Amazing skills
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If anyone wants any inspiration on how you can get on making guitars without a workshop/power tools check this out -
N.B. I donāt have a workshop but do use power tools.
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actually found this quite a relief. no need to be hankering after a semi-hollow anymore.
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Havenāt watched this (I will), but hollow vs solid at volume (with amp) is chalk and cheese.
full hollow? he only does semi- and chambered
Just checking in to say that the Hotone amps are, genuinely, worth every penny and then some. Currently recording with them and getting some really lovely sounds naturally
Semi (dunno about chambered) or full hollow. Tonally they might well be identical (as that very amusing YT dude Jim Lill has sort of proved at great length), but guitars with pockets react way, way more to the speaker/air movement than solid guitars. If you want to utilise borderline feedback for increased sustain, or you want big howling or whatever, a semi or hollow is in a different league to a solid. Equally if you play at volume with mid/high gain and you donāt want feedback much then a semi is a nightmare.
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When an actual pedal release seems like a terrible parody
Sounds horrible ā¦ or?
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PCBE
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Maybe I asked this before, sorry if so (memory isnāt great).
Are there any guitarists/bassists in bands with drummers here playing small (like 100/200) capacity places that have full PAs and using an amp/speaker simulator direct to PA, WITHOUT using a cab onstage? ie solely using monitors forā¦monitoring guitar/bass?
If so, is this as much of a gamble as it feels like it would be, in terms of fighting with the vocalist about whatās in monitors etc? And also fighting with the sound personā¦
Iāve done it in the past with bass and itās generally been fine, but always at venues where I knew the sound guy. It can definitely make it more challenging to cut through the mix especially itās a crowded one, but it works ok (but only ok)
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Been a couple of times the bass player in the band has done this for one reason or another, usually because we show up and the house amp is fucked. He has one of those sans amp things with the XLR out and itās sounded good.
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Yeah, done it with bass, many years ago - I used to use a Line 6 Bass Pod and bring a cheap 2-channel mixer and headphones with me; Iād run the Bass Pod into the DI for the desk, then use the Thru from the DI into the mixer. Then Iād get a foldback mix without bass from the folks on the sound desk and mix it myself using headphones to monitor.
Only thing is you donāt get so much physical sensation when playing that way and headphones can cut you off a bit, but I guess everyone uses IEMs these days and manages OK so
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I vaguely remember a bit of latency too but it was a while ago so I canāt really remember.
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Been a while since I got a mega bastard doom pedal from Australia.
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Hey gear wankers
Can anyone point me at a good basic guide for how to do make a guitar pedal board?
And also - Iām mainly only using a nice tape delay and a fuzzy thing - is there anything else basic and essential I should have on there?
(Iām not great at guitars or pedals but Iād like to try and not look like a total numpty)
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JHS is good for stuff like this
its one of those things where there are no rigid rules, but there are conventions and consideration
the conventional pedal order is gain effects > modulation effects > time effects
but you might have different preferences, e.g. I prefer reverb into distortion with more distorted sounds, gives a big post rock sound which sounds more natural that the other way around when it seems like the reverb smooths out the distortion and makes it sound quite 80ās, or you may want modulation like tremolo after reverb so the effect is more pronounced as the reverb will fill in some of the gaps (and some early examples of this combo in recordings would be reverb first if they used an outboard reverb unit into an amp)
various consideration include;
- some pedals might need to be first in chain, certain fuzz/volume/wah pedals are designed for the high impedance of a guitar signal rather than the low impedance of another pedals output
- does your amp have an fx loop, that sends the signal that has been processed by the ampās pre-amp out (so following the convention of gain before time based effects, though it has to be before the power amp section which can add more gain), so decide whether you want to use that or put the pedals in front of the amp
- if you do break the gain/time convention it will mean turning off the distortion will change how the current delay/reverb trails sound, which may or may not be a problem especially if you dont turn the distortion off
- there is the whole ātrue bypassā consideration which is largely mythical. guitarists didnt like the idea of a bypassed pedal affecting their tone so ātrue bypassā pedals were all the rage for a while, they basically maintained the high impedance of a guitar signal where as the alternative ābufferedā pedals convert to low impedance even when off. but problem with high impedance is the signal degrades the longer the signal path so having lots of true bypass pedals in sequence can damage the tone more than buffered pedals do.
I donāt think there is any set list of basic and essential pedals, if it were me I would add to what you have with a compressor ( I have a very rickety sounding jazzmaster and it really evens it out which also improves the feel when iām playing), looper (not just for looping but find it helps when trying to find sounds that work to leave a loop running and audition different settings, loopers with speed/direction playback effects are bonus fun), spring reverb (might be a personal preference but it is an essential part of the clean guitar sound for me), a volume pedal might be handy to give you control on the fly but also if you have it before the delay/reverb you can do ambient swells. Would probably include some kind of modulation pedal depending on your taste tremolo/chorus/vibrato/univibe/phasers/harmonic tremolo all just add a bit of movement, you could probably find one that covers a few different types of modulation in one.
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Totally OT, but I didnt know until very recently about how problematic JHS is ref āInternational house of prayerā affiliation etc. Was selling my pedals anyway, so canāt pretend that made any odds, but quite a weird/shocking one!
Maybe everybody else knew!
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