Oh, and re the gig mentioned above I've got my 'flyrig' tidied up. Well it sounds better than saying my Cross Country rail service rig...
It looks so sweet in its little gigbag that I'm in danger of adult onset diabetes.
https://flic.kr/p/2mAozbu
https://flic.kr/p/2mAozdD
https://flic.kr/p/2mAtYUs
I can run it mono (or stereo) into an amp or two using the different IRs built in or via balanced outs using XLR adapters to the PA direct.
That's some pretty neat wiring (though if you had right angle connectors, it would be even neater...) 🙂
Looks great, though. I'm sure it sounds ace, too. I had a band rehearsal tonight and I'm trying to just live with my Victory Kraken and a Barefaced 10in cab. It's a tiny and hugely loud setup. And it (just) goes clean enough that I can get the three sounds out of it I need (pushed clean, crunch and bonkers, with two different volume levels on a switch too).
Ta for the nice words.
right angle connectors
They’re BOSS solderless so they’re straight or right angled depending on how I fold them. 🙂
Got to say I’m pretty happy with it. I can pop the FS7 footswitch off and throw my Ditto on there and plug the Expresion pedal in if I want. All looks pretty good. Looking to get a Tone Master Deluxe to go with it. Although I have already got another Line6 L2m to handle modelled output.
None of which will ever get really used as I am playing mainly through my Waza Air headphones these days..
Let me know how the TM Deluxe is... It's on my list for a living room amp - that or a new Vibroverb Champ thing (though they still haven't come out!)
I can tell you how ot is- ficken awesome. sadly the one I wanted got snapped up by someone else. One will be mine, but this one was in tweed and a good price.
Good afternoon Chips
I'm interested how the bare faced cabs are?
Many thanks
Lorne
The Barefaced cab is awesome! I've been running either an EVH Lunchbox, or a Victory Kraken into it. It's a 1x10 version, which is tiny and light - really light. But it competes perfectly well with a loud drummer and a deaf lead guitarist. The 1x12 perhaps has a tiny bit more bass, but the 1x10 is so teeny and loud that I went for that instead.
My only issue is that the head is so small, that other amp heads won't fit on top of it 🙂
Barefaced does a moneyback, 30 day trial, so it's well worth a try if you're interested. Or if you're passing Todmorden any time...
Hi Chipps
Thank you for the run down
I have a small head that would go perfectly with it. Just never tried one
Appreciate the offer of trying yours but 'london' so not many opportunities as I'd like to get home where you are
Cheers
Lorne
No problem. Have a look on their website - they do a 'Buy now and send it back after 30 days if you don't love it' offer. I got a 10 and a 12in cab and tried both and returning the 12in...
It's actually so tiny that I have a little folding stool to take to rehearsals to put it on. Perhaps I can persuade them to do me a 2 x 10 vertical cab, just so it's a better height to adjust the amp knobs... 🙂
Learning some songs takes longer than others. I'm still having a go at Pinball Wizard from time to time and having watched Townsend do it acoustic live on Youtube tried again. The G string intonation at the 12th isn't good because I'm trying a thicker string which makes it 10cents sharp.
Sounds good. Interesting how it has evolved in your performance of it. Sounds better as an acoustic number to me.
Any thoughts on software or gear to create some backing tracks for me to play my bass along to.
I have a Mac and an iPad and a midi keyboard controller, but I’m also looking at the volca beats units.
Any ideas / suggestions?
Have you not discovered the drummers in Garageband on the Mac? You're a few clicks away from endless, automated, customisable drum tracks.
Also the ipad version of Garageband has a great sequencer style drum machine that's easy to get your head around for beginners.
Thanks, I’ll have a look
Hi,
Is this wire suppose to be disconnected? It’s connected to the bridge. If not, what should it be connected to? Thanks.
Not sure I can see the photo, @mattrgee - can you try re-posting the pic? (Or sticking it on Flickr or so on...)
Fixed the image now 🙂
Tried out garage band on my Mac today.
It's wonderful! So well thought out and easy to use
@mattrgee - that's most likely the earth wire from the bridge. Connect/solder it to a ground in the control cavity (like the back of one of the pots. This should stop the guitar humming if you're not touching the strings... (If you've noticed, that is...)
