The Jam Room Blog Thread.

[Mr. Foxen]

Steve Albini does it from drummer's point of view. Not really sure why i keep listening to stuff he says, because I have basically nothing to do with micing stuff. Should stick with his cooking blog.

[dogfood]

At one time Albini just flat out recorded bands differently than anyone else.  Who knows, maybe there are a thousand engineer a likes out there now or maybe he engineers a wider range of style these days.  Ive always liked listening to his recordings.

[JemDooM]

Omlet I'm looking forward to hearing more of your stuff!

A friend of mine went over to record with Albini, during the sesh he said to him "do us a favour, can you let us know if we start speeding up at any point?" Albini said "No I won't, it's none of my business if you start to speed up", I love that

[Omlet]

Jem: it's out now, you can download it for free at http://perfb.bandcamp.com/album/obsidian (as I mentioned about it in um, some other topic )
Also I have three new "songs" almost done but I'm not satisfied with them - they are too similar to each other so I think they must wait til I manage to make something a little more different.

[agent of change]

I like to pan my toms from left to right, like I hear them behind the set. Not like you'd hear them out in the audience.

Being a drummer, the other way sounds downright backwards to me. Same for cymbals, ride on the right, hats on the left.

Yep

[liquidsmoke]

To non drummers that way sounds weird on albums.

[mutantcolors]

Well then fuck y'all.

I shall now attribute the preference to my literacy in a left-to-right written language. Yeah. Everyone who disagrees is obv an Arab terrorist who hates freedom.

[Omlet]

Drums... on the last nine tracks I recorded, only one contains (programmed) drums... And one contains... single, down-pitched crash

[Corey Y]

I used to prefer panning drums from the front side perspective. Once I realized most drummers prefer the kit side perspective and most non musicians don't notice either way, I went with it.

[mutantcolors]

It really is a snooty detail, maybe one in twenty people would ever even notice. My friend uses the Glynn John method on his kit and it sounds fantastic, but it pans backwards for my preference.

[Danny G]

Playing drums on my stuff its usually two channels, one about 1.5 to 2 feet from the kick and one overhead + one on the snare mixed together.

I'd pan them for an overall mix but use the from the audience perspective, so the overhead/snare leaned to the right and the kick leaned to the left.

Never really though about doing the opposite (drummer pov), I'll try it.


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[spookstrickland]

Got my Fender Vibro champ back up and running after over 10 years of sitting!

[Danny G]

Good deal. Hope it fares better than my Acoustic B200H...


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[RAGER]

I just sent a text inquiring about buying a fuzz pedal zI built?  derp.  never should have sold it.





/toolazytobuildanotherone

[spookstrickland]

Good deal. Hope it fares better than my Acoustic B200H...


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Thanks, I hope you get that Acoustic up and Blazing again someday too.

[Danny G]

I've kinda given up on it.

I may open it up for a look-see and/or try it out again in a rehearsal but its already proven itself to be problematic.

Gear either works consistently (with proper maintenance), or it does not.


Kinda like relationships.


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[liquidsmoke]

Thinking about getting an inexpensive strat scale guitar for F# standard tuning for a sludgy doom project. I like Elixir's Nanowebs so I'd try 17 26 36 46 56(which I currently use with the addition of a 13 on my Scroll for B standard) and their baritone 68 for the low F# string. Thinking that should work okay although that low string might be a bit less defined than I'd like it to be. I was down in F# for awhile with an Epi LP and it didn't sound that great but that was with a more traditional metal tone. Or I could look into longer scale 7 strings(and leave one off, 6 is enough) and baritones.

[mutantcolors]

Strat is a great option because they have a longer scale length, can be had cheeeeeaaaaap and the singles fight off the muddiness of the tone. I love grizzly, brutal distortion with a single coil.

[liquidsmoke]

I was only thinking about that scale length but now you've got me pondering single coil pups. I used to have a Squire Strat that played pretty nice, sold or traded it in for something else, shouldn't have done that.

[Danny G]

What about P-90s?


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[VOLVO)))]

loose strings will never give you what you want.

Listen to Conan. That's F#. I'd say 72 on the bottom, minimum, 14 high. You want some tension. Make a super strat. My jackson kelly is in A standard 68-14 and it's a bit floppy for me.


Also,  fuck wound G strings.

[mutantcolors]

I play the Beefy Slinky set (C std) with a plain .22 G string. I love that thing.

To me, a strat aint a strat if is anything other than SSS configuration, with one exception, where the middle pick up is removed. No one uses that shit anyway.

[liquidsmoke]

loose strings will never give you what you want.

Listen to Conan. That's F#. I'd say 72 on the bottom, minimum, 14 high. You want some tension. Make a super strat. My jackson kelly is in A standard 68-14 and it's a bit floppy for me.


Also,  fuck wound G strings.

For B I'm doing good with 13-56 so 17-68 for F# sounds about right aside from the scale being a bit short for the low F# string. 72 probably would be better but that is pretty close to 68. 14 seems too thin for the high F#, I used to use one for my high B. Those Nanowebs really cut down on wound string squawk.

[VOLVO)))]

I play a 58 in Eb... Just sayin.

For real though, bigger string = clearer tone.

[liquidsmoke]

I play a 58 in Eb... Just sayin.

Holy fuck!

For real though, bigger string = clearer tone.

Definitely. I like the somewhat loose tone that lighter strings provide though, to a point. It's a balancing act.