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  1. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Changed the pickguard and pickup covers and knobs on my strat. A procedure that turned out to be harder and more time consuming than i thought. I took some pictures of my gear with the new tonelab and stuff.

    OLD strat look:
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    NEW strat look:
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    My guitar stuff (not all of it is showing, this is what it looked like when i took the pic
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    Here's the tonelab in the dark It's almost like a little city and the lights are blinding (currently on the All I Want Is You patch as you can see on the LED screen.
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    Good job, the Strat looks way more cool and vintage with the tortoise shell vs. the white pickguard, good call.

    My Clapton Strat came with the `50's style all white pickguard. But that didn't look as cool. So it was swapped out for a white pearl pickguard. Far more appealing.

    Sometimes the simplest changes make a good guitar look great!

  2. lol I know, I knew this would get confusing, Rattle&Hum1988 is also called Alex
  3. Originally posted by Alex:[..]

    I recorded that today. No reverb / delay and no bass guitar until now. It starts with my GFS- equipped chinese jazz guitar (middle position) clean, next comes my blonde Squier strat (br/mid) crunch, then (neck/mid) lead, then solo (neck) - and in the end you'll hear my Gibson Les Paul.

    Enjoy. But please keep in mind that it's not finished yet.

    www.freak-alex-band.com/IntroDez2008.mp3

    Alex


    Did you write that? It's beautiful!!
    I really enjoyed the tones. Mostly the strat. The ending sounds quite good too, but I didn't like the distortion that much.
  4. Originally posted by thechicken:[..]

    Did you write that? It's beautiful!!
    I really enjoyed the tones. Mostly the strat. The ending sounds quite good too, but I didn't like the distortion that much.


    The first and second bits remind me a bit of John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers). And YES, that is a compliment. Well done.
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]Gotta LOVE the second one, that gorgeous acoustic guitar reminds me a bit to Led Zeppelin's Over The Hills And Far Away


    Wow, thanks! That is a great compliment.

    The title is a reference to Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. His home in Jamaica was called Cinnamon Hill. In 2003, his wife passed away... not long after, Johnny passed away too. I wrote this on the spot, seconds after hearing the news of his passing... just flowed out. Just my tribute to a musician I admired a lot.

  8. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:Wow, thanks! That is a great compliment.

    The title is a reference to Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. His home in Jamaica was called Cinnamon Hill. In 2003, his wife passed away... not long after, Johnny passed away too. I wrote this on the spot, seconds after hearing the news of his passing... just flowed out. Just my tribute to a musician I admired a lot.

    And a great tribute it is indeed, great stuff

    Nice playing aswell, Alex - tis good to have musicians such as your good selves in our midst

    I'm still trying to come up with some new material personally, but for the moment I've never really hit on anything. I think, as far as playing styles go, I'm better at improvisation than anything and like coming up with arrangements of songs, but I don't seem to quite have the nous to develop anything of my own just yet.

    The only piece of my own material (such as it is) that I have ever recorded was a solo part for a song that my friend wrote for his (now reformed) band - he came to my house, played me a couple of songs and then just asked me to come up with a solo part on the spur of the moment, and somehow I did lol. I still love listening to it simply because I managed to come up with something sort of original, but also because I thought I actually got a pretty nice sound out of my shitty Strat. copy which I've never been able to replicate since...I nearly died when he asked me to write a tab for it lol (I don't do tabs, never have and probably never will).

    http://www.esnips.com/doc/ee7ad7b4-ef0b-4a54-b454-d49996fbbec8/With-You---solo-part---demo

    PS - said friend was hitting the strings on his Les Paul pretty hard...
  9. Originally posted by thechicken:[..]

    Did you write that? It's beautiful!!
    I really enjoyed the tones. Mostly the strat. The ending sounds quite good too, but I didn't like the distortion that much.

    Yes, I wrote that piece of music. Thanks for the compliments.

    It's meant as an intro for a quite heavy song, so the heavy distortion makes some sense. Right now my wife and kids are away, and I have a few days off. So I'm working on a few new pieces of music. Let's see what I can finish until Thursday.

    Alex

  10. The distortion on the first clip sounds sick. The second piece is indeed beautiful and has a big sound.

    The title reminded me of Neil Young's Cinnamon Girl. But as a reference to June Carter and Johnny Cash I like it even better.

    Alex
  11. Originally posted by WojBhoy:
    I'm still trying to come up with some new material personally, but for the moment I've never really hit on anything. I think, as far as playing styles go, I'm better at improvisation than anything and like coming up with arrangements of songs, but I don't seem to quite have the nous to develop anything of my own just yet.

    If this is your gift, then use it. There are a lot of gifted musicians out there that never wrote a song. For instance, the whole studio musician scene. A songwriting rock singer might be glad to have you join his band to play and arrange his songs. The church network worship band I play in has me mostly playing simple rhythms and free improvisations over the basic chords.


    The only piece of my own material (such as it is) that I have ever recorded was a solo part for a song that my friend wrote for his (now reformed) band - he came to my house, played me a couple of songs and then just asked me to come up with a solo part on the spur of the moment, and somehow I did lol. I still love listening to it simply because I managed to come up with something sort of original, but also because I thought I actually got a pretty nice sound out of my shitty Strat. copy which I've never been able to replicate since...I nearly died when he asked me to write a tab for it lol (I don't do tabs, never have and probably never will).

    I can't read or write tabs either. But since I rarely play any existing riffs or licks by others I don't have to. I either write my own music or rearrange other's peoples songs in a way that suits me. I don't care that much about true authenticity.


    Can't open the file. Bad Link?

    Alex
  12. Originally posted by Alex:[..]
    The distortion on the first clip sounds sick. The second piece is indeed beautiful and has a big sound.

    The title reminded me of Neil Young's Cinnamon Girl. But as a reference to June Carter and Johnny Cash I like it even better.

    Alex


    If memory serves... The distortion tones for the first clip, "Manta Ray", was just an Lovetone Big Cheese into an Boss OD-2r overdrive plus a bit of compression and slight flanging. Pretty dry and no reverb that I remember. The guitar was a 6-string Danelectro 56-U2 tuned to open D [LOW TO HIGH = d-a-d-f#-a-d]. The Danelectro's have these lipstick pickups that are a bit nasally and cool sounding.
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