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This is true. At least with you it is a metaphor.

Now I have a smoke filled ass and muddy pads.

promise you will collect gear when you get the money.. it's a great hobby! Keep playing and love every moment you do it!

....music isn't a hobby, collecting instruments and gear... that's the hobby hahaha

Thanks for clarifying. Music is something I do. I can't read it, can't write it down, but I jump into it with passion. It takes me away, I can lose myself for hours with an instrument in my hands just letting it play me. The flow of how music fits together... and how sometimes it leaves bits jutting out... has always captivated me. I play because I want to, and yes as I have written before I walked away from it for many years. It is only when you walk away from something that you can realise you miss it, and only when you strip away your own confidences and are left with almost nothing that you can listen back to your music and find that you had some measure of creativity, passion and commitment to what you were doing. You wrote what was at the very core of you and found a way to find it and bring it out where it could be seen, felt and heard... not caring what anyone else thought of it, or how you were viewed because it was what you wanted to do. I wasn't from a rich background. My instruments were afforded to me by hard work. Luckily I worked in a guitar shop for a while and the boss allowed me open ended payment plans with no interest being charged. The point I am making here is that if someone is making music, painting, acting, ANYTHING creative... They should do it. They should be encouraged to do it. People make bad decisions all the time. That is a given. But when people ask for help, and I believe I can help... I try and help. Because I have BEEN the low. I have BEEN the abandoned. I have BEEN the not good enough. And because I have been them, and know how awful being them feels... I will never tell anyone that they are anything like this... I will tell them to keep trying and help where I can.

Oh god you were serious about the silk screen???? I thought you were being condescending!

Hopefully someone will post it somewhere with a picture of Dave Grohl or something.... Here's the shirt version: YOU. PLAY. MUSIC

Ok I am going to jump back in here and clarify a few things from my point of view. You don't need a lot of money to make music... you need passion. You don't need music theory to make music... you need to be confident in your ability. You don't need to make an album... make music because you want to make it.

You have a DAW and a computer and a keyboard. This can be considered entry level for RECORDING music. Use this. Record what you play. If you like something, listen to it and play along with it, and then record that. Build on what you have. Your skills will only improve. Challenge what you think you can do. If it doesn't work, delete that part and try again. Building competence builds confidence. You have a DAW and a computer and a keyboard. This is not live gear. Work with that. Write your songs, polish your craft. Not everyone will like what you write. This will improve. Show your music to close friends, then ask friends (locally) who play other instruments to have a listen... fellow students, musicians at the church (your music has religious content). They may wish to add their instruments to your music. They may have a microphone, or may have an audio interface (to let you plug instruments into the computer so that your DAW can detect them). All of these things cost nothing and will build your abilities and confidence. Please remember that confidence is at least twice as strong as ability. This is good because confidence keeps you going. Do not let confidence speak to others. That is ability's job. Do not let anyone damage your confidence. You have decided to play music. This is fantastic. It is a lifelong journey and will have more downs than ups. Every musician climbs. For their entire journey. Every success unlocks a new challenge and each level reveals more stairs going up. Not every song you write will be for the public to hear... but NO SONG is for the public. Write for yourself, play for yourself. The moment you stop putting yourself into your music is the moment that music dies in you. THAT is when you stop playing.... Not before.

Please don't reply to this... It is my opinion and my journey. I make music and I just want to share these thoughts with a fellow musician.

https://pedalmaniacs.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/3046213973_55803400f2_o.jpg?w=584

Here is some of Jason Mraz's gear. I see Radial JDI MK3 and Line 6 DL4. And 2 Boss TU-2 tuners.

Ok, can anyone explain why we need two tuners on a pedalboard? Can only play one out of tune guitar at a time and aren't vocals autotuned? And if you use the tuner to bypass, does the next one bypass the bypass? Or is one dropped further back in the signal chain, to tune AFTER modulation pedals....?

https://58eca9fdf76150b92bfa-3586c28d09a33a8c605ed79290ca82aa.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/rickenbacker-360-12-ruby-red-349130.jpg Looks like a 360-12 Look at the headstock on Ryan's image and you can pick out the dual layered machine heads and the channel for the higher gauge strings. They released a version with black hardware, looks like the white guards or black hardware may have been retrofit, as the two did not occur on a guitar together as factory.

