In a little rowboat

Ok well did the best i could...but man, love the ones i got...sorry no pedalboards Thom's got a 64 SG, a couple 60's jazzmasters, a 60's hummingbird, a 00 martin in these pics Jonnys got a 70's fender starcaster in these, a martin d-16 (think) plus theres a few of his synths, space echo Ed's got a boss sampler with a wireless patch, a clapton strat, and a 60's casino ala george harrison enjoy http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff268/p...at/IMG_0199.jpg http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff268/p...at/IMG_0198.jpg http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff268/p...at/IMG_0195.jpg http://i23

i dont know if yall know this trick, but you can get bit more life out of old strings by unwinding them and boiling them in a lite salt water solution for 10 minutes, drying, and restringing...if you even care to go to the trouble...also, when you put them back on, start winding at the tuner before putting the ball end in the bridge...twist the ball end a few times, then insert followed by the bridgepins...theyll give you more tone and brightness j

sadly, my girlfriend has work Friday, so ill miss Wilco at the pageant ill try to get some pics of gear and such...for those who dig it lots of new gear and songs this tour j

Have had 100 transactions on ebay, most guitar related...never had a serious issue...id hae to agree with what BWW said, read the listing thoroughly, and make sure the seller has plenty of positive feedback AS A SELLER...you can have 100% feedback with no sales...make sure to email questions and be 100% sure on return and shipping terms... also, pay via paypal if possible...there is massive documentation on the entire sale, and if you somehow get shafted, there are options to get your money back otherwise, go nuts, ive found numerous killer deals on ebay...and the truth is, effect pedals i

I really prefer worn strings, at least on my main guitar, Gibson Chet atkins SST...i have the stock UST swapped out and the thing is is ridiculously bright with new strings and Im a pretty percussive player, new strings have too much pop and snap...my martin acoustic can take new strings better however

i have on occasion purchased batches of lesser know brand strings for a discount online, but i found that i tore through those streings even faster than d'addarios...im back to the 10 packs (i miss the 10 pack with pint glass deal)...if you find a cheaper method please let me know....and now im uber-picky and only buy the 80-20 phosphor bronze custom 11's (i only play with acoustic strings these days) guess you go with what you know truth is i steal alot of packs from the store i guitar tech for----shhhhhhh! j

NP headrush is a great pedal, looper, delay and tape echo----delicious I have a mono y cable going into the second input of the space echo...one lead is for optical theremin, on is for the shuffle...ive got some samples and ambient tracks that i trigger with the shuffle, and then i can play guitar over it...we did 'Poor places" once and the shuffle had the YHF thing with some Am radio noise...i thought it was kind of cheesy so we stopped doing that, but i still use the shuffle for that kind of stuff...cheaper than a $500 sampler and a twentieth of the size j

i have a half an allan wrench secured with rubber bands on knobs on my re-20 and sometimes tr-2 and use my foot to adjust good excuse to show the latest setup...

two mono Y cables should work......or something akin to this?? what amp do you use....easier to do with a 2/4 input amp like a twin, deluxe reverb, or ac30 guitar-tuner-OD-holygrail for one input amp, youd need a mono Y cable (all male jack) a mono Y (one male,2 female jack) and a single regular cable ill make a pic in a bit is this what your talking about?

arrived yesterday...takes a while to tweak into the right sounds...but when you do...!!! Distortion setting alone is all balls... i found its better to run a light OD into it to get the best throat out of it...after a half hour, i found 'the' AGIB sound...the drive way up sounds a bit thin and buzzy on the high notes, but on mid neck runs and bends, WOW...arpeggios sounds pretty sweet too...also, i can thicken it up with some analog delay, and the swells and splaats last longer overall a really cool sounding device, and i know that no one around here has anything that sounds like it...i

