PC as my reference. Then, when I run the tone match in my modeler, I'll be matching it to the actual guitar and pickup I intend to use for the performance. That will give the best result. And if I decide to play a different guitar, I need to re-run the process running the tone match against the new guitar and pickup I intend to use. So I could conceivably make this one reference sound (e.g. Breedlove with new strings on it) and then make a collection of IRs, say "My Strat bridge pickup," "My Ibanez neck pickup," and "My Tele neck pickup," and then put those in my patches. Personalized results. So it's free to try since I have the gear here. Anyway this is the first time I've read about the process and I suspect this is how people print their own effects and cabs as well. It's way out there to me, but I have the mics and preamps to do it well (I think.) I'm still mulling it over in my head right now but I have a reason to get this done, which I want to share soon, hopefully. Anyone have any experience doing this stuff with IRs? Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Jul 25, 2022 01:41
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darkwasthenight posted:The era between the invention of the piezo bridge and the Fishman Aura/IR modelling was a grim time for live acoustic guitars. Just mic up your acoustic for the album, please! This shortcut is so not worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqyZMjFqFf0
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Jul 25, 2022 21:14
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If you are measuring relief at the 6th fret, that is good. I've found on a perfectly level neck you can actually go even straighter but the sign you've gone too straight is buzzing somewhere the 1st fret to the 9th or 12th. So I wouldn't expect to be able to go much straighter than a hair's width/sheet of paper if there's buzzing at 3. Bear in mind there are are a shitload of buts and ifs I am leaving out, here, as necks are affected by so many points that can move with time and temp.
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Jul 25, 2022 22:20
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brushwad posted:Superchunk, Let's Active, The Connells, The Db's, Archers of Loaf, The Avett Brothers, Corrosion of Conformity, Sylvan Esso, Jodeci, Southern Culture on the Skids, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Watchhouse/Mandolin Orange, Steep Canyon Rangers, Ben Folds, Petey Pablo, Maceo Parker, George Clinton, Nina Simone, me and John Motherfucking Coltrane all respectfully disagree.
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Jul 26, 2022 05:43
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landgrabber posted:it's in Ab, like the buddy holly choruses, and does stuff with the same sorts of chords (if i ever want to write a "big chorus", i essentially try to simply alter or come up with a good variation on/mutation of I-IV-V).  Regarding Steinbergers: Why can't we have trans-trems?!? Gibson bought the patent and buried it or something? I want a polymer guitar that looks like an oar with a horribly finicky transposing bridge and I mean it. But I don't want NOS parts or those outrageous prices. I thought by now they would be available everywhere but they've been locked away and abandoned and I don't like that one bit!
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Jul 31, 2022 10:13
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what the gently caress pat E: honestly pat what gives
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luchadornado posted:I finally finished my first build-your-own pedal, a Klon clone - and it doesn't work. This is totally deflating after days of delays, hours of work, and a few finger burns. Tomorrow I'll hit the builder forums and see if anyone can help my understand why the voltages on my ICs are so different.
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Aug 4, 2022 05:17
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Baron von Eevl posted:it's going to sound like a thick rear end D note, the base frequency of the A is already an overtone you're hearing in the D*, so really you're playing up the complex relationship between the D overtones and the overtones from the A and smooshing them up and getting this kinda beastly tone. Thank you for reminding me of Dopethrone! This is going to improve my night considerably. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rWsvW14u9o
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Aug 5, 2022 03:50
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Red_Fred posted:This is a good post!
