Heavy. Literally and otherwise

mdc wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:54 pm

I like it.

I have a Ric 330 with the high gain pickups and for instruments associated with chimey pop, it can get pretty heavy sounding.

kmc wrote: Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:12 am Heavy. Literally and otherwise

mdc wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:54 pm

I like it.

Beautiful guitar!!

The Icon P1 Nano Surface Controller

https://iconproaudio.com/product/p1-nano/

Clearly, this product is really new and their software doesn't support it in a way that I would expect. Using it with Reaper, some of the controls are not as useful as they should be, or downright useless. There are Reaper plugins to be used to correct this problem, but I would much rather have it work out of the box as expected. The product is so new, and Reaper just released a new major version, and having an M2 Mac...getting all the things to work is challenging to find an updated solution.

Having said all that, I really enjoy having a surface controller. The most important thing for me for the surface controller is the feel of the fader and the ability to navigate around the audio with a physical transport. In that respect, it's well worth the money for those things alone and everything else is just nice to have. Using the nano even in the limited capacity of the out-of-the-box configurations has already improved my workflow in Reaper.

So much more than 5 bucks worth of fun -- especially when you use the talkbox and dub effects to make your cat sound like she's navigating an underwater dystopia (that you can dance to).

I bought this a long time ago, but I’ve been using it a lot lately and I haven’t seen a lot on them other than an old Tape Op review.

Radial Phazer

I use it to true up DI and mic’d bass guitar tracks. I’ve also used it when micing acoustic with two mics. I just flip the phase and get it sounding shitty, then flip back to the opposite of that and you’e good to go. Once tuned by ear I’ll sometimes compare the waveform peaks on a quick recording and it’s in phase but always just a hair off (as opposed to matching peaks exactly if I moved it by hand), like every time. Just tuning it where it sounds best and then finding it’s not exactly on point kind of justifies the box for me.

You put it on whatever is closest to the source, and outside of the phase changes, you can hear what the little box does to the sound of the track, and its audible but not necessarily good or bad. There’s a low pass filter if you want, but I only use it to zoom in on the low end when tuning phase. Supposedly the comparable Little Labs unit is more surgical, and if I were starting over I might try that one first, but I have no need of two right now. Plus I think that one is more expensive.

Purchased used at $250 the Radial box is like the price of a new guitar pedal, but it’s worth it for me, mainly because I’m an amateur and can spend 5 minutes with this box and then I’m done worrying about the phase for that instrument forever, so balancing is a lot easier. Then dial in a few db’s of compression and it sounds like a record just listening to the tracking playback. Maybe there are plugins that do all this but I could sell the Radial box for weed if I wanted to.

Once I pushed one of the little indented buttons in and it broke and Radial fixed it for like $20.

Just received this and am impressed. I always thought poorly of Squier but fuck me, this guitar is exactly what I wanted. I bought it to have a guitar tuned to D natural, as we (Escape Rope) have some songs that I've been using a pitch shifter to get down to D on, but the pitch pedal adds some noise floor and seems to take away some dynamics, so I'd rather just switch to a properly tuned guitar and now I can. My main jammy is a Warmoth superstrat with reverse headstock, unpainted tonewoods and Strat-style vibrato bridge, so this thing is the murdered-out Shadow Realm version of that, with an evil Floyd bridge and all.

https://reverb.com/item/75641728-squier ... uper-strat

I've been wanting to REALLY learn to play my drums for years, but I am always faced with the fact that I have neighbors so I've limited my playing to 5-10 minutes a day. Based off of a recommendation from another thread, I outfitted my kit with the Remo Silentstroke heads today. Although they feel weird as hell, I did play for over an hour today. It felt really good to get into it. They seem to stretch out at first as I had to keep tightening them, but now they seem settled in. Playing on them is not as satisfying, but not near as lame as I had envisioned. The bottom line is now I can put the time in. Next up is to buy some low volume cymbals, and I can play anytime.

RyanZ wrote: Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:44 am I've been wanting to REALLY learn to play my drums for years, but I am always faced with the fact that I have neighbors so I've limited my playing to 5-10 minutes a day. Based off of a recommendation from another thread, I outfitted my kit with the Remo Silentstroke heads today. Although they feel weird as hell, I did play for over an hour today. It felt really good to get into it. They seem to stretch out at first as I had to keep tightening them, but now they seem settled in. Playing on them is not as satisfying, but not near as lame as I had envisioned. The bottom line is now I can put the time in. Next up is to buy some low volume cymbals, and I can play anytime.

I have the Zildjian ones, which have held up ok and feel nice. I think there are cheaper ones that might be fine, especially if you don’t need them to sound realistic.

Yeah, spending real money on quiet cymbals is a fuckin' bummer. Hopefully they come up used often.