Artifex

Omg answer the question you highly messed up freaks!!!

...ehh both?

"I don't think there's anything that irritates me more than a solo performer looping and sounding like a band. It reeks of unconfidence and kitsch, but that's just me."

I don't think you've heard Phil Keagy then. He truly creates something new and unique. Seeing him live is an experience.

Nels does some pretty snazzy stuff with looping as well. It's all just a tool. You can use it to do cheezy, kitschie things, or you can make art with it.

I suppose it also depends on what you do...some aucostic solo artists ( Phil Keagy comes to mind) have a looper, and they will felesh out the songs using it. Phil Keagy even sings background vocals into a mic inside his guitar sometimes.

Personally, im not a big fan of other effects, besides mabye reverb or looping, on an aucostic. I figure it kinda defeats the purpose of playing an aucostic. But that's just my opinion. It's worked for me so far, playing live solo.

Vocals...dynamics...soul....good arrangments...

That's a pretty killer setup you got there, groovingdan.

Yeah. that's what I thought. Dosen't really make sense...at all...

"It still has the original pickups and hardware, but just about everything else has been replaced."

Anybody else confused by this? What exactly is replaced, some software?

Experiment with where you stand in relation to the amp as well.

Coppertop

This is my band. We've been together 5 months and in that time have played 6 shows. It's all original, and alot of fun if I do say so myself. Let me know what you think.

Nothing I'm aware of...just general Midwest jargon. I have had an idea for something very similar to that for awhile.

Only US distributor I've found so far.

Let me knwo if there are other places to look into.

Well I'm going to order a prunes and custard. Wish me luck, fellows.

"Anyhoo, Artifex, maybe you could tell us what equipment you have available to you and, if you plan on buying more stuff, what your budget is. That way, we can figure out cool ways to use the stuff you already have or are likely to get, rather than ask you to invest in stuff you might not need or can't afford."

For recording, I plug my Strat and ol' Ovation Preacher ( think SG) directly into Cubase. I've got some amazing plugins that model a JCM 900, a Fender Twin, and some stompboxes very well. They are free ( they were the product of some univercity), and I'll give you guys the link when I get back on my own computer.

I mic my aucostics with an old shure condensor, and record everything into an M-Audio Firewire 1418.

I'm open to any suggestions. This is alot of fun hearing everyone else's ideas!

aburharabi- I'd love to hear what your working on. Hook me up sometime. :-)

I disagree on a technicality. Pro Tools will not make you sound good. Learning aucostics, proper mixing and micing techniques will enable you to get a great sound no matter what software you decide to use. Hands down. It's like getting a Fender Blues Junior vs. some custom, obscure, expensive hand-wired amp. Sure, if your playing is at that level and it's worth the cost, knock yourself up, but somebody like Nels Cline can still work wonders with a basic bread and butter amp.

If you're not familiar with this pedal- and you wanna play AGIB style stuff- you should be. It's an expression pedal you can use to control any parameter of basically any pedal. It connects to a knob of most any box out there and you can rock it to control tremolo depth, phaser rate, etc. Buy 3 and use them all.

They stole my million dollar idea.

Lol, I don't think that would actually do anything.

It depends. If you have a good computer, and/or are computer literate, theres alot of flexibility to be had. Going computer or multitrack are too very different routes. If you don't like working with a computer I can't see you really getting into computer software alot.

Cool, I'm sure that would be intesting.

I'd like to do a version of Hummingbird, I don't see that claimed anywheres.

I love DR's, suprised to see so many people on here endorsing them.

Thanks, that's some really good ideas.

Anybody else have any favorite methods?

So I'm working on recording an album myself. Theres several tracks that I'd like to have noise jams of sorts on. I'd be intrested if any of you guys have points or know how Wilco made some of the noise they made on tracks like Poor Places and Ashes of American Flags. ( I notice some Poor Places guitar sound action in in evidence on Wreckroom off the new Loose Fur Album)

"You really don't want to buy a plastic guitar."

I agree. Gee, good thing my Ovation ain't made outta plastic.

Mabye that's my problem. I don't think I've ever heard a song by her.