Does anyone here play guitar?
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PetShopQueen wrote: just curious.
Yees, I have been known to. Get paid occasionally too!
Just bought another new one actually, one of those Behringer iAxe things that has a USB connection to the PC as well as the conventional jacks to amp etc. Sounds like an absolute beast, dead smooth action and will be ideal for direct recording to PC once I have switched the strings for some super slinkys. Gonna rig it up so that I'm recording the sound to the amp through a pre-amp as well as the direct USB feed, and will split them across two channels with a bit of additional reverb and delay on the one, so I basically have two guitars playing the same part. Results will be mailed to the rest of the virtual band in the next few days!
funny, slightynarrow HQ is starting to look like a behringer dealership too ;)
Me new mixer is of that species, 45 quid on ebay, and all because the seller never cleaned the gaffer off the channel strip, it's preistine otherwise.
Roll on the I-bass I say :D
I used to, but I was known much more as a drummer in my highschool. We had a band called Camilla together with the boys - only one 15-minutes-live-show on our class party. Fookin great achievement, isn't it
I play a bit of bass.Can't read music but I get by.Play like a Manchester rock ikon when I'm pissed.
I think! 
Bassplayers who can read the dots are like hens pish and rocking horse shite....always good money to be made if you can do it, and no competition.
I can follow a lead sheet on sight, and can JUST read notes VERY VERY slowly, one note at a time....it gets me by.
Tim wrote:
PetShopQueen wrote: just curious.
Yees, I have been known to. Get paid occasionally too!
Just bought another new one actually, one of those Behringer iAxe things that has a USB connection to the PC as well as the conventional jacks to amp etc. Sounds like an absolute beast, dead smooth action and will be ideal for direct recording to PC once I have switched the strings for some super slinkys. Gonna rig it up so that I'm recording the sound to the amp through a pre-amp as well as the direct USB feed, and will split them across two channels with a bit of additional reverb and delay on the one, so I basically have two guitars playing the same part. Results will be mailed to the rest of the virtual band in the next few days!
I very nearly got one of these Behrinher USB numbers myself last week, but I opted for a beautiful sunburst Les Paul copy instead for the same price - it weighs a fooking ton (until this purchase I was playing a strat, which is balsawood by comparison), but the is new one plays like a dream now I've reset the intonation, and it sounds amazing..
CTB
It's a real monster! Managed to get rid of the inevitable latency (though that could be an inadvertent delay/chorus effect in itself when double-tracking between the USB direct record and recording a miked amp). Had a lovely time reproducing almost the entire Husker Du back catalogue with authentic guitar sounds from the "Guitar Combo III" pack that comes with it.
Tim wrote: It's a real monster! Managed to get rid of the inevitable latency (though that could be an inadvertent delay/chorus effect in itself when double-tracking between the USB direct record and recording a miked amp). Had a lovely time reproducing almost the entire Husker Du back catalogue with authentic guitar sounds from the "Guitar Combo III" pack that comes with it.
Funny, how it turns out to be a good guitar, by a maker who never makes guitars. Casio brought out a MIDI guitar ( not the one with pastic string you got the kids for xmas) in the late 80's and the consensus was basically....sod the MIDI, this is the best guitar you can buy for under £500.
Weird, eh?
Well it's not a great guitar, when maybe compared to my 335 or SG (or the Vox copy, which is possibly the best sounding of all my myriad axe collection), but the concept of a guitar that can do both USB DI and still be used as a working live guitar is quite something, and they've handled the inevitable latency issue pretty well. With some new lighter strings on it and a tweak to the action, I will have some real fun with this thing!
I am awful on the guitar, but I enjoy it.
I have a 12 string Stagg, a Fender acoustic, a Gretch Electric and a really old Eko Ranger, which I have reconditioned a bit. The Eko's really hard to play and not very loud, which makes it good to practice on. If you can play that one well, you can play really well on anything else.
I was just in a meeting at our client's office. At the end, the guy I was visiting mentioned that he'd just bought a new guitar, which he was hiding under his desk until he got together the courage to tell his wife. He got it out - a lovely looking Washburn 12 in a lovely maple finish. We had a play and it sounded great - much clearer than mine, which made me think it might be time to restring, it is over two years old and has the same strings as it had in the shop.
Someone mentioned that they always string their 12s so that the lower of the pairs is above the higher. He said it sounds a lot brighter this way, as the sound of each note rises rather than falls as you strum down. he says it makes it easier to play the rhythm on the lower strings, by strumming down, and catch a little bit of melody on the higher strings by plucking upwards. I can see what he means, but want to try it myself.
Has anyone tried this?
BIGINOIL wrote:
Someone mentioned that they always string their 12s so that the lower of the pairs is above the higher. He said it sounds a lot brighter this way, as the sound of each note rises rather than falls as you strum down. he says it makes it easier to play the rhythm on the lower strings, by strumming down, and catch a little bit of melody on the higher strings by plucking upwards. I can see what he means, but want to try it myself.
Has anyone tried this?
Bernard does the same thing on that Rickenbacker 12 he uses for LWTUA.
BIGINOIL wrote:
Someone mentioned that they always string their 12s so that the lower of the pairs is above the higher. He said it sounds a lot brighter this way, as the sound of each note rises rather than falls as you strum down. he says it makes it easier to play the rhythm on the lower strings, by strumming down, and catch a little bit of melody on the higher strings by plucking upwards. I can see what he means, but want to try it myself.
Has anyone tried this?
Had never thought of this, I'll give this a shot when I get around to restringing my 12-string, sounds like a bloody good idea to me - 
CTB
yeah bass guitar and acoustic guitar somewhat. have a thing for piano, read alto and bass clef well, have trouble with treble clef somewhat...
