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So long as you don't mind redoing them after every 200 or so wet winter playing hours
Has anyone got any tips for sound recording on a phone? I'm fed up with the phone mic picking up the sound of passing cars and also random volume changes so am trying an external mic out. It's really sensitive so gets overwhelmed / distorts if I have any kind of volume on the amp. There is a volume setting on the mic so I've turned that right down and put the mic further from the amp (about a metre)
It definitely sounds loads better than using the inbuilt mic (if you ignore the rubbish playing - still camera shy) but I'm hoping there are ways to tweak it to improve things.
https://youtube.com/shorts/jfb8Df5gKoc?feature=share
Has anyone got any tips for sound recording on a phone?
Depending on the amount of phone recording you are doing, the Lewitt Connect 6 might be worth a look. Can be used as a high quality audio interface for your phone as well as PC
Depending on the amount of phone recording you are doing,
Not enough to spend that amount of money 🙂
Was hoping there is an easy to use, free app.
you could try running it through some kind of free audio workstation like garageband - do you have a laptop to plug the mic into? using a DAW would give you the ability to balance the levels before hitting record and also a noise gate
Anderton’s (impressive stock, staff didn’t seem that interested)
every single time i go to andertons its the same
They are on the free delivery promise is bullsh1t list. Free UK delivery my ar5e
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“Has anyone got any tips for sound recording on a phone?”
I use my iPhone as a dictaphone for songwriting and find the built-in mic and compression works well for that - I’m usually recording an acoustic bass guitar unplugged or sometimes a whole (quite loud) band in a rehearsal. For anything I want to actually sound really good then it’s all the messing with mics, interfaces, computers and so on - which I really can’t be bothered with until I have to!
Currently writing this whilst my vocalist puts down some scratch vocals on a demo - she’s bloody good! 🤘
Cheers @edhornby and @chiefgrooveguru
For some reason the inbuilt mic in my phone give really inconsistent results.
Really don't want to be buggering around with interfaces and I'd really rather avoid recording sound and audio separately and combining them as life is too short. I can use a usb lead to plug the amp directly into my laptop so may be able to plug it directly into my phone. Will have to try but will need to get a suitable cable first.
Of course, what I should be doing is spending the time practicing. I'm foolishly going to try leaning the Hey Joe solo which is madness as it's way above my skill / talent level!
https://youtube.com/shorts/wc-yI3A3rTE?feature=share
First guitar lesson booked. Pretty much a novice. I can strum lots of chords and even play some easy tunes but need a kick to get me into some good practice habits. Wish me luck...
Wish me luck…
You don't need luck, you just need to listen to your teacher and practice what they teach you. I think the main things are to enjoy it and not be too hard on yourself when things don't click as quickly as you want them too (I'm rubbish at this bit!)
As Simon said (and you have to do what Simon Says) enjoy it. Set reasonable goals and if you can, find others to play with.
My playing really improved once I started regular meets with others in the area. I met up with a mate for a couple of hours yesterday, we work on songs rather than technique and this afternoon I'll be doing more of a muckabout jam casual fun thing. There may well be blues widdling. But we do usually start with a song to improvise over rather than a basic blues in B Minor.
Its all learning and all fun.
I found the thing with learning guitar (or more recently bass) is not to expect too much of yourself! To play well takes hour upon hour of practice, and dare I say, disciplined practice at that! As an adult you haven't got all those years of bedroom and jamming with your mates under your belt. I tended to glaze over when we were discussing triads and chord voicings, keys and scales etc and just wanted to play songs riffs or solos, but that's just a route to (adult learner) frustration.
When I took up the bass I just wanted to learn songs and did OK with online tabs and so on, but until I took proper lessons I was just practising errors and crap technique into my playing. I now spend time warming up, practising this week's stuff then reward myself with a good thrash on something fun and familiar.
My top tip is to leave the guitar out in a room you’re frequently in.
And also, keep a clip-on tuner on the headstock (chords sound so much worse if a guitar is out of tune - and tuning a guitar by ear is a slow/hard process if you’re a beginner).
I’m sort of a guitar beginner too, but crossing over from years on bass (which will always be my main instrument) - a bit like an experienced MTBer taking up BMX (but with the only physical risk being sore fingertips).
Yay, New Guitar Day!!!
Well it's second hand, but new to me. A Faith Neptune in high gloss finish.
Lovely!
Well it’s second hand, but new to me. A Faith Neptune in high gloss finish.
I got a mahogany Neptune a few weeks ago. It needed no set-up, sounds gorgeous and is far and away the easiest guitar I've ever played, beating my mate's expensive Martin in the playability factor by a mile. On Saturday night, I was drunkenly* wondering to my wife about how good the top end Faiths are if the mid-range ones are this good.
* MTB in the sun all day, followed by a few beers on the beach. Home for food and share a bottle of wine with my wife, while lazily playing the guitar all night and catching up on the Giro. Not the perfect day but getting there. 😀
Trying some fingerpicking this afternoon. I find it really tricky!
https://youtube.com/shorts/bJrrJ7Nvteg?
Played our 18th gig to a packed out Red Barn in Woolacombe on Saturday.
It was a blast, great crowd, we played well and we helped raise 3 grand for the surf lifesaving club!
Top night out….
All sorts of envy here.
All sorts of envy here.
I want that carpet 🙂
It doesn't take much to make me laugh...
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I'm imagining an Andy and Lou conversation there.
"That one".
