M.A.R.T

i think that guy needs killing off. i was once trying out the pedals on the boss pedal stand, i had the headphones on and he told me to turn down because it was too loud? the thing didnt even have a volume control...i just plugged in the way they set it up! i miss being able to go into that shop and be able to have a real conversation about equipment with the staff. now if you try something out they ask you to turn it off because OBVIOUSLY your not going to buy it. and im probably not because ive saved hundreds buy buying through mail order. i may look skint, but thats just because i spend money on equipment rather than food, clothes, cds etc.

duh! they are there to catch on the strings while you play!

its not actually a steinberger....cant remember the make...but it was a pretty cheap copy of the steinberger style. if you actually look at him breaking the bass...you can see that its already broken...the strings are floppy.

yeah but surely they should be incouraging people to judge the frets by the dots on the side and not the fretboard. youd end up holding the guitar in a really weird way if you relied on the fretboard dots. i also never got the point of people paying attention to the wood on the fretboard and then getting massive pearl inlays. doesnt that defeat the purpose of getting maple, mahogany etc...?

is there a hole for your finger to fall into on normal fret dots? what difference would it make if there is a light behind the dot? i dont actually see the point for led's...i dont even see the point in having fret dots.

i like d'addario strings. they come in nice environmently friendly packaging, with that non corosive bag thing. and they have colour coded ends! they sound nice too.

you cant go wrong with good old shure sm58's for vocals and sm57's for everything else. some of the audio technica condensers are meant to be quite good and budget friendly aswell.

i want i want i want i want! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2563817197&category=20080

thanks ian!

thanks ian!

thanks ian!

mic up an amp? whats the best way to do so....and what sort of sound should we be looking for?

you just pick up song structure through listening to other peoples songs and how they move you when you listen to them......if you get a good feeling of progression from your songs then you must be doing something right. but to be honest i really enjoyed the times when i didnt know anything about song structure....i could just throw songs together and relax about them.....now i worry too much about the structure.....i think this gets in the way. songs should just flow and go places...just stick stuff together the way you want...you'll get better with practise.

i like gak. they once matched turnkey on a price for a 4 track and fx box....gave me free delivery...then knocked more off so i would have 2 pounds free on my card....and they were really nice about it. turnkey on the other hand are fucks! when i ordered my air synth they refused my card...so i said i would call back in a couple of days after i had sorted it out with my bank....i replaced my order in a couple of days and 1 HOUR later the air synth arrived. i called back and cancelled the delivery of the second air synth. then i realised that they had charged me twice....which had put me 130 over my overdraft...my bank were not happy. but it wasnt my fault....turnkey took fucking ages to sort it out and werent appologetic in the slightest. they eventually refunded my money(but not the courier cost of the second air synth) and sent me a receipt. which had someone elses receipt stuck on it with his address and credit card details....very professional. aaaand...with each phonecall to turnkey i had to listen to 10 mintues of fucking sugababes before i got to speak to anyone. it was only 5 difference between turnkey and gak....wish id gone to gak in the first place.

i think electronic music can be very personal. and i find using cubase can be much more expressive than using a hardware sequencer. too much punching in numbers and math type stuff with hardware. with cubase you just click where the stuff is meant to go. but i do use a mix of everything. i play all my stuff into cubase from my rm1x(the sounds not the midi for vst)...sometimes programmed sometimes live. and then i loop that and edit it. then add the beats using the grid on cubase. i also add some air synth to give it some life and fill out the sound. in this way i have created some of my most expressive music...much more expressive than when using a guitar. and fuck using keyboards! boss dr5's are the future! you'll see! i also like using the grid to put in the notes. its great for arpegios! guitar music still has its place though...same as cheesy pop and all other genres.

i love micro korg! i used to have a digitek vocoder, but i sold it to buy my soundcard. wish id kept it now.

dont go to turnkey, they fucking suck! go to the guitar amp and keyboard centre instead. they are much nicer and more willing to haggle.

the 1980s x computers x m.a.r.t + lester = ???

nord is cool.... but if i had a budget. id go for a cubase set up. sampling all the sounds into a vst sampler and running a few midi channels from master controllers.. you could run a whole band (including drums) all on one program into a stereo pair. each midi channel could have great keymaps. you could mute the keys you dont want on. dump in specific sounds to the certain keys. and then you just change the song settings and youve got a whole other bunch of vst stuff to pick from. it wouldnt be that expencive either. just a good sound card and a few master keyboards and drum pads. its the future i tell you. unlimited sound!

i heard that terrorism is the new black. nope i dont use nord. ben awol has a nord lead though. i'd like one, although i'd probably choose the modular rack. my air synth is kinda orange, so that could be the red your seeing? most of my stuff is done with a yamaha rm1x and a stylophone. i did just get a pda with griff that i was going to dump all my stuff onto but there is too much latency for it to work. so im just going to use it for scoring stuff down on the move. i can get mad beats anywhere. whoop!

just a steel town girl on a saturday night looking for the fight of her life in the real time world no one sees her at all they all say she's crazy...

ummm...i dont really think metallica are that much into nu metal... by the looks of it they are more into interpol and white stripes right now. aswell as soad...dunno if they count as nu metal? does anyone listen to nu metal?

i think most people are too cool to hang around all day listening to the 80s. but then the good side of the 80s will become cool and people will be being "ironic" all over the place. and they'll buy lots of reissues of 80s soundtracks. and then they'll sell them off after its not cool anymore. and then i'll buy their 80s soundtracks and keep them for myself. damn hipsters!

dio?!? dio wore a lot of black too! and he flashed the horns a lot! i believe that there was a period in the 1990s where metallica would have worn lipstick. they still pout between singing.

aaah, the black clothes, just like metallica. i stole my coat from the hospital. although it has since been retired.