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Ok I just had a great warm-up and practice. I'm feeling good so I'd like to share. It's totally e/n but it's about the instrument, performance, and their relationship to me, so skip it if you might wanna be a dick about it. The band I worked my rear end off for, with our one gig in May, kinda kicked my rear end. On the one hand, I give myself credit for doing the best I could preparing all of that material over just six weeks. I did learn everything, I wrote gig-appropriate patches in my modeler. I've had a chance to go back through them recently and drat they are good. At the gig I made it through most of the show but my left hand did actually lock up with two songs left in the night. My keyboardist bailed me out on the intro to Journey's "Lights" which sucked because I worked out that intro really well and couldn't wait to play it, and I limped through You Really Got Me to finish the night. But my left hand was just dead, it turned into a claw that I could only stare at accusingly. loving traitor. After so many years of neglect I couldn't get through a three hour show, even though I tried to be smart about practicing to the right amount and not quite overdoing it. I didn't want to hurt anything important. All that was really hurt was my pride. The band leader never gave me any credit (but the rest of the band was much cooler and I was able to feel good about that). But I also got depressed and avoided my guitars for the rest of May and June. I got them all cleaned and strung up and set up, but then just couldn't lift one to actually play it. Early in July I got a message on Bandmix. It was a bassist here in town who had a drummer and they had an idea for a project. They found me there and followed to my Soundcloud and they thought I was their guy. They wanted to know if I was interested. So when they told me it was a Sammy Hagar project, I saw why. It would be covering any material we liked from Montrose, his solo albums, Van Hagar, Chickenfoot (with Michael Anthony and Joe Satriani), and The Circle (which is a Led Zepp tribute with Vic Johnson on guitar). There are a lot of hits in there, a ton actually, if we can find the right singer (not my problem). I was inclined to do it just to get out of the house. To get back into a live situation and play way too loud. That seemed like a good idea, and all I had to do was play the kind of stuff I've been playing since I started playing Van Halen in 1987. ITT we had discussed 5150 amps because Agreed got one, and I already had been playing with similar sounds in my modeler, including Soldanos, Plexis, Freidmans, ENGLs, Diesels, the 5150 MKIII, and the o so delicious Cameron Atomica. So I started over and made three stereo rigs for tryout (which I will distill down to mono for gigs.) One is Atomicas, one is 5150 MKIIIs, and one is 5150 BLs. They are identical except for the amps, with the typical EVH sounds: phaser, flanger, chorus, and Wet/Dry/Wet stereo detune "chorus." Stereo delays, simple room and plate reverbs, and a digitech whammy effect because I remember Satch loved those for awhile. I also made that acoustic IR based on my Breedlove and matched to the Crunch Lab in my JEM70VSFG which is now set up in standard for this project. I use that for the intro to Dreams. It sounds loving amazing. And it doesn't matter which 5150 or Atomicas I play, they sound sick. Attitude. Just my Pearly Gates in my hard-tail strat and those amps dry, man Rock Candy sounds fat as hell. I might just start using the Firefly LP for that old Montrose stuff. But I have been nagged constantly by how things ended in May. Way too much up in my head. I set boundaries right away with the new rhythm section. Told them I don't care what is on the setlist. I won't play dress up to look like Eddie or anything stupid like that. I don't want to talk from the stage or do anything but nail some Van Halen and some Chickenfoot and go home. I don't want to work out the setlist, or debate where to play, any of that poo poo. At first they thought I was too nonchalant about it all until I told them it ain't that I don't have opinions. You guys know me better than that! Instead, I simply have no interest in imposing my opinions on this project. Hire a rhythm guitarist if you want, just keep them out of my lane. I won't bow up about anything, but I also told them in all honesty I just may not cut it. I told them about the May gig and how I'd kinda fallen low after. I told them I would be happy just to hang out if I didn't have the hands for it anymore, as I wasn't sure. I think they appreciated my honesty. So this Wednesday I was invited to the rehearsal space, which they hadn't been to since the pandemic started. Last weekend I had been practicing the tunes I was told to learn and I had gotten back