I can't unsee that now.. 🙂
Feeling very proud of myself here. Was going to collect a Universal Audio Dream 65 "Deluxe Reverb in a box' pedal from Andertons tomorrow. Woke up at 3am and whilst waiting to fall asleep again I realised it wouldn't sound any better that the carefully crafted clean/breakup sounds I worked on with my my BOSS multi FX.
So I cancelled it.
I've never done that before but I'm down to a mini pedalboard of GT1000 Core with a compressor, a £19 Behringer graphic EQ pedal and a tiny "Marshall in a box" - a Dirty Little Secret- for my drive sounds. I don't need or want anything more.
Two presets on the Core plus the EQ and DLS give me everything I need with delay and rotary sounds handled by the Core - or whatever I need depending on the patch I set up.
Only really got tomorrow free as the Bank Holiday disrupts my usual time off but I'd rather spend it playing guitar with mates than going to Guildford to give Andertons more of my money.
Purge from the last few weeks
3 Strymon pedals
/13 Amp
Japan Jazzmaster
Money in the bank
What do I 'need' now?
Morgan AC20 amp.
OK.....I'm sooooo slack....and sorry to the diligent folk of this parish that submitted stems back when vbrakes were new.
It's here.....STWv2 (or is it now v3?)
I'm open to doing another one at some point. Chord sequence suggestions welcome. Real bass players, drummers and keyboardists (and anything else) also very welcome.
Solos in this order/timing
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GuitarHero 1:22
forgotten username (Bryan) 1:48
Benman 2:20
I'm forgotten username! Thanks for doing this, seems a while ago and hopefully I've improved since then.
Great hearing the other versions. I really struggled to figure out what to play.
Nice one @beej Ads=AdamT, so it's nothing personal, I forgot my own username! 🤣
Excellent, I like that, well done chaps 🙂
Appreciate the efforts Adam. The syncing on my solo is out. Should sound like this. Was quite happy with so thought I'd post
https://soundcloud.com/barry-dodds/stw-guitarhero-track?si=9c4b199984084f03a4c314bc95aba490&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Awesome noodling, folks!
No worries @AdamT, the stem should have aligned with a 4 count prior to start. Apologies if I made it difficult.
I think mine is slightly out of time too. Its that long ago, that I can't remember if I aligned to the 4 beats at the start of not...
Once I can grab the laptop back from the missis I'll maybe have another go.
I've been fancying swapping out the pickups in my main (only) guitar for a while. It's an Ibanez with some of their own brand active LoZ humbuckers. I don't not like them, but just fancy a change. I always liked the idea of coil splitting, as I don't have room for tons of different guitars and would like the flexibility, but split humbuckers almost always sound weak and crap. HOWEVER, I've been eyeing up some Fishman Fluence Classic pickups, which look very promising, which do have a true single coil voicing option.
Has anyone used/fitted the Fluence style pickups before? Any thoughts or insights?
Not sure if this has been posted but this was an enjoyable nearly two hour viewing
I watched that - thought it was pretty funny that he bought a Valvestate and one of those WEMs and ran them both as a rig that made it onto the first album, nowadays players probably wouldn't admit to liking either of those amps . His story about Johnny Roadhouse music is true, it was a proper madhouse back then and hasn't changed much since, its a lot more organised now.
The show the Liam was super. Him playing took me straight back to listening to it all the first time 😀
Back in january I mentionned being recruited by a band following the departure of their singer for singing out of tune. Lots of ideas and exchanges of audio files and five months later we have a set of 10 songs. I've written the lyrics to the eight I sing on and provided the singing melodie. The structures and music are mainly the guitarist and drummer with the rest of us chipping in.
About 20 rehersal/creation sessions and it just about hangs together. We played a local mini festival with five other bands - we were the first on which was great because everyone was sober, we got to dance the night away after and got to play unlike the last band who declined at 05:30 after a visit from the Gendarmes about noise.
Enjoy the flute player starting the wrong song, the singer working so hard to remember his own lyrics there's no brain capacity left to do anything else. We had a great time, the other songs went a lot better but I like this one flaws and all:
In tune despite the -20db ear plugs, I think... .
Off to see Bonamassa next week. Open air gig in the fairytale castle bit of Carcassonne. Should be a good gig by all accounts. I've never really warmed to him, but I'm looking forward to a general guitar geek out and hopefully being impressed by his playing - which I can't fault, but it's always sounded a bit Eric Johnson-y... (And wow, that was a dull gig! EJ at the Marquee... Should have been great, but sounded like he'd put a record on and turned it up a bit.)
I’ve never really warmed to him,
I'm the same. I tend to listen to his albums when they come out and not be interested enough to continue listening more than the once. I'd probably go and see him locally if it wasn't too expensive but wouldn't bother travelling further than I could walk, which means that I wouldn't pay more than about £20 which means I will never see him. 😀
I think I became aware of him early on because of A New Day Yesterday, a cover of the Tull song on his first album. Indeed, he named the album after it, so it had better be good. I love Tull, I should say, especially their early stuff. The JB version misses every bit of character, texture and individuality that was present in Tull's version, turning it into a pub-rock cover, albeit a technically very good one. Which sort of sums him up for me.
edit : I've just listened to it again and am now listening to the JT version., trying to hear it with fresh ears. I could perhaps argue that there's too much going on the JT version, guitars, mouth organ, flute, etc, and JB simplifies it. The JT version is still miles better though. 😀
Chipps,
I love you like a brother but Eric dull, hang your head in shame
I saw Bonamassa in around 2017 and though I dont really listen to his music it was great and the best guitar tone i've heard in a big venue
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