Guitar Player Anarchy
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Happy
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Keep playing "all that jazz shit", just do a lot more jumping around and grimacing and sweating.
Your average tone-deaf half-drunk punter listens with their eyes.
Oh, and keep it mostly in 4/4 so the idiots can dance.
EquusAsinusDomesticus
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Gear nerds...Some great sounding new stuff from TC:
A guy in the Chesapeake
Super Anarchist
The Andertons' videos are great! I love the Captain and ?? series -
A guy in the Chesapeake
Super Anarchist
Wow - they made giant versions of my pedals! I've got the Hall of Fame reverb and Flashback delay on my pedalboard - I don't use everything those two do - double the switches? I'd be paralyzed by the consideration of choices.
EquusAsinusDomesticus
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Yea some of this shit is getting over complicated, but for the ambient, soundscapey stuff theyre a blast. i really want the new strymon delay. been using an mxr carbon copy for years and i like it a lot but a guy i play with has the strymon and it sounds incredible. The stomp feature on this thing could be really cool if you play that type of ambient/proggy stuff.
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
3to1
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the guy in the trench coat. where's my prize?
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Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
I havea setup where I stack two relatively simple delays. Getting the timing set against each other is a little tricky, but if you get it right the sound can be fantastic. Ethereal or haunting or a lot of variation.
Y'all need to spend less time doing stupid shit like actually practicing music, and more time fiddling with knobs and buttons. It's all in the gimmicks!
- DSK
A guy in the Chesapeake
Super Anarchist
I bet you really like the guitar tone of U2's Edge. ;-) The stuff he does w/stacked delay .......I havea setup where I stack two relatively simple delays. Getting the timing set against each other is a little tricky, but if you get it right the sound can be fantastic. Ethereal or haunting or a lot of variation.
Y'all need to spend less time doing stupid shit like actually practicing music, and more time fiddling with knobs and buttons. It's all in the gimmicks!
- DSK
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
I like U2 although currently not playing much of their stuff. Generally I use delay more to emphasize rhythm, and give me a backing chord to bounce notes off.
I just expanded my pedalboard to 7, not including the looper which I don't use much (need to practice more with it). Thou shalt not have a pedlaboard bigger than thy amp! But I don't like a lots of effect, I just do a lot of different sounds for different songs. Except fuzz... if Mrs Steam would let me, I'd have fuzz on every song.
- DSK
A guy in the Chesapeake
Super Anarchist
I've got a reverb, ( Mesa reverb isn't as wet as Fender by a LONG shot) delay, Wah, and swap out between a TubeScreamer and a Wampler Plexi-Deluxe for drive, a chorus, and for 2 songs, a flanger. W/the 2 channels, I don't need the drive very often, but, use it for emphasis when i don't want as much distortion as Channel 2 brings in. I haven't played w/any of 'em enough to fully explore what they can do - usually, I'm just aiming for something close to the original song. We don't do any U2 -I don't play well enough to do it, and Bono's voice is well outta range for our male vocalist. Our setlist ranges from Brad Paisely to Hendrix to Prince to AC/DC to BB King to Pink to John Cougar to Robert Plant, with any crowd requests we can figure out in 10 minutes of youtube research.
EquusAsinusDomesticus
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Story about knob fiddling...randomly in college i went to some Moog anniversary show in NYC and decided to buy a MoogerFooger low pass envelope filter. if youve never messed with the Moog stuff, theyre fucking wild. Analog synth stuff that just can do really clean, small mods up to massive synthy stuff. My buddy and I and a fair amount of drugs were involved in a jam session where we ended up just tweaking the moog filter with feedback to create these weird soundscapes behind some music. All of a sudden we were both hearing voices and started panicking a little that we were losing our minds. The filter had basically cleared out all but AM radio frequencies and then wrapped it in an envelope and amplified it essentially turning my guitar pickups into an AM antenna. Very weird/very fun.Y'all need to spend less time doing stupid shit like actually practicing music, and more time fiddling with knobs and buttons. It's all in the gimmicks!
I play more proggy metal stuff, but the Friedman BE (brown eye) pedal is the most massive distortion i've ever heard. I run it into a custom 50W PRS amp and the thing is just amazing. Worth trying if you're into really high gain sound but very natural, tube sounding.
