jimmarchi1's forum posts 8022

17 years ago I was already in art school. way to make a guy feel old here. I think I already ahd my 1st recording studio job that year too. Jeez.

now it makes a lotta sense

I grew up around cheap Casio keyboards. Remember those kiddie keyboards that came with like 50 ''styles''? Now it's Yamaha that makes those.

I had both a casio and a Yamaha with the built in speaker and cheesey fake drum beats (as well as the famous "auto chord" function). I probably still have the old Yamaha somewhere....

Old guys: those pre-war epiphones seem nice...

oh and they are! one day I'll buy a pre-war Martin, Washburn, Gibson or Epi acoustic... maybe when Lucian's college is paid for.

I grew up around guitars in general. Its just normal to me to have an es175 and a bassman sitting around the family home like furniture. As well as keyboards, a clarinet, you name it. I feel all weird walking into a house with no musical instruments. I have an uncle by marriage who doesn't play anything but his living room still has a beat-up old 00 acoustic as a decoration.

Nick and Stereo are added.... email and I will add you too

no erason to apologize, just wow... I guess being a guitar guy I assume there are musicians who, even if they don't play guitar know about guitars and then there's everyone else

I don't play the drums but I know plenty about them and even tune a kit better than most drummers can

everyone who wants to do this, gimmee your dropbox names and I'll share with you... I invited Nick because I already had his email as it turns out

just wow

I'll give you something on guitar tomorrow at 120bpm

oh, okay

I understand about fiddling with knobs, but a comp? It's a fairly set, and forget piece of kit.

nah, you can do some crazy shit with a dynacomp going between lightly compressed boost and heavy compression with lower output, I can see it.... it definitely drives a tube amp or a distortion pedal very differently depending on the relationship between those 2 knobs. I kinda get it. I don't think I would bother, but I get it.

that's what I thought.... so we can use dropbox.... I could put some wav files in an invite only folder for people to putz around with. Or if everyone's on Gmail we could use the google drive feature. My gmail is [email protected]

feel free to mail me with a request for the demo tracks I'lll UL them to drive and do dropbox and invite you to share the folder too so everything's accessible..... all the stuff I will put up is scratch stuff. Song needs to be built ground up for a finished product.

I thought Gibson models were common knowledge. Confusing a 330 and 335 is like confusing a tele custom and a tele deluxe. Same shape, but so glaringly different even at a glance. I'll bet my mom knows this stuff.

I am thinking of setting up a drop box folder if we wanna all go that way or we can try the site Nick mentioned in his 1st post.... what's everyone think?

Why though. It's not like you'd want to fiddle with a comp during a show of all things.

not if I have to bend down, but I always fiddle with knobs on my guitars, its part of my sound.... like an effect. I am not saying I will tape a dynacomp to one of my babies, but I get it.

Didn't get the third one (Maybe it's an age thing)

its a language barrier thing, AbsentWalrus is from Croatia so he's not getting that sherrif and sharif aren't pronounced the same... also, you maybe are too young to have seen dr zhivago or Lawrence of arabia

young guy: I want a custom guitar with a bunch of different pickups, crazy switching, jumbo frets, active electronics setup for a specific heavy bottom string gauge, etc etc

middle-aged guy: I want a stock 50s Gibson

the ladies definitely shun the forum, but they are here, reviewing gear and lurking mostly

EDIT: I was just chatting with one of the mythical EB ladies not 15 minutes ago. They exist, but they hide like the chupacabra. I guess I am the only crypto-sociologist here.

piano, BASS, vocals/lyrics, percussion, synthesizer, heavily effected guitars to add texture.... and I'm taking structural suggestion, like ideas on how to make it longer than 3 minutes without being too repetitive....

I think Nick is going to hold down the piano part when he has some time, that'll be the 'rhythm' line and the acoustic guitar will not be used. From there I wa going to do an electric guitar line that's a litte lead and rhythm at once.... then it needs bass and drums or drum machine, everything else is icing, but it needs plenty of icing

I like to use those to toss cigarette butts in when I feel like smoking. Now that they changed them to plastic though I could see them being okay for guitar parts, yeah!

I laughed hard at the U2 joke.

I started learning music young. I have about 30 years general music experience. No worries.

all great amps can sound great, even bad ones can sound great, its context.... that's why I like to own 2 or more amps

depends what I am doing... I feel like you just asked me what my favorite guitar is.... do you prefer your son or daughter? aww, c'mon you must love one best! you don't? depends, right?

rule of thumbs, tube? louder is better, especially in class AB fixed bias.... solid state, even modelling amps? low is best

we call them apartments... I currently live in a townhouse so I share thick walls with 2 neighbors and even the firewalls don't block more than 5 to 15 watts through two efficient 12s, EDIT: but I can always release the fury with friends when we get together to play as a band... playing loud alone is like drinking alone anyway

Lucian actually really likes to play through mt HC30 clone because he likes the punchiness of the circuit through a closed back cab.... he seems to love whacking all 6 strings very staccato so he can feel the air on his ass (he likes to take his pants down when I let him get away with it in front of the full 30 watt w/sealead 2x12 rig, though I frown on it because he has a habbit of peeing on my carpet when pantsless... the power of the amp just looses his itty bitty bladder, awesome in theory, but you get why it bothers me)

