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[Pot Odds RAC]

I've been playing nothing but my Slimtone for the past several months. On Sunday we rounded up the boys for a little rehearsal prior to a party we are playing soon. We were rusty. But I brought the Slimtone to see how she held up. She sounded pretty good. But then I pulled out the AV52RI Tele and was reminded how awesome of a guitar that is. Everything was perfect. Tone. Feel. I'd sort of forgotten how much I like that guitar.

[David_Sklansky]

I have been all over the place with electrics. My tele thing has died down, I lost interest in my Schecters (I actually dropped one off a stage and snapped the headstock off), and have been obsessed with P90s. Mostly I gig SSS strats (I was getting weird about stuff, so I got some Classic Series MIMs, which I ONLY play live), and other than that, I've been obsessed with P90s. One of my favorites has always been my P90 goldtop, and now I have a cheapo Modern Player Jag (I love it), a blue LP Jr. (probably selling it), and more recently a pine LP Jr. Special (for which I traded a strat and a Hagstrom Swede which also had P90s), which I think is going to become my "everything that isn't a Fender" guitar when recording. I play my old black LP STD, which is my all time favorite guitar and soaks up all my humbucker recording fancies, and my black HSS strat which I use now and then live, and those are the only humbuckers I've consistently taken out since my regrettably Schecter phase.

[David_Sklansky]

Oh, and my amp situation has gotten a lot less sexy. I basically play an AC15, an AC30 or a Super Sonic live, and don't know what I will be recording (I have mostly been using Guitar Rig for my side project that I record at home). I kind of want something weird and low wattage for cleans, but I don't know what.

[mk]

David_Sklansky, on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012, 10:11 AM, said:

Oh, and my amp situation has gotten a lot less sexy. I basically play an AC15, an AC30 or a Super Sonic live, and don't know what I will be recording (I have mostly been using Guitar Rig for my side project that I record at home). I kind of want something weird and low wattage for cleans, but I don't know what.

every matchless i've ever played got soaked in jizzi've heard the orange tiny terror is great for the price. i think their stuff generally sounds really good.or you could just say f it and track down a dumble

[David_Sklansky]

mk, on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012, 4:37 PM, said:

every matchless i've ever played got soaked in jizzi've heard the orange tiny terror is great for the price. i think their stuff generally sounds really good.or you could just say f it and track down a dumble

I adore Matchless. I have the Avalon, which is the "cheap" one that isn't all hand-wired. I think it sounds incredible, and it may actually end up recorded.My first SS, and my Orange Rockerverb 50, were both stolen late last summer. I still have my Tiny Terror (the 1-channel one), that I bought when it first came out. It got me back into playing, actually. I don't really like the cleans, but it actually works way too well for a lot of the stuff I do for it to have been neglected as it has. I have never recorded it, and I can't remember gigging it. I have never played a Dumble, and have not really been all the impressed with the demos I've heard, but I am a fan of eccentricity, which makes me obsessed with the idea of it.I kind of want a Tone King Imperial. I love that sparkly Princeton Reverb sound, and this feels like the same thing, but a little more...fluid? idk what I'm talking about. I don't need it, and it's expensive, but I like it.

[David_Sklansky]

Anybody try one of these yet?http://www.sweetwate...etail/Excelsior

[Pot Odds RAC]

David_Sklansky, on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012, 4:02 PM, said:

Anybody try one of these yet?http://www.sweetwate...etail/Excelsior

Now that looks like fun. Wish it had a reverb tank instead of tremolo. I think it is pretty funny that it has an accordion input. The Greta looks like fun too.

[AmScray]

Picked up a few vintage talkboxes from the 70's. EH Golden Throat Pre Dunlop HeilDean Markley "Voice Box". The guitar world is just so ****ing contaminated with bullshit narratives. It's so funny, how certain things come to be classified as 'the best' when they really aren't.

[David_Sklansky]

AmScray, on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012, 9:15 PM, said:

The guitar world is just so ****ing contaminated with bullshit narratives. It's so funny, how certain things come to be classified as 'the best' when they really aren't.

Most people I know irl don't know enough for it to be a problem, and care way more about music and looking cool, so you don't actually have to listen to them rant about ceramic pickups or something, because they don't know what that is. But I can't even go on TDPRI or anything anymore. Even people who can't play or even never tried a piece of gear just come by these opinions and feed into the hivemind, based on almost no actual info.

[David_Sklansky]

So Fender is releasing Squier CV Mustangs, Jazzmasters and Jags. I would say they just locked up $700 of my money, minimum.Edit: I know it's hip to talk shit about the confusing controls on the Jags and Jazzmasters, but to be honest, I find them very useful.

[AmScray]

David_Sklansky, on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012, 9:45 PM, said:

But I can't even go on TDPRI or anything anymore. Even people who can't play or even never tried a piece of gear just come by these opinions and feed into the hivemind, based on almost no actual info.

Guitar forums are completely intolerable. The worst I've ever seen is Acoustic Guitar Forum. I haven't been on there for a couple years, but it's basically a contest to see who can achieve the greatest disparity between actual musical talent and total number of dollars spent on an instrument (or collection of instruments), with the expected hierarchy of clerics and know-it-all's who invariably suck **** at logic about as bad as they do actual guitar playing. Sometimes, I think it's just the forum medium in general, though. They tend to be magnets for a certain type of talker/theorist type who isn't always big on actual "doing". In the guitar world, it leads to elaborate and highly specific narratives about instruments and gear and 'tone' coming from people who cannot play an actual guitar for shit, or if they can, certainly aren't as authoritative a musician as they are a gear-theorist. In the gun world, it's the same phenomenon, only about certain firearms and accessories being better or worse, all coming from Walter Mitties whose only practical experience with firearms is whatever they get at the target range once a month, plus the seven hours they spend discussing them online, every day. Forums are great for information, but just so fucking terrible for 'knowledge'.

