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Minimalism
I take just a couple pedals to rehearsal because they are instrumental in certain songs. My Crybaby Wah is indispensable! The Whammy pedal is ready for "Lonely Boy" but we haven't rehearsed it in a while. I don't operate the Carvin V3 without it's footswitch.
I have to be honest; Felix The Strat through the Carvin V3 and Marshall 1960B Vintage cabinet sounds pretty good. I'm not so keen on the merits of a three-channel amp anymore. Especially when two of the channels could be configured to sound exactly the same; what's the point? As much as I thought I would sell the Carvin to get a Mesa/Boogie Single Rectifier Solo 50 head and 2x12 cabinet I might just hang on to it and get the Boogie.
Another good rehearsal with Flytown today.
I spent the largest part of the day working on theme music for the podcast. I reconfigured the desk in the music room to use my laptop, Akai mini-keyboard, and audio interface. The biggest reason was so I could use my studio monitors instead of headphones. It was a fairly quick job of reconfiguration. My other goal was to discover what kinds of orchestra sounds I had in Studio One. There are some fairly good ones but the biggest thing I realized is that I am so fluent on guitar and not fluent at all on keyboards! I don't want to blame the small size of the Akai for my lack of dexterity. It is simply that I don't play keyboards nearly enough to flow the way the song needs. In hindsight, I may lower the tempo and record the keyboard parts then bring it back up to actual tempo so it will be smooth.
It was clear that I need a drum machine or a better drum program. I have a very limited set of sounds and patterns in the free version of EZ Drummer but I'm not sure if I want to invest in registering that application and getting more sounds and patterns or get some other program or simply get a hardware drum machine.
The other obvious discovery is that I could spend hours making music and love it!
I dropped the latest podcast recording (episode 6) off to TC before heading to rehearsal.
Bell Tower. Central Presbyterian Church is a historic church located at 1660 Sherman Street between 16th and 17th Avenue in downtown Denver, Colorado. It was built in 1891 and designed by Frank E. Edbrooke in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Just messing around with my new(ish) toys. Got the Nighthawk Custom Reissue in March and a Digitech RP-355 multi-effects pedal. All the noise is just one guitar with reverb, echo, and other effects from the RP-355.
For you tech heads, the audio was recorded directly from the Digitech through its USB interface. The video is from my Nikon D90.
Pedals:
TC Electronics PolyTune
Zvex Vexter Series Fuzz Factory
Digitech Bad Monkey
Vox VFS2a
Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Plus
Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy
Artcessories ABY Coolswitch
T-Rex Fuel Tank Junior
A 1994 Digitech ValveFX guitar preamp and fx proceessor.In the late eighties and early nineties tthese things ruled metal guitardom...very expensive,very complex...but the sounds were fabulous,huge and of course in stereo.In my own heydays as a player far out of my reach.Helped a musician with a certain speaker-and he had this old gem for me in return.Bought a simple solid state poweramp for it-and now it sounds like I have Def eLppard or Ratt rehearsing in my living room,this is just fantastic! These go straight into my Marshall 1936 cab,stereo...heavenly.
After nearly 2 years of growing my guitar skills, this is the current level of equipment I'm using to help me "find my sound". Nothing here is going break the bank, or get the professionals all wet and gooey, but it makes me feel like a rock star.
In the back a new Fender Frontman 25R amp ($99), and on the Voodoo Lab Power Plus+ ($160) transformer-equipped PedalTrain ($99) board, (from left-to-right) a DigiTech RP155 ($94) multi-effects box including drum machine and looper, a DeltaLab TO1 Tube Overdrive pedal ($49), a DeltaLab RD1 Rock Distortion pedal ($49), a Way Huge Swollen Pickle Mk II Jumbo Fuzz pedal ($129), a Boss TU-3 Tuner ($99), and an Original CryBaby Wah pedal ($69).
GuitarCenter Lake Forest appreciates my business. :)
This is a frame from a video. You can watch it on Vimeo.
A short film of us writing and recording the song Big City. The actual recording process was spread over about 4 weeks - this is from the first session where we decided to start tackling the recording of this song. The week before we'd already layed down the initial MIDI tracks. This was shot at our friend's house (Andy Leddington), the same place as other Bournemouth acts have recorded - such as Dutch Husband, True Swamp Neglect and The Hat
For more information about the band check out our myspace page at...
We can also be found at the following places...
Facebook:
Group - www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2571032582
Fan Page - www.new.facebook.com/pages/Blind-Voyeurs/8732545705
Reverbnation: www.reverbnation.com/blindvoyeurs
Last.fm: www.last.fm/music/Blind+Voyeurs
MP3: www.mp3.com/artist/blind-voyeurs/
fuzzed tv: www.fuzzed.tv/profile/blind-voyeurs
The line up is...
