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[DaveP]

ove the wine studio just decided color of one on bench
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I stopped in at a Music store in Warner Robins one day back in the late 90s and the owner was selling out and retiring. He had a couple of new LP Studios left and was selling them for $525 each. Alpine White or Wine were the last two new ones he had. I picked the Wine model. To this day, it's still stock and has been out of the house only a few times.

My love for Epiphone goes back to my first days taking guitar lessons in a local music store. The owner and guitar teacher carried all the Epiphone line and I really wanted one. My parents bought me a Harmony dual pickup solid body! I swore that one day I'd have that Epi I always wanted. Then, a Cherry red Ventures model Mosrite caught my eye and I bought it.

Epiphone is a guitar that's well made even with the the Chinese origin. I don't mind ripping them apart and customizing. It's a working man's guitar for the masses that looks and plays as well as a Gibson, IMO. I haven't changed a thing in the Gold Top, but on the Flame Top I ripped out the pickups and installed Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pups, a new bridge, and did a fret job in the basement using the masking tape and magic marker method. I have a jointer-planer and was able to make a perfectly flat sanding block for leveling the frets. It played better than the Gibby afterwards and become my go to guitar after that.

My last addition was an Epi SG Custom with push pull pots that converts back and forth from dual to single coil. It's uncanny how much it sounds like a Strat in single coil mode. It does take a little getting used to on stage because you need to adjust the volumes to run slightly backed off in dual coil mode, leaving a little head room for the switch to single coils. It loses just a little output in SC mode, but it's worth having to do a 1/4 turn volume flip back and forth just to have both sounds.

I owned a Gibson SG back in the 80s, but it was a thin line body that had virtually no sustain. This one has sustain that's nearly equal to an LP and that's really good.

The Epi SG

 

[DaveP]

ove the wine studio just decided color of one on bench
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Something about Wine with Gold (or Silver) hardware just makes it look right.

 

[Hypnophone]

We played Saturday in a club that needs John Taffer.

Jeez, the mixer was behind the PA in a deejay booth.
There was no shortage of drunk slutty chicks writhing around....
...not that there's anything wrong with that!
If we play there again, we're bringing our own PA and operator, and doin' it right.

 

[Transient]

Hey everybody! Some nice instruments here. Cool to know so many of you are musicians. I've been playing guitar and piano most of my life and have been studying percussion for 14 years, but very seriously for the past 2. I'm a college music major studying percussion, theory, piano, composition and performance. So needless to say music is my life and vaping is a huge hobby on top of that. So glad to see so many of you guys here! Playing music in any capacity is a great creative outlet for so many people and a great way to relieve stress. I used to play in a band but school and distance got in the way. Which sucks because studying classical music is great but jamming in a band with nothing to prove is so much fun! Keep rocking dudes!


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[DaveP]

Hey everybody! Some nice instruments here. Cool to know so many of you are musicians. I've been playing guitar and piano most of my life and have been studying percussion for 14 years, but very seriously for the past 2. I'm a college music major studying percussion, theory, piano, composition and performance. So needless to say music is my life and vaping is a huge hobby on top of that. So glad to see so many of you guys here! Playing music in any capacity is a great creative outlet for so many people and a great way to relieve stress. I used to play in a band but school and distance got in the way. Which sucks because studying classical music is great but jamming in a band with nothing to prove is so much fun! Keep rocking dudes!


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Learn all you can from the masters. It will pay off in spades once you are out of school and able to use it. I learned most of my music theory from books and just learning scales and modes kicked me up a level or two in my improvisational playing. Prior to that I was just struggling to figure out what the lead player was doing in the song and how to imitate it. Once I could recognize the mode and the scale I could go right to the sweet spot on the neck where the riff was more natural to play.

I have a young friend who is about one year from a Bachelor in Engineering with a minor in music. He was talented when he entered the music program. After three years, he's really impressive on guitar and can talk the talk and burn up the neck. He reminds me of a young Jimmy Herring with his electric fingerpicking.

Speaking of Jimmy Herring, check out his band if you like technical Jazz fusion with a little funk.

 

[Tom Servo]

Which sucks because studying classical music is great but jamming in a band with nothing to prove is so much fun! Keep rocking dudes!

I also did both through college. My field was composition and theory, but I played jazz at a local restaurant at night. Each kept me on my toes in its own way, and each one taught me lessons about the other.

When I graduated college, I ended up touring with a couple of rock bands, which is how I learned I had a talent for being a manager and accountant

I'm not as active before, but I still do some recording from time to time. Despite everything else I've tried, the trust Jazz Bass is still my voice.

