Any Musicians Here?

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I used to play bass guitar and drums a lot, but not so much the past few years.
 
Toki Wartooth said:
Wow. That's a lot of nice gear you got right there. Is that a Dunlop Zakk Wylde Wah on your pedalboard? I have that pedal too. Awesome stuff.
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Yep, it's a Wylde Wah. It handles high gain better than most other wahs, in my opinion. I shouldn't have cheaped out on the delay though. That mofo sucks quite a bit of volume and tone. I think I'll get a Boss DD3 instead.
 
Germanicus said:
Yep, it's a Wylde Wah. It handles high gain better than most other wahs, in my opinion. I shouldn't have cheaped out on the delay though. That mofo sucks quite a bit of volume and tone. I think I'll get a Boss DD3 instead.
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You can't go wrong with Boss. Pretty damn good quality stuff, really reliable too, really hard to break, unless you slam it into the floor repeteadly. And unless it's a Metalzone.
 
Toki Wartooth said:
You can't go wrong with Boss. Pretty damn good quality stuff, really reliable too, really hard to break, unless you slam it into the floor repeteadly. And unless it's a Metalzone.
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True. I've always liked every BOSS pedal I ever bought. They are reliable and sound good snd that's all I need. Even the Metalzone is better than its reputation if dialed in correctly. I mean, Even Rob and Pat from Cannibal Corpse use Metalzones with their Rectifiers. I am not sure though if they turn the gain all the way down and use it as a kind of clean boost or if they mix the preamp gain and the Metalzone's gain.
Mixing gain from a distortion pedal with preamp gain is something I like to do sometimes.
 
Current version of my pedalboard. The blue light underneath is the MXR iso-brick power supply. The board itself was made by my fiancé out of mahogany and finished with teak oil and industrial grade velcro.
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@Germanicus My fiancé has the same BBE Green Screamer. Just wanting to give you a tip with overdrive pedals: keep the gain itself around the 9 o'clock position and crank the volume up all the way to give your tubes that extra oomph while not mudding up their own natural dynamics and tone.
 
EyeWasATeenageMallgoth said:
@Germanicus My fiancé has the same BBE Green Screamer. Just wanting to give you a tip with overdrive pedals: keep the gain itself around the 9 o'clock position and crank the volume up all the way to give your tubes that extra oomph while not mudding up their own natural dynamics and tone.
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I only use the Screamer as a clean boost. My amps have more than enough gain anyway, I just want to tighten the low end up a bit and make it sound better when the amp volume is turned down. I even use it to boost my Bogner Burnley distortion pedal and it works great.
 
I've been around a little bit, i'm primarily a bass player both electric and upright (Though i admit i'm pretty awful at upright). I used to double as a drummer for a time playing with bar bands, small stuff. I recently to California where the place i'm at is much to small and intimately close to harbor drums in my house, so those had to go. With the money i got from selling the drums i went out and bought me a Gibson SG Special to try to learn guitar for versatility. I've shifted my focus to guitar family instruments in hopes of perhaps making a bit of cash as a session player, though i desperately need to work on my ability to read music.
 
my friend and i are working on a little something something

i also play guitar
 
I'm a cellist. Specifically, I play an electric cello. Decided to buy one when I received a bit of a windfall after a seventeen year break. Currently getting my feel for the instrument back, mainly transcribing and playing through a bunch of metal and prog metal stuff.
Having a valve amp makes it sounds incredible, IMO.
 
Having a bit of a problem and just wanted to vent some frustration. I decided to start recording music again, purely as a personal hobby, but it's been so long I've either sold or given away most of my equipment.

Well anyway right now all I have is a cheap Westfield electric 6 string, a Sigma 4 string acoustic/electric bass guitar and a drum machine (it's a Yamaha dd65 digital drum machine). I've also got a cheap 10 watt BB Blaster amp and a Digitech BP50 Modeling Bass Processor. I've got a Sony digital recorder and I edit and mix it together using Audacity.

My biggest problem just now is I can hardly record anything using the bass guitar. I thought an acoustic bass would give off a lovely sound but the strings buzzing against the fretboard is making me regret ever buying one. I thought it was pretty cool, has it's own built in tuner and everything, but it's pretty much useless now. Even years ago when I was in a band I couldn't use it in the studio because of the same problem.

My other problem is playing the digital drums. I learned how to play drums years ago and I always used a regular, acoustic kit. When I moved house I could no longer keep the drum kit so I got myself a digital kit and my god it's awkward to play! The pedals are the most laughable pieces of shit I've ever used. Little buttons that barely respond most of the time. Also because all the pads are so cramped together I often hit the side of it and it doesn't register a hit.

Was getting back into this for fun and now I'm just experiencing frustration and the realization I probably need to buy an electric bass if I want to record anything. I also need to get an amplifier that is actually intended for bass guitars before I blow out this cheap little thing I'm using, and a guitar pedal or something would be nice too.
 
Played guitar for about 12 years and been seriously into writing music for about half that time. I'm about half as good as Johnny Marr... and i think that's still pretty decent. Would post my soundcloud but it has uhh... my real name, and shit.

My gear list:
Fender Blacktop Jazzmaster
The Blacktop range is actually really nice. Bit weird, i think they were supposed to be hotter version of fender regulars but at the time it was the cheapest way to get a nice Jazzmaster/Jag, this was before those squire Jags that came out a few years ago.
Fender Squire Stratocaster Affinity
My first guitar, totally fucked up at this point (electronics/pots) but the neck is really nice. I'd like to clean out the pots and all that and get some seymour duncans for it when i have time to work on a guitar.
Fender Deluxe 112
I think mine comes form the 90s, solid state but before solid state meant "modelling that makes all your tones sound shit". Just really high quality and really LOUD.
Pedals
Electroharmonix Neo Mistress & Little Big Muff, Boss CS-3 Compressor, Marhsall EH-1 Echohead Delay.

At some point i'd like to move away from Fender and maybe try out a Les Paul style guitar or a Gretsch semi-hollow for a thicker clean type sound. Anyone else planning on buying any guitars/instruments?
 
EyeWasATeenageMallgoth said:
Current version of my pedalboard. The blue light underneath is the MXR iso-brick power supply. The board itself was made by my fiancé out of mahogany and finished with teak oil and industrial grade velcro
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I need that Anime Waifu pedal, even though I already have like 3 more fuzzes than I ever really use.

I am a shit-tier guitarist. Used to play in a couple local bands, recorded a CD, still have a couple CD's sitting around the house. At least I can claim I'm a "published musician".

I've got a mid-range Epiphone SG with Gibson pickups and a dear-to-me Yamaha pre-lawsuit (1982 or '83) Studio Lord that's totally stock and unchanged from when it was made. Looks like the spitting image of a Gibson Les Paul, made in Japan, solid as a brick. Play it through an Orange Dual Terror head with a couple pedals (Big Muff, some sort of overdrive, forget the rest).

Sometimes I dream of buying one of those Jet City 20 watt heads and run the guitar into an ABY box to get both the Orange sound, and a Soldano-esque tone, but then I remember I haven't actually played in a band in like 3-4 years and the gear would just sit at home gathering dust.
 
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