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Any musicians around here? What do you play?
Me, myself, and I, we're primarily a drummer/percussionist, but also do alot of programming/midi work. I also tinker on the guitar, and that's why I wrote this because I just picked up a pair of vintage archtop electrics from my great uncle who just passed away. They sound SUH WEEET!!!! Makes me feel all BB King inside.
Had to share. :grin:
Steve Strickland
10-22-2005, 08:11 PM
I'm a drummer, too, but I mess around with guitar and bass as well. I'm a sucker for vintage gear. I've got a Roland Space Echo analog delay that decays like no other. I record on a 1/2" reel to reel and still buy vinyl whenever I can. Outside of my digital filmmaking world, I'm addicted to that old school warm analog sound.
Isaac_Brody
10-22-2005, 08:20 PM
Guitar and singer. And a little film composing too when I need it.
Slimothy
10-22-2005, 08:22 PM
I play guitar/sing in my band www.myspace.com/sfn
MattC
10-22-2005, 08:44 PM
I was a jazz performance major at Berkeley, String Bass (minor in composition and arranging). Pretty much lost use of my hands for playing - long story but a lack of cartilage causes them to lock up. Without that limitation, which is pretty limiting, I can also play a bit of guitar, electric bass, piano, and more than the rest saxophone.
Moonwind
10-22-2005, 09:25 PM
Keyboards (including accordion) and reed instruments (including flute).
Bigmagic
10-22-2005, 09:38 PM
Guitar player started in the late sixtys playing Hendrix & Cream three piece power rock. Played in Country Rock Bands thru the eighties and early ninties(thats where the money was) and became a jazz lover in the mid nineties.(Larry Carlton,Stanley Jordan, Pat Methany etc).
Zach Lien
10-22-2005, 10:32 PM
drummer
J.R. Hudson
10-22-2005, 10:37 PM
Guitar
Intermediate (Rhythm)
idvfilms
10-22-2005, 10:40 PM
I am still weeping over selling that PRS HB
I am still weeping over selling that PRS HB
ouch. One of these I just picked up is a '59 gretsch anniversary archtop. Not lettin this one go!
Frizzle Fry
10-22-2005, 11:14 PM
Electric bass, piano, percussion. I'm actually gearing up to move a piano 30 miles from my parents' house to my house tomorrow morning. Looking forward to getting my chops back, and hopefully getting to the next level.
Niebs
10-22-2005, 11:24 PM
i play guitar and sing in a band... i bought a yamaha keyboard for scoring movies, but i don't really know how to play piano.
blckhawk542
10-22-2005, 11:33 PM
Guitar
Formed a new band...no recording yet....will in a few months.
www.myspace.com/agreenerscenery
but...i do have a recording of myself playing a guitar solo I wrote....recorded on a crappy computer mic...and dubbed with synths...and drum beats i had on the comp...and I wrote the bass part too.
http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=06RSQ9DGFPF9F2DY9HMC55G30U
Very old song
but...i do have a recording of myself playing a guitar solo I wrote....recorded on a crappy computer mic...and dubbed with synths...and drum beats i had on the comp...and I wrote the bass part too.
http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=06RSQ9DGFPF9F2DY9HMC55G30U
Very old song
Interesting. Sure sounds like a studio bit to me.
It's not april 1st yet man ;)
ps: here's a little song I recorded with a tin can on my old amiga:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=3536581&s=143441&i=3536617
:beer:
blckhawk542
10-22-2005, 11:41 PM
Interesting. Sure sounds like a studio bit to me.
It's not april 1st yet man ;)
Sounds like a studio dub cuz I put the guitar recording through like 7893473 different noise reducers nd stuff....and Fruity Loops helps alot for beats and synths.
april 1st?
EDIT: I need ITunes??..hell no...Windows Media is madd easy to use...ITunes is complicated for me..haha
what amp and outboard gear did you use?
"...you gotta get up earlier than that Farmer."
blckhawk542
10-22-2005, 11:50 PM
I use a Marshall amp.