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
I have been thinking about getting a Moog pedal, should go ahead... could definitely use it on some different stuff. These days I am mostly playing blues and R&B, mixed with some classic folk/bluegrass/old-timey, although I keep thinking about sneaking in a Raffi song or two.... just persuaded my friends to do a couple more Beatles tunes. About 1/3 what I play is pretty much clean with a touch of reverb. But I love the Dunlop Fuzz Face, it's almost like an instrument unto itself for response to how you play, and it gives the richest roundest fuzz I know of. I have and sometimes use a wah pedal, I recently got a mini auto-wah with great range of expression... as I was trying to dial it in for a particular song, the bass player said "That sounds like The Attack Of The Cartoon Duck so I dialed it back a bit.Story about knob fiddling...randomly in college i went to some Moog anniversary show in NYC and decided to buy a MoogerFooger low pass envelope filter. if youve never messed with the Moog stuff, theyre fucking wild. Analog synth stuff that just can do really clean, small mods up to massive synthy stuff. My buddy and I and a fair amount of drugs were involved in a jam session where we ended up just tweaking the moog filter with feedback to create these weird soundscapes behind some music. All of a sudden we were both hearing voices and started panicking a little that we were losing our minds. The filter had basically cleared out all but AM radio frequencies and then wrapped it in an envelope and amplified it essentially turning my guitar pickups into an AM antenna. Very weird/very fun.Y'all need to spend less time doing stupid shit like actually practicing music, and more time fiddling with knobs and buttons. It's all in the gimmicks!
I play more proggy metal stuff, but the Friedman BE (brown eye) pedal is the most massive distortion i've ever heard. I run it into a custom 50W PRS amp and the thing is just amazing. Worth trying if you're into really high gain sound but very natural, tube sounding.
Recently met up with a keyboard player who is a classically trained musician, although reluctant to get away from the sheet music we are starting to get into some funkier stuff... they really like Santana and Steely Dan. Which puts pressure on me to learn to play better!
- DSK
Cruisin Loser
Super Anarchist
We pretty strictly play blues. My pedalboard has a Crybaby, flanger (rarely use), volume pedal, TC HOF reverb, MXR Carbon, and 2 drive pedals at any given time. Right now the drives are a tubescreamer and a Klon KTR. Run them through a '63 Fender DeLuxe brownface for small places, '57 twin reissue for larger, '67 Princeton reverb at home. 90% of the time playing a Collings I35LC with underwound Lollar Imps. If I can't get the tone I want, it's my own damn fault. Quit worrying about gear a while back, now focus on trying to play better.
Anybody want a Fuzz Face? I know Hendrix liked it, but I don't. Have no foreseeable use for it.
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
C'mon man, at heart Hendrix was a blues player!
BTW I just got a mini Tube Screamer but it sends a "pop" thru the signal chain. It sounds good (in fact, great), I just don't have a use for a pedal I can't cut in and out. Those old Boss and Ibanez boxes are silent.
- DSK
IStream
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My teen son is heavily into guitar, initially playing Tool, Opeth, King Crimson, and similar style music that he loves. He wants to go to music school and become a studio musician (he's not the fame-seeking type).
When he got serious a few years ago, we got him a nice PRS guitar for Christmas, which seems to be a great jack-of-all trades instrument with a very clean but musical tone and he really likes it. He's also got access to his mom's Strat and Gibson SG. Last year he got obsessed with modeling so for Christmas we got him an AX8 and now he can produce damned near any effect or tone he wants.
He's recently joined the jazz band at school and is really getting into it. It's great to see him branch out but being a teenage boy, he naturally now wants a jazz guitar. I'm inclined to think that he could make his PRS and AX8 combo sound like just about anything but what do I know?
Anyway, he was out with Mom at the guitar store and ran into a used Univox Pro for $500, which is about how much money he's saved up. The Pro is a semi-acoustic copy of the Gibson Super 400. I know Univox had a generally mixed reputation for quality but I've also heard that the Pro was decent. Anyone got any experience with these or alternate recommendations?
When he got serious a few years ago, we got him a nice PRS guitar for Christmas, which seems to be a great jack-of-all trades instrument with a very clean but musical tone and he really likes it. He's also got access to his mom's Strat and Gibson SG. Last year he got obsessed with modeling so for Christmas we got him an AX8 and now he can produce damned near any effect or tone he wants.
He's recently joined the jazz band at school and is really getting into it. It's great to see him branch out but being a teenage boy, he naturally now wants a jazz guitar. I'm inclined to think that he could make his PRS and AX8 combo sound like just about anything but what do I know?
Anyway, he was out with Mom at the guitar store and ran into a used Univox Pro for $500, which is about how much money he's saved up. The Pro is a semi-acoustic copy of the Gibson Super 400. I know Univox had a generally mixed reputation for quality but I've also heard that the Pro was decent. Anyone got any experience with these or alternate recommendations?
