The Watering Hole

Hi !
This is a BT from the YT's BlueNoize contest.
It's a nice slow "minor" ballad.

Ciao !
Marco

cool.  I'll try to hit this by this weekend.  I'm just so stupid busy right now I rarely have time to play guitar.

so I did a take on this... but, it's not something I'd ever submit to a contest! heh.

I used my baritone since it was in C... and that guitar is not really conducive to blues - it also has a tendency to get away from me due to the overall string flabbiness - lots of flub content - anyways, always an adventure on the baritone. ;)

so this is a kind of screwed up faux blues on a humbucker baritone through a high gain amp...

I'll do a "normal" strat/flexi take later on, probably.

I will give this a go later this week.

I'll give that one a shot in a few days meeself.

BPM analyzer says 70 BPM

ironsheep — Oct 13, 2010so I did a take on this... but, it's not something I'd ever submit to a contest! heh.

Sounded good to me. Blooooozzzzeee

desertbluesman — Oct 14, 2010I'll give that one a shot in a few days meeself.

BPM analyzer says 70 BPM

Mine said 100... lined up ok but can't say if it was actually 100 bpm. ymmv.

it's either ~140 or ~70, depending on whether you like to call this 3/4 or 6/8 time...

yeah, I've been unhappy with my bpm finder... no surprise that it's whack.

but, the tune plays a lot more like 100 than either 70 or 140... so, dunno.

time to read my effin manual... should be a way to tap tempo off the keyboard something - just want my delay to be in time(ish).

Actually my BPM said 140 bpm, but I guessed it as 70 because it is slow. I never listened to it enough to notice the 6/8 timing, I finally counted it out after reading Chargers reply. So it counts @ 6/8 so it must be 140. You have to set your sequencer for the change in meter from 4/4 to 6/8 to get the delay right.

I used to play in several bands with this bass player and he was always playing in some kind of weird meter. And of course he always interested the drummer in that so I have learned to solo over 7/8, 9/8. 15/8, 6/8, 5/4. I never even notice what the meter is anymore, I just play through the tune several times and feel my way through it. Thanks Big Bottom (my nick name for that bass player) for the lesson in timing.

tapped it out... 140. now to figure out how to use the bpm finder correctly... heh.

Did a take a couple of days ago  and thought about posting it then  but thought I'd do a proper one later,
Didn't get around to it - so here's that first one. :)

Here's my contribution.  I had the Pork Loin on and the gain at 1:00 on the clean for the first section - wish I hadn't.  Took gain back to back to 10:30 and removed the OD for the last two and toggled between bridge and neck pups.  Better.  I used the Les Paul, but didn't wire the pups out of phase like Greeny did.

Just listened to Finger's so far - nice...

I couldn't find this track out there.  Would like to hear an original.

OK, a quick break from work.  First time I've played in about a month.

Les Paul, split coil mode, various switch and vol pot combinations.

Peavey Classic C30, drive channel, miced up with Audix i5 and Avantone CK7

Added some reverb in protools.

Great tone Jon and ideas - especially liked the feel of the early parts.

Sheep - I'm always glad when I wait to listen to yours before I post.  Very cool wailing and tone.

strat/flexi take:

Good takes here, guys !!

ironsheep — Oct 16, 2010strat/flexi take:

WOW, great  !!  :)



Ciao !
Marco

+1 - Wow!

Jimi vibe.

ok, just one more ;)

strat -> '70 -> Clyde (not used) -> Mojovibe (not used) -> RC -> DL4 (analog w/mod model) -> Flexi (same settings as last clip)

reverb on right side added while mixing.

just last half of the bt...

ironsheep — Oct 13, 2010 ...I used my baritone since it was in C... and that guitar is not really conducive to blues - it also has a tendency to get away from me due to the overall string flabbiness - lots of flub content - anyways, always an adventure on the baritone. ;)
...

Meant to ask you...  What gauge (and make if you wish) of strings do you use on your baritone?  I had 13-56's on mine, went to sell it yesterday and was told that I should use "baritone" strings on it.  Needless to say, I was both told and thought that I already had baritone strings on it!

(On a separate note, I never thought to try tuning up to C - sounds interesting! :) )

I just put D'Addario 11's on it - I'm not big on wound 3rd strings if I'm going to be bending so I haven't really looked into bigger gauged sets. I remember there was a way to get to the equivalent of 13's w/o a wound string but I had to put it together with singles... pita. guess I should look into it again... the 11s are like playing 9s on regular scale guitars - spaghetti (cooked).

What about the gauge of the low B string?  That's what I was most curious about.

Also, are you using a true baritone (BEADF#B) or a 7-string (a normal 6-string plus a low B)?  An 11 would be very thin for the high B string!  (But not for the high E on a 7-string.)

yeah, long scale baritone with six strings - .049 .038 .028 .018 .014 .011

C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C instead of B-E-A-D-F#-B -- and it's still kinda slack. I might try some heavier wound 3rd set on it sometime... but I really don't use it that much. I usually play my strat with 11s tuned down to D... that's plenty of lows tbh and I play that guitar about 95% of the time - baritone is nice for riff stuff on the bogner, though.

My new attempt....listening more to my new PU's than the music I'm playing..  ;)

Ciao!
Marco

ironsheep — Oct 24, 2010yeah, long scale baritone with six strings - .049 .038 .028 .018 .014 .011

C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C instead of B-E-A-D-F#-B -- and it's still kinda slack. I might try some heavier wound 3rd set on it sometime... but I really don't use it that much. I usually play my strat with 11s tuned down to D... that's plenty of lows tbh and I play that guitar about 95% of the time - baritone is nice for riff stuff on the bogner, though.

Wow...  Sorry for all those questions, but I lost a sale (on my baritone) because the guy said my low-E was too thin for a baritone - and it was a .056!  I found others today that go thicker than .060 that are made for baritones, but I think the guy was just being an asshat.

he didn't buy it because it had the "wrong" strings on it?!

lol, he may not have been trying to be an asshat... sounds like he's a natural ;)

Just started playing with VST programming very recently - have some ideas - obviously in real thing like C++
But learnt there is a .NET wrapper for the API - had to give that a go
Downloaded and after a bunch of crap got the sample delay plg built  and loaded into Cubase.

Crazy shit to me.

It's a pretty crappy plug - but I did a take - and I "wrote" automation on it as it played through, - including bybass - and feed back -  to see what happened.

result attached - sorry for being  sacraligious of the fnj for such purposes.  ;)

Lwb — Oct 24, 2010My new attempt....listening more to my new PU's than the music I'm playing..  ;)

Ciao!
Marco

What pedal are you using for the leads Marco?

Hi DBM !

I'm using the Fulldrive II and the EH HolyGrail reverb.
The amp is the Vox NighTrain (1x12)

Ciao !
Marco

Grazie amico mio

By the way great playing as usual.