June 8, 20241 yr Author https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/guitar/guitar-rig-7-player/
June 8, 20241 yr 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!
June 9, 20241 yr 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? Edited June 9, 20241 yr by portals
June 9, 20241 yr 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...? [ATTACH=full]58085[/ATTACH] 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 Edited June 9, 20241 yr by guerney
June 9, 20241 yr 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: [ATTACH type=full" alt="58086]58086[/ATTACH] 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...
June 9, 20241 yr Was never really in to 'Happy Hardcore'... All you need is a sampler with decent filters, a pitch-bend wheel and some MDMA
June 10, 20241 yr 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 [mention=11305]soundwave[/mention] 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". Edited June 10, 20241 yr by guerney
June 10, 20241 yr 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.
June 10, 20241 yr 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!
June 10, 20241 yr 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. Edited June 10, 20241 yr by portals
June 10, 20241 yr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dw1lNdIMk8 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.
June 10, 20241 yr 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!
June 10, 20241 yr Cool story! If you have any type of footage at all it's easy to get on PC these days ;-)
October 13, 20241 yr Afraid the cynic in me has seen a few of these "green" schemes and is now deeply skeptical about them. My ex used to work for one of them and even she was very open about saying their main reason for existing was to make money for themselves - they had no interest in "improving and protecting the local environment" despite what their advertising said. My local council tip is as bad, they often have a skip full of pushbikes including some quality bikes and some that you could ride home if you put air in the tyres (some don't even need that). They refuse to sell any claiming they go for recycling - this translates as a local bike-fix charity cherry picks what they want and the rest are melted down I think you may be right... Took my ebike with the newly fixed rear hub (new bearings and cassette), to local bike guy to get him to put on rear hub/torque arm and do quick final mechanics checkover. We got talking for 20mins and he mentioned that he was getting lot of work from botched jobs from a company in Creswell Lane... He knows them as: https://cycle-cycles.uk/ The OP linked to this site: https://www.ebikefreedom.co.uk/about-us Look at the websites, notice any similarities? Such as same photos peppered about, same top level links, font, similar AI crap logo etc., both horrible shitty squarespace websites. Checking the domains and it's obviously same dude who's registered them. Interesting? He's going for the 'charity/green' angle but also lining up his ducks few days later (registered 3 days later), to sell for a profit? Bike shop guy was damning, he said he's had to work on 'many' dangerous ebikes (and bikes!) that came from that shop, he was starting to get a little worked up so I didn't ask too many more questions ;-) It's owned by a family apparently, allegedly none of who appear to be qualified bike mechanics or have history in the business. I will ask for more details when I pick the bike up this week but he did mention for example they like to drill the frames seatstays whenever they liked to add stuff like battery racks or pannier racks and most of the gearing not setup (even L/H screw), cheap badly fitted brakes, loose and wobbly headsets... We're going for a look this week (schools are off!), and will check out what his wiring looks like and what type of batteries and chargers they're punting etc. Edited October 13, 20241 yr by portals
October 13, 20241 yr He knows them as: https://cycle-cycles.uk/ The OP linked to this site: https://www.ebikefreedom.co.uk/about-us Look at the websites, notice any similarities? Such as same photos peppered about, same top level links, font, similar AI crap logo etc., both horrible shitty squarespace websites. Checking the domains and it's obviously same dude who's registered them. Chun-wah Tsang https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC703302/persons-with-significant-control https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC727655/persons-with-significant-control His conversions don't look legal at all. Edited October 13, 20241 yr by Az.
October 14, 20241 yr Thanks, he said it was owned by a Chinese family and yes some of the conversions look a bit dodgy, both sites also have this peppered about too: Notes: Motors over 250 watt are strictly for off road use only or on private land Loose rear dropouts was another thing bike guy said he'd seen from them and it was only matter of time before one someone got badly hurt or killed...
October 14, 20241 yr Notes: Motors over 250 watt are strictly for off road use only or on private land That is a misinformation.
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