I would have gone with something beats related, or a mini synth pads of some sort. Ryan has done some tricksy stuff in the past... and the red and white smells Rickenbacher....

Free ALL the beers! They were wrongfully imprisoned!

Of course respect! This is as much your child as your son it shares a room with. Will send you a FB PM

Well now this is stuck in my head! If it bounces around in there too long it is going to pop out at some stage... hopefully for you not near a microphone. But just in case... shoot me the lyrics ;)

Agree with gpbear. Snare needs to be louder. Hi Hats are too uniform in their sound - real drums would hit with varied attack position and pressures, and because they are isolated at the start of the track it is more obvious. The piano at the start could benefit from reverb treatment and to sit back in the mix, perhaps even played an octave lower the avoid the "tinky" toy piano sound. Behind the vocal is a guide track/ accompaniment which sounds like a synthesised plucked guitar. This needs to sit quieter, be removed or be hit with a treatment like a soft delay or a reverb because it stabs into the track and draws the ear. An acoustic guitar being lightly strummed in place of this would give a more rounded feel, again with reverb. It sounds like I am selling reverb here, but reverb will assist when recording in digital space because there are no natural acoustics in an electronic environment. Less is more and tiny hints tell more than flooding ever will. The vocal sounds like it was sung softly into a loud microphone. This gives the feel of a lot of air in the voice and not a lot of strength behind it. Again, reverb in moderation is your friend, but re record the vocal at about -12db stand about a foot away with a pop filter to calm the air you will be pushing and let the people listening hear that you are meaning what you are singing about... sing it loud... sing it proud.

Ok fine. You got me! I am giving away a BOSS RC-300. It's a raffle... Tickets are $549 ea

did I spam the bottom of your post then??? WT???

Not a lot of upvotes for the poor medicine ball.... Is this the Metal Zone of tea?

I work as a barista and know enough to know that the leaves in the container will be free to roam so to speak, mixing and mingling as their container moves. It is entirely possible to produce two cups of tea using a blend like this and have two entirely different tastes as the result - unless the blend is in tea bags which makes for a controlled environment. My best advice is the buy a bell infuser of some sort and experiment cup by cup (daily if need be) to reach the desired taste. Then grab a baby formula dispenser and pre-mix your preferred blends up in bulk into your dispenser(s) in weekly required doses. The trick is finding the mint variants in a health food shop and hoping the blend you know is not just a liquid essence added to the herb leaf mix. Good Luck!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/BOSS_OS-2_OverDrive_Distortion.jpg http://resource.noiseguide.com/65/res_40_boss_super_distortion_and_feedbacker_df-2_lg.jpg or http://resource.noiseguide.com/c7/boss_df2.jpg http://d2ydh70d4b5xgv.cloudfront.net/images/2/6/rocktek-distortion-guitar-effect-pedal-e1e39e10004fdfce8afd2c666919c8a8.jpg and the final one top right http://media.musiciansfriend.com/is/image/MMGS7/OC-3-SUPER-Octave-Pedal/151431000000000-00-500x500.jpg

http://www.cme-pro.com/proline/VXseries%20copy(1).jpg That's your beast. (discontinued tech, but here is a guitar centre review: http://www.guitarcenter.com/CME/VX-80-Intelligent-Keyboard-Controller-1274034481555.gc)

I built a moderately un-portable porta studio to allow me to work on projects until I build the studio proper... It gives me a synth, drum machine, laptop and additional screen, speakers/ monitors and interface all self contained and wired in and it sits on a folding keyboard stand, with pedalboard supported underneath. Design was so I could drag it to various locations if need be but the thing weighs far too much to enjoy moving it at all.

These guys are amazing! I am forever on this site! It is the best go-to site for dialling in on a sound or just asking advice. Welcome aboard.

Cubase is like the distant cousin. haven't got many friends running it. Didn't think of dropbox!

We haven't nutted out opposing DAWs just yet. He is Pro Logic and I am Cubase.

