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[guerney]

I've fixed the link, had set permissions wrong...doh

I'm currently on LA-102 (the number is not related to the year but to the mix version, yes I have done a lot....), too late now to bother to master it and post latest version.

The version I've linked below is similar but I've put too much compression on the stereo O/P bus when mastering so it's a little 'poppy' and too tight for me. As soon as I can get my son to do the vocals I can put it all to bed and move on

LA-93.wav

drive.google.com

Thanks for the link, I particularly enjoyed the guitar near the end. If that's you playing, your guitar should be the main event.

I can't believe this useful multiband compressor is free:

https://plugins4free.com/plugin/2545/

The Line 6 AmpliTT lookslike a lot of fun, cool that you don't need a laptop to setup all the effects, sounds great in the YT video, there is so much choice these days!

It sounds good because he's recorded it with a SM-58 after it's been played through a large speaker, I think. Needs that, like all the digital modellers do.

What keyboard(s) do you have?

Anyone can learn to produce and master. I concentrate on composition rather than production (I pay for mastering to be done properly - everyone thinks they get it right, I'm frequently as wrong as nearly everyone else), and at the moment - very sturdy:

https://m-audio.com/products/view/axiom-61

...and:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/KORG-nanoKEY2-MIDI-Keyboard-Black/dp/B004M8UZG0

Loads of VSTs, most are free, but my favourite is the Korg MS-20 (to which the Axiom can be mapped). There's an entire universe available when you daisy chain 10 of them together.

Any other closet @resholes failed musicians here...? (Apologies to the OP for the hi-jacking...)

I can't be a failed musician, because I'm not actually a musician. Never trained in music, only noodled a guitar every so often, with the same four chords and one scale (G). However, computers have democratised music, so much so there's more music created now than at any time in history. My sole aim when I started in 2007, was to create an irresistible earworm - a one hit wonder after which I would disappear into the obscurity I currently occupy. My quest continues. So does my obscurity.

 

[Cisco-man]

I used a Line 6 Pod XT Live, which is brilliant both for practice and live playing. At home, you can use your hifi as an amplifier. You get the full sound at low volume. On stage, you take the output direct to the PA. You can make any guitar sound you want with it. There are online resources too, so you can download sounds that other people made of your favourite guitarists. You can also customise the expression pedal to do all sorts of things. I had mine set as a gain control so that I could go from clean to full overdrive and anything in between. Once I had my sounds set, I only used about 4 different ones for actual playing.

I’ve used Line 6 since the ‘90’s with a Flextone original and a Flextone II amp wired in tandem, plus a Pod for home studio. I found the floorboard essential though. I always felt it a shame that Line 6 never really caught on with the big names - other than the doobies. I’m a big telecaster fan (since the 60s) as you can see!

 

[saneagle]

I forgot to mention this one that I still have. It can make any sound really well. You can store the presets along with the amp and effects modelling in the POD 6 Live and select them with your feet, so you can change guitars, sounds and tuning during a song at the touch of a button. I tried it through various amps, but you get the best sounds through either a hifi amp or the PA.

 

[saneagle]

I’m a big telecaster fan (since the 60s) as you can see!

Telecaster bass!!!! You have a very bad case. It might be terminal.

 

[Cisco-man]

After trying my friend’s, I always fancied a variax. The one I bought from ebay had a faulty sensor that turned into a nightmare - so it never got beyond that. Dropping to DADGAD at the touch of a button or getting banjo was pretty neat though. My only frustration with Line 6 generally is that you have too much choice, and I spent more time messing with the modelling parameters - trying for that perfect sound, than actually playing! I now use a simple set of pedals and the amps set to pass-through.

I “made” the bass from an american tele body I had laying around. I took a standard prescision neck, machined off the fretboard, and added a fretless rosewood board. I’ve always loved fretless and doing this completed my set!

 

[lenny]

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/guitar/guitar-rig-7-player/

 

[portals]

Telecaster bass!!!! You have a very bad case. It might be terminal.

I was about to say....AND it's fretless...!!! Bet that sounds sweet...great job!

 

[portals]

Thanks for the link, I particularly enjoyed the guitar near the end. If that's you playing, your guitar should be the main event.

Well for sure that's me playing the chibson through Amplitude. I can post the 'solo' track
but it's better hidden in mix. ;-)

Like I said this is a backdrop to some video game footage editing with my son ;-) Nothing more.

It sounds good because he's recorded it with a SM-58 after it's been played through a large speaker, I think. Needs that, like all the digital modellers do.

