tel_nobody's forum posts 734

Hi. Not a bad start, but the gods demand more!

If you would like, head over to

http://equipboard.com/forums/general/topics/the-hello-thread-please-allow-me-to-introduce-myself-wave

and say Hi there. (it's kinda where everyone says hi)

Nice gear btw!

ahh details

I am deadly serious!

All he has to do is charge a commission to every you-tuber and soundcloud hopeful and he can retire off the kickbacks they wire him just to play their songs in ON HOLD loops. Could be charged in hour or half hour blocks!

I have this crazy diea for you... you're in India, right? WIndows 10 ahs been giving me grief since the switch. I have to call Microsoft every other update! Call centers? They're in India. you're studying computers.... perfect fit! I know they're hiring. iw as talking to a call center manager after one aprticularly difficult series of calls adn he mentioned they can't get enoughs taff to handle all the issues with hese win10 updates, man. Get a part-time job! In your field!

Nikhil this idea is not as crazy as it sounds!

People around the world use call centres.. average wait time 15 - 20 mins. That hold music is a very captive audience!

If you worked in a centre like this... you could substitute the generic call centre music with YOUR music and reach thousands of new listeners daily!!!

THIS.....IS.... INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!

Hey gang.

Before we go in, I am not talking delay loops. I am talking those long multi switch pedal blocks that create multiple effects LOOPS for each pedal and allow a multitude of SWITCHING options.

I am thinking that I would benefit from adding one of these to my pedalboard. Noise is a concern but so is the inevitable tap dance.

I have briefly explored the Joyo (Harley Benton or WaveX in diffrent countries), Mooen, Carl Martin Octaswitch and a few others.... the Gig Rig G2 is beyond funds currently.

Thinking an 8+ loop system that allows combinations of multiple pedal activation with each stomp is the go.

Would appreciate any feedback or information you have discovered as an owner of one.

Haha Jim! I was referring to the sheer amount of words you guys were throwing into posts! It was like caffiendishly crammed with backstories and information, and i could not help but read them with an ever increasing tempo.

In response to the glorious tangent, I make a mean coffee and people seem to make an effort to drive to me to get one, but I don't drink it myself. I recently also ended a 30+ year relationship with Cola.

To place in order now, my bevs of choice of tea, lemonade, mineral water, chai lattes and beer makes me seem more placid and trustworthy than is wise.

Hi I'm Tel. Equal mix of heavy guitars and heavy sarcasm.

EDIT: The mix is off. I play less guitar.

So you guys drink coffee huh?

Meh. Hyperactivity is better than no activity I guess..

Creative ways?

It has been a couple of years since I have done this... pick your social media platform... I used Facebook. You name a song, then its artist. A friend can reply with a song that starts with the last letter in the name of your artist...

Example

Dancing Queen - ABBA

the friend can reply with any song title that begins with the last letter of the band name (In this case A)

If they choose Absolute beginners - David Bowie, the next reply must start with last letter of artist again... This is E

Enter Sandman - Metallica

Adam's Song - Blink 182

22 - Taylor Swift

Tupelo - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

As you can see.. it gets pretty diverse pretty quickly

Let's shift this a touch for a little bit.

A little girl lives with at home. She has a cat. She likes to paint. Every day she paints her cat. She enjoys painting her cat.

One day, a family friend comes over and asks her to paint a dog. She has never seen a dog. She only ever paints cats.

So the friend describes a dog... she listens and hears that a dog has 4 legs, is covered in fur and has a long tail.

So she paints what she thinks a dog looks like... and it looks like a cat still. Because that is all she knows.

Same with music. If you only ever listen to one type of music, when asked to play another type, you will instinctively fall into the same patterns... because that is all you know.

Jim is right! Listen to other musics. Sure! They will sound strange (this happens the first times you try anything new), and the words may not sound right. But listen beyond that. Listen to the way the bass takes you on a journey with the drums. How the other instruments fall around and fill out the sound of the song and how the way the vocals are presented affects how you feel.

How does your body react? do you want to shut it off?... does your foot tap along? does it make you wobble your head side to side and feel a bit silly?

Music... ALL music... should move you.

Xaq is right too! Music should excite you... it SHOULD make you feel something. Playing excited means you are only reaching out and touching yourself... playing with yourself is not enough. You need to pull others close and push it deep inside them.. make them feel you! That is exciting!!!

