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I used to DJ back in the day...I still get on the 1200's from time to time. My biggest scores are drum & bass, electronica and Jungle. Ive played under a variety of names including: Syn Tek(90's), Neuro(early 90's) and now, Falling Star.
For the record, I am not the same Syn Tek on the WO boards...I have played with a lot of local and famous talent including, DJ Venom, Tiesto (we just set his shows up) and a few others but loads of other talent that, imho, need more recognition!!
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Ive completed another track. If your into Hard Techno, check it out and let me know what you think. Its called Outbreak and has been uploaded to my Soundcloud page.
http://soundcloud.com/idreaper/firefly
Old thread revival time! I have created a new DnB track that is now in its final stages. I still consider it a work in progress but the general length and mood are set. This is my second dabble in Drum n' Bass and the first time I've tried a natural plucked bass approach. So for the DnB fans here maybe you could tell me what you think? I think i need to change the melody on the SQBloop(that bloopy short synth i made) in the beginning. Oh also if you want a download you can ask me as I've disabled public downloads. Track name: Firefly.
Check your Soundcloud page out ive left some feedback. Its sounding nice mate.
Gretsch make cool guitars. It's probably one of those where you'll only get the Gretsch sound and feel from a Gretsch. Not that I'm trying to encourage you to buy it or anything like that. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by KGB1971
I don't shred. At one stage I tried to learn a couple of things like this and this, but only managed bits and pieces of them at slow speed and not amazingly well. I learned to play the Jimmy C thing at full speed until the sweep picking starts. Could never do fast sweep picking. I was quite pleased with myself though, even though it isn't really too hard up until that point. To play either properly would take a long long time and so much practice. I'm not really focussed enough for it and just enjoy playing some of my favourite tunes.
Most of the time it's classic rock and grunge that I play. It's usually pretty basic. I enjoy playing through Back in Black, Paranoid, Sultans of Swing, and I Believe in a Think Called Love (even if they're a bit lame The Darkness made some songs that are really fun to play) - things with cool riffs and some simple-ish solos are enough for me.
Here's a few pictures of my new guitar (follow the thumbnail link). After a couple of sessions I'm thinking it's probably the nicest guitar I've ever played. I've never played a PRS or an American Gretsch and only cheaper Gibsons, but can't honestly imagine them being much better quality than this. The flame maple top is far nicer than any PRS I've seen though. They look so good in the photos but rarely stack up in real life. I have a few guitars - some would say too many, but I save most of my cash other than the necessities like food, rent, travel etc, so don't really feel too guilty on splashing a bit of cash in search of the perfect instruments, given how much joy I get out of them. I think this will be my last for a while though. Previously there's always been a little something wrong with every guitar I've had, which meant I could always find an excuse to try another. But I don't have that excuse any more.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...h_100_1101.jpg
Here are links to albums for the others. I don't own the Epi any more as the Tokai replaced it. I should sell the Ibanez too, or lend it to someone else, as I don't play it and it doesn't hold any sentimental value. The Aria and Tokai definitely do.
Aria Strat - Epi LP Custom - Tokai LP - Ibanez - Godin Summit CT
I have an acoustic as well but can't find any photos of it, and I don't play it much anyway. Now show me yours?:g
Crossroads, class. :)
I always loved guitars from the 50's, 60's like Burns, Rickenbackers, Gretsch and the rest.
I have Six in all, two electric, two six string acoustic, one 12 string and one with an amp built in to it. None will be as expensive as any as yours but all have a story.
Give me a couple of days as there are two in the attic and one in one in pieces.
The Strat that I have would of been worth a lot of money, but I wanted to take the finish off it, so started stripping it slowly, bit by bit. Came home from school one day and my dad said he had done it, I asked him how he had got all the paint off and he said that he used a sander stuck on the end of his drill! ****ed it completely. :P
For the links that actually work (Rapidshare keeps saying I need to be a premium meber!) - Excellent work around. Amazing how much different stuff people are into, I'm all for that. I used to say I was into everything but Country and Western, but if you've played the original GTA and heard the "Sideways Hank O'Malley" tune, well, I even like that! lol.
I work with Magix, eJay (laugh all u want, eJay 7 is very powerful for £10 nowadays!), Audition, Sound Club and Sound Forge. I did use Cubase LE that came with a midi controller, but I wasn't up for getting into it full on. I will soon get some hardware and start looking into it. I find that left to my own devices I won't, so want to do a summer course in music production so I learn from the ground up hwo to capture sounds and exploit them. I just need that "kick up the ass" to do it really.