You can record a jet plane taking off with a SM-58. I've mic'ed up drum kits in past using two SM-58s (when PA guy didn't have SM-57s), one 3mm off the bass drum skin (with a sleeping bag in it), the other between the snare and hi-hat. Pretty much always worked out!

Anyone can learn to produce and master. I concentrate on composition rather than production (I pay for mastering to be done properly - everyone thinks they get it right, I'm frequently as wrong as nearly everyone else), and at the moment - very sturdy:

If you don't master it yourself then I think you are not doing it properly. ;-)

https://m-audio.com/products/view/axiom-61

...and:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/KORG-nanoKEY2-MIDI-Keyboard-Black/dp/B004M8UZG0

Ah...keyboards and new fangled keyboards...where will it end?

It already has.

Tell me you didn't have one of these an play Mel and Kim on it...?


Maybe we need a MIDI guitars, that was always a good look?

 

[guerney]

If you don't master it yourself then I think you are not doing it properly. ;-)

It's got to sound good on rubbish small speakers, and wonderful on good gear.

Well for sure that's me playing the chibson through Amplitude. I can post the 'solo' track
but it's better hidden in mix. ;-)

Like I said this is a backdrop to some video game footage editing with my son ;-) Nothing more.



You can record a jet plane taking off with a SM-58. I've mic'ed up drum kits in past using two SM-58s (when PA guy didn't have SM-57s), one 3mm off the bass drum skin (with a sleeping bag in it), the other between the snare and hi-hat. Pretty much always worked out!



If you don't master it yourself then I think you are not doing it properly. ;-)




Ah...keyboards and new fangled keyboards...where will it end?

It already has.

Tell me you didn't have one of these an play Mel and Kim on it...?
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Maybe we need a MIDI guitars, that was always a good look?

You can hear some of my old auditory shite on the godawful brain deadening dull videos I keep posting here via Vimeo. I don't upload new sounds online anymore, not since I got ripped off a few years ago. I don't post Youtube links because I'm trying to work out how it works. Despite not posting any new noises for years on Youtube, I'm shocked my channel gets this many views per month, but I need at least 100K views every month before Youtube will even consider paying me a penny. My original aim was for a one hit wonder, but it's now total world domination muwahahahaha. And that's going just as badly as my last plan, if not worse. My quest continues, but quite honestly I don't care and don't make any effort, rather like how I ride my BBS01B conversion.

May 2024:

Maybe we need a MIDI guitars, that was always a good look?

I like to try an Infinite Guitar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Guitar

 

[portals]

It's got to sound good on rubbish small speakers, and wonderful on good gear.

Totally agree and that comes with practice and how you do the mix. I spend a lot of time with the my AT M50s on as they are flat response studio cans and you can hear things in the stereo image that you've never heard on you monitors, even listening to records from 30yrs ago you pick up things in the mix you've haven't heard before.

I've also been using the same NAD amp and monitors for over 20yrs so I know how they sound. In old days mixes were stressful because you were constantly adjusting sliders and buttons...with Cubase 13 it's all automated, just press the button and wait the export to complete.

I test first on my own hi-fi seperates then on phone then in car, I get enough confidence from that as to whether the mix is 'good' or not and it will play nicely on most audio devices.

You can hear some of my old auditory shite on the godawful brain deadening dull videos I keep posting here via Vimeo. I don't upload new sounds online anymore, not since I got ripped off a few years ago. I don't post Youtube links because I'm trying to work out how it works. Despite not posting any new noises for years on Youtube, I'm shocked my channel gets this many views per month, but I need at least 100K views every month before Youtube will even consider paying me a penny. My original aim was for a one hit wonder, but it's now total world domination muwahahahaha. And that's going just as badly as my last plan, if not worse. My quest continues, but quite honestly I don't care and don't make any effort, rather like how I ride my BBS01B conversion.

May 2024:

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Can't recall any of your links with music?

Lol, I only have one YT video with any decent hits, a slot car video with my son from yrs ago with 36k views, if you can make even a penny then well done...!

I'm not on Vimeo.

I like to try an Infinite Guitar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Guitar

Pretty cool, watched YT video of guy saying how U2 used it for the long guitar notes on With or Without You, and there me using multiple compressors to get a long sustain...

 

[jimriley]

Very interesting, what gizmo do you owd uns use for donks?

 

[portals]

Was never really in to 'Happy Hardcore'...

All you need is a sampler with decent filters, a pitch-bend wheel and some MDMA

 

[guerney]

Can't recall any of your links with music?

I agree, I wouldn't describe the grubby din as music either. Your brain sensibly edited out the traumatic experience. Good, working as intended.

Totally agree and that comes with practice and how you do the mix. I spend a lot of time with the my AT M50s on as they are flat response studio cans and you can hear things in the stereo image that you've never heard on you monitors, even listening to records from 30yrs ago you pick up things in the mix you've haven't heard before.

