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yeah, I've had tons of custom stuff and when I build my own stuff soemtimes I gut a cheap commercial pedal I'm bored with just to be obscure! who knows what that guy is using?

what the fuck are you talking about? its n common time, count to 4 and then rpeat ya dangus... but when you play, do it with PRECISION! and some dynamics

if yo're going to shar your music with the web get your shit together, you're pulling down the reputation of music as an art form!

you need to woodshed on guitar, you're not terribly good at it... at a basic level you lack tight rhythm, but beyond that your playing has no nuance. As a long time guitarist whow as a teacher for many eyars it jumps out at me. It probably will be less obvious to others but they will feel the song is off no matter how you mix things, Nikhil. The up side here is that guitar can be mastered by almost ANYONE with some dedication. Its such an easy instrument to attain competence on. I am not suggesting you shoot for Wes Montgomery or Yngwie Malmsteen, just get to a point where great takes of the simple parts you wish to execute flow naturally first shot without effort. You want to get beyond adequate. Which is the high point of your current performances. For time? I recommend sleeping with a metronome udner your pillow clicking away. Korg's is fine and costs 10 dollars US. For the rest? If you lack a sense ofhow your hands should itneract to produce emotive itnerpretations of a part? Try free online youtube lessons.Many good ones available.

additionally, on second lsiten the guitar is either slightly out of tune or failing to intonate. Try adjusting the neck relief and looking at the height of the bridge saddle... soemthing is wrong with how its performing

and your singing is feels flat across the baord, probably confused by the fact that the guitr is not at perfect pitch , if you mute the guitar it might sound ebtter.... you're just overplaying too, tone down. The guitar is not a tree you have to chop down!

you had fun making it though, right? that's the point, take what you learned and move on... no sense wasting a lot of energy and time improving a cover song anyway ;-)

redo the guitar, it sounds like a one armed man playing ina dumpster

Bieber actually plays piano, guitar, and drums. Not on the level of anyone from Deam Theater, but enough to play most of the stuff that plays on mainstream radio.

so he plays as well as most people on a number of instruments but he's not good enough to be self-indulgent? hmmm... well not self-indulgent isntrumentally

I actually am realizing I ahd him mixed up with justin Timberlake for a minute. I get very hazy about all these teen hearthrobs types. I get the ladies mixed up a lot too. If I look at a picture of a pop pricne or princess I might have a better idea who theya ren't than what their name ACTUALLY is. Its not so much a distaste for poppy pop music, they're just all after my time. I think when Backstreet Boys and Britney really blew up Iw as already in college.

seems like a lot of trouble, but if you're having fun with it?

I've definitelymade some rel to reel loops, but a cassette loop soudns intimidating, what, you bustopen the cassette?

I was thinking soemthing very similar as I read the first sentence, like "why bother, it'll just be some DJ masquerading as a 'producer' who wins the top spot by a long shot."

that rhymes, heh

as an electronic musician who only dabbles in pure dance styles like techno the whole EDM thing really upsets me... some of its that i'm an oldster and that iw as really into Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk when they were current.... some of it is that there's not a lot to recommend msot of the maisntream dance music. it doesn't have the experimentalism of the old stuff from Chicago, Detroit and Manchester. I get sad soemtimes. I think mdoern tolls have made it so easy for someone to put soemthing together that soudns vaguelly like music that its kidna devaluing ALL music... and the fact that no one pays for music anymore pretty much proves my point that the value of music is much lower at least monetarily then it was when iw as a kid in the 80s and 90s.

well you need to be a good payer too

buh-bump

Love the Model D, its the gamechanger too... before that? suitcases full of modualr stuff if you wanted a portable synth!

in synths I am saying the all time greats are (in no particular order):

Model D

ARP2600

Prophet 5

Oberheim OB8/X/Xa

Roland Juno106 (nothing new in it but itbrought a polysynth to the masses at a decent price with pretty nice sound quality)

Yamaha DX7

PPG Wave

Emu Emulator (sure the synclavier and fairlight were first and did more, but no one could afford them)

Roland D50

Oberheim Xpander (or matrix12, but most people ahd Xpanders)

Korg Wavestation

maybe vintage guitars sound good because they are generally wielded by good payers!