Tried out garage band on my Mac today.
It’s wonderful! So well thought out and easy to use
Good news. It is great and really easy to understand even for a total beginner like myself. I still haven't managed to use it for anything constructive yet as I'm definitely no musician or song writer.
i have just ordered a mooer ocean machine pedal after discovering them on yt this week.
i have wanted to do ambient guitar soundscapes for a long time and this pedal sounds great for what i want.
cannot wait to get it.
This is probably a stupid question, but how does all the grounding work if you use a wireless connection to the amp?
I'd assume it doesn't matter since you're not directly connected to anything electric
Makes a difference to my wireless stuff when I touch the strings on my strat in positions 1, 3 and 5 be it the £30 ebay system or my Waza Air headphones.
Bridge earth definitley connected.
Mmmm I’d assumed that grounding was ultimately through the cable to the amp.
If there’s no cable, the only other option to ground is through the player.
I must be missing something.
That ‘grounding while wireless’ thought is really interesting. I’ll see what my pal at Fender R&D says about it
Just off to Promenade Music in Morecambe.
Wish me luck, already bought a Fulltone OCD from them this week.
'Try it with any guitar we have' they said, so I grabbed the base model Yamaha Revstar. It was lovely.
As I said, wish me luck....🙂
Uhoh!
sounds like you’re braced for it, though.
I’m going over to Sound Affects in Ormakirk soon, with a PRS for them to sell. The idea is to come away without having bought anything… hmm
Oooh Sound Affects.
Nice shop.
I honestly don't need another guitar, don't have the space.
Half way through modding a Fender Bullet Mustang though. Some nice tuners might do the trick.....
‘Try it with any guitar we have’
When they say that I reply "Squier Affinity Tele, please". They always play well and sound like you expect.
And, "Good luck". 😉
my ocean machine pedal has just turned up. wow is all i can say (it is built like a tank) it looks great.
unfortunately i cannot use it yet as waiting for the power plug to be delivered (wed next week). but man i cannot wait to start to play with it (the pedal lol).
just have to work out how to connect it to my boss gt-1 as it's my only amp now.
Soooo, Promenade Music.
What a lovely shop, proper old fashioned, nice people.
The only things that really caught my imagination were a couple of Shergolds at quite an attractive discount.
Great guitars to play, fine quality (same manufacturer as Faith), but a little bland looks wise. I know it shouldn't matter, but it does......
My local place carries them too, might see if they can get in a limited edition orange Masquerader.....🙂
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<div>I'm curious to hear what you get out of it.</div>
Slope soaring eh?
Foamie wing
Pike Brio Double Carbon
That's Portland and Weymouth in the background.
PMT in Leeds today.
Fancied a mooch plus, they had an Ibanez AF95 jazzbox I quite fancied......
The Ibanez was delightful, but obviously well used. Not paying new money for a scratched ex demo.
They had an orange Shergold in.....my word, what a difference a nice paint job makes.
Also looked at a Jag-Stang, one of the new Mexican made ones. 😐 Ooops.
Am now contemplating selling both Squiers and replacing with one of the above.....but I know I'd regret getting rid of the Tele Custom II.
Arse.
Ooh, I used to go into PMT when it was whoever it was before it was PMT.... I do like those Shergolds. I really wanted one the first time they came out, and a full rosewood neck is also a thing of joy. Plus they do a Humbucker/P90 combo, which I also like...
However, I don't need any new guitars (for a bit, anyway) and I'm just about to send my (rosewood necked, P90) PRS McCarty for Sound Affects to sell (unless anyone here is interested...) 🙂
Loving my Strat but the best thing I’ve bought this year seems to be my Boss WazaAir headphones. I can’t wait to get home and actually play of an evening. That is play, not fiddle around tweaking sounds but plugging in a backing track and having fun. Or learning a new song. The sound is great anD so much better than a multiFX headphone out that it is scary.
I have probably creased the amount I actually play by 50% since getting these.
Me and the boy are heading to London at the weekend for the New Order gig at the O2 on Saturday night.
