what is going on in your musical life

Finished tracking vocals today! Whew. Now it's mixing time.

here's my next gig:

http://friendsofjcmc.org/

whoa, looks awesome!

wow, do you know what tunes you're doing?

Nope! Arrangements are still being written.

We have a list of 11 songs from our rep that are on the table, the only one I know is definite is a medley:

I've Been 'Buked
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
You Must Have That True Religion

and there's a rhythm section, right?

do you know this record?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uC3_DAysO4

They have a rhythm section, yeah; we're a capella except for the as-yet-unarranged pieces we're doing together. The concert is basically three sections, with each section having a bit done just by NESE, a bit done just by JCMCE, and a bit done by us all together.

man what a record, i forgot about it until now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfoou9UKUls

also I did not know this record and I will be consuming this over the weekend

played 2nd to last at a rager of a Halloween party -- was drunk enough to have plugged the sampler into an output channel of my mixer, but not too drunk so I was able to realize the error and fix it before complaining to the sound guy.

played at a halloween masquerade show thing on thurs with some of my girlfriends as the GoGos. it was really fun, and my experience playing lead guit in public!

sadly, there was a huge clusterfuck of equipment by the stage (every band brought their own gear, nothing was shared - p dumb tbh) and lots of things were stolen, including my guitar. :(

same thing happened at the show I played -- re: the clusterfuck of gear -- having to forage through stacks of amps and guitar bags to find your gear when everyone was wasted -- yeah, I'm sure someone accidentally walked off with someone else's stuff.

in our case, everyone from all the bands has checked in with each other, and there are still 2 guitars and a combo amp missing. i was feeling really certain that it was an accident up until last night, i have less hope now

fuck.

xp - ugh!!!!

Does anyone else take phone pics of their pedal set ups in practice for future reference? One of my bandmates does this, and I thought it was a totally genius idea.

i do that with amp settings sometimes

I have done that with good intentions, but totally lost track of the individual pics of my pedals in the mire of other photos and then, well, fuck it.

shit rox that sucks. mostly i've had my stuff broken or used as an ashtray by other bands, but never straight up stolen.

djp that gig looks fantastic.

i'm just finally playing guitar again now that school's done and holy shit i am rusty. v slowly putting together some pedals, maybe gonna build a cab for myself in the near future? i'm trying to learn faron young songs and rowland howard songs and tal farlow licks and making no headway w/ anything so i don't even know what.

but it feels good to play more.

also that max roach album is a motherfucker

Sorry roxy, that's awful.

yeah, i never have in my life! it's really surprising. i've been really trusting with equipment for years and years, it's kind of amazing that my first real incident happens at this event. my apartment was robbed a few years ago, and they took music gear, but i've never been stolen from *at* a show. i think it's a first for everybody involved.

my guit was super cheap, so i cant complain too much, but i did love it! lots of local scene people popping up to loan guitars and other gear tho. its a nice town.

Maybe it's just the UK, or maybe it's just confirmation bias, but equipment thievery does seem to be on the rise.

back to microphones, i'm looking at an NT-1, a shure ksm27, and an AKG perception 420. Any thoughts on which of these are better? i'm mostly looking to improve my vocals but would use it to record guitar and some percussion also.

Sorry to hear about that Roxy, that really sucks.

I'm trying to master using a loopstation pedal at the moment. It's pretty tricky tbh.

Working on a house track built off of samples from Les Rita Mitsouko

can't wait to get a better microphone (probably pulling the trigger soon). otherwise, using my built in cpu mic, this is as good as it gets:

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/uznponyahwc8aaa/Their_Hearts_Were_Full_of_Spring.mp3

i really dislike rode mics so i would immediately discount that one. the shure kms series are pretty decent, nothing flashy but they def do the job

just put together 3 samples and a fs Together... s thr a thrd 2 post Soundcloud links

https://soundcloud.com/zxwhh8h/t4f

What dont u like about the Rodes Jim? I like the NT1 Ive been using, well it makes my vox sound nice anyway!

i've never really been happy with the sound i get out of them. i've never used their highest end one (classic II) but i've used almost all the NTs and i just find them harsh in weird ways.

having said that the NT1a was the first condenser mic i owned and at that point i was unlikely to get much better results with anything else! and it sounds better on my voice than the far more expensive nt2 or ntk does..

lo i ot a cad and an sm58. the cad's cable is broke, and the 58's cable has white paint in the xlr side

I think I get u on the harsh sound, but in my case I chalked that up to it being over sensitive to bad room 'verb. I'll have to use it more and see how I go. With my hearing I'll never make much of an engineer anyway heh.

I'm excited to go on a mini-tour this weekend! Seattle, Portland, and Olympia, in support of a new Ch@nts record coming out in a couple weeks.

miss touring :/

i'm recording a cover of the Les Thugs album Strike, playing and recording/mixing(/mastering??) everything myself, as faithful a recording as poss to the original. it was one of my resolutions for 2014, but I'm getting a jump cause i need something to do by myself that is healthy although i guess this is possibly questionably healthy

Goole - pls elaborate. I love unfamiliar jam sessions!

― Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Friday, August 30, 2013 6:04 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my eye skipped over this request for more info! sorry BLAM (& all you else who were dying to know)

i've gone to i think 3 of these things at this dude's house and the short version is, i think i'm already sick of it. it's a bad but logically obvious social+musical dynamic that the experience tends to devolve down to the level of the most awkward and least musically gifted/practiced people who show up. which, in this case, are the same people.

i've had a good time hacking through 20-odd classic rock chestnuts on a saturday afternoon but i think the other people are interested in 'getting serious' about it which is too much delusion for me to take. plus, since nobody else at these things has the ability to understand a scale let alone fake one, i've been playing bass more than half the time anyway.

I bought an Oberheim Matrix 6 off eBay for mad $$$. It worked fine for 10 minutes before locking up and now it won't turn on at all. :( I'm super bummed/pissed because this was going to be my first real synth. Anybody have any idea what I can do???

as in contact the seller about it or in terms of fixing it yourself?

no idea but googling says maybe "hold 'enter' and then power on". is there an enter button?

i just ordered my first real synth O_O

oh!!! that worked!!! thank you so much!!! now let's see if it stays on...

good luck with the matrix. i have the m1000 rack and it sounds so fucking great

it is a delight so far. i haven't had any problems since doing the reset.

have you attempted to play "jump" yet y/n

i have a really dumb idea and i wanna know if it's viable - i have a contact mic that i use for acoustic guitar etc, and it only picks up any sound when i have it attached to the bridge. so what i'm wondering is, if i were to buy some crappy guitar, cut a valley into the middle of bridge so it was like two smaller bridges each with three strings attached, and put a contact mic on each mini-bridge, could i conceivably feed the two pairs of three strings through different effects chains without them interfering with each other? or is there a much easier way to go about this kind of idea that i don't know about?

still going to have a lot of transference through the top of the guitar between the bridges i think. lemme give this some thought

wait did bill frisell do this?

If this idea works it would be pretty awesome!

i could realise it by dropping thousands of pounds on one of these lovely things

http://www.strat-talk.com/forum/attachments/other-guitar-discussion/59895d1359865856-your-favourite-strange-guitar-spectrum-guitar.jpg

but i'm hoping for a slightly cheaper solution. i guess if i had any technical know-how bodging together two half-size pickups would be easy, but i do not.