synkrotron

11 hours ago, Gswitz said:

Use one of Craig Anderton's guitar cables with leds.

Thanks, Geoff, I will have a look at that

4 hours ago, Christian Jones said:

Hope you used a stud finder when mounting that wall bracket

It's on a brick wall

3 hours ago, bdickens said:

you ain't gonna want to hear this but the best solution to your timing (or any other skill) issues is practice

correct

I've been practising for over forty years.

As much as the experts think that anyone can do anything with practice they are plain wrong. Timing is something I have never been able to master. Might be a neurological thing.

Sorry.

But thanks for your input.

3 hours ago, bdickens said:

I wouldn't know,  since I don't have any truly crappy guitars.

This is my little guitar collection:-

Way beyond my skill level, that's for sure, but they look real nice hanging on the wall bracket

2 hours ago, craigb said:

Not even me!

*snif*

Wrong font, @S.L.I.P.

Would you like the correct font?

Happy birthday Notes

31 minutes ago, Wibbles said:

But who wouldn't want a pair of Synkrotron branded underpants?

My missus bought me a synkrotron T-shirt last Christmas... I'll model it for you if you like and post a picture

3 hours ago, Philip G Hunt said:

So you know then that streaming services are just vanity projects for non-gigging musicians, right? 🤷‍♂️

I don't understand what you are getting at

I hope all is well @cclarry 

14 minutes ago, Bapu said:

happy 87,888 to me?

200,000 = Yes

8 minutes ago, Bapu said:

happy 87,888 to me?

no

happy 2000 posts Mr Wibbles

Got the T-shirt

15 minutes ago, Philip G Hunt said:

A friend of mine who used to be in my band back in the day and now works in the music biz once said that if you did a gig and sold 10 CDs after the gig, you'd make more money than you'd make from years off streaming services... And do you know what. He's right.

Been there, done that.

1 hour ago, bjornpdx said:

To me it's all about googling my name and my tracks pop up from various places, amazing my friends and relatives and especially my obnoxious brother-in-law with the Porsche.

 

Way to go Bjorn!

1 hour ago, Philip G Hunt said:

So you've got your stuff out there.... Now what?

Nothing. That's it.

1 hour ago, Philip G Hunt said:

Truth is, you would make more money busking in the street than from streaming services. If you want to make decent bucks, gig and sell merchandise.

I'm not a "performer." I simply ain't good enough.

Merchandise? What, you mean like cups with my logo on? T-shirts? CBA.

Despite that negativity I have now earned £400 more than I ever thought I would from my hobby when I started back in 1979.

I certainly wouldn't earn that on spotify.

I am a happy bunny.

4 minutes ago, craigb said:

It's worth it Andy!  Chin up!  😉

I hope so, Craig

I managed to fix the guitar timing issues much quicker than the bass guitar.

I think that is due, in part, to the bass part having more transients than strummed guitar parts. Makes sense.

So I've sent the project, as it stands, off to my lad and he is hopefully going to come up with some new drum parts.

In the meantime I suppose I should have a go at some guitar melody stuff, and probably some choir samples... Maybe...

not sure about that, I think it was the rigger's fault mesel

1 hour ago, Philip G Hunt said:

So, I depends what your aims are.

My aim is to just get my stuff out there.

SoundCloud and Bandcamp is the means... Bandcamp allows you to sell your stuff if you wish.

Thank you very much for your input here @Christian Jones 

I got three takes done for the bass last night so I've been busy doing that and trying to get it tight to the MIDI drums, which are quantised.

So some of the things you mention like "tedious" is really resonating with me right now haha! And that was only with three takes.

No wonder pop songs are only three and a half minutes long!

Fortunately I think I was able to get one half decent (for me) bass line out of the three takes. I'm not familiar with "comp'ing," the way it is supposed to be done, so I did it the way which suited me.

All three takes were on one track.

I exploded those takes onto separate tracks and then deleted the original takes from the first track. So now I have one empty track, for the selected clips, and a track for each take.

I then listened to each track on its own making notes of where duff or missed notes or anything I didn't like. REAPER now has Take/Item Markers which happens to be great for this purpose. I'm no longer up to speed with CbB so not sure if you can do the same thing.

