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The Hello-Thread: Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself 👋
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Hi, I'm Herman from the Netherlands, 34, and I play amateur guitar, bass and drums since childhood. I studied studio audio engineering and work freelance in live and broadcasting, besides being a pro photographer. I did have a day-job in the past as product designer, but I'm happy to be freeeeeeelancer now in the creative industry :) I have always been testing and trying all sorts of gear and sold most of it to discover my prefered sound. So my first reviews here are mostly 5 star material as I start with my most loved gear :) I very much like the game of finding sleeper gear for little money. It's more fun, it throttles my GAS and is thus better for my wallet. Oh, and my reviews are biased in the sense that I like single coil sounds with strong mids!
And my dream is to make my own album at home, applying guitar, bass, drums & bass synths, sortof the way Suuns do that, but less melancholic. Furthermore I'm a big fan of the loud stuff like Queens of the Stone Age (who isn't), Royal Blood, All Them Witches (!!!), Fuzz (by Ty Segal), Graveyard and less loud like Soulwax (Leave the Story Untold, Much Against Everybody's Advice), Ani DiFranco (Reckoning/Reveling, Reprieve), Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Hendrix, Ledd Zeppelin, Grizzlybear (Veckatimest). New discoveries are Vulfpeck, Soulwax last album DeeWee, Bulis Pupul. I mean, I could go on a few more pages, but this is a nice mix of known and lesser known music for you to get a feel of my taste and perhaps discover new music too.
Ok, gear... My basic setup now is
Guitar = Fender Strat MIM '92 / G&L F100 hardtail '81
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Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz / TC HOF / TC SpectraComp / Ibanez GE100
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Yamaha RA50 (home) / Yamaha G100 4x12 (gigs) / Yamaha JX50 (small gigs)
Bass = Aria Diamond '70s (Fender Jazz copy) / Musima TopStar fretless '70s (german quality Fender P copy) / SX Ursa 4
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Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz / TC HOF / TC SpectraComp / Ibanez GE100
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Yamaha G100 into Glockenklang Tedd / Yamaha RA50
My message to other players is: don't underestimate the power of an equalizer, rack or pedal. It's undervalued and I see musicians messing about and selling/buying gear only because it has some more or less bass or treble. Naturally, try to start with gear that just sounds like your taste, but when considering new gear, think about it. I had a 'shit' amp that totally came to life with a good 1k boost. IMHO! And when you play a different style tomorrow? cut or boost to your liking and boom, you have a funk rig instead of jazz...
Enjoy the sounds and thanks for building this community!
Hi everybody, I'm Wallitron from Barcelona, I'm glad to be part of this website. I play electric guitar, classical guitar, bass, French horn, alto saxophone, folk percussion and jaw harp. But nothing as well I'd like to.
Hi gear junkies and fellow musicians! Just joined this forum.
Let me give you a short intro: Nik, 26 from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Traded bad taste for good taste of music when I was 17 and started with playing guitar. Ever since, I've been adicted with learning and playing. I kind of feel sorry for my family that they had to endure about 6 hours a day of me messing up songs in the living room almost every day for the first year.
For the last two years, living in a terribly soundproofed appartment in a flat, wasn't too great of an experience, since I can't play amplified too often. I do however, all the more, play my electric unamplified.
Into playing Blues, Rock, Funk, Jazz, Disco and Pop. Massive fan of JM's playing style. Lately, when improvising, I really like to bring the kind of percussive and groovey blues you for example hear in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7dAWgBnMW8
Anyways, I got a little project of running a website where I write about and, simultaneously, learn about everything guitar related.
Love to hear back from you guys!
Hi @raucusbacchus, thanks man! I'm follow back. I don't think it would be well appreciated if I started posting links right away, but I'll keep you posted. Cheers!
Hello! My name is Dan McKinney, studio guy and keyboard player. I've played in bands for years, from garage rock (Original Sins) to roots rock (Jim Weider), and operated a small studio in Center Valley, PA for years before concentrating on producing sampled instruments, which is my main studio gig these days.
I had done a sampled drum product way back in 2004, which is actually still available, lo these many years later. Now I am obsessing over sampling pianos (my latest candidate, an old Baldwin Acrosonic spinet, sits to my left as I type), and plan on releasing a set of sampled Baldwins before the apocalypse comes (hoepfully sooner rather than later).