Instruments and whatnot

[failpuppy]

[plazma]

In music class one year, we had a main topic of jazz, and played in class groups and such. there were two drummers, i got stuck with a slow blues song and (famous) piece called my favorite things (3/4 jazz). Which if you ask me has possibly the hardest base rhythm structure of any beat I've played. The other guy got two nice easy pieces, which he seemed hellbent of screwing time over.

Possibly the funniest end of year recital I've ever been to.

Funnily enough that reminds me that ages ago i wrote some music.
This is the 3rd out of 4.

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[cdkane]

[failpuppy]

^ Unfortunately I'm not in Melbourne I was just saying that if you did have a gig in Brisbane I would come and see.
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[scaryfried]

Only just noticed this thread... anyone interested in a Behringer TO800? It's a suprisingly good pedal, just not interested in that side of dirt pedals though anymore

[Sin Ogaris]

cdkane, your band is awesome, when's your next gig?

Bit of an update on my gear, my current set up is:

Ibanez SR400 4 string electric
Monterey (I know) MB-05EN acoustic
Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive Pedal
Crybaby 105Q Bass wah pedal (so much better design than guitar wah)
Boss RC-20XL Loop Station

and I'm soon to be adding a Yamaha XBR375 five string electric to the mix.

As for what I'm running all this through I've got a single 18" JBL subwoofer coupled with two 12" EV all rounders getting power from a QSC Audio PLX2402 Power amp (runs 1200 into 2 channels at 2 Ohm I believe, though it's at 4 Ohms for me so 600 each channel, 1200 all up) and getting my tone from a Trace Elliot GP12SMX preamp.

What I still need to get is a decent tuner, either rack mount or pedal, a chorus pedal, a better acoustic, and a six string (this will be a long way down the track though, will probably go for a Warwick when the time comes).

So yeah, Bass is awesome.

I also want to get back into learning Saxophone as that instrument is awesome fun, and I want to start learning the Cello (which is all because of Apocalyptica).

[cdkane]

[scaryfried]

As for a floor tuner I'd say a Korg Pitchblack. Much cheaper than the Boss one, and very accurate. True bypass as well.

[Sin Ogaris]

Yeah i see people kicking aroud with them all the time, might as well snap one up, will sure beat the stupid korg handheld thing I've got now (one of those twenty buck tuners most people get for free with a new guitar and stuff).

As for the setup, my cabs are custom made, as my dad had some leftover PA gear after he sold off most of it so for my birthday a couple years back he fashioned a few of the speakers into bass cabinets and gave me the QSC amp to power it. I sourced the Trace Elliot off Ebay in Canada, only set me back 300 for it. I like the uniqueness of it.

[Kikujir0]

Never seen this thread around, then realised it got necrod around november 2009 last year from the last post in 2009 january haha.

Cool band btw, I'm not into screamo, but I love the instrumentals you guys produce, pretty awesome.

I myself have been playing piano since I was 5 (am 18 now) and the Organ (yeah the big churchy/cathedral ones) since I was 12, and guitar as a side thing for fun since I started highschool (also 12). I'm pretty proficient in the theory too, grade 6 Muscicianship AMEB thingo, but cbf to go further cos I don't really need it.

Modesty aside, yeah I'm pretty good, nowadays I just use my talents for my own personal entertainment and others when they ask for it if theres a piano around and I do weddings probably every two weeks playing the organ, and get about 200-400 per wedding, not bad really, for songs you think are totally easy/have played many times.

I'd really like to take up a string instrument, or violin, I probably won't get there but I always wanted to play in an orchestra. Organ and piano are used in orchestras but they are often used as solo instruments, and you really have to be the cream of the crop to play them, and I ain't, I played it as an aside not as a career haha.
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[scaryfried]

[Mathonyst]

Just found this thread, and its great to see there is a musical number of us here on PALGN.
I myself play trumpet, (Brass all the way) I've been playing for about 5 years, almost six now..
I'm sadly watching in all our school bands, (because i've been captured and sold into them all) every year there are less and less people who can actually play instruments well come and join... which is quite disappointing..
but yeah, i'd love to learn all drums, guitar, piano and everything else. but above all, i really wanna learn the Double bass, just because is that awesome.
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[Buttmouth]

Here we go:



This is my guitar, Fender 'J Mascis' Jazzmaster. Her name is Denny Crane.

It currently needs two mods:

1. a 'Buzzstop', which gives it more sustain and stops the strings popping off when you strum too hard - which happens to me all the freaking time on stage.
Apparently it stops buzzing as well, go figure.

2. It also needs a set of 'string savers' which fit into the bridge saddle and are cut nicely out of graphite instead of shonkily out of some strange metal that makes strings fail.

It also needs new strings and a set-up, I've been jamming pretty hard on it lately, and its losing its charm, but other than that it is perfect. Smooth neck, jumbo frets, pickups that can hear you breathing, crazy good tone.



This is my current pedal board. It is cut out of a shelf from my mother's entertainment unit it fits perfectly in the lid of a roadcase.

From input to output:
Generic non-branded Tuner
Behringer Ultra-Feedback Distortion (set up like an overdrive)
Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi [Fuzz]

The red Power Supply pedal is unused at the moment, but I can use it to steal certain pedals from the other guitarist in my band. It's quite sneaky. I also steal power from his pedalboard using a Daisy-Chain. No batteries ftw.

and then there's the channel switcher for my amplifier in the top-right, which I only use to turn on a flanger effect in one song. The important pedal here is really the Big Muff. It sings when you play lead and crumbles when you play chords. It's loud. It's noisy. It's all I really need, I just like the others for texture.



