Monkeybubbles wrote: ↑Thu Aug 28, 2025 2:15 pm
If only we knew someone that works with computers......
Downloaded the driver and FL Studio. Got things working, at least in terms of audio throughput. Now I just need to learn f*cking everything else, ever.
dasnutnock3 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 02, 2025 9:03 pm
Downloaded the driver and FL Studio. Got things working, at least in terms of audio throughput. Now I just need to learn f*cking everything else, ever.
Am also about to play with amplitube.
Posted some time in the future:- "Does anyone know what happened to dnn? He hasn't posted for over a year"
I have found that as I've got older, I've been drawn more and more towards Gilmour, Clapton, Gibbons and away from Vai, Satch and Malmsteen. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter three, and Satch is my all time favourite (along with Hendrix, EVH, Nuno and the late great Dime) but I've got more into blues, especially over the last couple of years, and the music I now play with my band is rooted in the blues.
A chap who lived close to me was a good blues player, you probably never heard of him Rory Gallagher
dasnutnock3 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 02, 2025 9:55 pm
I’m going to learn Ramble On tomorrow. Can’t be that hard.
Actually not that tricky. Most enjoyable.
Why the **** didn't I buy another bass decades ago? Stupid, stupid boy. This Sire sounds SO much nicer than the old fender P knock off I had back in the early 90s.
Monkeybubbles wrote: ↑Tue Sep 02, 2025 12:01 pm
I recently rationalised my live pedalboard from this.....
To this......
You lose a bit of spontaneity, and there's sometimes some weird 'magic' that happens when you cascade a few effects that just doesn't happen with digital stuff. But it's a shitload more convenient. And far less likely to go wrong. And, tbh, nobody but me will notice any diffence or care in the slightest.
Funny, I ended up going the other way, I had a multi fx until it went weird during a gig - I didn't have the brain space to figure it out on the fly. That panicked me so now when I look down I can see what each pedal is doing
simon hammer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:05 pm
I've heard good things about Wampler pedals, but none have come up second hand in my area yet.
I am in for some Landlord pedals though... chorus and tuner, plus a TC "the prophet" delay.
Noise suppressor, compressor and reverb next.
And just purchased a Hughes and Kettner Tubemeister 20 watt tube head and a 1x12 cabinet that comes with a Celestion Vintage speaker.
Nice amp I went for an Orange Dual Baby 100 because I thought I needed the oomph but rarely take above 4 or 5 on either channel! Sounds nice though.
I'd be interested in how you get on with the FX loop - I tried a couple of pedals that were way too noisy, I think a landlord reverb and a TC chorus pedal, fine on the input but it seems they couldn't cope at line level in the FX loop so ended up getting a NUX Atlantic because it has a switch, and an ibanez chorus mini.
I have found it is very difficult to establish what pedals can work at line level versus those for instrument level so I have to schlep 15 miles to my closest guitar shop and invariably have to increase my budget.
I'd be interested in how you get on with the FX loop
I've ordered 4 pedals from temu. Three of which were highly recommended (phaser, analog delay and analog chorus) and one which I just thought "what the hell, why not" (noise gate). Total price = £23. Not like I've bankrupted myself if they're awful, and if they're as good as I've been told...then bargain!
^^ That is an interesting video JBB, thanks for posting.
I was recently down the rabbit hole of experimenting with the relative major - everyone who cut their teeth playing western blues / rock already has the minor pentatonic ingrained into their soul, so I thought I would experiment by overlaying the relative major pentatonic into so improv against a backing track on spotify.
Didn't sound great - what this guy has done is basically overlay the tonic minor over the tonic major, which I never thought of ... I will have play later, but I'm nowhere near that guy's level.
My other weakness is knowing the notes on a fretboard on quick recall - always takes me a moment to figure it out which is usually too late.
It's just learning "shapes" really. Move pattern 1 of the A minor pentatonic down from the fifth fret to the second fret, play the same pattern and it's A major. Adds a different flavour to soloing over 12 bar blues in A.
This guy explains it, and I've shamelessly nicked some of his licks!
^^^ So, this is a bit of a game changer - I've been trying to play for over 20 years and want to know why no one has told me this up until now
I actually refused to believe it was true so I transcribed the scale notes just to prove it works. And then I did some nice improv over some backing tracks just to prove it even more.
I also came across a similar one from Justin Guitar where he does indeed drop down in the pentatonic shape to get to the tonic major.
I guess this is a cautionary tale - if you spend all your time in covers bands, basically painting by numbers, or in originals bands playing what sounds good (nothing wrong with either, by the way), there is an extra level to unlock by being curious about the music theory. Wish I did it years ago.
I've spent ages trying to avoid theory, tbh, and now I find myself approaching it through the back door.
The entry portal to guitar theory always seems to be The Blues, and I never wanted to play The Blues. So consequently I've kind of gone my own route, mostly based on "if the rest of the song sounds like THIS, I reckon I'll be ok if I play these notes HERE". Whenever I want to know why something I've played sounds passably ok and sit down and analyse it, invariably there are theoretical constructs that explain it. "Oh, so that flattened note makes it Mixolydian. I just thought it sounded ok".
I was looking my for a cheap "third" guitar that I can grab if anything goes wrong with my mainstay, or if I break a string, while I'm gigging.
I found a strat copy, in black, with three Warman pick ups for £40. I took a chance...
...Jesus Christ. The thing plays itself! It must have had a proper set up done at some point. And the tones I can get from it... absolute bargain of an axe.
I went for an Orange Dual Baby 100 because I thought I needed the oomph but rarely take above 4 or 5 on either channel! Sounds nice though.