Outboard gear?...the set up I had was...the computer...mic infront of amp...and i wrapped the area of the amp and mic with like a blanket so there's like not a lot of echo and stuff...but there crackles and stuff..and you could hear me plucking the strings on the guitar..so it took me like a whole day to get rid of the sounds through a noice reducer pluggin on Acid Pro.
Then went to Fruity Loops and made some synths and they had some preset drumbeats that I imported into Acid..then made my own beats from the sounds by timing them differntly...it took a while to put it all together.
so.... did you do any overdubbing? What mic did you use? Preamps? How about that doubling and the pinky volume swells?
If you can't tell man, i'm calling your bluff. ;)
blckhawk542
10-22-2005, 11:57 PM
so.... did you do any overdubbing? What mic did you use? Preamps? How about that doubling and the pinky volume swells?
If you can't tell man, i'm calling your bluff. ;)
yes there was overdubbing on the guitar...on some parts you could hear it...i jus re-recorded so it came out differently then put that track ontop of the other.
mic...those white crappy computer mics.
Preamp....well...a Boss ME-50 pedal..if you consider it a preamp......used the distortion on that.
The pinky volume swells?....iduno wat u jus said...but I have a flexible pinkie where i can do really fast swipes.
ok...tomorrow...ill make a short like 30 sec video of me playin a piece of the song to show you....blahhh!!!
:thumbsup:
ok...tomorrow...ill make a short like 30 sec video of me playin a piece of the song to show you....blahhh!!!
:thumbsup:
Lookin forward to it.
Coming from someone with a background in studio production and recording, if you can produce something like that at your age (or any age), with a "crappy white computer mic" you're a prodigy and/or MacGeyver. You'd distort the diaphragm of those mics just by breathing into them.... let alone blasting a marshall stack.
Cmon now, you can't lie to Uncle Kai!
blckhawk542
10-23-2005, 12:04 AM
Lookin forward to it.
Coming from someone with a background in studio production and recording, if you can produce something like that at your age (or any age), with a "crappy white computer mic" you're a prodigy and/or MacGeyver. You'd distort the diaphragm of those mics just by breathing into them.... let alone blasting a marshall stack.
Cmon now, you can't lie to Uncle Kai!
Ok..you'll see.......age has nothing to do with it...well...maybe a little bit...but..it all depends on determination and skillzzzzz.
and with the blasting of the mic...the amp wasnt all that loud...
...ill be MacGeyver....
:)
thisiswells
10-23-2005, 12:14 AM
I have quite a few instruments and before quitting private lessons I was getting pretty good. Anymore the stuff just sits around. For example, right now my Silver Sparkle Maple kick drum is sitting underneath my video monitor as a stand! (well, inside of an SKB case, of course!) My cherry Gibson flame maple LP hasn't been out of the case in, oh, five months or so. I play the acoustics occasionally. Gee, I wonder what happened. I used to like music...
blckhawk542
10-23-2005, 12:15 AM
What kind of Gibson do you have?
thisiswells
10-23-2005, 12:26 AM
Studio Plus Les Paul with Flame Maple top, Rosewood fingerboard and Silver hardware. Ain't bad.
Most of my loot is in esoteric handmade pedals, some from Oklahoma as it turns out! (I have serial number #1000 of the Keeley Compressor!)
GenJerDan
10-23-2005, 01:23 AM
Any musicians around here? What do you play?
Probably nothing, anymore. Haven't picked up any of them in months/years, so the skills are gone.
These days, I just let the computer do the heavy lifting.
And, after listening to blckhawk542's little guitar ditty, I'm too embarrassed to pick up any of them again.
Anyway, the things I don't play anymore: guitar, bass, one-handed keys. And buried even deeper in the attic are the clarinet & sax.
BLUESPIDER
10-23-2005, 02:56 AM
I can hum pretty good.
Taryllou
10-23-2005, 03:30 AM
I know a musician here, but I don't know if I can say his name. They're all musicians in his family. but since he's not here for music I won't tell his name
BLUESPIDER
10-23-2005, 03:45 AM
I know a musician here, but I don't know if I can say his name. They're all musicians in his family. but since he's not here for music I won't tell his name
MJ?
