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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.....🙂
@<span class="bbp-author-name">racefaceec90</span>
<div class="bbp-author-role">That pedal doesn't look like an effects pedal, I looks like an entire synth that needs a wee bit of an input!</div>
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<div>I bought a load of synths and very quickly learned I would have to learn to play piano to get what I wanted out of them. I wonder if that pedal is the same, but you have to learn to play, errr, the pedal?</div>
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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.