He sends me MP3's of songs, I drop into DAW and record a guide track of guitars, then send gtr MP3 back to him. Whole project is email based. We caught up face to face once after the first song for about an hour and talked. He just tells me a musical style he has in mind then lets me run. Full versions probably February. I love that technology has come to the ability to do this.

I am working on the nightmares EP (on my soundcloud) with an old school friend in need. Horrific back story... he was lead guitarist and vocalist of old band back then, has had a terrible time since then battling mental illness and has recently been diagnosed with MS and cannot play guitar anymore. He needed guitars for a rock musical score and called me.

cool. I'm on it.. was just checking out your stuff again.. been a while

That's a cool mix of artists. would love to have a listen to what you do.

Sadly my gear is currently IN the closet with a pile blocking from the outside... But I have a GAS shipment coming for xmas so that will be cool.

Didn't you sell your youth for better gear?

ooh Live Chat! Hi all

.... Pedal guy... right here!

Hi Blake, I am chasing a similar sound, and run a Double Trouble which is two Tubescreamer clones in one enclosure. I still find it too heavy and a little thick at low gain and missing the sparkle and light break up I am looking for. I have asked Gear Santa for a Soul Food, or a Soul Pog if he has room in the stocking for it.

Hi all. Now, my name sake should suggest that I tell nobody anything, but that's what pseudonyms are for... right? My name is Terry, I'm 45 and am down here in Australia. I've been an Equipboard member for over a year now, but seem stuck at 173 Gear IQ. hahaha! I use this site as my go to whenever I need to dial in a sound or find out about an artist or some gear... the knowledge here has proven itself time and again. I've been playing since about 16, when a neighbour brought his acoustic over and I graduated from strumming tennis racquets. Left handed and too lazy to restring my brother's old clunker nylon, I told my neighbour to teach me right handed. I grew up in a musical neighbourhood where every second house had a guitarist, every fifth a drummer. One of the bigger local bands needed a bass player when theirs got a girlfriend, so I stepped into role of player of the long low guitar. Being a bass player in our town without a girlfriend got me plenty of work. It wasn't until I was able to keep up with the fastest local drummer (speed freak to boot), that I understood that I had a shot at this. Shortly after switched back to guitar, taking on both lead guitar and lead vocals roles in all subsequent bands to present day, and playing all instruments in an ever growing solo catalogue.
Musical influences fill all the dark corners, goth, post punk, alternate, grunge, industrial and my original works gravitate towards catchy, memorable, hook filled tales of lost love, violence and mental illness. My love of gear is not governed by brand names and the quest for my perfect tone plateaus and spikes in waves.
When my daughter was born I stopped playing for 8 years. I came back into a changed industry full of digital recording and emulators and my gear was now called "retro". She is 11 now, sings, plays guitar, bass and drums and I am building a studio at home to allow us both some dedicated swinging space as well as to commit all my recordings to digital, and no longer live in fear that my musical history rests on the continued stability of a drawer full of 4-track cassettes. Thanks for being here Equipboard.

I have been contributing some guitar work to the score for a rock musical in production and have been using the Vox amp emulatorin Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5. While unsure which era/ type of Vox it is based on, it is bright and has bite and just enough throat to get me smiling. Tried with both the Marshall and the Jazz Chorus and while they fit MY sound, they weren't right for this project.

Thanks for that. Nothing worse than wanting a sound and not getting it. I will wait until something else pops up. Cheers for the quick reply. You know Vox so were my first point of contact.

Primarily a hello to Jim. While I could read all the reviews in the world, I wanted to get your opinion on these. Apologies if this is covered in another forum. One has popped up for sale locally and caught my attention. Is this a traditional AC 30 sound or is this one of those tragic moments that every company tries at some point?

Thanks all, I had read the reviews and watched the clips (including Andertons) and had asked the questions of the stores. Since NAMM 2016 the ONLY information released on these amps was precisely what Marshall wanted released. With 100 presets and a wall of onboard combinations, it seemed a bit odd that everyone seemingly dialled in the same 5 or 6 combos. Yes the price waved flags and harkened back to the pricing of the old Valvestate endeavour of the 90s, but I just hoped that someone had played one first hand....

Has anyone grabbed a CODE yet? online reviews float the same 5 or 6 presets, wondering if worthwhile venture for a small studio amp.