Wall of Mouths

That’s shocking mate… really shit… well done, at least you know you can only get better. ;)

Mate to help give you an idea, it depends on the sample rate that you are recording at. CD’s are at 44.1Khz 16Bit and they are stereo… a 700mb disc will hold roughly 70-74 minutes of music. So your 100mb zip disc at that sample rate and only recording stereo will let you have 10 minutes of audio.

Make sense?

Auto_Surgery wrote:

I always thought you used heavier gauge strings if you tuned down?

Jazz guitar players seem to use really heavy strings, don’t really know why? Mine are heavy because i do currently play down in C sharp/drop B but that’s more to do with helping singers hit there notes batter but i have got used to it now :)

I use 56’s on the bottom E with a wound G and i can never remember the higher gauge… but i’m not a fan of solos these days, i can do them fine but i prefer rhythm playing i’m more about the groove.

I would possibly buy one as i do like them… but i’m pretty happy with my Les Paul, and i don’t see me shelling out for another guitar for a while.

Buy the Soundgarden Superunknown tab book… if you get your head round those tunings then you will be cool ;)

Some really strange ones to an extent musically they don’t really make much sense but they sound great.

I don’t really use them myself.

I Tried out an Orange Thunderverb head with its own special cab (as it can be used as a bass amp as well) yesterday and I was very very impressed with the sound of it. Distortion with it was a phat thick sound but had perfect clarity to it and with my les paul was the sound I have been looking for and would be my ideal set up. I tried the other orange amps they had there and they are also brilliant the combos are great for the price as well. I did try some randals and mesa boogie amps but although they were very powerful they lacked the thickness and sounded too clinical.

Taunty Dan wrote:

what do you think of sonar products Si, any experience?

To be honest mate I have never used them… i’ve been a pro tools engineer now since 98 so guess i’m stuck in my ways. Logic and cubase don’t fit my needs and PT is the norm in studios so I stick to that… the only other thing i know well are SSL desks with 2inch reel to reels attached… but you don’t see many these days.

You could buy an Mbox for a couple of hundred… you won’t need anything else. The mbox Plugs into your usb port and has all the inputs for mics, drum machines etc you need, and pro Tools is very easy to use and comes with some good plug ins for compressing and E.Qing your stuff. The midi is okay if you want to use it with anything like that. You can do some very professional recordings on it, I’ve recorded alot of stuff (not drums.. need more inputs for that) that have ended up on albums on my laptop.. i do all my stuff on my mac and I personally think the sound quality is good.

Depends on where you are recording and what mic you are using. Also how good the vocalist is will be the main factor. I record most vocals with a neumann u87 but at a couple of grand it’s not really a budget mic to use…but is the sort that is used in pro studios. I try to put up some dampening so that you don’t get to much slap back from the rooms walls. Send a bit of reverb or chorus to the vocalists headphones to help them keep in tune. If the don’t like headphones then set up two speakers for them to hear the tune and them selves but put one speaker out of phase so the bleed through is minimal. Could tell you more but without knowing the set up it’s hard to advise:)

I currently play in drop B.. with gauge 56 strings… at one point may concider going to normal B like carcass but i can’t be arsed messing with the guitar again.

Have you thought of putting cards up in phone booths?…you will certainly get some interesting charaters!:)

Les Paul Standard Limited Edition
Jackson Dinky reversed head
Epiphone dot 353
Some shitty guitar called a rockster
Ovation electro Acoustic
Yamaha Steel String Acoustic
A Martin Backpacker Acoustic
Tanglewood Rebel 5 string bass
and a ukulele

Used to have a Yamaha drum kit but i sold it.

Mollys lips by the vasalines/nirvana

it’s only two chords. G and C

hoochalobster wrote:

*sneaks in* Simon can you reply to my email cause then I can send the other email and then I will know what’s going on and everything will be joyous :D [/rude interuption of dull techie talk]

i will check them now i haven’t looked yet:) sorry ;)

EDIT: check your mail now.:)

Guess so:) i’ve been pro tools engineering since i left (but was working at a studio before i went there)and have done it both here and in Australia. It’s a very tough industry at the moment i will warn you.

Cool well good luck with it all:)

Yes i went there back in 1998:) (man i feel old)

Is Sarah and “Mad” Alex still running the whole thing and does Gurjit still work in the tech office?

mate i’m not going to doubt you, it’s just if the guitar is tuned to D then certain chords don’t work as you have the play the higher versions of them like E for example. But i know when it comes to guitar things can be played many ways and sound right:) also i should check and see what my guitar is tuned to as it could be in D and i’m talking rubbish;)

anyway off on a tangent…you don’t happen to be studying at the gateway do you..it’s just i saw where you were living and what you are studying?

Man of Five wrote:

that’d be great!

even if you give me a draft i might be able to figure the rest on my own :)

thanks!!

will give it a bash…working out songs is easy its the tabbing bit that gets on my nerves. i will try to be less lazy and sort it out.

our white noise is standard tuning.

Jelle wrote:

The booklet makes no mention of Gibson. So I guess he didn’t use it?

The booklet would only mention instruments that they are indorsed by not everything they play:) so i’m sure he could have used the Gibson.

Superunknown wrote:

Hamer?

yeah thats the one i meant:) that was nurse/ early troublegum period. it had the whammy bar..for lots of whammy fun!

Man of Five wrote:

these kick ass! :)

are you planning to do our white noise soon? :D

i’ve worked our white noise apart from the outro i can give tabbing it ago if you wish..but i’m very shit at these sort of things! it sounds okay though:)

I’m sure i saw him play some shitty telecaster on the nurse tour..and he had a Hammer guitar for a bit.

he’s a link to he’s not that knid of girl

http://www.akkords.ru/song.php?28897

it’s practice mate, i can’t say i instantly play back what i have heard but give me a few minutes i can work it out. It comes after time, i have been playing guitar since i was 12 and can’t really read music but can play things by ear.:)

@hooch I wouldn’t worry i have heard that mozart almost killed himself because he couldn’t master twinkle twinkle it’s a toughy.

sadly it’s practice practice practice, as people said strengthen your fingers and slowly it will become easier then just concentrate on making each string ring out:)

Thats right gav I used to play a les paul through a big muff into a bass amp with heavy strings. That noramaly losens the bowls of the first four rows:D

I got into a habit of when recording clean guitars using putting them through bass amps, as you get a warm sound and if you ever do heavy songs it can give you more grunt.

Cool Have you laminated it yet?:p