[David_Sklansky]

I want to cheaply* make a Meatloaf-style rock epic concept album, about Jeff Francoeur's abortion of a baseball career. If I had the pipes, you wouldn't be hearing about it (because I wound't want you to know who I am). My lack of legit singing talent has always held me back from ****ing as many people as I would ideally choose, but this is the first time it's stood in my way as an artist (because I'm normally bottlenecked by all my other talent deficiencies before it becomes a factor). It's hard to find talented people to work with at all, let alone someone with an incredible voice who is full of venom toward Jeff Francoeur, doesn't care about entertaining people, and doesn't mind spending a week in the spare bedroom that I call my "home studio" because it's where I keep my desktop. I finally know what it's like to have artistic vision limited by my own human imperfection. This is a really bad night.*amp modeling, sample piano, Lounge Lizard, a couple pad synths, drum machine, sm58.

[Pot Odds RAC]

I don't know much about the guy. Seems like a bit of an obscure guy to target as the subject of this sort of project. He isn't exactly deaf, dumb, and blind. But anyone who can wear a jersey with his own name misspelled without noticing might have some promise for ridicule.

[David_Sklansky]

Pot Odds RAC, on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012, 10:31 AM, said:

I don't know much about the guy. Seems like a bit of an obscure guy to target as the subject of this sort of project. He isn't exactly deaf, dumb, and blind. But anyone who can wear a jersey with his own name misspelled without noticing might have some promise for ridicule.

He has been continuously starting in the majors since I was a child, and his career OPB is like .310. It's never been as high as .340. And he is not even a slugger; his slugging is like dead-on league average (and this year is under .330). He plays below replacement value. I don't cite dyslexia or his ferret-face **** wife, or his notorious bad attitude as reasons he should be a figure of pity or an avatar of failure, I cite his patience at the plate. I don't think you have to know or hate him to appreciate the beauty of this record. You don't have to be Jewish to love In the Aeroplane over the Sea, you don't have to be a scene kid to like Lifter Puller or Hold Steady. The moving thing about this powerful artistic statement is that it takes pain that only a few people in the world know -- people who grew up in the south, watch baseball, are full of spite, don't believe in "clutch" magic or "winners," and can do even middle school mathematics -- and it shares these powerful feelings with the world. I want some hippie slut in Portland to feel how I felt every time he was called "superman" because he hit an RBI, the next night after hitting into a double play to end a game, and while I'm sleeping with her I want her thinking about his incredible jawline and the success it alone earned him. I am thinking Michael Bolton's voice could be perfect for this project.

[Pot Odds RAC]

David_Sklansky, on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012, 11:15 AM, said:

He has been continuously starting in the majors since I was a child, and his career OPB is like .310. It's never been as high as .340. And he is not even a slugger; his slugging is like dead-on league average (and this year is under .330). He plays below replacement value. I don't cite dyslexia or his ferret-face **** wife, or his notorious bad attitude as reasons he should be a figure of pity or an avatar of failure, I cite his patience at the plate. I don't think you have to know or hate him to appreciate the beauty of this record. You don't have to be Jewish to love In the Aeroplane over the Sea, you don't have to be a scene kid to like Lifter Puller or Hold Steady. The moving thing about this powerful artistic statement is that it takes pain that only a few people in the world know -- people who grew up in the south, watch baseball, are full of spite, don't believe in "clutch" magic or "winners," and can do even middle school mathematics -- and it shares these powerful feelings with the world. I want some hippie slut in Portland to feel how I felt every time he was called "superman" because he hit an RBI, the next night after hitting into a double play to end a game, and while I'm sleeping with her I want her thinking about his incredible jawline and the success it alone earned him. I am thinking Michael Bolton's voice could be perfect for this project.

Hope this helps...Every since I was a young boy, Francoeur played bad baseball.From Atlanta down to Texas,He never takes a Ball.We’ve all seen nothings like him, Except that chiseled jaw.That dumb dumb and dumb kid,Sure plays some bad baseball!He stands like a statue,Then hits into a 6-4-3.Missing all the curveballsHis Jersey just stays clean.He plays less than average,The OBP numbers fall.That dumb dumb and dumb kidSure plays some bad baseball!He's a baseball nitwitSomeone break his wrist.This baseball nitwitHas got me so damn pissed!

[David_Sklansky]

Actually, I think this record will be in first person, from Jeff's POV.

[David_Sklansky]

Update: so I have been sitting here, trying to make my drums sound airier (think "Burning Down the House"), and they are just progressively sounding shittier and shittier. And then it dawned on me: I am ****ing terrible at this. So, back to over-compression and guitar riffs I guess.

[AmScray]

Have you looked into Indian Classical music at all?

[BigDMcGee]

You mean in general, or are you suggesting he make a rock opera to indian classical music? Or just like a tabla drum track?

[mk]

David_Sklansky, on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012, 8:11 PM, said:

Update: so I have been sitting here, trying to make my drums sound airier (think "Burning Down the House"), and they are just progressively sounding shittier and shittier. And then it dawned on me: I am ****ing terrible at this.

lots of heavily EQ'd (high passed) reverb. on the actual drum sounds, low mids (400Hz) for body instead of lows