When i first bought the guitar, it was just body and neck, no hardware...I installed the vibrola, picked out a Gibson 57 for the bridge, SD Jazz for the neck, cut a new bone nut, added a roller bridge and kluson tuners and shielded the thing...i think theres a thread on VC where i documented building it The maestro install took about 35 minutes, and yes, it functions as a pretty great vibrato...i had a bigsby on it first and like this so much better and this one stays in tune...i highly recommend a roller instead of TOM bridge this guitar is for sale...im on to gretsches right now, and wan

for the money, the SG faded limited editions are the best of that group...solid mahogany body and ebony fretboard with crecent moon inlays...the hardware isnt great but not bad...not any difference between sg faded, special, and standard as far as woods/construction...they all have rosewood fret boards now on mahogany...Standard/classics have the block inlays I think comparing SGs to strats/teles is comparing apple-oranges, however in this case, i like oranges mine: j

almost bought a gretsch this year... ill post a link to some pnc work once i get it...i think its stuck in customs j

haha i did the same thing with a Kaoss pad 2 also a couple years ago in my radiohead phase (never really went away)...turned out i loved it but never could find much a way to use it...least not playing guitar rich-no tax return bored--constantly looking for new sounds i do have some trust in it, not just from Ghost but just the simple fact that no one around here will have a distortion sound anything like it, let alone the modulator, itll get some use...im not a shredder, more a unique sounds/color guy...ill sound pretty wicked with the re-20 i recently added plus i got new for $1

toyed with the idea for a while...should i be dying check the mail each day or is it going to be a novelty? j

dont often have the rut, most often dont have the time things that have helped move me along: read a book, see a movie you wouldnt normally try to write something 'not' a song (poem, rant, essay, breakup letter) new tunings play in a friend's band for a while a new internet radio station play a foreign instrument people watch and eavesdrop in a bar buying a new guitar careful with the last two

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after listening, i have a few questions where the answers might help you out... first is, if you dont really like the song, why so much work...im joking, but really, id say strip it down and find the essential elements first...stick with what makes the song work, then discriminate between what adds and what just fills next, are you assigning frequencies per track...i think you havent enough separation between highs and mids per track and some more selective panning could help...i would also be careful with too much use of compression are you mixing straight from computer thru headphone

strange, ive used this unit for a few years now, never such an issue....this is the blue one with VU meter, right?? j

Just picked up a boss eh2 enhancer pedal....designed for the re-enforcement of lost high freq signals from running a lot of pedals, but works great as a clean boost (i use it on my acoustic rig as well) Lot of folks use a boss eq for this also

Yea...i feel you...i have the extreme luxury of having many very good musician friends, and the sense of the unknown when doing your music with folks who know/like it but dont rehearse it is much like that throw-away bassline or guitar lick you mentioned...anything to keep it alive and fresh...and the idea of a song capturing the moment is very appealing j

On topic, i often recommend the AKG perception series condensers, starting at $150 each...i have 2 for basic room and instrument recording--a very good perormer and value in most cases, used microphones are a huge value as well...its hard to break a quality dynamic, and as far a s ebay goes, condensers are dimes on the dollar...just make sense of buy feedback, terms of sale, etc to protect against a lemon j

regrettably, in many cases, the mastering process itself will degrade from the originally set rate...while there are many different definitions of what mastering is, in generally it consists of compression, EQ (notch volume), and formatting I have the argument with friends all the time...with the advent of currently available recording/mixing devices and playback devices, i contend mastering is a waste of money and time if your mixing is done correctly also, if at anytime your music goes from the 'master', to CD, DAT, or other files such as MP3/M4u its a moot point...all of these formats c

open tunings are the way to go for starters...and vary between major and minor tunings... however, the further along you get, youll want to go back to standard...the runs are more interesting and youll be more versitile without having to retune after every song Favorite slide player here=George Harrison (standard tuning, and some d modal) j

have had 2 guitars with Bband systems, was clearly more acoustic sounding than, say, a fishman matrix, but live would often sound thin and would not give much string response...hit it hard, it sounds weak...depends on your playing style, but i found it had no balls...the bband uses a piezo-electris film which will wear over time and eventually sound shrill and unbalanced (see the many online reviews)...i ended up selling both bband equpt guitars i owned... Mixing pickups seems to be the best way to go...i go K&K pure western with M1a to 2 channels in the PA...terrific! As i mentioned