Going back to my top point.

What if dog was one of us? Just a slob like one of us? Just a stranger on a bus, trying to make his way home.... and you never saw him because you were thinking about your cat?

Go hear some stuff. Be confused, be repulsed, be inspired....give in to it and let it push deep inside you!

Jim will hat e this but such a cool looking guitar for a Jazz player... https://www.musicworks.co.nz/hollow-body-guitars/af55tf-ibanez-artcore-electric-hollow-body-tobacco-flat/

or this

https://www.rockshop.co.nz/shop/guitars/electric-guitars/epiphone-broadway-elec-guitar-natural.html

or this

http://www.musicplanet.co.nz/guitar/guitars/electric/crafter-feg700n-jazz-box-natural.html

or even

http://www.musicplanet.co.nz/guitar/guitars/electric.html?manufacturer=646

Don't know your budget

http://www.musicplanet.co.nz/guitar/guitars/electric/d-angelico-ex-59-archtop-single-cut-p90s-sunburst.html

never heard of these guys... are they NZ only?

http://www.somusic.co.nz/mannix-hollow-body-electric-guitar-black-1236

Crap! our posts contradict each other... My stepnephews are jazz boys (trombone and drums), so I only have their experiences to by...

Maybe because I live in Australia and I see things a little different to the Northern Hemisphere crew, but if you are playing jazz and loving playing Jazz, then maybe versatility is NOT something you are going for.

Aside from the fact Hagstrom call theirs a Jazz guitar... it fits the bill for what I see when I picture a Jazz guitar. Wider hollowbody, not thin like a 335 and a fairly natural looking guitar. No flashy paintjobs etc. Reading through, the H-Truss rod to allow for a thinner faster neck means a smaller neck radius to help get hands and fingers dancing over the fretboard to make all those wonderful Jazz - specific chord shapes. (Jim... don't pull me apart for this term.. you know what I mean.. and I know no chord is specific to any style), however, the chord shapes I refer to are more prevalent in Jazz styles and Jazz requires that level of accuracy and proficiency in the use, frequency and saturation of chords in the songs, that is simply not matched by any other style. I would guess the reason why you didn't gravitate toward the D'Angelico EXL-1 is the single pickup... or the lack of a natural finish... maybe their deluxe 59...

To me.. that's a Jazz guitar. thick body thin neck, f- holes... not relying on a paintjob.. sold through sound and playing.

Of course, play them before you buy...

Good Luck!

I am replying to noone in particular.

I do NOT know my theory.

I BELIEVED it would never bother me... because none of my friends knew theory either.

I BELIEVED I was a competent writer.

Then I started writing in a new style. I had to walk away from what my friends were doing, because I was heading somewhere different, and at the time they chose not to follow. I was fine with this.

It was a hybrid of two of my favourite styles; Goth and heavier thrashy guitar styles, that formed one end of a concept album. More about that in another post...

I required a keyboard player who could do what I needed to happen in my songs... I could HEAR what I wanted inside my head... that is how I write music... I hear what is not there. Only with this project...it was so foreign to my thinking, I only heard the parts like a whisper, or something happening in another room, that I could not hear well because of all the noise in THIS room.

Then I met her.

A Classically trained Grade 5 (at that stage) pianist. I convinced her, over a period of months that she should have a listen to my music.

This is where the problems started.

She was theoretically mined. She could not pick something up by ear the way I could. She would write things down, but I couldn't understand them.

So I described the emotion behind a particular song... (and to me it was a heavy emotional song), I described to her what I was hearing being whispered. I gave her a copy of it to listen to, in a gtr/ bass/ drum/ voc format.

She played a part so alien to my thinking that it fit PRESICELY into the song. It was the most complete I had ever felt.

I asked her to join the band. She thought about it and declined. It was not her time.

I never learned how to play that song with her part. Never got to record it and the only written copy she had (because she could only read music) went with her. Every time I tried to listen to that song from that point in, I heard whispers of that part.... but they slipped away. I found I could no longer hear my song when playing or working on it anymore. It was gone... just like she was.

If I had known some theory, I could have made a difference.

I have found that communicating with musicians is next to impossible if you cannot speak the language. I am a competent player.. maybe more than competent. I consider myself inventive and resourcful and can play almost anything with little prompting.

But when I try and explain what I am doing to a musician who SPEAKS music... I am the tourist trying asking for a place to live.. and being shown where the toilet is!

