Sammy Rey - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm working for Southwest airlines since 2002 and I'm luvin' it. Born and raised in Belgium. For those who don't know where it is on the map: right in between Holland , Germany and France. It's so small , it barely got a spot on the map.My only real interest is music and everything about it. I built some of my own gear including Guitar stompboxes , E-drums ,... I also built 2 guitars back in the day . Even though they played well ; they didn't really look stage worthy.Started playing music at the age of 8 , never wanted to be famous , so I guess I wasted my "talent" ,or whatever you can call it ,for about 30 years now.I'm the guitar player for Iron Clad , a Belgian epic metal band . We recorded two cd's , both were long distance recordings , but we never got to play live as we live in different parts of the world.Check out Iron Clad's MySpace if you're interested in 80's epic metal. http://www.myspace.com/ironclad1302Our band's website is : http://users.pandora.be/ironclad/index.html

My Interests

Music , computers , airbrushing ,building computer-controlled as well as air powered halloween props,anything horror, electronic projects , animatronics, building stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Serious musicians to have a good time jamming. Don't want to meet any celebrities . I'm sure they want to be left alone too.

Music:

Any type of metal , blues , Rock , Big Band , Rockabilly ,classical ,... too much to name it all. Pretty much any song that sounds good the first time you hear it.

Movies:

Mostly horror and epic movies. Favorite actors of all time : Tom Hanks , Sean Connery , Robert De Niro , Joe Pesci.( Yes, I know ; these people don't play in horror or epic movies ) !

Books:

Only read one book in my entire life : The Lord Of The Rings. Took me 3 months to read the first book of the Trilogy and gave up after that. I'd rather watch the movies , doesn't take that much time compared to the books. Absolutely hate reading.

Heroes:

No Gods, no masters , no heroes.

My Blog

Booster pedal

Just got my parts in the mail to build and finish some new guitar fx I'm working on. I finished one pedal today. It only needed 1 backordered part so it didn't take me long to finish. It's a Brian May...
Posted by Sammy Rey on Tue, 06 May 2008 02:59:00 PST

Printed Circuit Boards

I got fed up with using stripboard to build guitar fx pedals so I decided to make my own pcb's which are a lot smaller in size than stripboard. It's really simple to do it yourself . You need pcb layo...
Posted by Sammy Rey on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:41:00 PST

Wave Rider guitar effect

And we’re back. Thought about recording some fuzzy surf music .So I looked through some fx pedal layouts and started building a new guitar effect. I call it the" WaveRider " . Here are a few pic...
Posted by Sammy Rey on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:58:00 PST

Halloween forever !

Finally got some pics uploaded of my past Halloween projects. Starting with 2005. We decided to start building some props for the years to come. You probably saw a few little videos on the main ...
Posted by Sammy Rey on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:26:00 PST

MIDI controller for V-drums

March 07 , 2008 Got some parts in the mail to build my own MIDI controller. It’s called MEGADRUMS. Someone at the Megadrum forum ( synthex ) build an all-in-one PCB kit to build the 32 inpu...
Posted by Sammy Rey on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:15:00 PST

V-drums

FEB 25 , 2008 Got the rest of my stuff in the mail. Made two more pads and hooked them up.I will add two more toms later on but this will do for now. I will eventually switch out the snare and floor t...
Posted by Sammy Rey on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:15:00 PST