Guitar - LEE DITCHER, Guitar/Keyboard - JAMES BURTON, Bass guitar - STEVE BECK (me), Drums
- SCOTT WALLIS
WE USE: Boss, Ampeg, Digitech, Fender, Line6, Marshall, Apple Mac, Sabian, Korg, Electro-Harmonix, Shure, Logic 8, Final Cut Studio, Audacity, Milkytracker, M-Audio, E-Mu, Canon, Ernie Ball, ProCat, Alesis
New Pedal Monday
I had my Mom get a smaller storage unit this morning and intended to resume cleaning out the large one and even begin moving to the little one. However, I made it all the way to U-Haul Storage of Dublin and realized my access card and lock keys were in the Golf...I was driving the Jetta. After some choice expletives I turned around and decided to go to Lowe's to see what kind of bathtub surrounds they had.
I'm glad I went to Lowe's to look at bathtub surrounds because they had a much better store display than the two Home Depots I stopped at. Also, there was a fairly knowledgeable associate there to answer my questions. I think I'm going to go with the store-brand offering for $249. I sent pictures of it to Stacy and she said it was fine. I sent the same pictures to Doug and he wanted to make sure it would work with an existing tub and find out if he was supposed to buy it or I was. I told him I would pay for it and have it delivered to the condo. He wants me to have them open and inspect it to ensure nothing is damaged during shipping.
After Lowe's, I went to Micro Center to do some Christmas shopping and ran into Mark Bowman. He said he's playing bass in a band now and living in an apartment so playing drums isn't very practical. I started to offer him my G&L but he needs a 5-string. He said he was headed to Music-Go-Round next and so was I!
At Music-Go-Round I did my typical sweep of the store but decided to use my store credit and reward dollars to help pay for this MXR Carbon Copy analog delay. It ended up costing me $21.24 after all that. Not bad for $20!
Laurie called late tonight and asked if I could give her and her friend a ride at 3pm. She said where but I wasn't sure I understood her right...
(January 2009)
I recently got my hands on the Digitech HardWire DL-8 Delay pedal, so that brought about another revision to the pedalboard. I removed the really old Boss pitch shifter/delay and analog delay pedals. I may put back the Boss analog delay, but I'm not sure I'll ever need three delay pedals on there!
I also moved the VariOboost to the top row, which puts it in the effects loop instead of in front of the amp. This makes it's effect MUCH more pronounced. I have it set to tame the insane amount of midrange that I can't otherwise dial out of my Mesa Stiletto. (I don't need it with my Lone Star, though).
That leaves an empty spot on the bottom row for another addition. I'm thinking about the Catalinbread Serrano Picoso boost. We'll see.
One other note....
Those Digitech HardWire pedals have an interior switch that allows you to turn true bypass on or off. I turned true bypass OFF in the reverb pedal, since it's the last one in the chain, and the signal is making a 20 foot trip to the pedalboard and another 20 foot trip back to the amp. The others are true bypass, so I thought it'd be a good idea for one of them to have a buffer on. The same is true for the bottom row - the MXR phaser is non-true bypass, so I have a buffer there, too.
(This is probably way more than anyone wanted to know.)
Here's what's on it, in order of signal flow (right to left, bottom to top).
BEFORE THE AMP:
Peterson Strobo Stomp tuner (v1)
Keeley Compressor
Fulltone OCD overdrive (v1)
BB Preamp overdrive (with cool copper finish)
MXR EVH Phase 90
IN THE AMP'S EFFECTS LOOP:
Catalinbread VariOboost parametric eq/boost
MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay
Digitech HardWire DL-8 Delay/Looper
Digitech HardWire RV-7 Digital Reverb
AND FINALLY:
Amp footswitch (Stiletto switch works identically for my Lone Star)
.. love this bag to death... have been using it either for photoshoot or band practice sessions... sometimes both :)
Especially love the laptop/ipad compartment underneath..
Bag - Think Tank Streetwalker HardDrive
In The Bag - from left, counterclock wise: Zoom G3, EHX Metal Muff Micro, Boss FS5L, Dunlop Strings 10-46, Eneloop Charger, Rockman Equalizer
The signal goes this way:
Polytune Mini: due to small space available in the board, this pedal fits well below the wah.
Dunlop CAE MC404 Wah: designed by Bob Bradshaw, this wah helps me to have 2 sounds: classic red fasel for the solos, and the yellow one for rhythm
Digitech Bad Monkey: a cheap and versatile TS pedal, used for low drives and boosting the gain for RAT.
Proco RAT 2 modded: this pedal has a 3way mod swtich, sounds perfect for solos (sometimes boosted by Bad Monkey).
MXR Phase 90 with smooth mod: mod made by Ed's Mod Shop, cuts off the pop and the dirty drive low mid boost from the original block phase sound.
Boss CH-1 Super Chorus: lush and brighty chorus, 80's perfect sound!
Joyo Us Dream: cheap drive, used for low drive (simulating a valve amp)
Boss ME-70: used basically for its compressor, boost, modern drive, delays, reverb and noise gate
Boss DD-7 Digital Delay: used almost always in analog mode.