DIY guitar building |
So I found this dusty old door that was thrown in with a pile of junk under the house - used to be an old internal door by the looks of it, with what would have been a large rectangular pane of glass ...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:44:00 GMT |
So tired... |
I've had some really late nights lately mixing a couple of tracks for Smelter.The first time I didn't come to bed until 4am - that was a big mistake, as I was a write-off the next morning & I've...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:57:00 GMT |
Weta Guitars |
Hey ya,I took my Gretsch in to see Mal at Weta Guitars by the zoo in Newtown before Christmas- she'd never had a proper setup since she arrived here from the states, and I'd coped with the fret buzz e...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:12:00 GMT |
What happens next? |
Hey y'all,
In a couple of months, Smelter's guitarist and good friend Ge0 Chadwick heads off overseas, and I have no idea what we'll do without him!
The situation is that Ge0 not only plays and p...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:50:00 GMT |
I got Lola! |
Wahey!She arrived on Saturday morning. Very, very cool. Spongy like a fuzz-face, but way more articulate, more gain, more compression. Gourgeous organic 'sheen' to the tone, very complex harmonics but...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:09:00 GMT |
The sound of silence |
Some drummers often use a technique called 'flamming'- it's basically placing one drum stroke right next to a second stroke, almost immediately before or afterwards, like a really fast echo. The two b...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:55:00 GMT |
Fuzz shop |
Hey ya,I thought I'd blog something about fuzz tones- I'm feeling particularly happy with my own fuzz right now through a process of trial and error, so maybe there are some factors I've learned to u...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:29:00 GMT |
Sound pressure |
Hey ya...So I'm feeling a bit of pressure in the sound department at the moment: I've had my eye on a new Lola pedal from Retroman for a while, they sound so gorgeous, it'll be the final link in my pe...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:23:00 GMT |
My head sounds like that. |
That vid I've uploaded from the Bailterspace site 'Shadow' ...man, that's how my head sounds. Big beautiful swirling harmonic mess. If I ever figure out how to get that sound out into the world, I cou...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:02:00 GMT |
Beats first |
I went through a song writing patch a year or two ago where everything began as a drum-beat in my head... this was a really fresh approach for me, as guitar was traditionally my 'first instrument', if...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:27:00 GMT |
