Surprisingly great live performances by Okkervil River, Dianogah, Baby Teeth, and Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons.
Expected great jobs by Maserati and Headlights.
Worst was Margot and The Nuclear So and So’s, which was Friday nights headline band. Really boring songs, and with 7 members at max volume and poorly mic'd, was just a drone.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Krannert guitar fest starts Thursday night,
Wall to Wall Guitar
and Pygmalion fest is at multiple sites in C-U next Wednesday-Saturday
Schedule
Pygmalion
Wall to Wall Guitar
and Pygmalion fest is at multiple sites in C-U next Wednesday-Saturday
Schedule
Pygmalion
Fingers = Bad
HowToGetWeakTone (mp3)
Just using bare fingers to walk around some chords... Easy to hear the inconsistency, plus really weak attack on each note. I'm plucking pretty hard and not getting much output level, so this is juiced up in software too.
Just using bare fingers to walk around some chords... Easy to hear the inconsistency, plus really weak attack on each note. I'm plucking pretty hard and not getting much output level, so this is juiced up in software too.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Let there be drums
AllOneTrackWhenICanHearMyself (mp3)
Several hours later and alot of rewiring. Switched to using the USB output feed from the mixer to the PC, which is a much lower level and seemed to stop most of the clipping at max volume. Also learned that the Fender amp modeler in the Zoom pedal adds too much distortion too soon - not gonna use that anymore. Here is my modified version of a section of a Morrissey song, Let Me Kiss You. This is me playing along with just a drum beat while listening to the drums and live guitar via the mixer monitor. "Clean" amp and some chorus and compressor on. Had to up the gain in Audacity to get reasonable MP3 volume, which doesn't make me happy. However, I am very happy that with this setup and using both guitar pickups, I got nice bass-like sound and lead-like sound at the same time. This is just one track with the Yamaha only doing drums.
Several hours later and alot of rewiring. Switched to using the USB output feed from the mixer to the PC, which is a much lower level and seemed to stop most of the clipping at max volume. Also learned that the Fender amp modeler in the Zoom pedal adds too much distortion too soon - not gonna use that anymore. Here is my modified version of a section of a Morrissey song, Let Me Kiss You. This is me playing along with just a drum beat while listening to the drums and live guitar via the mixer monitor. "Clean" amp and some chorus and compressor on. Had to up the gain in Audacity to get reasonable MP3 volume, which doesn't make me happy. However, I am very happy that with this setup and using both guitar pickups, I got nice bass-like sound and lead-like sound at the same time. This is just one track with the Yamaha only doing drums.
Drums?
TwoTracksOMG (mp3)
First try to include a drum/bass track, generated separately by the Yamaha. Just two chords over and over: first track is the drums and me playing the bass on the keyboard. But after I recorded that, I realized I didn't have a way to hear it back live as I did the guitar on top. So, track two is me playing guitar to a new (same) drum track from the Yamaha. This meant I could cut and paste the two tracks together and adjust until the drums matched on top of each other. :-)
First try to include a drum/bass track, generated separately by the Yamaha. Just two chords over and over: first track is the drums and me playing the bass on the keyboard. But after I recorded that, I realized I didn't have a way to hear it back live as I did the guitar on top. So, track two is me playing guitar to a new (same) drum track from the Yamaha. This meant I could cut and paste the two tracks together and adjust until the drums matched on top of each other. :-)
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