I've promised him a trip to Denmark street during the day on Saturday.
Any shop recommendations or must do things there?
Has anyone played with a Tascam model 12,16,24 mixer/multitrack ?
I fancy not having to fire the computer up to record stuff
I fancy not having to fire the computer up to record stuff
My Boss MultiFX and my THR10 both have a usb out so I go straight into Garbageband on the ipad.
Don't know if that helps
I use a Helix USB straight into Logic Pro, but kind of like the idea of not using a DAW at all if you know what I mean.
I am probably just being lazy 🙂
Being honest as soon as you step away from the most basic Portastudio I feel you are in ipad and Garageband land. Just with a smaller display.
Time for a return to cassettes!
On a similar note, are any of you recording wizards going to put together another STW jam track any time soon? I feel like I might actually be good enough to contribute this year...
Timely post @benman. I put the most recent one together. I'm happy to do that again. Would someone else like to provide a backing? I don't mind doing that, but might be nice to broaden it out.
I suppose we could even invite "the other lot" to contribute? 😉(bassists of singletrack). I'm one of "them" too, so tongue in cheek post! 🤣
If it's got blastbeats I'm in.
I'd be tempted to have a go too. Might do a saxophone take as well if you want variety ?
I only have experience with the Tascam Porta 02 etc cassette-based recorders. I hear they're still very in vogue 🙂
Denmark St might not be what it once was - last time I was there, the giant Crossrail station was being built and the whole street looked like it might be evicted any moment to build luxury flats on...
I am up for another jam really enjoyed the last one 🙂 It was so interesting to see what people had done.
I am too crap to do the backing track it would be pretty simplistic and not as funky as AdamT 🙂
will be getting a new fender mustang lt25 delivered today so looking forward to that.
i did have a boss katana 50w mk ii combo but i didn't gel with it tbh so sold it a few weeks ago.
i had an older mustang amp a few years ago that i liked so hopefully this will be the same (i only play at home).
the ocean machine pedal that i bought is great i have to say,but it will take me some time to begin to understand it lol (my boss gt-1 that i've had for over a year i still don't know how to program it).
On a similar note, are any of you recording wizards going to put together another STW jam track any time soon?
Yeah, I was thinking about this the other day - let's get it done. I'm not sure I could record a passable backing track though so hopefully someone else can volunteer??
Even if anyone had an interesting chord sequence they could share that would work. I could do a rough take of it and post it out.
I'm currently finishing rebuilding the studio at work, so I should then be recording a load of bass and drums works in progress if anyone wants some stuff to guitar over (warning, some of it's quite weird!) Or I've got quite a lot of interesting chord sequences but they're all written on bass, so different voicings to guitar.
Even if anyone had an interesting chord sequence they could share that would work. I could do a rough take of it and post it out.
I've recently been fascinated by 'At the River' ("If you're fond of sand dunes...") by Groove Armada which is, as far as I can tell, Ab --> Ebm --> Db --> Eaug. Well, that matches the recording but I play A --> Em --> D --> Faug.
It's a nice little chord progression with plenty of non-diatonic options. Can probably stick to Amaj pentatonic over it, though, to keep things simple.
Here’s a harmonic puzzle which I’m trying to solve at the moment. I’ve written a thing where the verses and choruses are in A# Dorian. (The intro is a suspended feeling thing just using F octaves and E with the open note critical because of how the riff works).
I’ve just had an idea about making the outro like the verse but with a ton of distortion and some room for soloing - the verse riff is a syncopated root note thing with some little extra twiddles. If I can find a way to modulate into E then I can used the open E and go a lot more wild on the widdling than if I stay in A# and have to keep leaping back to the 6th fret. (This is all on bass guitar). Unfortunately I’m at my in-laws and there are no instruments in sight.
The puzzle is that A# Dorian and E Dorian are quite unrelated keys!
Backing track with a key change in it could be fun - go for that Lydian mode power solo!
Bb and E are a tritone apart so you could use that to your advantage, also it's part of a diminished triad .
