Sometimes I wondered whether my Peavey amp had an effects loop, whether PWR AMP IN was return, and PRE AMP OUT was send.
Now I know it. I'd noticed the jacks years ago, but I only hooked something up to them today, for the first time.
I may buy an amp sim pedal and plug it into the effects return. I'm thinking of the JOYO American Sound - it might make my Peavey sound like a Fender. A bit.
Trying out learning the intro of the AAL - Micro-aggressions. I'm yet to find correct tone for this, and I think the right hand is supposed to be muting the lower strings, but it seems to be coming together?
Everyone please meet Callie, taking a break next to two of her instrument siblings.. She is helping me complete my first album ever, and we have two songs out of six done! 🖤✔️ Callie is a Taylor 512ce in urban red ironbark. She’s unreal. A shorter scale length ebony fretboard is very comfortable and adds mellowness to the slightly smaller body’s tone. :blobcat: #GearSquad#guitar#music#gear#studio#musician#acoustic#taylor
Workflow improvement - dry erase sheet for listing the blocks of a song. A more detailed sheet I showed a few weeks ago was good for composing and planning but too small to follow for recording and I’d get lost between takes for what section I’m in. Really need a karaoke style display on my iPad that shows song sections as the track progresses but this worked well today. #guitar#musicprod#gearsquad
So I could get a Muffuletta 6-in-1 #Muff#fuzz#pedal for $200 r/t $250 while they're on sale.
Triangle, Pi, Ram's Head, Russian, Ciivil War. I read that the mids vary. #GAS#guitar#effectPedal#GearSquad
@eyesquash
Muffs are a thing you either love or you don’t, an absolutely iconic sound! The different variants are voiced differently in the mids as you say, but they are all muffs! Don’t expect there to be more than 1 sweet spot on any of the knobs in any if the settings! It’s not a subtle circuit.
Had a bit of a #SaturdayMorningGuitar session this morning, but then an early out-for-breakfast, so have been delving back into related activity this afternoon.
I compile music charts in a way that I prefer for easy reference while playing, and I've been a bit backlogged on songs I wanted to capture that way.
this morning i was running through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXY5e5JaV0 which i probably learned how to play in the early 90s, but i today focused on playing it /as cleanly as possible/, which is a, er, departure for me. very humbling. these hands are not exactly precision instruments.
I mixed a song a couple of nights ago but didn’t get around to posting it to my alonetone or hearthis.at accounts so it just sat there on my laptop. Now it is out there for the whole wide world to ignore.
I think it kinda sounds like crap, but the song itself is okay, I think. You can probably hear the edits in the chorus because I wrote a melody without leaving any space for that pesky little breathing thing. Oops.
The lead guitar was through a nearly cranked amp. That was fun. Noisy as hell, but fun.
@optilude Cupcake. I quite like the design of the knurled one, but the very clean white seems to clash with the pickups and pickguard; in the opposite direction, the stratty knobs are too yellowed to fit in.
Ok I have to ask: what’s the deal with Orange amps? I see them frequently online in guitar and gear Facebook groups and other forums. People seem to love them. I’ve never tried one though so I’m just curious. #guitar#gearsquad
@Theblueone@RuVerb@Cyrus@eyesquash I tried a 30watt head / cab combo at a California guitar store back in March. Looked great. Played just clean tones and it was fine. I prefer a Fender style 6V6 to the Marshall style EL34 circuit so take that for what it’s worth. I can’t see myself buying an amp with EL34s.
@NigelTufnel@RuVerb@Cyrus@eyesquash I’ve never been a fan of Marshall’s at all. Something in the tone stack that just hits me in some sorta synesthesia-like level with my fingers on the fretboard. It’s almost physically painful for me to play through a Marshall.
Today I finally got my hands on a Big Muff pedal so that I can ape the Siamese Dream sound. Hopefully it can make up for the pain of the past few days. I now have a Super Fuzz and a Big Muff pedal so I feel I have fulfilled a teenage dream that began with #Mudhoney Now to make some noise! #gearsquad#guitar#SmashingPumpkins#GuitarPedals
@DomSathanas hahahaha oh HELLL yes. I really need something like this for my bass again, I mean, right now I just run it through a little distorted guitar amp. But I want the sound of THESE again haha
Somebody else's #guitar#pedal on loan.
I want one. The Jag sounds/feels like it's alive through this thing. I hear some people don't like these? #fuzz#muff
@eyesquash I have a Big Muff Pi for my bass, it pretty much sounds like the platonic ideal fuzz IMO, vibrant and analog. Mine looks somewhat different (it's green), but I don't imagine it would sound vastly different
@eyesquash@flockofnazguls Guitar tone is so subjective. Especially in the distortion family, there will always be people who dislike a particular pedal. That’s fine. If you find your bliss, you won.
This is my general recommendation for the best acoustic #guitar for the price. They play and feel like an $800 guitar. The tone, neck, and overall quality is phenomenal. You can occasionally find deals on these around $300. The "folk" version is incredibly versatile, so it is worthy for unplugged campfires as well as playing live. It's a solid workhorse that won't have a problem keeping up with a Martin or Taylor and won't give you "glass mandolin syndrome".