Believe or not, I used to listen to 3T? What ever happend to those guys?! :undecided
Taryllou
10-23-2005, 06:33 AM
not Michael. why do you talk about 3t? I didn't know they are famous on Cambodia...
David Jimerson
10-23-2005, 07:26 AM
Brass.
HorseFilms
10-23-2005, 07:38 AM
I've played the sax since I was 10 years old. I've been playing guitar and bass for about 11 years. I occasionally fill in on bass for a band I manage: http://www.myspace.com/diesl
robmyers
10-23-2005, 07:58 AM
archtop guitars are the $*%t! i just bought an eastman archtop last year. my first real jazz guitar (been playing guitar since 1980). it's gorgeous. an instrument i'll keep for the rest of my life. i also just bought a gibson 1975 les paul from my friend, brian baker (minor threat, bad religion) he leant it to me after my sweet '79 gibson SG was stolen on the last thievery corporation tour when we were in bulgaria. he found a new gold top LP and offered a price i couldn't refuse... sucks to loose an instrument, though.
i play: guitar, sitar and the usual smatering of everything else.
my bands: fort knox five, thievery corporation, international velvet, liftoff and thunderball.
www.fortknoxrecordings.com
www.eslmusic.com
www.thunderballdc.com
mdslammer
10-23-2005, 09:57 AM
I'm a professional musician currently working as drummer, percussionist and foley artist for "The Tournament Of Kings" at the Excalibur Hotel here in Las Vegas, NV.
I also fight with the keyboard...
In addition, I also have a post production studio that I use for various applications, primarily underscoring for film & video, ADR work, sound design and so forth.
Mark Dalzell / AudioScapes
Las Vegas, NV
http://www.audioscapes.net
Steve Strickland
10-23-2005, 10:21 AM
my bands: fort knox five, thievery corporation, international velvet, liftoff and thunderball.
That's awesome, man. I worked in a record store in Boulder, CO for many years and "The Mirror Conspiracy" was a store favorite. I'm a dub addict myself. I'm into the heavy roots feel ala Scientist, Lee Perry, King Tubby, and On-U sound. I've got to check out your other projects. If they are anything like Thievery Corp., I'm sure I'd be into it.
blckhawk542
10-23-2005, 10:22 AM
Here's the video
http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1294X9IQEOOSF1KNXP8JKBBB5Z
Didn't feel like re-recording the video to fix some minor mistakes...but I was lazy.
:thumbup:
disjecta
10-23-2005, 10:23 AM
Piano...well, keyboards actually. Started off with a Roland Juno 6 synthesizer back in the 80's and eventually graduated to the piano.
Was in and out of rock bands for 12 years. I ran the gamut from "new wave" to southern blues-gospel.
Before the synth I played drums :)
robmyers
10-23-2005, 10:52 AM
That's awesome, man. I worked in a record store in Boulder, CO for many years and "The Mirror Conspiracy" was a store favorite. I'm a dub addict myself. I'm into the heavy roots feel ala Scientist, Lee Perry, King Tubby, and On-U sound. I've got to check out your other projects. If they are anything like Thievery Corp., I'm sure I'd be into it.
got to love the dub. desmond williams (who had an album on eslmusic before a splitup) was the engineer on "the mirror conspiracy" he was scientist's "protege."
Steve Strickland
10-23-2005, 11:12 AM
Damn blckhawk542, you've got skills, man! I just watched the video and was WAY impressed. If the filmmaking career doesn't go anywhere, you've got a future in Rock N Roll. Nicely done. (a non-sarcastic) :thumbsup:
blckhawk542
10-23-2005, 12:06 PM
Thanks!!
I'm still tryin to learn the full song of Turkish March..if you noticed..I cut out the whole crazy fast part...still gatta learn it by ear..its takin forever.
Hopefully...the filmmaking career works.....I heard musicians dont make good money...even if their famous...*bites nails* AAH!!
fo shizzl