Try A# then C# then E which is bouncing up the diminished, or A# down to G down to E
Or try A#m then B7b13 then into the Eminor
Thought this may be of interest, i started playing two years ago and had my first practice yesterday with a drummer and bass player with a plan to gig next summer. It was really scrappy and i need to listen more but at times it didn't sound too shabby, luckily the drummer is very good. Hoping to work on some original tunes as well, the only real problem is we drank enough beer to refloat the Titanic.
I now need a gigging guitar amp so happy days.
Having gone from eternal bedroom guitarist to playing with a band, there's a lot of re-learning involved. It made me realise that my timing is terrible and I wasn't really listening to everyone in the band. I now try to pay close attention to the drums and the song as a whole. It's such a fun experience, though, and getting a tune dialled enough where you can sit back and enjoy it is a joy.
I am a terrible bedroom guitarist. Scrappy, uninterested etc
But I was borne for playing on stage. Am totally locked in with the other players instantly. Can get a set down in my head so I can play every single song in order in my head while lying on the couch with my eyes closed. And not just the fingering on the guitar, every pedal stomp, every stage move, the gaps between songs, every time you move in to the amp to catch the feedback point etc.
I think playing at home is ruined as soon as you play through a stack.
The fact I'm not in a band right now is painful.
re denmark street
i work in london so can easily pass if i want to
i was there last week
a show of its former self and i didnt care for it in the 80s
Brilliant! Should be loud enough.
I've got another L2M now for my GT100 Core.
Good of you to offer to put another STW track together Adam. I was hoping it might be easier to decide what to do with than harder. I quite like G C D in any order 😉 Chuck Berry made do with C for most of a song only adding a few bars of F and G in I'm Talking 'bout You. Perhaps that's one for the bass thread. Me and my old acoustic again:
Ta, it's a song that nobody wants to sing, listen to or play with me, even pre Covid. Elvis rockers still go down well but his soul period less so. Jail House Rock is popular if people are patient enough for me to down tune to E flat. I like the song, especially the live versions of Suspicious Minds Elvis did in the 70s, I've used the James Burton way of playing the riff here.
if people are patient enough for me to down tune to E flat.
Get a Variax 😉
Or a Morpheus Droptune/Whammy etc 🙂
Right then. Are you ready for the next jam track backing?
Below is a backing track. It's 90bpm. The cowbells count down the last bar before the start of the jam section. The Horn stab is on the first beat. You can just about play an E pentatonic over it, but options to do something a bit more.
I genuinely whacked the parts in on the first take so expect to replace probably all of it. All submissions welcome. Guitar, Bass (looking at you @chiefgrooveguru), Keyboard, Drums and I think it would be epic to get some of the "Music producers of Singletrack" to potentially remix or reimagine it too. (looking at you @ajantom)
There are some slightly obscure chords in here. I'll whack them into this thread a bit later (when I've worked them out)
Please, if you're a bit scared just have a go.....no judgement here. I can even do a private mix/render if you like?
https://soundcloud.com/adamt-9/stw-20-jam-track
Next steps: Tell me if you're in. I'll set a bit of a deadline and add submissions as they come in. Once the deadline passes, I'll produce the full mix. Any questions, then just ask.
VERY groovy! (And way groovier than me...) I'm in!
A couple of minutes with a bass gets me E C# C A, E C# C A, E C# C A, C D, C D.
They're mostly the roots but also some fancy things in there. Eg the first 4 chords are E7(#9)(aka Hendrix), C#7(#9), CMaj9, B7(#9). Last two chords of the whole thing I intended to be Am7 and a variation in Bm7, but that doesn't really matter.
Ta, I typed it wrong anyhow, I meant E C# C B for the initial bars. I was only trying to find the root notes. Most of what I've played over it so far sounds gloriously shit. Tried singing some nonsence lyrics but couldn't come up with a melody either. The nearest were some Michael Jones licks, I might persue that.
Edit, my ears must be bust I get C D for the last bars.
Am is the relative minor of Cmaj so it's basically the same chord/scale.
I'm in... So Em pentatonic should work?
Should, yes. I find a C creeping in as well.
What do you want? 16 bars, 24 or more? And thanks BTW. 🙂
I’m in. Thanks AdamT for putting it together again.