i bought one good priced black japanese tele from my friend. it's custom and has rosewood fret board. plays really nice. wonderful except for bridge pick up which sounds horrible. not so horrible with my marshall artist 3203 distortion but yeah still it can be improved in a big way. it's never edgy enough and when i use both at the same time it sounds like it cancels each other out.
i've never owned a tele before but i always wanted them. i've just sold all my guitars i had for heavier rock stuff and i can concentrating on aquiring this my own tone i've been wanting. it's still like illiusion, or nothing solid but i'm having much fun just trying things out.
you can create all kinds of tone but having clean(or crunch to be accurate) tone handled is my current biggest challenge. it's everything you really have to pay attention to. from jack, guitars, amps, cabs, to effects... many options and many different ways of expressing.
i wish everyone really thought about tone at least a little more when they play.
recent jeff buckley birthday gig really made me say that...
way too many people just plays music... or just does it for fun "only" and i hope you find a little more depth in what you enjoy...
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Telecaster and tone.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
AGLOCO
we should try this out.
just to see if it really works.
go sign up (free) at
http://www.agloco.com
and for referral member ID make sure you copy and paste
BBBB2172
or just click here to sign up now!!!
http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBB2172 (put your ID) is how you build your own referral link
way it works is like....
if you refer more people, you get more and more money/month for surfing internet using their view bar thing.. only for windows.. i think... though..
if people you refer more people you get a lot more money..
| i refer | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| if those people refer | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| avg. hrs/mo of surfing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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they pay by hours....
so if they search 2 hours average then earning doubles.
pretty cool
sign up here
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
one liners from gearslutz.com
These are all one liners i've rescued from Gearslutz.com...
all things actually happen while recording session seems like...wow....
some people really are stupid.
"i have got to have more SMPTE in my headphones"
"Do you have 1/2" ProTools?"
"Gimme more ADVERB on vocals!!!"
"It's sounding good but can you harmonize the snare, please?"
"the bad thing is that here in switzerland is no high class porn producer, only this amateur with ugly chicks thing" yeah high class what?
wanted ad: "For sale: Acoustic guitar, recently tuned."
"I'm better than I sound."
" i know what im doing, i used to work at TWEETER"
a guitar player asks "Am i good enough to wear cowboy boots?"
"Once a drummer tried to tell me how intense 13/6 time was" yeah i can't even imagine....
rapper dude looks at pop filter and.. "Wow, this MIC gotta be expensive"
almost too clever....
"Can you hook up the vocal backwards through the de-esser to put some "sss" back into the vocal?"
classic?
"Yo, we're makin you rich today homie"
and just tons and tons of funny shit like ...
"ROCKER: It sounds like the toms are exploding!
ENGINEER: Actually, that's just your drummer hitting our mics constantly."
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I just remembered another one by a bassist I like to call "The Butcher" Think Mel Gibson in 'Conspiracy Theory' on steroids.
The Butcher: D F+ G+, B, F, C, E, F, D+ (+ are sharps)
Me: What key are you in???
The Butcher: I'm a bassist, we don't use keys.
Me: My bad...
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Jeff Buckley BB4 Documentary
| found a very cool documentary on Jeff Buckley since his 40th birthday event in Hollywood the other night i have been researching again about him and yeah just still and probably forever a great inspiration. | |
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Hammered Dulcimer and Autoharp
i just bought kick ass dulcimer and autoharp samples just for $11.xx from soundbrewer.com.
it's generally 8.99 a piece so total is supposed to be 17.80
you get $5 coupon for downloading his FREE samples....
and when i get to the cart i just noticed that he was offering 1.xx discount if you buy 2 products... and happenes to be they were the ones that i wanted... so yeah nice deal. for 2 instruments, 3-4 presets each, and total is about 250 MB.
and it's actually sounding really good...
other than that, there were a couple of more interesting instrument such as toy instrument, bamboo xylophone, etc so go check his web site. you will find something a little bit different.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Plug-In Midi Controller
I have just found an interesting controller by Mawzer.
Mawzer is the only MIDI controller on the market that allows infinite customizable combination of controls.
While Lemur allows you to digitally recall modules(that's what i think), Mawzer is taking more analog approach. Just like with those modular synthesizers, they have made bunch of modules such as faders, knobs, buttons and by plugging them into special case(16/32) that they've made, you can virtually create any kind of controller to control your audio/visual applications.
they both are MIDI controllers.. and seems so great but an ultimate question, which is better, is still left unknown to me and to most of you reading this post.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Forums - part 2 Gearslutz
i thought i would post an extended blogs on one of the forums that i posted earlier. This gearslutz.com is one of the best and interesting forums there for recording
total members: 20,918
Total Posts: 799,199
as you can see in these two figures, rediculous number of people who are into Recording are interacting with each other everyday.
It is easy for us to find consumer level/pro level relatively new gear but what about for vintage gear? All could be in gearslutz.com alone.
if you were curious where you could find those relatively new gear even... you might want to check out these web sites.
these should be enough to go with. audiomidi offer educational discounts also so if you are student, take advantage of them. or go to Academic Super Store for even more selections.
anyway, let's just wipe all that sucks.
Monday, August 14, 2006
Forums - arts, music, production, recording, etc etc.
i am compling a list of interesting forums that i sometimes visit. i particiapate in many activities and they are there to enhance my overall experience. Likewise, if you know any forum that are good/better, or forums wish you existed please let me know as i am trying to launch a community board myself.
Music/Audio Production, Recording, Gear
Arts - they are not the best forums that i know of. i will post what's in my mind right now.
Visuals
forum categories in search
- Sound Design/Foley forums - where people post and share their unusual recording habits
- Photography, Lighting forums - whatever about lights and perception.
- other VJ/Visual Effects forums - more stuff on synching Audio/Visual
as these will be all part of what i'm trying to lauch. please help me out and we'll create something that was never there. thanks in advance.
Lemur - touch screen programmable controller
Lemur
Lemur in Action
i wonder how good this actually is..
i've been hearing about this for like a year already and i found on Cycling '74 web site that you can actually buy it.
supposed to be a programmable controller for digital modular systems like Reaktor, Max/MSP, Pure Data, etc. i mean you can actually make your own interface since it's touch screen...just purely amazing.
there is another weird controller called tenorion but i guess that's still work in progress.
p.s. i'm not a fan of digital music...
Friday, May 19, 2006
KRK V8
They are nice monitors and somehow everyone hates it. it's really good for ambient or some natural sounding stuff. it's not really for rock that's my perspective on it. i think i'm going to be switching this to Event PS 8. | |
This is so far the best near fields in my opinion. i haven't tried more expensive version of Dynaudio so i can't really say but just because bm5 lacks in bass and i can't quite get on it i'm gonna go with Event PS 8. just dynamically any of them are not enough ...and i'll probably seek better monitor forever but just for now it's good enough... if it's the best, why should i look for something else? | |
bm5a..small but not much bass so sub-woofer is necessity. |
