WTF is wrong with me- I'm a pedal hoar. Effect hooker. Will put out for pedals.

Picked up a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe wah for $85 on my lunch break from a guitar store down the street. I already have an MSD Silver Machine. I rarely even use a wah.

Brief reviews: vintage MXR Phase 100 rules. Love the wave shapes. First phaser I've liked in a long time. Don't like the $200 pricetag. EHX whateverthefuck wah pedal is useless. Talking pedal my ass; boring normal wah voicing with a narrow sweep and awkward to use. Cables get caught easily. Can't velcro it down, easy to turn off, doesn't do anything interesting. Didn't bother with the built-in fuzz. MIJ Boss CE-2 turned out to be broken.

custom pedal bored will be picked up this weekend. Phantom Pedalboards is doing it, just got a brand new Voodoo labs Pedal Power 2 plus and have been fucking with the Timefactor. Pics coming

UNF UNF UNF UNF

http://i.imgur.com/ghxkSl8.jpg


ITS MIIIIIIIIIINE ALLL MINE.

Ps, you guys need to enable resize code for images so i can shrink these motherlovers down.

playing a show today at, dig this, a bluegrass festival at a local brewery (!).

full on wtf, over.

got pulled into the fold back in february to play banjo for an old time thing arranged by a fiddle player i know, and this is the whatfor. should be silly. bluegrassers hate old time music most times, and the antipathy generally goes two ways-- so it's a bit like bear baiting... but y'know.. what the hell. it's nice outside, and it's for the beers. though we play at 11am.. so there won't be much beers. and we don't get paid much.

but y'know.. i guess i have no idea why the hell i'm doing it then. i shall bring the to the realm of tight sphinctered bluegrass types. maybe that's just enough..

From the way you've described these to me- and what I've heard now of old time- this is roughly the string band equivalent of a punk band playing at a metal show?

precisamente.

as it went, the audience kinda just sat there setting up beer tents, lawn chairs, and the like. there was scattered applause from a few folks-- mostly other band members who kinda got the historical precedent standpoint. but yeah.. it was totally punk band at a metal show- not made better by the jokey stage demeanor of one of our fiddlers, which doesn't really go over well with that crowd who appeared to have very little sense of humor.

by and large, it was a coupla hours, and it coulda been worse. there was a lotta stuff that was funny and silly as hell being fish outa water.. but i'll spare ya gory details. the sound guys were fantastically fun people and responsive. idiomatically.. it was.. well.. wasn't their thing, and we were first for festival sound, which is always a dangerous sitch- so monitors were just.. yeah..-- but they had great senses of fun, mic'd a washtub bass like they'd been doing it all their lives (which actually sounded great into a 52).. and that in and of itself was the coolest. i'm hangin' on to that stuff. the rest.. i got some sun, and went to a cool place to play music that sounds better on my porch... but it's now over.

The simile is even more apt re: humorless serious audience. And having heard an impromptu session of yer band, the fact that it's just some guys sitting around jamming having, dare I say, fun, actually comes across. Ol' Dan's Good-Tyme String Band, as it were. For someone like me to whom the idiom is foreign, it still comes across as shredding- not as shredding, but it's mostly uptempo and lively... Back to that simile again. I'm glad it worked well and wasn't a disaster though. Re: monitaurs, they're hit-or-miss anywhere. There have been times when I've had a great monitor mix, too, and heard it sounded like ass outfront. The opposite is more the norm. Both is... Asking for too much. And now you have a use for a 52... (Besides as a bass drum/cab option. Never used one myself, but I gather they, like the D112, aren't as hyped/"modern" as some purpose-designed kick drum mics. D6, I'm lookin' at you.)



I hit up what used to be the go-to place for boutiquey stuff in Buffalo (well, a little outside) with a couple of my usual music peeps today, along with our local GC. The former is a shadow of its former self, though they at least still have a few nice things. Played a 2014 LP Studio that was very nice. Push/pull pots for coil tapping- apparently the taps are supposed to be more P90-ish, and they sounded fantastic. I'd rock this. Deep red satin finish, flame top, parchment guard. Wanted $725 for it, and they really wanted to sell me on this thing. There was a 2015 LPM that didn't sound nearly as good they wanted six-and-change for as there was a ding in the front... Liked the neck a little better as there was greater front-to-back depth, but they weren't that far off. Orange finish, very orange. Brass nut was cool, as was the satin hardware. But I'd yoink out the electronics and it doesn't look nearly as nice as a whole, so that's a wash, or even more expensive in the end. I may move some gear to pick up the red one unless I can find a much better deal.

My friend Jim bought one of these at GC for forty bucks:


This is a fine delay pedal. I think it's digital, but it doesn't sound it. Infinite repeats are fun. Lots of character; does an almost spring 'verb-y slapback better than some 'verb pedals I've heard and I can coax a chorus-y thing out of it. Recommended as a fun pedal for cheap.

Pedal hoaring continues: I now have a Moog MF Ring. Because I... Needed an analog ring modulator stompbox?

I really, really need a cool digital delay.

I wish i had the time to build one.

Yesterday I had a really successful jam, pumped for making music again now same singer as before but different drummer and bassist. The drummer is pretty awesome, here's a little video of the start of a Song For The Dead cover, ignore my terrible guitar playing haha. We got 2 of my original songs pretty much down as well. Fun times.

That IS pretty sweet. I would give that dood the gig just for the beard. The quite solid rockdrumskills are just a bonus. Sounds like he has a proper drumsound for this stuff, too.

My singer is lame and writes ballads. This is the only one we let him use in our band.

Your drummer is pretty inventive with that tune, Dev. Of course it was moar better though when you guys came in with the heavy guitar making.

So apparently our country is fucked now the Conservatives are in power. Oh well. Hopefully the hard times that might follow will spawn some good angry sounding music at the very least.

Oh yeah, this lives in my spare room now as well. Not a great kit but it's a kit none the less. Any tips for fixing a snare? The wires are pretty loose so I've had to tape them to the bottom to make it sound less like a tom. I guess I just need to buy a new one that isn't all stretched out? I can't seem to get it any tighter with the adjustments on offer.



Also, fuck cheap crashes.

Programming minded folk, I made a thing. A very very simple thing, but good practice.

https://github.com/DTCurrie/dynalist

Can you poast pictars of what the snare strainer/throw setup is on your jibjab? Usually, it is a relatively simple tweak to get the snares to fall in line, but there are a couple different flavors of them.

USUALLY, it is not the metal strainer that gets stretched or anything, but the other bits what need adjusting. Assuming that your strainer has all/most of its metal bits still.

Todge, do you think you could try lifting the rack toms higher out of the kick drum and then adjusting them from there? You should be able to get this sort of positioning going that way:

Which is generally more desirable than this one:

Yeah I could probably do that, I haven't really fucked around with em much what with having neighbours and all Chris I'll snap a pic soon, it looks pretty self explanatory to tighten it but it's not really making much difference.

oh and I learnt my favourite Mastodon track, 11s are not ideal for drop A on a Gibson scale guitar track is 50% left and guitar is panned 50% right if you want to hear the toanez.