Once that was done I could see all those marks which helped me to decide which parts to use. I split each item, usually on the start of a bar so that I was moving large chunks of clips up to the main bass track.

Once that was done I then had to fix all the timing issues. For this task I manually placed stretch markers and dragged them, with snap on, to the beat. I have snap set to 1/8th notes.

That must have taken me well over four hours, from recording the takes to finishing the timing problems. So, yeah, tedious...

On to the guitar parts next... I'll probably be back here some time tomorrow

cheers

andy

Yeah, I don't even consider streaming services.

Perhaps I'm cutting my nose off to spite my face but I just don't go there on principle. It's okay for artists who are somehow getting traction in the industry. My music is far too "niche" (AKA crap) anyway.

I also never listen to any music on spotify and the like.

Bandcamp all the way for me. That way, Craig B can fund my GAS habits

Hiya @chuckebaby 

1 minute ago, chuckebaby said:

Buy a pre amp

Is that ISA One preamp better than the preamps that come with the Roland OCTA-CAPTURE?

And what about the Roland MMP-2?

I have an MMP-2 so I'm wondering if I should be using that instead of using the OCTA-CAPTURE preamp.

I just don't know enough about stuff like preamps, other than most audio devices come with a couple built in, usually.

6 minutes ago, chuckebaby said:

Practice

Yeah, that's a problem... Been playing on and off for over forty years. I'm obviously better, technically, than I was when I started but still far short of were I would like to be. I'm not a pure guitarist so I may not pick it up for months at a time. I realise that even if I'm not incorporating it into current projects I should still pick it up for an hour or so every couple of days. At least that way my finger tips do go all soft on me...

cheers

andy

2 hours ago, bayoubill said:

IMHO

Know what you want play way before you go into your DAW

If playing what you want to play is not up to par take some time and practice just what you want to play. If it takes a few days, so what, have fun getting it under your fingers

my point is know what you want to play before you try recording anything  and spend some time playing it a lot first

Hiya Bill,

I missed your post... Apologies for that.

I get what you are saying, though, because I want to hear my guitar WITH the effects I need to play through my DAW anyway.

I also create in front of my DAW, sad though it is to say. I've not always done that because we've not always had a DAW, but once you get used to being able to record parts and quickly copy or move them around your kinda hooked. I've never been one for writing stuff down either.

So what I do is play over and over and over, that practice you are talking about, and at some point I think, "that's enough," and I hit record. Sometimes I nail it, but most often tweaking is required. I just ain't that good, so practising and practising can become very tedious. But not as tedious as learning guitar from scratch, of course.

Timing is a funny, at least to my mind, because you'd think that at sixty I'd have certainly developed that particular skill, either on guitar or keyboard, or tapping a cardboard box even. I'm wondering if it is somehow related to a nervous issue...

2 minutes ago, John Bradley said:

It's punishment for not playing better.

Thanks for confirming that, John, and yes, punishment is due I guess

2 minutes ago, John Bradley said:

Yeah, I'm talking splitting the signal path into two amp+speaker combos within a single instance of your guitar processing vst of choice. I assume Guitar Rig can do that. If not you can always do it afterwards by duping the track and using a different amp in the copy.

I can do that by having the recording on one track and then two additional tracks with the amp sims on. The recorded track can have its route to the master buss turned off. I can then create a send each to each of the amp sim busses. I think I'd rather do it that way instead of within Guitar Rig.

I used to have TH2 but I think I may have lost my license to that because I had to ditch an e-mail address which was linked to it because it was compromised. But I'm thinking I could use FabFilter Saturn instead.

More food for thought, so, thanks

6 minutes ago, craigb said:

They're common name is the "Power Chord!"

Thanks for confirming.

I know enough about chord structures, including the Power Chord. If fact five of my six strings are tuned to root and fifth, Devin Townsend style (it was him I got the idea from).

8 minutes ago, craigb said:

If you have ZERO intention of ever playing live

Yeah, that's me. I'd love to be able to, and I have done in the past, but not any more.

I need to get my head around REAPER's take system...

thanks again, Craig