Oh, klaus Nomi, the Bowie associate....

https://youtu.be/WMacfEGWCo0?t=7s

he's not really a musician.... or wasn't. I think you're correct and that hedid of AIDS complications .I didn't think for a scond you were referring to his mime-meets-bad-opera cabaret act.. I thought it was some modern band called Nomi I'd never heard of, maybe ironically named after Klauss. Wow.

again, I liked Bjork when she was in the sugar cubes and she has a couple standout solo songs for me, however, she could relrease a lot less amterial ebcause its only about 5% of ehr msuic that hits the mark where her screaming icelandic pixie schtick works. So I'll give you that. But check out a song like "all is full of love" and tell me that's not a modern synthpop masterpiece in the vein of depeche mode and then tell me her vocal doesn't work. Its workin' for me, I just wish she was more consistent. She reminds me of the singer of my old band who is still a spazzy little pixie running in 10 directions at once musically. But when she hits on soemthing, like Bjork, she's pretty good.

No opinion on the replacement for Bon Scott. Didn't even know his name until today. He was just there and inescapable on maisntream radio for msot of my life. I really wish they would just stop in general... just retire.

I didn't think you were old enough to go see a Nirvana show when Kurt was alive and touring? I am not one of Kurt's biggest fans nor do I think the msuic was 'deep', if you were around at the time you took the guy in cintext of a lot of his seattle contempraries and there's a real element of put-on in that scene. Like Mudhoney isn't stupid but the guys act a little dumb... I just have to disagreee with epople who bash on Kurt. It wasn't his aim to be a guitar player, the guitar was just utilitarian for him. The guy COULD sing really well and he ahd a helluva post-punk yelp too but eh didn't take care of himself so like a lot of punk frnt people what you got vocally would be pretty dependent on how well he was feeling and how much fun he was having ons tage. Its not professional but it doesn't really engate the guy's talent... for the record I enver went to see Nirvana evne though I liked them at the time. I could have. I knew they would suck live unless I got lucky so I opted tos ee ebtter shows. So in a way you are right but I don't think you would be as hard on Kurt if he didn't have the mythic status. And for the record a song like Lithium is just fucking well written. its rpesented in a punk/indie style, but its got a really discernabl and memorable melody in every section, soemthign that'd been missing in music for a while at the time (even michael jacksons songs ahd less developed melodies since beat it). I think apart form the suicide the guy's lasting influence was to brign the melody back to rock n roll without sounding like journey. But you're entitled o think whatever you want obviously, just kinda shocked on this one. Bjork's not for everyone, and honestly most of her songs are not for anyone, but you can just put on nevermind and ignore everything but the notes and get what Cobain contributed. Its a real AMERICAN SONG in a tradition that predates rock n roll and we had forgotten how to do that for some time. He didn't reinvent the wheel but he certainly changed a flat tire when music needed it.

I think what's great about having a hit in scandinavia is that everyone in America assumes its really glossy pop or black metal... I am sure there's other music in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland but its pretty much Abba, Ace of Bass and Gorgoroth as far as the average person in America knows, and that song definitely fits in category one. As I originally said, the song was very well-executed in its idiom... and that idiom? is dancy, scandinavian uber-pop! The fact that this song was a hit in Norway lived right up to my provincial American expectations of that country just like the fact that a slender majority returned the guy from "The Apprentice" as President of the USA lived right up to my expectations of the hillbillies I reluctantly share North America with. Norway buying lots of pop music is of course harmlesss humor, while my country is more like "if you don't laugh you'll cry" situation.... but both of these are examples of people living up to their stereotypes 100%

I'm not sure who 2 and 4 are, but what do you have against Bjork and Kurt? I really liked Bjork in the sugar cubes and those nirvana records are still pretty catchy if you check your baggage before listening

as some of you know I am currenty writing a review of the Novation Peak synthesizer. I was so impresed with its kitchen-sink synthesis powers I made this tune with it for the article and for Novation's promotional uses. Every sound patched from SCRATCH as an intiitalised noise with 1 oscilator in saw mode. There's minimal external processing and very cosnervative EQ and dynamics control. All soudns besides one highy processed drum loop in the end section were made with Peak. If any of you have a peak I will probably make my presets bank available for download soon.

