The Jam Room Blog Thread.

[RAGER]

Man do I love my new reverb pedal



Tore apart and rearranged my jam room.  Much better now.  More compartmenalized and easy to get to stuff.  What a fucking chore though.  Didn't get as much playing time in as I like.  I'll try and get some sounds up withy my Big Sky  a little later.  Going in late today.

[Dylan Thomas]

^ shit man, I always knew you were synth serious, though I never realized that you were THIS synth serious.

That's impressive.

[jibberish]

yeah wiring. lots of wiring..., I was just bitching about wiring and I was only dicking around with one thing and some modules.

that is a really nice stable of horses you have collected.

interesting you posted that video in the synth thread(edit. or wherever that was). I already suggested that we fuck around with the tach signal from my nephew's supervan project engine(square wave) through the S-P filter in a microbrute when I get one.   we are already going to do some animated LED trickery WRT the rpm's, so I suggested we experiment with some audio trickery.
tach puts 4 pulses per rev. so basically from idle to redline is 60hz to like 2500hz.   can use pulse dividers to do LFO shit. can use leading edges to trigger stuff..sky is the limit, but it could be crazy organic and piped through a big soundsystem heh. (the van has custom automatic gullwing doors and can drop to the ground hydraulically. entire custom front sub frame. this will be such a sick vehicle)

[Danny G]

DO you get better tone with Miller High Life over, say, PBR tallboys?

[RAGER]

Yes. There's something about tilting that bottle back instead of a can.

[liquidsmoke]

sunno, singing and playing forced me up a notch in skill levels across the board. took a while to sort it out, but that was huge for me. I am very glad I took that on. it's also a new dimension of fun( after the scary fades away). besides then you can learn silly tunes and make the ladies laugh at the bonfire

It's a process, it's hard, I worked up a few notches and want to continue it on recordings but I just don't want to do it live anymore.

[Lumpy]

RAGER is in serious GAS mode. Not hating, have fun!

[RAGER]

Drone Commander is being built right now.  Should get it in a couple weeks.  I'm gearing up for winter time fun.

I probably have some stuff I should sell off.

[Lumpy]

You can sell your VW sign to Juan11

[jibberish]

sell those xmas lights and get some wicked colors instead..and a lava lamp. someone get this man down to Spencer's STAT

[VOLVO)))]

He can pick up some anal beads and a shirt that says "bassists do it better"

[Lumpy]

Holy shit, VW barstool too.

[RAGER]

Used to be hot and heavy in the vintage VW scene.  Not so much anymore.  Still have one I'll prolly sell soon.  Didn't know what else to do with the sign or the stool since I don;t have much of a shop anymore.  That's a totally unlicensed VW sign.  Breakin the law.

[Omlet]

Posted a question about band / ppl to play with on local FB group. I saw that there are peeps potentially interested in playing stoner/doom, so maybe I'll be lucky this time...

[jibberish]

jammed on keyboard and guitar to various bleep bloop patterns from the beatstep until I couldn't really jam no mo. that thing is slick as hell


so I threw a couple cushions down on the carpet and crashed for an hour because I wanted to get right back to playing with toys, and a wolf spider munched my leg. I hate that shit.
takes weeks for those bites to go away and they itch like a mutha.  I found him later sneaking around my table...shit haha, a little ghost spider just did a mission impossible right in front of my monitor right now as I was typing. fuck. he's dead.  I just chloroxed last week........paging mr chlorox, the spiders are bum rushing us.

it's a jungle out there in here. fucking spiders

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edit: stumbling through pedal videos and this one came up.    the pharaoh supreme is a stunning bass effect. ear porno that I hadn't seen before. heh yeah.

editz: cool, look what was in the sidebar on youtube, some AKIII : perfect!

now listen to this after that bass fuzz demo. \m/

[everdrone]

Posted a question about band / ppl to play with on local FB group. I saw that there are peeps potentially interested in playing stoner/doom, so maybe I'll be lucky this time...

I have thought about this too, recruiting the right band members for me

one thing I want to do is to one day be the one going the extra mile in my band

for instance in bands around Austin I have seen people:

(1) buy a van and plan out a tour themselves
(2) rent a practice studio by themselves and then recruit band members
(3) have great recording gear to recruit other bandmates
(4) turn their living room into a soundproofed band practice area and recording studio
(5) buy all the gear for all bandmates so they just have to show up to practice.  so that the drummer does not have to move his gear or anything.

[Danny G]

Those are all good things to do, and pretty doable. #1 for sure.

#5 can be a slippery slope. You don't necessarily want to provide gear to people who don't have gear. But the right people are worth lending to. I let my bassist for Ocean of Stars use my rig for rehearsals and gigs. It's in the van anyway and sounds good \m/,

Having any kind of decent recording gear is always a plus.

Even if you don't have your own rehearsal room, eating the cost of an hourly can definitely sweeten the deal

[RacerX]

Gibson just keeps on getting stupider. We don't want self-tuning guitars, you jackasses.

http://www2.gibson.com/Gibson-USA-2015.aspx

eh, at least they're using rosewood on the fretboards again...

[everdrone]

Those are all good things to do, and pretty doable. #1 for sure.

#5 can be a slippery slope. You don't necessarily want to provide gear to people who don't have gear. But the right people are worth lending to. I let my bassist for Ocean of Stars use my rig for rehearsals and gigs. It's in the van anyway and sounds good \m/,

Having any kind of decent recording gear is always a plus.

Even if you don't have your own rehearsal room, eating the cost of an hourly can definitely sweeten the deal

cool brutha \m/

[Lumpy]

A guy asked me if he could use my subwoofers for his show. Nice guy generally, and he booked me to play in the same room once, and that day he picked me up in his car to bring the subs over there. But he got a ticket (no registration sticker) and didn't want to bring the subs back too - so I paid for a cab ride and spent 30 bucks (he paid me 36 for the show).

I told him no, maybe I'm a dick but I don't see the point of lending equipment for a show that I'm not playing. The venue is in Manhattan (up a long flight of stairs) and the subs are in Brooklyn. He didn't offer to rent them, I don't see anything in it for me except I am committed to help carry my gear to his show, arrive early and stay late. If we were both on the same bill, then it's different. He's also not my bro.

Dick?

[jibberish]

do you owe him a good favor? if not, that seems kind of an imposition on you.  I don't want to haul your fucking subs in and out of the car up and down the stairs, smash one of my fret hand fingers, resent the world for a minute. So I can't imagine you do either.

[agent of change]

He's the dick if you're not super tight bros. And a bro wouldn't leave you cabbing them home.

Sent from my anal chakra with 3rd degree Reiki

[Jake]

Gibson just keeps on getting stupider. We don't want self-tuning guitars, you jackasses.

http://www2.gibson.com/Gibson-USA-2015.aspx

eh, at least they're using rosewood on the fretboards again...

Sheesh.

Gibson's missteps are encouraging though. The void in the market they create by having a mass of uninteresting (and unaffordable) instruments will be filled with simpler, better, and cheaper instruments from other guitar makers.

[RacerX]

I've never bought a Gibson new, but they're definitely not making it look like an attractive option.

Their acoustics are still pretty decent, but there are far better out there for cheaper; you're mostly paying for the name on the headstock.

I'd sure love one of them Super Jumbos, though...

[liquidsmoke]

10 years ago the faded SGs were fine players, has the quality dropped recently? Who else sells a US made guitar for $500? I don't pay any attention to their $2,000+ models.