Do you mostly play your guitar clean or dirty
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SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
I like volume too. But, if I'm just doing scales or maintenance practice, I really don't need the neighbors to hear me. Because I'm in loud machine shops every day, I worry about my ears even though I wear ear protection. As a result, I do like playing an acoustic when I get home. Or, I can plug into a couple of different small wattage tube amps that I can send into tube saturation, and not kill my hearing.
And, then... every couple of weeks, we do get together at Tom's. Then I'll be playing opposite any one of these bass amps and a heavy hitting drummer. That's why I can take a JTM45 or Blonde Bandmaster into distortion and feedback without pedals. The last time we played, it was loud enough that you felt like you could lean back and the volume would hold you upright.
Nice!!!
I used to worry about my hearing, but performing 5 nights a week for many years damaged it quite a bit. Navy service did not help.
At home, i never sit in the same room with the amp. I run a mic and cable to the cab in an unused room, then patch it into my PC via headphones.
Early mornings, i use Guitar Rig 6 through my Focusrite 2i2 and into the phones.
The huge isolation box the studio gave me brings 100db down to 27db once its buckled closed, but i miss that "splash" of room ambience.
Have you ever had a live rig so loud on stage that you could move to the side and NOT hear it???
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
That looks like my old bass player Marks rig from 93.
I play dirty .
but I do wash my hands before I play ..
Very nice!
I nowhere that trick. A guitar is the tool i use to make a living, so its not as much a passion, per-se, but that's great equipment you got there!
If i showed you where i record here (or at our drummer's place) you wouldn't believe we could do it with such minimal equipment.
When i want a more professional place to practice, i will often use the Academy's rehearsal space...
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SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
I have the opposite problem with no space. That's where I actually sit when I practice. No separate rooms. Just pick an amp, large or small, and play. Why, I don't always play loud. For years, I had a rehearsal space in Allston. The building is gone in the big real estate grab going on here trying to outprice the San Jose area. Another rehearsal complex in Charleston went last month. Boston is driving out it's arts community. The only space I might be able to get in Salem has six rooms. I'll just make the best of what I have for now, and be glad we still actually jam a couple times a month.
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Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
My Ex Instructor who I miss , but due to covid and his Wife being a Nurse decided he was no longer coming back to teach. When we were together he encouraged me to come to open mic night, which he used to run each week at a local establishment. But the bar scene is just not my cup of tea.
My stage now is playing at the campground through the spring and summer months. I play for friends and family there, its a great time and I really enjoy it. Friends and campers are very encouraging, all ages who enjoy my playing. It gives me that lift to keep on playing.
My stage now is playing at the campground through the spring and summer months. I play for friends and family there, its a great time and I really enjoy it. Friends and campers are very encouraging, all ages who enjoy my playing. It gives me that lift to keep on playing.
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syscokid
Ambassador of War & Peace
WHAT????
Seems like a silly move to drive put the arts in any community.
We are blessed - i think - to have so many rehearsal spaces here in SoCal. @Mitch Pearrow SJMP used to stop by our space in Riverside, on his way home from work, and watch is rehearse.
Sometimes, I'll just noodle on an electric acoustically, in the quiet darkness just before dawn, but i miss the "alive" feeling of an amplified electric.
Once, i set up my entire rig, on a Persian rug, in the middle of Cuddeback Lake, here in SoCal, with a generator, and spent a long time wailing away into the vast expanse of the desert, at absolutely blistering volumes. The feel of the instrument was amplified a 1000 times, it seemed. The sound of a Les Paul, at nearly atom-splitting volume, echoing from Dome Mountain to the west, across the vast nothingness of Grass Valley Wilderness, to shatter against the volcanic stone of Black Mountain to the east, and come roaring back, several miles like a lion, just as loudly as when the volley was first released.
We are actually going to shoot a video there for our cover of Wicked Sensation with a full band.
ibmorjamn
Ambassador of Moar Jammin
Nice V amoungst the other gear that is awesome. Is that a Gibson V?
The lawsuit korina ibanez from the 70's was identicle .
C-Grin
Ambassador of Wonderland
I would not like that at all. I don’t like excessive stage volume.
C-Grin
Ambassador of Wonderland
I see the rubber duckies are being judgemental again.
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