Sennheiser HD600 - before he died @soundwave used them too, might again when he returns like Jesus did, with a chubby right leg. Every part used to be available to buy before Sennheiser sold their spare parts division to a German hearing aid conglomerate, in a fit of Covid panic. Or were they expecting mass deafness Covid side effect? We may never know.

Pretty cool, watched YT video of guy saying how U2 used it for the long guitar notes on With or Without You, and there me using multiple compressors to get a long sustain...

I'd love to be a fly on a wall in Lanois's studio, watching his engineers like a hawk. A hawkeyed fly with big ears.

I'm not on Vimeo.

Vimeo doesn't squeeze the begubbins out of video quality as much as Youtube. Although buggy at the conversion stage, it's a bit of a favourite for indie film makers for that reason - they use Youtube to get the hits (because nobody visits Vimeo for fun), then link to Vimeo to reassure potential open wallets of video quality.

Very interesting, what gizmo do you owd uns use for donks?

The Korg MS-20 makes epic donks with wild and almost uncontrollable low end "D".

 

[saneagle]

Very interesting, what gizmo do you owd uns use for donks?

The E and A strings. All you have to do is hold them in the right position at the right time and strike them to make much better sounds than that shite. If you do it right, it makes a tune.

 

[lenny]

I don't play any more due to arthritis.

 

[Cisco-man]

You’ll be sad if you sell your guitars Saneagle. My guitars are still beautiful works of art, and invoke so many “nearly made it big” memories - all those unpaid gigs, lugging tons of gear along to dingy clubs, and rubbing shoulders with those that did make it. I bet yours do the same for you.
I get together for closed-door sessions with a few local musicians who are now retired and struggling to play so well - I move onto harmonica and tambourine when my guitar fingers give up, and still have enough voice for backing vocals!

 

[portals]

Ooft I was waiting for the part where he shows the device that holds the finger on the fretboard pictured on the right in the still...never happened....CLICKBAIT....

Re strings he's talking nonsense that lighter gauge strings are hard to get...I've used Ernie Balls 8s for yrs available everywhere. They are definitely easier to play by a country mile, you have to learn to use lighter pressure for chords else you will start bending strings by mistake just by fretting the chord.

I redo all my electric guitar's action every winter and every summer, still amazes me how often I need to adjust the truss rod to get the killer low action I want. Low action with no buzzing takes some practice to get right as there are so many variables but the more you do it the better and faster you become. Biggest pain in the @rse is with my vintage strat and bass I have to remove the neck to access the truss rod, adjust it, bolt neck back on, test, remove neck and adjust, put neck back on and test etc etc. Much easier on the other guitars where truss rod is accessed from under a plate on the headstock. Once you've got the correct neck bow then you can check the nut height then adjust the string heights finally doing intonation. Again low action makes a big difference to how the guitar plays.

So light gauge strings and low action will help you significantly if you're starting to have issues with your hands.

 

[portals]

We want to see more links here to other's embarrassing 1990s band footage!!

Here's the vintage strat in action when it was still a baby in 1991. This gig was a bit of a shambIes and we were all a bit worse for wear (esp singer who decided to go a sit-down), to put it mildly, lots of shenanigans going on back stage.

I'm using only three pedals (in pic above), for gig, Jim Dunlop wah-wah -> RAK compressor -> Rocktek distortion -> some amp. Never used the same backline more than once, would plug in to whatever amp was available for reverb and possibly a touch of delay, even occasionally DI'd right in to the desk!

In this clip it's me (1min) that messes up (wasn't really in to setting up my guitar up in these days), at start of song as it's horribly out of tune (half was through set), I eventually notice and flip the pickup switch, problem mostly sorted as the intonation was so bad moving pickup put it back in almost tune!

We also got stitched up by the PA guy who was supposed to mix us, he was a dik and did pretty much nothing we asked him to do during the soundcheck, even left the desk at one point when we were on to go to the upstairs bar...

Recorded by a girl called E who had borrowed her parent's HUGE miniVHS tape old-skool camcorder, considering that the sound isn't that bad for 1991 camcorder (no other audio feed). Captured from a video tape that sat in a cupboard for 30+ yrs and still played on one the old video recorders I have that has sat in a cupboard for 20yrs.

 

[Cisco-man]

All my gigs are before it was easy to make a video. My defining moment was in a band called Rubber Duck in early 70’s, when Hendricks came along to the Revolution Club to hear us play!

 

[portals]

Cool story!

If you have any type of footage at all it's easy to get on PC these days ;-)