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    The "who uses what" thread

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Computer

    Athlon 64 3500+

    1GB Ram

    60GB Harddrive

    SoundBlaster 16..?

    Guitars

    Squier Affinty Strat

    Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty

    Yamaha F-335 Acoustic

    Schecter Gryphon

    Amps

    Marshall MG100 Half Stack

    Vox Valvetronix 30watt

    Fender Frontman G 10watt

    Effects

    Boss md-2 Mega Distortion

    Boss V wah

    Boss TU-2 Tuner

    Keyboards

    Yamaha DGX 202

    What key?

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Thanks for the help so far guys. I'll check those out yooz

    Actully, I would like to know what scale i'm playing in. That is actully what i'm trying to fiqure out, but I need to know the key first right?

    I'm not playing on a piano/keys, but a guitar.

    I had to look it up, and its F#.

    Some writing help

    in Music Composition & Production

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    So, I'm a guitar player and, I'm working on my first song ever. Pretty much, I was messing around and came up with this, and I want to put a guitar solo over it.

    But this is where i'm running into my problems. I can't come up with anything, and I have no idea of how to approach this.

    Any ideas would be great. Thanks.

    BOSS ME-50

    in Music Composition & Production

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    My main guitar is a Schecter Gryphon. And my budget would be between $400-$500

    An old friend of mine had the Behringer V-AMPIRE LX1200H Head. And I belive it was the Behringer Ultrastack BG412H 4x12 Cab. He was getting some pretty good tones, and it fits right in my budget. But then again, its modeling, which i'm having some issues with now as you can read.

    EDIT: But I guess it will give me trouble if I were to use some pedals with it?

    BOSS ME-50

    in Music Composition & Production

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    No, I like the amps on the vox just fine. But I wan't to be able to switch from clean to distortion without having to go up to the amp each time. Vox does make a footswitch to change from the amp types, but from what i've read you can only switch between 2 effects or 2 amps, which is kinda of a let down.

    Hmmm maybe a new amp is in order, what would you guys say is good? I've heard that Mesa Boogies are good for heavy stuff.

    BOSS ME-50

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Bright refers to highs.

    A Vox Valvetronix is a modeling amp.. it's probably not a good idea to run a unit such as the ME-50 on top of a modeling amp.. usually that's why you buy a modeling amp in the first place.

    If you want to use the ME-50 just as an effect then set your Vox to the overdrive/distortion you want.

    If you really do everything on the Vox, find a nice clean setting on it. Set all the controls (lows, mids, highs) on the ME-50 flat and just use the Vox controls. Combining both usually runs you into problems.

    Yeah, thats what I kind of thought. I guess i'll take back the ME-50 and get a footswitch for my amp, a distortion pedal, and a wah wah.

    Any recamindations for the distorion and wah pedal? I'm looking for a rock/metal sound.

    Thanks guys, much help :P

    BOSS ME-50

    in Music Composition & Production

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    That ME-50 is a pretty great little unit. I have a Boss OD-20 which has all of the overdrive models from the Boss GT systems, and it sounds really great. One thing about alot of distortions is that when played into a clean amp, the amp can't be very bright, otherwise the distortions sound really brittle.

    When you say bright, do you mean lots of mid? Sorry i'm a guitar noob.

    I have a Vox valvetronix if that helps.

    BOSS ME-50

    in Music Composition & Production

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    I don't have any experience with it, but I'd like to hear what your setup is? I'm guessing guitar -> ME-50 -> combo / preamp & cab..? But if you're not running it into an amp at all, then that'd be why the tones suck.

    Guitar>ME-50>30 watt amp.

    Amp settings

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Eh, I wouldn't go with the thud/warmth/attack way of thinking because it varies from amp to amp. The relationship between the frequency response and the aural property it creates is dependant on the design of the amps circuit.

    Guitar tone is very simple to understand, the main factor is the amp, it's the only thing that colors the sound enough so it has character of its own. Guitar pickups are only responsible for which frequencies they translate to the amp, and the amp itself has controls which can compensate for the pickups. The secondary factor in your tone is the wood your guitar is made out of and the design of the guitar.