 

[DaveP]

It's reassuring to see that this thread is still active after over three years since I started it. It's apparent that lots of musicians are also vapers. The public tends to imitate musicians and anyone in show business, so it's a good thing that they aren't imitating guitar players with a cigarette hanging while they play!

Electronic Cigarette on Live With Kelly- Rolling Stones Ronnie Wood Smokes

 

[Pipeous]

don't remember if I posted this or not but was asked to do a recording to show off the mandocello... I did it at work for fun... mandocello, mandola and mandolin with some harmonica... not the kind of music usually played on these instruments but I have no idea what to play on mandocello...

https://soundcloud.com/barry-wilson-18/rushgrass

and last night I decided to strip my F style mandolin. it had a super thick poly finish that has to be muting some sound. well it is now a blond and I love the spruce. just a cel phone pic but I will pull the camera out for a better shot

 

[DaveP]

Nice wood on the mandolin!

 

[Pipeous]

cheers. seemed a shame to cover up such nice wood. the back, neck and sides are tiger maple so should be nice. just going to shellac when done and should open up the sound. want a satin or semi gloss finish. getting tired of shiny crap that shows fingerprints. I really like that godin beside it

 

[DaveP]

cheers. seemed a shame to cover up such nice wood. the back, neck and sides are tiger maple so should be nice. just going to shellac when done and should open up the sound. want a satin or semi gloss finish. getting tired of shiny crap that shows fingerprints. I really like that godin beside it

Some of the nicest looking stringed instruments I've seen were finished naturally using some sort of sanding sealer followed up with a sanding and steel wool finish to obtain some semblance of flat or satin with little shine. Done right, it makes for some beautiful wood.

 

[Pipeous]

I've been talking about doing this a while. it is my favourite instrument and had decent bark. it should open up the lower tones more now with all that crap off. should add more room for expression playing softer. I am taking the mando with me and will get the sides scraped tonight. If I get ambitious I will do more though my hands are still pretty sore LOL. put a towel on my lap, put a movie on, turn up the volume a bit to hear over the scraping. I'll go outside to sand this time... speaking of which, time to vacuum my garage up hehe

 

[Tom Servo]

Here's a couple of sketches I did recently:

Vacancy

The Vanishing Dark

 

[Pipeous]

interesting beginnings to songs...

well I got half the side done last night. my hands are getting tired of scraping

 

[DaveP]

Here's a couple of sketches I did recently:

Vacancy

The Vanishing Dark

I hear a talent in those cuts that reeks of film industry post production skills. I could almost see the video that those tracks would fit into. Nice stuff!

 

[Tom Servo]

I hear a talent in those cuts that reeks of film industry post production skills. I could almost see the video that those tracks would fit into. Nice stuff!

Thanks! Actually, the production is surprisingly simple these days. What would have been expensive and difficult in the 1990's (splicing tape--yay!) is pretty economical and quick with modern means.

 

[Pipeous]

I went to a recording school and had to do tape splicing hehe.

 

[DaveP]

It's amazing what can be accomplished with digital editing these days. Entire compositions arise from loops, effects, and modifications of natural sounds to produce ethereal and unrecognizable results. Stretch, compress, EQ, and modify sounds and they change into entirely different clips.

Flanging used to be accomplished by rubbing a finger on the tape reel and varying the pressure. Reverb was a microphone in the next room mixed with the audio from the main studio mic.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanging

 

[Pipeous]

Peter gabriel uses speakers in his cove and microphones at different interval distances for some reverb...

here's a fun cliff claven factoid. fleetwood mac used a drumstick on a kleenex box in a bathroom on don't say that you love me (it was one of the songs off tusk anyway)

 

[DaveP]

Peter gabriel uses speakers in his cove and microphones at different interval distances for some reverb...

here's a fun cliff claven factoid. fleetwood mac used a drumstick on a kleenex box in a bathroom on don't say that you love me (it was one of the songs off tusk anyway)

When I first started playing an electric guitar my amp was a Harmony tube model with a 12" speaker (back in the 60s). It was a plain jane job with nothing but tremelo. It struck me one day that the ceramic tile bathroom next to my bedroom was an echo chamber, so I hooked a mic into my 2nd input and ran the cable into the bathroom. I found that the best place for reverb was actually in the porcelain tub. Suddenly, I was able to play Ventures songs with real live reverb! I'm sure my parents got tired of hearing "Pipeline", but I was a happy teenager.