Expect the article (including lots more media) at the end of September! novation did a bang up job with this synthesizer. Read the review for lots of detail as well as how-tos. I also used a little bit of EQD Transmisser reverb on the 'bridge' section's sustianing, melodic pad line as a couple separate tracks to widen the part and give it even more motion, so if you like the some of the swirrling ambience go check out that review which is already live!

http://equipboard.com/posts/earthquaker-devices-transmisser-review

CHEERS!

it feels like a stretch referring to Bieber as a musican... he's more like a male model and dancer. I would point out that half the so-called guitarists on this website can't even play guitar even though they think they can... they're posing. At least Bieber knows it! i don't think teh little fucker is deluding himself like so many kdis who need to lock themselves in their bedrooms and just practice.

favorite musician? I'm torn between fucking Beethoven and double motehrfucking Mozart. Do i lsiten to a ton of classical music every day? no... am I blown away by how much these two did with the 'development' method of writing a peice that they elarned from haydn? YES. I am going to go Mozart evne though I lsiten to more Beethoven on the reg. Hum a classical tune right now... you probably just hummed a Mozart peice even if you didn't know it. The guy had the hooks and he made it look effortless to turn them into cast sprawling works of music that still work. he could carry off opera. he was subversive! He didn't have a patron and he chose the Marriage of Figarro as a libretto even though it was banned by just about every monarch in europe... AND HE MADE THOSE RULERS LIKE IT. The sogns are that memorable... fucker pulled off an opera about a harem, but its treated more like a fucking brothel. All with a wink... but he also did Don Giovanni which is like Wagner/Black-metal heaviness. Demons, ghosts... and everyone knows his Requiem. He personally ivnented the mdoern musician (in any style) and then beethoven and liszt refined the image... and he invented a lot of pop/rock type ideas musically with his use of a limited repertoir of block chords favoring 1, 4 and 5. Sound familiar? And forget about the 80s movie Amadeus, its not factual in any way. I don't think the stage play its based on was meant to be fctual, its mroe of a crazy 'what if?' story. But Mozart.

Least favorite? Whatever garbage was playing at the supermarket on Sunday when I did my grocery shopping. It was pretty annoying whatever it was. I think it was one of these recent bands like Imagine Dragons.... maybe not them but it oculda been. I don't need to imagine, I can watch dragons on Game of Thrones. either that or maybe coldplay.... or U2 ever since like 1990ish? its easier to nominate the ebst than the worst sicne the field of suck is so much wider....

6/8 time?

no no, I'm saying write more songs, ltos more songs... but don't bother to produce all of them.... focus on writing now that you have completed 1 luke warm song and then go abck and cherry pick through all your songs and work on arranging and producing the standouts. I would pick out my favorites and then ask some people at church to pick a few and then cross reference the 2 lsits and do it up on all the overlapping tunes. Go write like a dozen, try to write one every couple days for the enxt month or two

getting better, the guitar paying should be retracked so tis actually in time with the percussion, its frequently way off beat, you play really sloppy 8ths (alternately cut the hihat pattern to quarter notes and try to ebtter sync the other tonal elements to the guitar timing giving it all a human feel... if one guy plays loose you all have to play loose wth him and that goes for sequencers too) and the busy hihat line makes it glaring.... write some mroe songs, this isn't a great work of music, but its the ebst thing you've carried off to date and it shows that if you write 100 songs they'll start to get pretty slick.

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the vocal sits too low in the mix, not level-wise, but it has no air and sounds overly distant, the hihats should not feel closer to me than the vocals unless that's absolutely what you were going after (singing drummer effect?)... try adding detail with a steep shelf above the sibilance range (what they call 'air' in pro circles), I would start at 10k and slowly try moving t up until the vocal pops forward without actually sounding like tis been EQed. Tone down the autotune too, subtle, not heavy, you sound like Cher. Its a simple enough arrangement that the lack of definition and muddiness of the instrumentation can be forgiven since you managed to keep the actual aprts from fighting too hard. In general try to visualize 'the band' when you are mixing. Not just elft to right but front to back. Base your decisions on that 3D mental image.

