Musicians check in here. If you play, tell us about it!

[DaveP]

It's 7am and I'm about to head out to the gig at church! I'll be home by lunch easy. We have rehearsal at 8am, the service at 9am, and I'm out a little after 10am. We usually head somewhere for brunch or lunch and home by noon.

After all those years of late night gigs, now it's early morning! Go figure. Been doing this for about 8 years now. Same chord patterns, same rhythms, same beat, different words. It's perfect for a guitar player who'd rather be asleep by midnight!

For about a year now we've been micing the amps and using Shure earbuds and body packs to get the sound off the stage. I can hear everyone these days and we've all got an Ipod Touch running mixer software so that we can mix our own levels and create an individual mix for our own ears.

 

[GolemGolem]

I play guitar, and like to futz around with synths and beatboxes.
Need to find a space where I can actually turn up my guitar to where the distortion and fuzz sound right. It sucks having to find that tiny little sweet spot between just sounds goofy and tinny, and LOUD.
Also some folks who want to jam on some psychedelic noise rock, or dirty basement funk, doom, or anything really. Should start posting in the local classifieds. Folks who have an soundproofed basement.

 

[DaveP]

I play guitar, and like to futz around with synths and beatboxes.
Need to find a space where I can actually turn up my guitar to where the distortion and fuzz sound right. It sucks having to find that tiny little sweet spot between just sounds goofy and tinny, and LOUD.
Also some folks who want to jam on some psychedelic noise rock, or dirty basement funk, doom, or anything really. Should start posting in the local classifieds. Folks who have an soundproofed basement.

Now that we are mic'ed and taking the sound off the stage I have to run my Peavey Vypyr Tube 60 amp at a little under 1. Sound is still good because I can play with the preamp and the channel drive and let the post gain determine the final volume. I still get good drive to the 12AX7 preamp tube because of the channel drive controls downstream. The power amp is idling, though, and 12" speakers like a little power amp drive to hit the sweet spot for the mic. We have cloth covered foam surrounding the amps to try and quiet what does come through the speakers.

All of this feeds into a $14,000 set of speakers at church including a huge sub that are flown from a 24' ceiling.

 

[oxygen thief]

i've played drums for 40 years. semi-retired but jam with some folks occasionally. i've seen 12yo girls online that can dust my ..., and i'm a good drummer. amazing.

 

[GolemGolem]

I have to run my 60 watt Peavey Vypyr Tube 60 amp at a little under 1. Sound is still good because I can play with the preamp and the channel drive and let the post gain determine the final volume.

All of this feeds into a $14,000 set of speakers including a huge sub that are flown from a 24' ceiling.

Cool as heck, I play a 30W vypyr these days and I've thought about trying to frankenstein it through a bass cab, it's a lovely little amp, but it has trouble if I play in open C, or pitch shift downwards.
Always loved Peavy amps, used to always get the oldest, most abused, dustiest pawn shop Peavy amps, and then abuse them till they broke or I moved, but for some reason the South isn't loaded with them like the north was and lord knows I can't afford to put a good pedal-board together these days and well I like the Vypyr.

 

[DaveP]

Cool as heck, I play a 30W vypyr these days and I've thought about trying to frankenstein it through a bass cab, it's a lovely little amp, but it has trouble if I play in open C, or pitch shift downwards.
Always loved Peavy amps, used to always get the oldest, most abused, dustiest pawn shop Peavy amps, and then abuse them till they broke or I moved, but for some reason the South isn't loaded with them like the north was and lord knows I can't afford to put a good pedal-board together these days and well I like the Vypyr.

Peavey is big in the South, but there's lots of Marshalls and Mesa amps and many others in use everywhere you go. Guitar center brought lots of amps into play that mom and pop music stores didn't bother to franchise.

I have fewer and fewer pedals these days because of the Vypyr. The only thing on the floor in front of my amp is a Sampera II controller. It has a Wah that I don't use, a volume pedal that I use quite often, and pedal switches that control the programmed and pre-programmed effects in the amp. There's one switch access to the built in tuner. With all the cabinet models and effects, I get everything I need from one source with the Vypyr.

I use 4 built in effects that I've customized for the Sanpera II. There's a clean setting using the Twin model, a dirty Marshall setting with overdrive, a clean chorus setting using the Twin amp model, and an over-driven echo that I use mostly in slow songs for a dreamy effect that decays in about 3 seconds.

As good as it is, the Vypyr probably isn't as good as a standard tube model Mesa, Marshall, or Fender, but it's so close I can't tell the different. You have to deal with a pedalboard and lots of cash to come close to what the Vypyr and Sanpera II can do in one box. It trumps my Roland Cube 60, and it made me decide to sell my Vox Valvetronix 2x12. I didn't need three amps, so I kept the Roland for a compact carry amp.

