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American gear is overrated in my opinion. Fender Japan makes better guitars than the US most of the time. 9 out of 10 new Gibson's are leaving the factory with poorly cut nuts, crappy fret jobs and necks that need adjusting. Like anything we have many amazing builders but so does just about every industrialized country. Aside from a truck I won't buy a US car made after the early 70's. my wife bought a Ford Fusion last week and it's got waaaaay too many bells and whistles for any American manufacturing workforce to pull off. Aside from artisanal shit we suck at the big stuff like cars and other mass produced items because as a nation we just don't do that any more. As a teacher we don't train our students how to build anything like that so the only people we get to build stuff are immigrants and American troglodytes who couldn't get better work. I come from a family of blue collar workers and we just don't value that enough here to get quality people.

louderthangod wrote:Maybe I'm the only one but as a general rule I hate chorus on guitar and even more on bass. If I had a time machine, just before buying a wall of Model T's and just after killing Hitler I'd go back to hide the chorus pedal from Alex Lifeson and I'd rip it out of Jaco Pastorius's amps.

I approve of all of this.

So I'm trying to record my rig because I want decent clips of my new dirge rat because it sound very different then any other rat I've played

I'm looking for some west coast recording studio ideas. It can be anywhere up or down the coast. There are so many places and it's not like every album I like always puts that info in there. It's too bad Chicago is so far away because either Albini or Sanford Parker would be great to work with. James Plotkin and Kurt Ballou are also too far away. We've got Billy Anderson out here in the Bay Area and that's an option.

Albino studios are sweet a coworker of mine recording his album in that studio back in the late 90s and I've taken a quick tour of the place. Sweet recording I don't think any thing can sound bad coming from that place

hung out with iluvfuzz almost all day today thats a duder after my own heart for sure.

Just found out about these guys. I am digging what I have heard so far and it looks like they have a new album coming out soon. Check em out if you haven't heard of them before:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-z-QkMic4[/youtube]

I also recorded a bit of our last practice. The quality sucks since it is just the camera microphone and we were playing with the "mood lights" on, so it isn't the best to look at either but I surprised my bandmate at the end, so that might make it worth watching.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNfnGZKbqyE[/youtube]

louderthangod wrote:I'm looking for some west coast recording studio ideas. It can be anywhere up or down the coast. There are so many places and it's not like every album I like always puts that info in there. It's too bad Chicago is so far away because either Albini or Sanford Parker would be great to work with. James Plotkin and Kurt Ballou are also too far away. We've got Billy Anderson out here in the Bay Area and that's an option.

how about matt bayles here in seattle?

went to the woods for a few days and am just playing catch up now. i spent my weekend camping and fishing and swimming on the beautiful mckenzie river. fucking awesome. i'm finally about to get to go down to the practice space and try my new dmm on the full rig. so stoked. my concerns about it not being great with dirt are based on the fact that these things seem to overload easily and maybe not have too much headroom, which seems really weird considering it runs on 24 volts. we'll see though very soon. i know a lot of analog delays are great with dirt. if it's not so good with fuzz, i've always got the disaster transport. that'll probably stay on my board anyway to help avoid having to do too much knob twiddling mid song and shit. i'm mostly wanting the dmm for those fucking amazing chorus-y modulated delays on cleans. but i'll still need something straightforward. i really never thought i was going to be one of those multiple delay guys, especially when using just one amp.

as far as the phaser/chorus thing. i like chorus-y cleans a lot and i've never been much of a fan of phaser. in fact, i've never liked it. so i'm with you conky, trade the phaser for chorus. i also think the best use of modulation is usually in the context of a modulated delay, for which chorus is waaayyy better than phaser. i'm pretty intrigued by that new EQD depths too, i must say. though i'm not really one to get a bunch of stuff like that.

