toastedgoat
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I play the guitar some and keys and do a little singing.
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another band?
Well I went ahead a jumped into another project to just to make some more money.
This project is called the Beer bellies and we host the Jam night at
Hot Shots in Independence MO. at 40hwy and Noland Rd.
Independence MO
If your ever in the area on Wedenesdays from 7pm till ???? come on in and join us on stage .
This project is called the Beer bellies and we host the Jam night at
Hot Shots in Independence MO. at 40hwy and Noland Rd.
Independence MO
If your ever in the area on Wedenesdays from 7pm till ???? come on in and join us on stage .
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JAN 12th Gig Results
Gig went well .. everyone was having a great time. Some minor production stuff but over all things went pretty good..... Did not start off that way though. It seems like there is always issues with every gig.. Just for those who haven't gigged out before I will give you a run down on the things that can happen..
first things first... changed strings on all guitars on Thursday , usually no big thing, playing on the guitar to stretch out the strings and get set in a little more on Saturday morning, when "Boing" a bridge saddle pops out of place.
The intonation screw that holds the saddle into place had stripped out (I think it was like that when I bought it cause I have had tunning issues with that string) Luckily the bridge has 2 holes for the intonation screws.
So easily fixed... just made me a little late for load in time.
2nd issues.. the venues double booked for the early part of the day...A very rich upper crust blue hair society meeting.... So they let us load in but no noise until after 3pm... Set the production company way behind schedule.
3rd Issue ..production company is using crown 5ooo. amp ..these are usually very stable and superb quality amps but they go to turn em on and one side of one of the amps pops a circuit and is now down.. They brought in a ton of gear so we were ok to cut back on the rig size.
4th Issued.. bad power/ground... major grounding issues with the buildings electricity. The production company wanted to tap into the incoming power source.... venue says ok but it will cost you $ 2000.00 so we declined the venues offer (2grand is insane amount for that)
The production company had a lot more work cut out for em cause they had to reroute most of the electrical into other areas of the building So they were running late for being able to sound check..
In the end though it all worked out Sound check was done and the rest of the night went very well.
I would like to thank everyone that made it. We have materials for sale now so there was quite a few tshirts and items purchased.
Jetman (Kyle) thanks for coming out to the show. good seeing you again.
ok this makes it sound like things were bad but really things were good and this kinda of stuff happens all the time whenever you going from venue to venue...it is just a matter of dealing with the issues and making sure the show happens., you know the old saying........ The Show Must Go On ...
EDIT:OK now I am adding to this some cause it reads kinda of negative
The earlier part of this blog is dealing with things that happened before the show. The Actual show went fantastic, once the lights came on and the first note was struck ..... gotta say it was one of the best show we have done. We had worked real hard on this show and it payed off, cudos out to Jim and Joe (you guys were extremely tight). Danny's vocals , as good as they ever have been and his show was on of the best. He got the crowd going and kept em entertained. Me, I just do my thing. I had a great time and really enjoyed myself.
first things first... changed strings on all guitars on Thursday , usually no big thing, playing on the guitar to stretch out the strings and get set in a little more on Saturday morning, when "Boing" a bridge saddle pops out of place.
The intonation screw that holds the saddle into place had stripped out (I think it was like that when I bought it cause I have had tunning issues with that string) Luckily the bridge has 2 holes for the intonation screws.
So easily fixed... just made me a little late for load in time.
2nd issues.. the venues double booked for the early part of the day...A very rich upper crust blue hair society meeting.... So they let us load in but no noise until after 3pm... Set the production company way behind schedule.
3rd Issue ..production company is using crown 5ooo. amp ..these are usually very stable and superb quality amps but they go to turn em on and one side of one of the amps pops a circuit and is now down.. They brought in a ton of gear so we were ok to cut back on the rig size.
4th Issued.. bad power/ground... major grounding issues with the buildings electricity. The production company wanted to tap into the incoming power source.... venue says ok but it will cost you $ 2000.00 so we declined the venues offer (2grand is insane amount for that)
The production company had a lot more work cut out for em cause they had to reroute most of the electrical into other areas of the building So they were running late for being able to sound check..
In the end though it all worked out Sound check was done and the rest of the night went very well.
I would like to thank everyone that made it. We have materials for sale now so there was quite a few tshirts and items purchased.
Jetman (Kyle) thanks for coming out to the show. good seeing you again.
ok this makes it sound like things were bad but really things were good and this kinda of stuff happens all the time whenever you going from venue to venue...it is just a matter of dealing with the issues and making sure the show happens., you know the old saying........ The Show Must Go On ...