 

[GolemGolem]

The 30 only supports the Sanperra 1, love to be able to use the 2 for the dedicated wah and looper, I have to sit down and use both feet to use the looper so I don't very often, and I modded the switch on the pedal so I could get it to switch between wah and volume without too much effort.
My clean setting is on the Twin with reverb at 1o'clock.
My dreamy setting #1 is Plexi, analog phase at 12o'clock and 3 o'clock, Tremelo both knobs at 1o'clock, about a half second delay both knobs and noon and reverb at 3o'clock. Great for spaced out Venture's and Shadow's worship, overdrive for Link Wray worship, pitch shift and up decay on the delay for Jesus and Mary Chain worship
Doom setting of needing an isolated space is: Brit overdiven as it can be, with fuzz at 3&6, slapback 6&3, long delay at 3&1, reverb at 3. Try playing Black Sabbath at quarter speed with that set up, it's awesome.
Also like cranking the Rectifier for dirty punk rock and power metal.

 

[oxygen thief]

name two things that suck without cream? coffee and ginger baker.

 

[James Hart]

Finally getting to finishing up my music room. My house project had been put on hold for over a year, but since we found out a few weeks ago that we are 'expecting', I need to push the house to completion. I still need to tile the floor and mount some acoustic foam, but it is getting closer.

 

[songsongsong]

just got the new akai mpk249 to use with reason 7. it's an awesome set up!

 

[abpigdoc]

Hi Dave, I've been playing guitar for...let's see...46 years. I've been most interested in jazz and harmony theory for a long time, but I played folk in high school, rock when I went to college. I had an idea that when my daughter was becoming a teenager, she would be a bit like me--let's say 'inquisitive', and I needed a hook to keep me in the loop. Bought her a Squire and a practice amp, and said "Beat this for a month." She came back dutifully frustrated, and sat down to learn. She brought me the stuff she was listening to, Nirvana, Green Day, Bush--stuff like that. She had about 50 songs in 2 months, and nicely done. Then she said, "Teach me something you can't play in 30 seconds!" and I knew I had her!! I've given her guitars that if I'd kept them, well, she has them and been productive. She did demonstrate that inquisitiveness, but she listened to me. She's made many good decisions and mitigated a few bad ones, and I'm thankful for the guitar's influence in our lives.

I have a custom shop Les, a Strat plus deluxe, both now 20 years old. Also, I kept a '71 Martin D-35, but she got the '57 Gibson J-50 and the '67 ES-175. I have a 100 watt Marshal combo like SRV, and a 35 watt Fender Bandmaster, that blond tolex, with a sound like angels singing that I play my baby--a carved handmade archtop made to my specs, created with the best attributes of the D'Aquisto and (from the plans to) the 18" D'Angelico. Flatwonds, naturally.

It's been a pleasure bragging about my therapy tools to all of you, hope you keep vaping and keep playing. Both will keep us young.

 

[James Hart]

Old project has resurfaced for me... I saw a post on a bass forum from someone looking for a body. I remembered I had acquired this a decade ago, briefly considered letting it go, and then was corrected by the boss to the fact I should finish it myself.

I have a hipshot Ric 4003 replacement bridge and an early 80s DiMarzio P pickup for it... just need a P neck and some odds and ends.



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[bassnut]

Finally getting to finishing up my music room. My house project had been put on hold for over a year, but since we found out a few weeks ago that we are 'expecting', I need to push the house to completion. I still need to tile the floor and mount some acoustic foam, but it is getting closer.

Groovy. I see an upright bass in the corner. I've got one too.
No electric basses? Lot a guitars... oh, there's one, third from the left. The Ibanez.
(I'm just goofin' on ya)

BTW. I use Bag End cabs too.

 

[AngelicTomPetty]

Anyone have a horrible addiction of trading in their guitars ?

This year Ive went from an epiphone casino, to a yamaha acoustic, back to the casino, then for an american strat, traded for an SG, missed the strat, so traded the SG for another one, put that in for a partial trade for an ES335, and then that es335 was traded for my current D28 which I promise I will never let go of.

 

[Ayce]

It's called G.A.S.

 

[suspectK]

Just traded my old&faithful black mex. Fender 5string jazz bass and a takamine Jasmine s33 for this:

First time playing with flat wound strings.. grabbed a pair for my guitar.

Still not organized at all...it's a disaster in what you can't see in the picture lol, but still nice to have a music room after having none for about a 16months....

 

[suspectK]

Oh m g

My friend has issues with his back, tripped weakling backwards on over/on a curb, and broke his acoustic in his gig bag. Some pro musician just gave this to him...

I kept that picture...reflection " be tight."

 

[suspectK]

http://soundcloud.com/suspect-k/jam-noel-ricky-and-i

First time in a long time any of us played together...I really screwed up on the "joker, smoker.." or whatever that song is.

 

[Hypnophone]

Howdy!
I see that this thread is for geetar-players. Well, I ain't no geetar-player.
I are a drummist.
Y'all shut up about yer gear for a moment, watch and listen:

 

[Hypnophone]

Hey there Dave, i have no guitars. I have a 1962 B-3, a 1974 Rhodes 73 Stage, a bunch 'o drums and some very rare Zildjians.