Just had to include a picture of the back-side of the Big Muff It has its own power supply. The cheeky minx!

and finally, here's a recording of my band

huzzah!

I want to see more pictures of everyone's stuff!
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[scaryfried]

Ahhhh I want your setup! I've really been looking for a Jazzmaster for a while. Also, I REALLY like your band! Are you a fan of True Widow?

What amp do you use?

[Buttmouth]

at the moment I'm using a Behringer V-Ampire LX210. It's a modeller but some of the settings sound surprisingly good. I just turn it up as loud as it'll go on the 'tube' setting, which I think is supposed to mimic an AC-30 (it doesn't do it very well) - and I try my best to compete with our drummer.

Eventually I'll upgrade to a Fender Twin Reverb, which is what I played the Jazzmaster on in the store I bought it from. It is basically the yummiest tone I've heard, ever. Pretty much transparent, so it lets the tone of the guitar shine, and then some really nice reverb to top it off!



I've not heard of True Widow. Googling it now

EDIT: Yeah this stuff sounds pretty great actually, cheers!
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[jemist]

I've been playing music of all forms for quite awhile. Spent most of the 90s in bands of all sorts (metal, hardcore, funk, jazz), released a few CDs, got some radio action, but that's all well and truly in the past now Played alongside a lot of folk during that time... Butterfingers, Machine Gun Fellatio, Cog, god I can barely remember the rest! Generally on bass or vocalist duties.

Spent sometime moonlighting as an MC (which I still half profess I am), through the course of which I've played with folk like Jungle Brothers, The Procussions, and a whole bunch more. I've even MC'd a few raves and whatnot, with folk like (shocking, I know, but I'm sharing this for diversity's sake) Amber Savage, Nik Fish, 4String...

Most of this decade I've been a DJ, in which case I've played with folk like Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, The Nextmen, DJ Krush, Dexter, Z-Trip. I'm pretty solid on the turntables, own 1200s at home but really love playing on Vestax PDXs for flexibility (mainly due to wider pitch range). I do make my living from DJing, which is something I probably would have laughed at a decade ago.

Been hitting the studio for remix action over the last little while, trying to create some nice chin-stroking remixes (deep house, reggae mashups, re-edits, and so on) as an extension of the DJing thing. Will be putting out plenty of mixes/ mixtapes this year too, as I've managed to avoid doing so thus far, but realise that it's a necessity.

During that time period, and continuing to this day, I've put on a lot of shows, with a huge variety of folk like Dandy Warhols, Urge Overkill, Cog (I was an early believer!), Nick Warren, Regurgitator, Claude VonStroke, The Waifs, The Mark Of Cain...god, I can literally list hundreds of acts here but I'll spare you the details.

Still play plenty of guitar too, with a preference for the beautiful tone of nylon string classical guitars; most days I thrash it out on a nice little Fender 3/4 size as it's easy to sit on the couch with, but my main piece of beauty is Jose Ramirez S1, which just sounds like [i]heaven[i].

I also do the management thing, and I take care of a hip hop act (D'Opus & Roshambo, 'Million Dollar Bill') which has had fairy nice success on Triple J, now in the midst of preparing a release of a new album and organising some tours, of which I may well join as a tour DJ for the fun of it.

...and that's me and music. For the most part.

Dig this thread. Would love to hear more people's stuff (be it band or studio oriented). Theory, maybe we could collab on some mad videogame nerd type ish, but keep it real on the boom-bap tip, haha.

[scaryfried]

what hardcore band's were you in? i'm quite big on 90's hardcore in australia.

[subbastard]

Someone wanted to see setup pics, so here's a wee one.



The keyboard on the top is an M-Audio Axiom 25. It's basically a midi controller that I use with the FM8 plugin VST or Reason 4. I Use a set of KRK rockit 5 for monitoring with an M-Audio 24/96 for recording.

In the rack is:
Lexicon MPX 100 effects unit - bit of a tone sucker, but I only really use the reverb, delay and compression.
Engl E530 tube pre-amp - this had lots of balls and 4 channels.
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ART SLA1 power amp - well this makes it loud.

The Cab is a custom made jobby from these guys
http://www.avatarspeakers.com/
They have loads of different combo's you can put together. I got mine with Eminence Wizards. Did have to ship it from the states though - ouch.

and here's a pic of the abalone inlay in one of the fiddle's.


Keep em coming if you have some gear porn.
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[Appel]

Argh!

I was bidding on a TD-12 Roland Drumkit and the guy pulled the auction.

So annoyed!

But yeah, I play guitar and drums (little bit of bass, learning piano) but drums is really my forte.

Too bad I can't practice as I live in an apartment now.... damn you eBay auction! You were my only hope...
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[subbastard]

I would love one of these too. Plug in to Addictive Drums or DKFH superior 2 and you have instantly 100's of drum tones. Damn ebay.
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[Sin Ogaris]

Pics of that fiddle... MEOW!

[subbastard]

ask and ye shall receive.







This is it's brother:

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[Sin Ogaris]

Wowzers, that thing looks schmick as.

[Appel]