to wanting to stand up and move around. To really get into the spirit. And it was getting fun. Playing Rock Candy, Heavy Metal, There's Only One Way To Rock, Dreams, Finish What Ya Started, Won't Get Fooled Again, Rock 'n Roll. I learned this ridiculous blues called Big Foot from Chickenfoot III. Jesus Christ is it fun. Since I hadn't tried out yet (that is Sunday) I sat down with the backing tracks I had gathered and I recorded all of Big Foot, half of Rock Candy, and Dreams through the solo. I put them on my phone and took them with me. And btw I played my left hand very nearly to overload again. It was a hard workout because I let myself get fixated on the solo to Dreams and did way too many takes. And I try to throttle the guitar to death on Rock Candy, it feels like I need to sell it and I end up just wailing on the thing. At the rehearsal space I got my phone hooked up to the PA (which is niiiiice) and cranked the tracks I had put down earlier that morning, and the guys and their buddy who owns the building started looking at me funny. In a good way. We hung out from 10am to noon and I came home and did not touch a guitar again until tonight. I needed at least a day to recover from the recording session because now I am playing 10's at standard pitch and that's more of a lift than I am used to. But it has paid off. I played all the tryout songs through twice tonight and I still have fingers left. Those whole-step bends at standard feel like they used to at Eb, which is to say my callouses are fully recovered and my finger strength and endurance are back online. Accuracy still suffering, but I can even get some stretches of very fast alternate picking going which is new. I went back to the band leader's place and got back my other Headrush 108 cabinet which I had left there all this time, and I am ready to try out on Sunday. All honesty I think bringing my tracks in on Wednesday got me the gig already, but I can take it or leave it. It's neat to see my Bandmix and Bandfinder profiles are still getting visitors every week. I'm feeling a confidence I didn't feel back in April. I bought some 9's for standard tuning but now I don't think I will need them (but if I do, they are D'Addario XT 09-046 and I have four packs to start. Finish What Ya Started, I play on a preset that's a Fender Super and a Deluxe Reverb, 2x12 and 4x10 cabs, and hell yes put a Leslie rotary on it and vary the speed with an expression pedal in some places, it's magic! I found the tab for the solo, thank God. It's not so hard as it sounds. So looking back at all my posts here, that's where all that stuff came from. The acoustic talk, for example. That worked out really great! We will need a keyboardist, and they are hoping for a rhythm guitarist. I'm easy. I just hope I can deliver. Better than May, anyway. So I am looking at new guitars because I found this Ibanez S-Series that I really really like, but I may gently caress up and "accidentally" buy one of the used Guthrie Govan Charvels on Reverb. If you hung through all of this, bless your heart.
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Long story short, if you don't use those muscles you will lose them. I'd rather work back through an adjustment period than give up so early. I bought 9s. But tonight I played 14 songs and still had lots left in me. Another five-six no problem. And the longest show we will do I expect to be maybe 14 songs. Maybe even less. 45 minutes to an hour, plus three "encore" tunes. I'm not ready to admit defeat, that's all. I'm prepared if I must! Thanks, guys. E: Also imagine if I work out on 10s in standard and talk them into staying in Eb all night, they'll feel like 9s! And no way I am dedicating more than two of my floating trems to standard tuning. Not. Gonna.
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Right on, man. It really is. Congratulations on the band! My most recent VOX memory is this summer on Facebook I watched a guy in a Fractal group playing some intensely amazing old-school searing surf-y kinda stuff on a Danelectro. It was one of those really raw sounds that I felt like I should have known what it was but was embarrassed I had to ask. And when he told me it was an AC15 model I smacked my head. Duh. Not punk, of course, but the few times I got to spend on an AC30 were just glorious. Writing music is something I hate doing by myself but I can definitely get into when I have other ears in the room to help me pick out the riffs, hooks, and grooves. It's great to have a drummer just react to your riff and lock into it with you. I miss that. Best of luck to you, too. I look forward to hearing what you guys put together as you are able to share. Rock on! I'm hoping to be able to bring home audio and video before too long, and if it's not too bad I'll want to share it. Thanks.