EDIT:OK now I am adding to this some cause it reads kinda of negative
The earlier part of this blog is dealing with things that happened before the show. The Actual show went fantastic, once the lights came on and the first note was struck ..... gotta say it was one of the best show we have done. We had worked real hard on this show and it payed off, cudos out to Jim and Joe (you guys were extremely tight). Danny's vocals , as good as they ever have been and his show was on of the best. He got the crowd going and kept em entertained. Me, I just do my thing. I had a great time and really enjoyed myself.
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hmm new guitar stuff
well I have been trying out new guitar stuff and my bass player Jim kept saying .. hey you should try out my rack rig it has .. ADA mp1 , TC Electronics G Major effects, some kind of guitar rack compressor and eq into a stereo cab with newer Celestions. I kept putting it off until last Sunday.. then I finally plugged into it with both of us working on some sounds, and WOW WOW WOW it was freaking amazing the clarity and sustain, plus tone from hell.. So I am putting up my Randalls,and boogie, the pedals and all the other crap I kept accumulating . I am also going to take the new pedal board back and some pedals so Mark can get some of his money back..
all this stuff runs off of 1 midi foot controller with 6 banks of 9 presets/user settings. the tones smoke my line 6 stuff.. I played thru one of these at the store when they came out but was not impressed at the time. The TC gmajor is fantastic in the effects loop. I am now going to have to buy new stuff (copy this rig) tried the rocktron voodo but it didn't have the top end clarity that the mp1 had. I can't wait to record with this rig.
all this stuff runs off of 1 midi foot controller with 6 banks of 9 presets/user settings. the tones smoke my line 6 stuff.. I played thru one of these at the store when they came out but was not impressed at the time. The TC gmajor is fantastic in the effects loop. I am now going to have to buy new stuff (copy this rig) tried the rocktron voodo but it didn't have the top end clarity that the mp1 had. I can't wait to record with this rig.
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Whew man things are hectic now
The band has kicked in and doing very good. I have just done some equipment upgrades (say yeah for management).
The band line up :
Dan on vocals
Greg on guitar and vocals
Jim Welty on Bass guitar and vocals
Joe Gustin on Drums
The band line up :
Dan on vocals
Greg on guitar and vocals
Jim Welty on Bass guitar and vocals
Joe Gustin on Drums
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http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
lots of guitar tabs and links to others , plus forums for beginners.
lots of guitar tabs and links to others , plus forums for beginners.
Category: Lessons
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Bandamp Party 08'
Ok I can get this done but I would like if it is possible to get response to this ....
What month and weekend would be the best to put this on.. two choices really July or August,
The venue said most of the weekends were still open. They are even open Sunday so if we wanted to do a Friday night, Saturday afternoon into Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon it is possible.
Please either pm me or respond here with what weekends you could make it, then I could book the weekend with the highest possible turnout.
What month and weekend would be the best to put this on.. two choices really July or August,
The venue said most of the weekends were still open. They are even open Sunday so if we wanted to do a Friday night, Saturday afternoon into Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon it is possible.
Please either pm me or respond here with what weekends you could make it, then I could book the weekend with the highest possible turnout.
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Jam nights and this Weekend
Well I joined a jam band and we are doing the Wednesday night jam nights at HOT STOTS in Independence MO
starting from 7 till ????? .
Hot Shots Bar And Grill
13520 E US Highway 40
Independence, MO 64055
If you live around the area , stop on in and sit in with us on a few songs..They have good drink specials on Wednesdays too.
We are also doing a Friday Feb 06 gig there this weekend. from 9 till 1:00
starting from 7 till ????? .
Hot Shots Bar And Grill
13520 E US Highway 40
Independence, MO 64055
If you live around the area , stop on in and sit in with us on a few songs..They have good drink specials on Wednesdays too.
We are also doing a Friday Feb 06 gig there this weekend. from 9 till 1:00
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short lesson for digital newbies
I thought I would post a short lesson in as layman terms as I can get , about how the digital recorder captures your sounds.. first off sample rate... the best way I know how to explain this is to use the camera analogy.
what the computer is sorta of doing is taking pictures (not really it's called samples) if the incoming signal. now the rate is just how fast the pictures are taken.. Imagine some one running across your front yard and you have a old camera that you have to push the button every time to take a picture ... your not going to capture much of the guy running across your yard.,so there will be gaps... You get a new camera that has auto shoot on it ,and it helps because it has a higher picture taking speed. Now your get a camcorder and wow it looks like there are no gaps and you can see everything as he runs across the yard... (ok i know this analogy sucks but it is the best way I know how to explain it) This is what your computer is doing to the input signal.. it is taking samples of the input signal.. So naturally the higher the sample rate, the more defined the sound will be, as it takes more samples (think like pictures analogy) in the same amount of time.