Every language has a word for a foreigner who lives in a place and refuses to learn the language or respect the cultures.... What are musicians calling you?

Glad to be of service! Welcome back! What you been up to?

Check the Marshall custom shop website. At least there you can check out visuals and know you will be able to trust the quality.

Good Stuff Bones! keep buying keep posting!

Can you remove them boom?

Looks like somebody got it. I looked at two forums yesterday and the final posts were all about writing assignments. There have been a few attacks of late, and i had not seen them occur at all even 6 months ago

Search a piece of gear in the search bar.

Click the piece that matches your piece of gear, then click "+SAVE". Then choose from "have" or "want" to include it in your equipboard.

Hope this helps.

Only thing that comes close to that is a Vox Satchurator.... but this one has a different configuration. The lack of obvious branding except what COULD be the embossed VOX logo suggests this is a rehoused, or clone pedal... which could make it anything with a three knob/ one toggle/ dual footswitch configuration.

Drop the name of the artist and I will narrow this search.

can you take that setting off or have it private

Is that because of the word porn? Because Porn has been used to simply mean objects portrayed in a way that is desirable. Please, no pictures of open Big Muffs.

So much spam on the site these days. it is making the site less appealing, because it is spread completely through it.

Was not always the case, now it is plagued.

What changed?

It has gotten to the point where I barely log on anymore because i cannot stand to see this once great go-to spot reduced to this.

Needs to be fixed.

I can understand number one, but Kurt is one of my idols. Nirvana's earlier stuff was better than In Utero and some of the songs on Nevermind. Bjork has no talent.

Defend and then not so much mode....

I was a HUGE Nirvana fan, played their stuff in cover bands and saw them live... the guy was commanding and had some really shining moments.

He also committed some musical atrocities and some very unmusical ones as well, and made the decision to place them alongside his works of art, making every listener question whether or not they truly understood his vision... or question further if he even understood his vision or what he was capable of. Losing him was a tragedy that cut short a potential for continued incredible experiences.

Bjork is different. To say she has no talent really takes that narrow viewpoint that we as musicians should not ever make the mistake of making. Her vocal range, timbre and understanding of delicate nuances is astounding. She writes in a style completely alien to western ears on cursory listens, but every decision she makes is meticulously chosen and is verified when you take the time to understand what she is doing. In a documentary, she exposed her Icelandic roots and how traditional folk stylings and scales are interwoven throughout her musical compositions. Her orchestration confuses the average listener, but she knows what she is doing and does so with determination and unwavering conviction. I have also seen her live and she dominates a stage with an calm unassuming presence that teeters on the edge of violent screaming wails that leave you in awe. She breathes music and is constantly writing and creating magic that SHE understands.

Both Kurt and Bjork write what they want to write. they challenge us to hear what they hear and to either accept what we hear, refuse it... or take the time to understand it.

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

God I hope you meant good players...

So basically, in answer to the OP... you are locking in FINGERS as your final answer?

The only objective reason for an old guitar to sound better than identical new one is that the wood dries and gets better with years.

Nothing can be identical. Specs can be duplicated, even mass produced, but two instuments from the same production day will sound different to a discerning ear.

If I were to try and explain why old guitars sound better than new ones... the answer is humans.

Back then people made guitars... now machines have automated most of the processes. While this standardises and speeds up the manufacture, machines can not monitor quality control.... this takes people. And while people examine along the way, they are not hands on for the entire process anymore and things get overlooked.

This is not to detract from the Luthiers like Fano still out there handshaping their craft. There is a reason why these pieces command their prices and hold their reputation.

In short.. hand made sounds better than machine made.

My favourite: a matter of opinion

My Least favourite: a matter of opinion.

No two people will ever truly agree on this post and it sets itself up for countless arguments.

I wear low straps and as much as I disagree with the boy brat... he made it big doing what he loves.

Floyd and Wayne are not even comparable so the differences are not worth mentioning.

and maybe the big 4 would have been better appreciated if they were chosen from the metal genre. There is a lot going on under the hood of these musicians that a metal lover would miss. Traditional Icelandic Folk roots, timings and scales, a gifted vocalist with a mind removed from the everyday that contributed to a legend of our time's legacy, the careless achiever with the ability to find melody in dirge played because he wanted to and a guy who is still called the replacement singer for the band, 36 years after he replaced the band's second singer who had only been there for 6 years.