I am actually not a very permissive father with anything but music and visual art, if Lucian wants to express himself with a guitar or a painting or play doh anything is fair game and I will clean up when he naps, but otherwise I am strict as fuck by modern standards. Life has boundaries but self-expression through artistic channels should nothave limits. I want my kid to know that when words fail he can invest his feelings into a creative enterprise rather than channel it into self-destructive behavior.

yes, the projection of 4 speaker coupled with 20 watts class A will piss off most neighbors

I don't like any kind of bursts or finishes actually, to be honest. How about something different than Vox? How does he react to Marshalls, Fender, Matchless(es?), Oranges? He must've seen those if he watches concert on YouTube and Apple TV...

he knows matchless is essentially an ac30 from my collection ;-) He knows marshalls and BF fenders when he sees them but knows daddy prefers voxes.... before he was born I had a number of old marshalls, but now I don't so they are a bit alien. He doesn't get orang amps as a brand because the tolex is orange and he sees it more as a description than a brand.

Lucian prefers Gold tops and he likes my silver LP as an art object. He does like to strum my old plaintop Japanese double cut LP too. But usually he does not like 58/59 sunbursts. He considers sunburst to be a color like red or blue though. Anything with a gradation is 'burst to him because I own 3 burst instruments and he's been raised around them as objects he can play with whenever he wants and I taught him his colors at 1 using guitars and cars (I am not precious with my instruments and I let him tweak synths and beat on guitars as much as he wants, they are his too... meant for making music, not for polishing and admiring... I let my 10 year old nephew play anything he wants when he visits, no fear of chastisements for dropping them... on Lucian's birthday my nephew and my son were jamming out with me between games of competitive ring around the rosey and human-pin bowling... I taught Lucian to carry a bassline and taught my nephew about sympathetic string bending with double stops... his dad 'Uncle Tom' is a heckuva player too who was jamming on my plaintop while I rocked the 335, nephew Jon played the silver LP and Lu sat on and played one of my teles, awesome night). Lucian is fond of concerts on youtube at bedtime whenever daddy doesn't play and sing to him, via appleTV... so he sees lots of amps. He has this thing with my ac4, he always wants me to put t next to my fawn ac30 and he says "daddy amp, baby amp!" and likes to make them hug sort of like me and him. Warms the cockles of my heart, man. Bonding through gear. Doesn't get better.

good one.... can't get Ferrari red pre-norlin and 80 marks an improvement in norlin era construction! The ac30 anniversary, be it the original rose morris versin or the 1 channel Korg version is not so bad. I have played them. I prefer other ac30s, but its apples and apples and based on playing style.

already done... he sees an ac30 on tv and he goes "vox ac30, daddy's amp!" and he can spell one word since he was 15 months, V - O -X, spells vox, daddy. He also knows and SG when he sees one. But he feels they need to be cherry like mine, he hates white SGs.

He also knows angus young, all the beatles, keef, pete Townshend (god he loves the Who), dave Gilmour and Rick Nielsen by sight...

Lucian also really likes Debussy though.... Beethoven less so, I am so let down, but there are too many brass instruments for his taste, "no horns daddy!"

I started ear training at birth with Lucian, don't hesitate Liam! Can't hurt him. I was raised around musicians but was discouraged but got hella good anyway to the point where I've made a passable living for 1 at this most of my adult life and still get asked to play for people on their records and tours even though I am unavailable. Train your kids rom birth and maybe they will rule the world!

I always thought that if I have seen my uncles so drunk they can't stand but could still throw down with Clapton and joe pass then I stood a chance. Especially knowing the piano and cello, viola, violin like I did....

and then I willed my hands into being huge and flexible

anyone get the joke for this tune ? I wrote her in Bm, changed her to Cm so that the relative major is Eb as in EB, EquipBoard???? getit????!!!!

shockingly? Yes, despite societies attempt to discourage women from making music or caring about tech stuff

I thought I wanted a girl, but when I found out I was having a boy I was excited because I knew the world would encourage him to be a gear pyscho like me.... and the daughter I thought I wanted would be encouraged to be a princess! Not a chain smoking rock 'n roll badass. Even my ex-wife, who is a bad-ass by anyone's standards? Not a techy or musicians in any way. More interested in fashion when she's not shooting dope or whatever. If she could focus her attention on rockin'? goddamn, she is such a hardass she could raise one helluva noise.

ever notice how most of the ladies on EB post pictures of other people o cartoon characters as their user pics usually? what up with 'dat?

I am always amazed at how much rhythm and harmony are hiding in daily tasks when you're being a good dad. Just sing along to the midrange drone of a lawnmower engine or groove with the rhythm of the shower before work. Computer hum is a great one too...

that's a fucking gift for a guitarist! storage for your parts and tubes!

70s Gibson T-Top humbuckers sound really good driving a vox you know...

So do DiMarzio Air Nortons, IMHO :)

and yet they are not stock in a 70s gibson