But honestly I would say its a decent enough first foray but its got enough warts that you should just move on now. Take what you learned making it, learn some new tricks and apply them to the next piece....

so go and write another one, and then a dozen more... have fun. When writing the next one remember that there are certain signature harmonic devices inr eligious music that you may want to incorporate. Particularly look up the Plagal Cadence and consider making use of it to resolve a chord sequence in the next one. Yo're right on the edge of it in this song as written so why not go for it? Just enerally look up stuff about religious music from plainsong to gospel and try to draw on that. If you want a spiritual journey for the sltiener making those classic christian music references that go abck to the birth of western music is a great place to start. Work on the sognwriting, then cherry pick the ebst ones and get into arranging and producing those. Crank out the ideas for a while so you have soemthing really meaty to hone your recording, sound design and mixing chops on....

welcome, post soemthing in electronic music.... its been quiet except for a buncha kids looking foradvice on breaking in.

welcome! forum's been quiet recently.... start a thread!

One thing about those old Esquires and Teles from the early 50's is that they had very hot bridge pickups - around 7.xK Ohms resistance, they were the same pickup taken from the Fender Lap Steels (G.E. Smith also used a similar configuration in his signature model, and I presume also with SNL and Hall & Oates).

I tried to explain this int eh LAST Born to Run thread this guy created and then abandoned.... for a good, early esquire bridge sound you want A3 magnets, thin 43awg wire with the right insualtion, hand winding and a zing coated, extra thick steel baseplate moutned in a ferrous, rpeferrably steel, bridge... if its really an original esquire it has steel broadcaster barrel saddles too, personally I like rbass better with the early type pickups, that's me, the boss's was probably stock saddles. Its not just that tis extra winds of thinner wire, its also the weird A3 magnets and thicker baseplate with zinc and not copper plating that contribute to the atypical sound of those early esquire/broadcaster pickups. by the end of the nocaster run they switched to the same A5 megnets and 42awg wire of the neck pickups... they also switched to copper plating on the baseplate for some reason and during that early butterscotch/blackguard period the abseplate is getting progressively thinner and the saddles go to brass for a while before returning to steel and then going to those weird screw-like ones around 58 or 59 when theye xperiment with the top loader bridge...

best early type pickups I've tried are the Don Mare Lap Wrap and the Angeltone 50B (I still ave a 50B in my esquire). I've heard good thigns about Curtis Novak's version as well but I have never tried it. The Angeltone is a little cheaper than the Don Mare, sounds just as authentic and will be wound to a tone destription based on a conversation with Ken (he dpoesn't really have precise stock specs or anything).... and if he doesn't get it right he'll keep winding for you until he gets it. Incidentally, I have enver sent a pickup back to Ken. I am not sure if Don does as much for each individual client but his A3/$#awg bridge pickup soudns spectacular with stock specs

I think Ken's pickup costs abotut eh same as an affinity Tele LOL

as i am sure you are aware the super duper 2 in 1 is 2 super hard-ons in one box with an extra attenuation pot between them so you can really tailor the way the interact... the difference between all the many versions is the artwork only... there's been a red SD2in1 and a silver one int eh vester series with screen printed graphics and then the fancy verson is the same pedal but hand painted, one of a kind (since custom paintwork will certainly improve one's playing)

interestingly, both the box of rock and distortron are also dual SHO designs but with tone shaping and the BSIAB2 tone cotnrol sandwiched between. The BoR has an additonal SHO for the boost section whereas the Distortron does not, however the Distortron has the subs switch which selects between 3 input caps to tighten the abss progressively froms tock BoR to something clsoer to a TS9 or SD1. But all of these pedals are basd on the same basic building block which is a mosfet gain stage from an old microphone preamp.

If I'm not msitaken even the box of emtal uses the SHO building block as a major part of its circuit.