I have a few VST's that produce some awesome sounds (Polyvoks especially) so there is potenital, but as I grew up with eJay and listening to Chemical Brothers and a lot of old skool rap and acid house going into Britpop and general electronica as a whole, I found thanks to the dance influences and eJay as I was 12 at the start, I work better sequencing from a sound and working with that in sound chambers. But I have done some songs using sounds created from sine waves too.
My latest idea for a project is an album with all the sounds from specific games. Megadrive games I think may be the focal point as they have all those awesome "sound test" options in the menus. Streets of Rage is definitely on the cards. I'll share that when it's all done! lol. - Watch this space!
I've also started my composition of "Just can't get enough" by Depeche Mode using Nlog on the iPhone. lol. It's weird using a keyboard on the iphone and hearing this amazing sound. The app is free to mess with and I recommend getting it!!!! - It's being used for the "final" version of a song I have called Solyaris that I made in Sound Club (again a free download for PC).
Well, I play the drums, but on my own. I used to play in a couple of bands (several kinds of Metal) but never found what I have been looking for (progressive rock). On the other hand I am doing some stuff with renoise, but somehow working with this program does not motivate me. Cool thing would be something like Frontline Assembly or Skinny Puppy with e-drums. Maybe some day
Here's some pics of two of my babies, my acoustic is away partying so no photo op for it right now...
'05 Godin LG HMB:
http://a.imageshack.us/img714/5465/dsc01669op.th.jpg
http://a.imageshack.us/img28/4276/dsc01668h.th.jpg
http://a.imageshack.us/img138/3658/dsc01667u.th.jpg
The colour is not really that pukey orange in the photos, it's a rich burgundy red, the finish and the mahogany are aging together really nicely. :D
'98 Fender Cyclone:
http://a.imageshack.us/img693/2816/dsc01671u.th.jpg
http://a.imageshack.us/img204/6153/dsc01670p.th.jpg
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Ahhhh, girls that play the guitar, think I'm in love! Interesting chord you played in Creep Medusa, the one with the middle finger off :)
That Fender Cyclone looks cool, I've never heard of them.
Heheh, since I'd censored the song itself to death I thought I should add a bit of interestingness somewhere...those minor barres are always begging for it.
The Cyclones are discontinued now, hard to find but still fairly cheap considering. I love the looks of them, especially the zebra humbucker. The sound is either grunge-y or strat-y, (basically), there isn't a lot of range in sounds. Not like I need that, really. :P That's what the Godin's for.
Medusa, did you get the little tag on your Godin that shows you exactly who was responsible for each part of the guitar by way of their hand written initials on it? I love that label!:D
The quality assurance tag? You betcha. I even checked to see what day my guitar was made, it was a Wednesday guitar. :D
Best tag evar! I just checked my serial number too:
The guitar was manufactured Thursday, March 12, 2009. It was guitar number 231 made that week.
Aw, it's just a baby. :lol Checked it on a website called guitar dating. 'Date your guitar'. I wonder how many people have gone there expecting something a bit, er, 'different'.:P
I listened to the youtube videos. I like the Shiina Ringo one best.:nod Out of interest - what were the mids set to on the other tracks? Say on a scale of 1 - 10?
Well that's a tricky question since I use a Vox AC4TV, it only has one Tone knob (which was annoying at first, but I don't care anymore now!!) and I usually run the guitar through a Boss GT-6 which sucks some of the guitar tone (because I use cables that are too long...).
But anyways, I had the tone set exactly on 5 (or halfway) on the amp, and left the guitar tone set to full on both of the other tracks. Was using both humbuckers on Brick Is Red, and only the neck bucker on Creep...I was too busy trying not to sing like s*** to obsess over tone like I usually do, (which doesn't work when you're not a good singer and get nervous easily anyways).
That "date your guitar" site always cracks me up. Ah really, we can go out together? Alright, let's go baby! You and me, just the two of us!
I really like Hypersonic. I don't know exactly what sets it apart for me though...
I thought I had replied to Autechom...but I see I didn't.
I'd like to hear some of your drumming Autechom!! It always impresses me to hear/see drummers at work.
Not being a drummer myself I really don't know if some songs I think have great drumming are actually that good, or not...For example:
Death Rides a Horse by Russian Circles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2-hJ...os=4qRC3y9Q5VE
and Inazawa Chainsaw by Number Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxFT...os=NuTTeSGgejA
I don't know...do choir members count as musicians?