You can use it to play Gentle Giant's I Lost My Head.
You can use it to play Gentle Giant's I Lost My Head.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Just sitting at home rocking back and forth and jealously caressing my invisible collection of theoretical assets.
Well... probably suitable for more metallic stuff, considering it's a 7 string model...Originally Posted by progmatist
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A question from the novice. I'm playing this semi-hollow body now and it's been a bitch trying to get it to roar. My Boss DS-1 didn't do much to it. I checked around and ended up getting an Electro-Harmonix Soul Food overdrive pedal. That finally got me some crunch. Then I got the idea that I could stack them, even though I don't know the first thing about stacking pedals. So I tried guitar > Soul Food > DS-1 > amplifier and that sounded quite filthy. So, did I do it right? Is there a right or wrong way to do this?
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I think you did it the way most would do it. But there is no right or wrong way, it's only down to whether you're getting a sound you like.
Seems like the main issue could be that the pickups in that guitar are kind of low output? Putting the overdrive before the DS-1 allows you to boost the signal level higher and then the DS-1 can "clip" the signal resulting in distortion. If you are having too much distortion (and the Dist knob on the DS-1 isn't already set super high) now you can try just turning up the Volume knob to a healthy level (which should help the DS-1 work optimally) and bring the Drive knob only up to the point where it doesn't get too crazy. Play around and you should find something that works.
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Or put a compressor pedal at the beginning of the chain to boost the level.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
For Christmas my beloved gave me a headphone amp and some basic Sennheizer headphones. It's amazing the amount of tones that come out of such a little thing. Considering that my one Fender amp is a leviathan, this is a game changer in terms of playing guitar in whatever room I want to be in.
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I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Not really new gear, but an update. I got the Analog Lab V as an update, which has sounds from the instruments that aren't included in my Arturia V Collection. Found a very good church organ which seems to be made with Pigments. I'm going to use it for a rerecording of my old composition Rotterdam.
https://rarebirdproductions.bandcamp...rack/rotterdam
Because I'm not feeling like composing, I've picked the old sheet-music of this composition and put it in Cubase.
Basses
Mayones BE4
Status S2
Fender Professional USA Jazz
Maruscszyk Elwood 4a fretless
Yamaha JM6
Amps
Genz-Benz Streamliner 900
Orange Terror 500
Cabs
Barefaced Big Twin 2
Barefaced Midget
Effects
Boss OC-2
MXR M288 Octave Deluxe
EHX Big Muff Pi overdrive
Source Audio Aftershock Bass Distortion
Source Audio C4 Synth
EHX Ravish Sitar
MXR M300 Reverb
Boss BF-3 Flanger
Also got a beat up old classical guitar and a PRS custom 22 for trying out ideas when writing music, and a LINE 6 Spider amp
Oh yeah... got a Microkorg keyboard that I really need to make some time for...
I have had an itch for a very deep snare drum for a long time.
I stumbled across an older Yamaha marching snare drum (birch) that was converted. It has “normal heads” (not the high tension heads that marching snare drums usually have) but still retains the synthetic gut snare wires. It is a wonderful sound. It is a perfect “Ballad Snare.”
I've had my acoustic Epiphone Hummingbird guitar for at least six years. It never came with a manual and because I didn't have an amp until last summer, I never plugged the guitar in or messed with the little pickup controls. I kinda thought it was broken because the last time I tried to play it through the amp I had no sound coming through the amp. Yesterday I checked the batteries and fiddled around a bit. Still nothing. Today I tried again and found I had the mute on and the pickup volume down too low. She's ringing loud and clear now. Now I just need to get the action lowered by someone who knows what they're doing.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
It could just need a simple truss rod adjustment. That would be about a $20 repair by a knowledgeable tech.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
If it's just a truss rod adjustment then maybe watch some YouTube videos on it and do it yourself. Be patient and make small adjustments.
Just sitting at home rocking back and forth and jealously caressing my invisible collection of theoretical assets.
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