    You have to look at it in terms of tone loss from the strings to the pickups. The three main types of guitar design are bolted guitars, glue set guitars and neck through the body guitars. The main factor in your tone is not the body of the guitar, but the neck-to-body relationship. A bolted guitar has direct wood to wood contact at the neck joint, so there's a lower loss of resonance between the body and neck. A set neck guitar is glued together at the neck joint, the glue acts as a block for the resonance between the neck and body, the most loss of the three. A neck through guitar has a neck that goes all the way though the body of the guitar, the bridge and pickups are all mounted directly to the neck, this gives you no loss of resonance. But resonance is a broad term and I'm not sure I'm using it right. What I mean when I say resonance is the translation of the woods own tonal properties through the guitar.

    Now, don't go thinking that since it has the most consistent resonance, a neck through guitar gives the best tones, because that's all dependant on another factor -- the wood. Lets take the case of the most common woods -- maple neck and alder body. Maple is a very dense wood, which in turn will produce a very bright tone, coupled with a alder, which is not as dense but gives a medium tone, will give you different results depending on the guitar design. On a bolt on guitar, you'll get a very nice balance of the two because the slight stop at the neck joint will damp out some of the brightness. This is why most Strats are made out of these woods, they work well together. On a set neck guitar you'll rarely see this combination because the glue kills the relationship between them, doesn't sound very good. Warmer tone woods like Mahogany are usually used for set neck guitars and yeild very warm and full results (like Les Pauls). On a neck through guitar, this combination gives you a very bright, defined tone. Some companies that pioneered the neck through design (like Jackson and B.C.Rich) are now almost exclusively hard rock/metal guitar manufacturers. This combination is also a "standard" with a neck through guitar, but it's common practice to have a neck through guitar made out of mahogany or walnut. Since this guitar's tone is almost completely dependant on the neck wood, a warmer body wood is needed to counterbalance the brightness of a maple neck. A good combination for this is maple + ash.

    What's the point of all this? Well depending on the guitar type you have, the wood it's made out of and the frequency range of your pickups (if you dont know the range of your pickups then you are probably using stock crap which you should change) you can carefully craft any guitar tone you want considering you have a decent amplifier. Granted, it's possible to get any tone out of any guitar depending on the amp you use, but it's considerably easier when using a guitar made to generate the frequencies that make up that tone.

    And yes, I did use two long dashes in one paragraph, eat it.

    Whoa, thanks for all of the info. But, in the end, i'm still clueless how to set up an amp.

    Need some hardware/software

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Okies. I've decided that its time I sit down and actully write some damn music, but i'm not sure to what I need to achieve what I want to do.

    I havn't really come up with a style of music yet, but I do know what I kinda of want my music to be. So heres a list of what I want to be able to achieve.

    I know that I want to use my guitars in my songs, so i'm going to need a way to record them. I don't want any amp sims, i'd like to get a great recording from my amp. And acoustic recording.

    I want to have processed guitars(gateing, panning, crazy stuff) that sort of junk. I'm not sure if Fl would be the best for that(which is my sequencer) so i'm guessing I need some type of audio editor.

    I'm also looking for studio quality sounds, but i'd still like to keep it on a low budget.

    And fruityloops isnt the best for live audio, so I'd also like a more audio-friendly squencer.

    What I currently have, is guitars, a midi keyboard, FL, Reason, and a decent computer.

    Feedback

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Here I am again, with another guitar question :P

    So i'm playing foxy lady by Hendrex but my problem is I can't create the feedback in the into. I know jimi does it by vibratoing(lol) the 14th fret on the b and the 16th on the g. I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong.

    In fact, i've never been able to create feedback on any guitar, not even on accident. Help?

    GUitar technique

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Well, he's Steve Vai... I never could really learn from watching him play because his hands don't move like normal humans.

    All you gotta remember is that the more of the strings that your hand is resting on, the more you'll choke the sound. Lemme give you a couple of examples so you know what I mean.

    www.inverteddungeon.com/triacesuperfan/SnappleMan/shitty.mp3

    The first bit of crap is standard muting technique, then I do a bunch of muted chords, the first is lightly muted, like you would mute any normal note, but as you can hear, the more I move my palm onto the strings, the more badass it sounds! Then you get to hear a typical application of set technique!..... sorry about the sloppy playing and bad tone, it's past 5am and I haven't slept yet.

    I gotcha, thanks I appericate the help. Bad tone? Sloppy playing? lol Your playing better than I can play when i'm in my prime.

    I remeber you saying you have a carvin...is that what i'm hearing?

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