Sample rate would look like this "44.1khz" which is cd quality (but not really all that good compared to what is available) up to "192khz"
Layman's terms for bit rate.. just think of it like this .. you can record a hotter signal.(gives you more headroom). There is more to it than that but really that covers mostly the effect of a different bit rate.
Most bit rate is either 16 or 24 there is 32 bit floating but most people don't use it.
If you record at a high bit rate,but want to burn it to a cd you will need to convert it to CD settings(16bit, 44.1 khz). IMHO you should use what is called Dithering. It helps with the truncation and helps keep as much of the original sounds as possible.
I am keeping this (I hope real simple) for the home recording/ layman/ beginning digital recording enthusiast .
not sure it this will help anyone but maybe it will
Greg
what the computer is sorta of doing is taking pictures (not really it's called samples) if the incoming signal. now the rate is just how fast the pictures are taken.. Imagine some one running across your front yard and you have a old camera that you have to push the button every time to take a picture ... your not going to capture much of the guy running across your yard.,so there will be gaps... You get a new camera that has auto shoot on it ,and it helps because it has a higher picture taking speed. Now your get a camcorder and wow it looks like there are no gaps and you can see everything as he runs across the yard... (ok i know this analogy sucks but it is the best way I know how to explain it) This is what your computer is doing to the input signal.. it is taking samples of the input signal.. So naturally the higher the sample rate, the more defined the sound will be, as it takes more samples (think like pictures analogy) in the same amount of time.
Sample rate would look like this "44.1khz" which is cd quality (but not really all that good compared to what is available) up to "192khz"
Layman's terms for bit rate.. just think of it like this .. you can record a hotter signal.(gives you more headroom). There is more to it than that but really that covers mostly the effect of a different bit rate.
Most bit rate is either 16 or 24 there is 32 bit floating but most people don't use it.
If you record at a high bit rate,but want to burn it to a cd you will need to convert it to CD settings(16bit, 44.1 khz). IMHO you should use what is called Dithering. It helps with the truncation and helps keep as much of the original sounds as possible.
I am keeping this (I hope real simple) for the home recording/ layman/ beginning digital recording enthusiast .
not sure it this will help anyone but maybe it will
Greg
Category: Recording
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Gear Modifications
The more I get into the recording stuff, and am learning more about what is going on the more I realize that the consumer line stuff is cheating us on sound quality just to save a few dollars.. Solution.... Modifications.
There is a lot of mods being done out there. I started checking around at some studios and talking to some techs. and found out that a lot of the same gear we use like audio interfaces, mics, preamps, compressors, in fact just about any gear you have could have a modification to it.. problem is some really make a huge difference in the quality of sound, and others may not (but you would of had to pay the money anyway).
If you want to improve the quality of your sound recordings you may not have to spend a whole lot of money to do it.. Just check to see if there is a decent mod for some of your gear.. I found out there is a substantial modification for my audio interface, and my compressor. The mod to the interfaces from reviewers says it puts it into the quality range of the 3000.00 interfaces, mod is only 275.00.. (seems the manufacturers skimped on the quality of parts in the analog section).
The compressor mod is a little more significant but the reviewers claim it is worth the money.
mic mods are some of the most common mods done. and I am still researching some of these.
If you know of a mod or have had one done to your gear to improve sound please post it here so others might learn about it.
my future mods are Motu audio interfaces 2408's and 896's. upgrade the analog sections, and the preamp section in the 896's..
Alesis 3630 compressor .... major chip upgrade and power supply upgrade.
There is a lot of mods being done out there. I started checking around at some studios and talking to some techs. and found out that a lot of the same gear we use like audio interfaces, mics, preamps, compressors, in fact just about any gear you have could have a modification to it.. problem is some really make a huge difference in the quality of sound, and others may not (but you would of had to pay the money anyway).
If you want to improve the quality of your sound recordings you may not have to spend a whole lot of money to do it.. Just check to see if there is a decent mod for some of your gear.. I found out there is a substantial modification for my audio interface, and my compressor. The mod to the interfaces from reviewers says it puts it into the quality range of the 3000.00 interfaces, mod is only 275.00.. (seems the manufacturers skimped on the quality of parts in the analog section).
The compressor mod is a little more significant but the reviewers claim it is worth the money.
mic mods are some of the most common mods done. and I am still researching some of these.
If you know of a mod or have had one done to your gear to improve sound please post it here so others might learn about it.
my future mods are Motu audio interfaces 2408's and 896's. upgrade the analog sections, and the preamp section in the 896's..
Alesis 3630 compressor .... major chip upgrade and power supply upgrade.
