Amp talk

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Sat May 06, 2006 4:27 pm

Holy crap Sober, that amp is awesome. Great job! I have a little practice amp sitting around doing nothing, and I think it's high time it got re-skinned.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sat May 06, 2006 4:41 pm

Great amp, Sober. Now are you doing a cow and zebra version?

catch · Post by **catch** » Sat May 06, 2006 7:46 pm

If you're taking requests, I've got two words for you:

Purple. Velvet.

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:23 pm

tviyh wrote:
UnDesirable wrote:there are alot more girls coming in and out taking guitar and bass lessons than guys.
my daughter (age 7) has not come out and said anything explicitly, but i'm starting to detect a keen interest in drums. she really likes when i listen to songs that have a lot of drumming, and i always hear her hitting the sides of her booster seat in the car, in time with the music.

it makes me slightly hopeful for the future.

My youngest daughter is age 9 and has pounded on the drumset I've had for a couple of months now more than a few times. When I was showing her how to position her hands (right hand on the high hat, left hand on the snare, right over left) she tried it for a bit and then stopped. I asked her what was wrong and she asked me "Dad, is it OK if I hit this (the high hat) with this (her left) hand? I looked at her speechless for a minute and said "Honey, just do what comes natural". So she did and her time was much more steady.

Leave it to children to figure the easier way of doing things. That style is the way my drummer in my band plays. I'm going to try and have him come over and give her lessons when he can. I just think he's going to be stunned when she pulls that out, and I won't let him know beforehand.

Should be fun.

EDIT: Oops this was amp talk. I'll take a group photo of mine and post later.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:29 pm

Hell yeah for chick rockers.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Sat May 06, 2006 10:28 pm

well, since there's a partial thread derailment in progress, I'll jump on the caboose and say... my 16 month old daughter is totally captivated by music. ANY kind of music (from Mudvayne to Pat Metheny) comes on, and her eyes get this crazed kind of dream-land look and she simply has to dance. HAS TO DANCE like crazy dance time. And she claps, only she doesn't just clap, she claps, on time with the music. She rulezors.

I can't even do that.

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:42 pm

Speaking of Mudvayne, I'll be sitting in on a drum recording session with them later this month. I'm interning with this producer and he thought a drum session would be a good first session. With Mudvayne.

Anyway, if you're going to try this, get lots of extra fabric (I paid $17 total for all of it, and get lots of spray adhesive. Krylon makes some good stuff.

Again, for your first project, I recommend something fuzzy, or at least something that will stretch. Minor mistakes will be painfully obvious with vinyl or real tolex. I might try the same thing with my huge keyboard amp someday, which is much more likely to see the stage anyway.

That said, if anyone wants me to do one of these for them, I'll consider exorbitant offers.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Sun May 07, 2006 8:48 am

The Sober Irishman wrote:Speaking of Mudvayne, I'll be sitting in on a drum recording session with them later this month.

dude, you can't possibly imagine how jealous I am. That is friggin' awesome!

Mostess · Post by **Mostess** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:15 am

This week's Hostess Mostess entry was an experiment with feedback between our crappy electric guitar and our crappy practice amp. Usually we record electric guitar tracks direct in after the kids are in bed. Rock does not ensue.

But the thing that struck me this time---the kids and wife were away from the new house, so I felt no guilt cranking it up more than I ever had before---was how much fun it was to play with feedback. I'm guessing that emulators won't feedback, and I've never seen a fake feedback generator (though I've never looked). In any case, the seemingly subtle art of moving the guitar in relation to the amp to change the feedback notes/volume/tone/etc. is probably impossible to generate electronically (without some motion/direction sensors on the guitar wirelessly read by some computer thing, and even then...).

Anyone here play with this stuff? Roymond, have you ever chatted with Belew? Any favorite amp/guitar combinations for making pleasant feedback sounds?

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:22 am

It's fun to make feedback loops with pedals and mixers, too. Get a splitter for your output, run one cable from the output to the input and the other from the output to an amplifier. Instant brutality.