To a lover of a genre other than any of these stylings... there will be a thousand reasons why you do not like them.

Tough gigs to be accepted for any and all of them.

It's all opinion. That's all it will ever be.

Cute. Did you enjoy making it?

I hope you keep it up and challenge yourself more each time.

This may sound like a silly answer, but hear me out.

Watch film clips... preferably live ones.

They not only show you a guitar, but you can see if they are new looking or like they have been around for a while (relic 'ed guitars were not a real thing with musicians back then... they looked old because they were).

When you look at the guitar, notice how many pickups, what position his toggles are in and whether they go into pedals, or straight to an amp. At this point, notice the amp. What brand and how he has it set... up high or on the floor... these are factors that effect how he uses it.

If the guitar has modifications, you can almost guarantee they were put in by him... and will be used.

Obviously, if there are pedals, attempt to identify them and observe their most probable order.

Now watch him play.

Gentle picking and volume knob work change how his sound comes across. If you want to sound like him, mimic his style and you will get closer.

Of course, then there are mics and positions and techniques used in recordings that none of us will ever really know about, but these are great starting points.

Hello, On the LEFT side of Your Equipboard down the bottom of the list is a heading called Gear Porn. You can add up to 3 photos of YOUR gear here, but do not make the pictures too large, as they will not load if they are too big. I hope this helps.

No. Run your business elsewhere. This community is free choice.

You are ruining this site with your attempts to advertise your business here.

As a reviewer, REVIEW YOUR TACTICS .

Everyone knows before buying a brand new instrument.which brand is the best for everyone or beginners. you have to know about best violin brands reviews, best guitar brands reviews. best piano brands reviews. Thanks

What is this???? These posts are becoming beyond annoying on this site. Contributions must be just that... CONTRIBUTIONS.

These generic dribbling attempts at practicing English are better served somewhere, anywhere else.

Please bounce your ball against somebody else's wall or make an effort to make a point. The obvious has been stated. Move along.

Can MODS or higher filter the rubbish? It is reaching plague levels.

A video of ONE of them running is painful.

Look into a Wampler Triple Wreck or an MSG Twin Unicorn Dual Channel.

Just a couple of options to slap you into hi gain kind of territory

I will ask what kind of music you play? That will influence your palette and the voice and amount of distortion of your pedal choice.

You are a chainsaw. I withdraw beaten. normal people are between. So I am as far from you as I can be, and am weaker than all others.

Nice.

Yep. Sure. All of the above.

You got me pegged!

It's cool... I do totally get what you are both saying.

You deal with hired musicians in professional studio environments paying by the hour etc all the time.

My questions (as always) are directed toward the small scale guys working in less than full quality studios, not at the professional level you work with but still trying to get a level of understanding in place for the 'average Joes' out there who may be doing this for the first time and have not gone in with a succinct level of understanding in regard to frequency and bandwidth.

While that lack of knowledge will frustrate a professional, the player still needs to be able to understand why changes have been made to what they did to make it sound so very different. They have the right to approach and ask.

If I play a part, or god forgive a repeat of the example where it was MY song, and the engineer changed it on me... then I want to know why.

The background to this one: Six local bands chipped in for a compilation recording... 3 songs each, mixed and released on cassettes, each band getting an equal share of units from the production run. We all paid the same amount and it was up to us to put them on consignment in local record stores. The engineer was the uncle of one band's bass player, so all communication was coordinated through that band. When I got the proof version of the final recordings, every song by every band sounded as they did live, except ONE of our band's songs, particularly my guitar parts, had been flooded with effects in post and they sounded alien to my ears. We had been performing that song live for years and it was a song my audience knew, and this production was not an "add value", it changed the feel of the song.

So I called the band in charge, told them about this. They said he knew what he was doing. The song was not going to be changed. No consultation.

Yes, it was a long time ago for me, and water under the bridge etc etc... but my post was to state that young/ new players getting stuff recorded should be able to ask why their efforts are changed, with the people making the changes having enough understanding of both the industry and the people they are working for/ with, to take the time to explain WHY it was done.

So, in coming full circle and coming back to the original post, if I submit a part and it is dramatically altered in post, to a point where it no longer represents me and has my name tied to it, I will say something to the person who has altered it, and they will be able to justify the reasoning behind why the changes were made, or they will revert the part back or delete the part and I walk from the production.

Thanks guys.

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