i like buying american too, but not from any sort of "go america! rah rah!" kind of standpoint. usually it's more about looking for high quality craftsmanship and caring about workers rights and all. i mean, i buy shit from all over and it's hard not too, but you know what i mean, sweatshops and all that shit. in that regard, i feel great about japanese guitars. great craftsmanship, and you know, it's a first world country with those basic standards of living. not that it really matter cause most all my big ticket gear purchases are usually second hand. but the craftsmanship is awesome. and if you're not finding what you're looking for with an american product, well that's just how it is. you've got to get it where you can.

as far as studios, there are exceptions, but i think the engineer is more important than the studio, provided you can find one that's generally well equipped and has a decent tracking room. i had some friends who rented time at a decent studio here and flew sanford parker out for a week or so to engineer it. something like that's always an option if you really find the engineer that you think is right. probably not realistic with albini, but certainly with a lot of others. maybe realistic with him too, i just don't know.

whiskey_face wrote:hung out with iluvfuzz almost all day today thats a duder after my own heart for sure.

Awwwww shucks we even got to man a counter at a pawn shop and grab whatever we wanted out of the cases

Nice ape blaster demo, skip ahead to about 2:40 to hear stuff more relevant to our interests.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVjwtGHBbg[/youtube]

dazedbyday wrote:Just found out about these guys. I am digging what I have heard so far and it looks like they have a new album coming out soon. Check em out if you haven't heard of them before:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-z-QkMic4[/youtube]

I was really digging that except for the drummer and all the cymbal crashes...waaaaaaay too much. It seems like drummers that play heavy on the toms in a riffy, almost melodic way are nearly impossible to find after the 70's. The last few went into jazz-fusion and the world of rock was forever left with guys that wanted to be in the marching band or on the gong show. Actually gongs are the only cool cymbals made. Drummers should be the god of thunder not the clumsy waiter that dropped a tray of silverware.

AxAxSxS wrote:Nice ape blaster demo, skip ahead to about 2:40 to hear stuff more relevant to our interests.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVjwtGHBbg[/youtube]

Dude, that was an awesome demo, cheers! I'm off to email Darren now!
That was a pretty cool riff as well. Stick that up your arse, Andy at proguitarshop.
Fuck! I want my PDX to show up already! And the fucking new power supply shit I ordered off ebay last fucking month. Lazy cunt took 10 days to get of his arse and ship it. I'm sorry, but that pisses me off.

louderthangod wrote:

dazedbyday wrote:Just found out about these guys. I am digging what I have heard so far and it looks like they have a new album coming out soon. Check em out if you haven't heard of them before:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-z-QkMic4[/youtube]

I was really digging that except for the drummer and all the cymbal crashes...waaaaaaay too much. It seems like drummers that play heavy on the toms in a riffy, almost melodic way are nearly impossible to find after the 70's. The last few went into jazz-fusion and the world of rock was forever left with guys that wanted to be in the marching band or on the gong show. Actually gongs are the only cool cymbals made. Drummers should be the god of thunder not the clumsy waiter that dropped a tray of silverware.

I actually really like that style of drumming, reminds me of my mate who used to drum in the only band I really did anything with. I dig that kinda style.
Horses for courses I guess.
I agree with you about the Jap guitars man, they is cool.

iluvfuzz wrote:

whiskey_face wrote:hung out with iluvfuzz almost all day today thats a duder after my own heart for sure.

Awwwww shucks we even got to man a counter at a pawn shop and grab whatever we wanted out of the cases

Can I hang out with you guys? That sounds like an awesome man-date.

Not to be confused with your man-date...by which I mean anus.

Fuck this, I'm off to get that ape blaster!

It was an awesome man date. But ya that pawn shop bought out a music store next to them and they dont give 2 fucks about that side. So they basically let us play shopkeeper and pull whatwver we wanted from the cases any guitars anything. They have seen me in there enough now they dont give a fuxk. Bur i showed patrick my hotspots. Id be a bad fisherman

damn that sounds fun
so whatdya get?