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Originally posted by LikeASong:Exact. In Spanish, when a gizmo or machine is big and very useful AND complicated to use (like an airplane), there's a common slang term which is "This X is a plane!!".

Oh, I've never heard that phrase before. So you're saying.. It's not plane? Cos you struck it out?

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LikeASong

14 years

I was just trying to say "How you doing with your incredible gizmo??" (a.k.a. plane)

jofice

14 years

Oh right.. Well I got that completely wrong then lol haha I'm going grand on it

I'm used to the delays now, just working on the distortion end of things. Gonna have to try remember which number is for each song now lol H

How's your pedals?

LikeASong

14 years

Great, today I didn't have the time to play a lot but I enjoyed them yesterday for about 8 hours!! Moreover, today I broke my top E string and I didn't have any spare nor a full pack of strings, so now I've only got the lower 5 strings - and I hate playing like that. I guess I'm not enough Rolling Stone fan to like it

RattleandHum1988

14 years

Found a Bad tone that I think is really close to the UF tour tone. Ignore the playing, the clip is all for tone :laugh:

Strat - > M13 - >ZT Lunchbox

I find the ZT has that trebly-nazal property that Edge's quack tone had back then. It's great for that tone, maybe even better than the AC30 :shutup:

http://soundcloud.com/rattleandhum1988/bad-tone-test

Let me know what you think

Alex

MattG

14 years

Alex, the more you keep demoing the Lunchbox, the sooner I'm going to buy one. STOP!!!

LikeASong

14 years

Sounds terrific!! What did you record it with? Line-in into something or microphone?

RattleandHum1988

14 years

Thanks guys! And Matt you ARE going to buy it. It's your destiny.

Sergio, when I record I use an SM57 mic to mic the amp (literally touching the grill/mesh of the amp) that goes into a M-Audio USB Recording Interface, and using a USB cable that goes into my computer. The unfortunate thing is that there IS a tiny bit of latency (when I hit a note, the computer picks it up about .7 seconds later) so whenever I record with a backing track, or do any multi-track recording, I have to cut out the first .7 seconds of the newly recorded track so it's all in sync. At first it was a huge pain in the ass, but after a while it's easy. I've gotten used to cutting out that little part from the beginning and it's no biggie now.

Alex

LikeASong

14 years

Ok, I got it.
But you play+record with the backing track playing through headphones to your ears, don't you? Otherwise, the microphone that mics the amp would also pick the backing track 's sound and it would be worse, phase problems with the latency and all.

RattleandHum1988

14 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:Ok, I got it.
But you play+record with the backing track playing through headphones to your ears, don't you? Otherwise, the microphone that mics the amp would also pick the backing track 's sound and it would be worse, phase problems with the latency and all.

Nah I play the backing track through speakers. Just not loud enough for the mic to pick it up. There's also a little divider between where the amp/mic are and where my computer speakers are, to block out any sound. I've tried with headphones, and the result isn't any different, I just prefer being able to hear my guitar playing just as clearly so I can hear what I'm doing better than if I was listening to the backing track through headphones. If there was no latency at all I could listen to BOTH through headphones while recording (there's an option to do that), but because of the latency it totally messed it all up.

but yeah, the way most people do it is to listen to the backing track through headphones and record with a mic that way.

jofice

14 years

Anybody know how to get a nice sound for Angel of Harlem? It sounds like a light distortion but I think there's something missing

Andrew_C

14 years

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Found a Bad tone that I think is really close to the UF tour tone. Ignore the playing, the clip is all for tone :laugh:

Strat - > M13 - >ZT Lunchbox

I find the ZT has that trebly-nazal property that Edge's quack tone had back then. It's great for that tone, maybe even better than the AC30 :shutup:

http://soundcloud.com/rattleandhum1988/bad-tone-test

Let me know what you think

Alex

very cool

ive been even more in love with this song after hearing it in melbourne

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