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The Leck posted:It seems funny to me to just pull this out from your post, but I’m wondering how you like the Headrush. I’ve been thinking about getting a FRFR to get away from using my monitors, and this one seems to come up a lot as a recommendation. The Headrush and the Alto are, I guess, the same product or close to it. And before I tried the HR108s I had heard they are very boomy. I'm sure you already have an idea in your head of what that means, right? So did I, but, you know, what does that actually mean for using them? My experience went like this: I tried them out in my apartment at very low volume and wow, yeah they are like all bass down low. I mean, you will want to EQ all that bass right the gently caress out to play them quietly. That was when I doubted them, of course. I took them both to a jam and was stunned by how loud and clear they are. They are powered PA cabs essentially and they are not loving around. I did not need two of them, that was just plain overkill. The output on my rig was off and the one cabinet was maybe turned up to 5? And when I started rolling in the volume from my rig I blew right past apartment volume and suddenly the springs on the snare were rattling in sympathy. Like, I would expect that, maybe, if I'd already set the cab to 10. But I wasn't close to that on the cab yet, and I was still at about 5 on the output volume from my rig. And we are talking full, fat, bright and clear sound. Not like a 4x12 cabinet, but more like a 4x12 that's been miced up, run into a board and processed for a studio recording. As raw as you like, but still polished. And the disparity caused by those prevalent lows went away at jam volume. Nothing to complain about. Chug chug chug squeeeeaall! That was when I knew I was happy and didn't have to worry about getting rid of them. And they are only 19 lbs. each. So at very low volume be ready to dedicate an EQ to killing those lows, but you won't need it at any volume you might need to keep up with a drummer. I am not exaggerating when I say this pair could without question push a small (indoor) venue. With volume to spare. I kept the other cabinet around to let my keyboardist use as a powered monitor, and from across the room it sounded amazing as well. And they have two inputs on the back with independent volumes, so you can run a vocal or something else into them. Now that I know all of this, I am going to set them up facing me in stereo so I can just groove on the sound myself, and give the rest of the band whatever they want through the PA. Tomorrow evening at 6pm. I cannot wait. It is a big stage, I have the room to spread out. They don't look like much sound reinforcement at all, but Jeeeeesus. 2000W each.  landgrabber posted:i played that pearly gates hardtail strat it sounded sick a.p. dent posted:total lock up the first few times. duodenum posted:The Rev. Billy G definitely lines 'em up right. I played a Pearly Gates in a friends' guitar (straight into a DSL40) a couple years ago, and it was glorious. Now I'm GAS-sing, thank a lot folks. I gotta go through all my poo poo and make sure I have all my cables and stuff for tomorrow!
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Done. It's almost Saturday noight.
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lg, drat. That sucks. I actually installed copper tape in three guitars after moving into this apartment. I have the same issue. Noise that I can make almost disappear by rotating my guitars. The shielding did nothing because it must be coming in through my passive pickups. I have a set of V4 noiseless pickups in a Strat and it handles the noise far better. It's so bad I have to really crank a noise gate to record anything with high gain. It really bums me out because my old apartment didn't have this issue and I am locked into this lease for a looong time. I need to build some kind of Faraday cage.
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BizarroAzrael posted:How do folks feel about doubling up on guitar finishes in their collection? I'm really happy with my metallic purple Jaguar, and now I've seen I can get a Bass VI in the same color, except the headstock is also painted. I was originally looking at a black one which seems to be much less prevalent on the second hand market. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2212134&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=629#post525324274
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Dang It Bhabhi! is a great guy who fixed my Dunlop Tremolo pedal for whatever I was willing to pay, and I am still both grateful and impressed. He makes pedal circuits and works, literally, at a pickup factory. He reached out to me just in the last several days to share the news about his job, and I suppose he was swinging by here to  about it. It is very cool, and so is he.He's a very smart and insightful guy and his opinion ITT comports with my experience as well. I'm a reformed rear end in a top hat and will leave it at that. I went to my audition on Sunday. I took my modeler, foot controller, three expression pedals, and both Headrush 108s. I put them both on 7. Since I had my laptop, I brought backing tracks with keys and vocals for us to play along with since we don't have a singer yet. We played Montrose, solo Hagar, Van Halen, and The Circle. I got the output of my modeler up to about 4 and had to stop there. It was loving glorious and I'm going back Sunday at 6pm because I am officially attached to the project as of Monday. I have a little video and stuff, but it's pretty bad. If I can pull a pic or two and figure out how to blur the drummer's face out (I have a licensed copy of Filmora X, maybe it is easy?) I'll put a selection up on YouTube. More likely I will take a tripod to rehearsal on Sunday and record as much as I can. We have a candidate for vocals, keys/rhythm guitar who will be available to audition in two weeks. Talk about being in your happy place, doing what you love! Just grooving in the sweet spot between the two loud as gently caress FRFRs.  Also, these things are loving great. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Aug 10, 2022 |
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O, that is pretty.
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