To me? I could give a shit whether someone has a hand painted one or a silk screened one. I don't even think the BoR and Distortron are so different. Slightly different feature set and build quality.... and paint job LOL. But some might care so create an item for the hand painted Super Duper 2 in 1, sure....

sorry for long reply drama i lost my father but if you would like to talk i have a face book by marshall cruz

sorry for your loss, were you and your dad still close?

ahahaha! the old soundcloud chat! that's how we got talking all the time... I'm totally curious to ehar what Marshall's up to sicne this thread's been rambling for some time

that could be the case with this RI but I would still get the serial at that price... in fact, i alwys get the SN for gibsons

at those prices they might be stolen or forgeries... I would get the serial #s before buying

the amp is like half of it.... you're ignoring that angle

its pricey and there are things to dislike about it actually....

mexi classic series? change pickups if they don't sound right (they probably won't) and put brass compensated saddles on in place of the later 50s steel they coem with... or maybe a Baja 50s if you can get one cheap enough? I have one, don't play it a lot but its a nice guitar as is my classic series esquire now that its got a good pickup. Ths tock one wasn't awful but no baseplate... the FSR looks similar to a classic or baja to me, has the Boss specs with brass saddles, swampa sh body etc... the electronics are probably sub-par at 500 bucks but you can fix thata s you go. THe mexis always have junk pickups and often have junk guts. The Baja has ht best electronics from pikcup to jack out of all the mexis. None of these are lacquered, but hey. It'll get close for under a grand.

but why did you mention the 52RI if its not a candidate for purchase? I think I see where this si going. Next you'll say 'what if I cna't afford an FSR'. You have money for a squire classic vibe so you were hoping someone would say its justa s good as a 52RI. Look if you can only afford a CV get the CV. They are much better than chinese guitars used to be and are good mod platforms. but understand you are getting mystery wood, cheap ahrdware, junk pickups etc.... and play like a dozen of them because some come off the linene better than others and some survive better in a hot and damp shipping container than others.

huh?

this is your second non-sequiter, Dina.... that's not a crime, however this one has a link to your college essay business and we're not okay with that on our site. Don't solicit your business here. If you do it again we'll ban you. Thank you, drive through.

pretty comon knowledge there and a total non-sequitur on a drumming thread... I highly doubt the OP was referring to the desk, compressor and tape amchine that Tom used to track his drummer, I think the OP was asking if anyone knew what kit he prefferred, cymabls etc

I was just dicussing this tone with Xaqary regarding a song for a client of his that I did a little playing for!

anyway, 52RI... or build something... if I recall his is a modified esquire. It has afermarket hum cancelling pickups now, but it could have ahd a variety of stuff abck then. Depending ont he eyar it coulda had soemthing very lapsteelinsh, voerwound with 43awg wire and A2 magnets at the bridge or if its closer to 52/53 spec it could be less winds of 42awg wire with A5 magnets like a 52RI's pickups. I don't recall if he had added a neck pikcup by this point in his career but if he did gd knows what he had then! For my buck my esquire with an angeltone 50B (1950/51 broadcaster/nocaster/esquire pickup) gets in the ballpark of this sound. YMMV

guitar wise for thate ra you need 3 saddles, i think brass but maybe steel, a ferrous steel bridge plate, swamp ash body, bigger grained is ebtter, thin finish, maple neck/fretboard... etc etc.

none of the above? depends on the era of bruce

This is aprime example of why people submitting items with, "He use this one" or, "He is see here playing" is not acceptable. If people put any effort into their submissions, we could have examples of use and dates used, etc. We can't fix it though. Too many people make an account, add a bunch of rubbish to Corey Taylor or Eric Clapton, and then never log on again.

I am guilty of this sometimes but I really make an effort to figure out when my photo or video evidence of odler artists is from, soemtiems I get dated photos and can sue that to figure out which fender amp circuit is being used ebcause it'll be too alte to be an AA designated circit.... vut soemtimes you just go, 'wow, Johnny Thunders is playing and SG Junior in this old photo form god knows where.... I am throwing that on his pae ebcause its kinda interesting!" And that's okay too.

Thank you for reply...dont panic i call every one my dear and i just want to be polite.

I'm not panicing, its just creepy. Not gender bias or anything,not homo or hetero phobia. the onyl erpson I liked calling my 'dear' and aprticularly the possessive 'my dear' was Mrs Jimmarchi1 and she's dead.

I blocked him.