The Jam Room Blog Thread.

[neighbor664]

i need some advice.

i want to take a live recording of a band thats all on one track and break it up into many tracks. what do you guys recommend. i prefer it to be free and easy to use.

Audacity

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/

[Dave J]

+1 for Audacity.

I record all our band practices (although I multi-track now, I started out with one mic in the room) and then cut the stuff we want and make mp3s.  Free and easy to use.

[Lumpy]

Reaper, Garage Band, Sound Forge (I think that's the name). The cheapest and easiest way is to ask a friend to do it for you. 

At first, I thought you were asking how to separate the bass, guitar and drum parts (impossible).

[johnny problem]

I've got a pretty noobish question.  I'm wanting to get an ABY pedal.  I understand the splitting capabilities, but I'm having difficulties visualizing how I would make my signal path to run two amps.  Basically, I'm only looking to run one amp dirty, and the other clean.  I'm also looking to run certain effects on one amp and the other. Does the ABY become my "conductor", as in I plug my guitar into the in/out, use the a circuit to run the effects I need, and the same with B?  Am I looking at this all wrong?  Clarification would be great!

[Lumpy]

It sounds like you have it right... it doesn't sound like you're confused (?)

The Boss LS-2 is cheap (like 50-60 bucks used) and is a Swiss Army knife (versatile). But lots of pedals have a Clean Out or two outputs, look at the pedals you already have, you might not need anything else. Especially if both amps are always on.

[Danny G]

When using two amps I have my loop station and delay only going to one amp.


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[Lumpy]

I guess I didn't understand the question, sorry.

It might help you to make a diagram of what you want. Or even a list

[RacerX]

I've got a pretty noobish question.  I'm wanting to get an ABY pedal.  I understand the splitting capabilities, but I'm having difficulties visualizing how I would make my signal path to run two amps.  Basically, I'm only looking to run one amp dirty, and the other clean.  I'm also looking to run certain effects on one amp and the other. Does the ABY become my "conductor", as in I plug my guitar into the in/out, use the a circuit to run the effects I need, and the same with B?  Am I looking at this all wrong?  Clarification would be great!

There are a couple of ways you can use an ABY.

Up front, you can split your guitar through two different effect chain signals, each to a dedicated amp. Then you can use one, the other, or both amps. Not as commonly used, but for a clean/dirty setup, if you want a different effects chain for each, it's the way to go, but get ready for a lot of tap-dancing.

The "usual" way: you send one guitar signal through a single effects chain into the ABY, using it to run one, the other, or both amps.

Grounding issues are possible either way you go, get an ABY with a ground switch. If it's buzzing, flip the switch.

[RacerX]

Also, I'm wondering now whether you just need a A/B pedal.

Do you need both amps to run at once, or just either/or?

[tombhex]

It sounds to me like they're asking "If I am running A+B (Y), am I then able to run effects into the clean amp and separate effects into the dirty amp" to which the answer is a simple "yep."

I do this myself, it'll work exactly how you're envisioning it. Guitar > Tuner > ABY box > SIGNAL TO CLEAN / SIGNAL TO DIRTY > amp. You can run a verb and a delay in front of the clean amp, using the signal from output A, and then maybe just have a noise suppressor for example in the signal chain from output B into the dirty amp.

[liquidsmoke]

Speaking of recording, can anyone recommend a phone app that allows one to adjust the input level down enough to record band practice without clipping? Such a thing would be great as I have the dropbox app on my iPhone and it's super easy to upload files.

[RacerX]

The Band-aid over the mic holes app might work.

[showdown]

Backstage last night. Fun times.

[liquidsmoke]

The Band-aid over the mic holes app might work.

Hmmmm something like that could work.

[Pissy]

That would work.  An app that reduces the mic level won't really work because the mic itself is being pushed to the max. Reducing a signal that's already clipped by the time it makes it to processing would yield a clipped signal that happens to be quieter.

[Lumpy]

Use a bandaid which is meant for drop tuning.

[liquidsmoke]

I drop tune down to H flat so it will have to be super thick I suppose.

[liquidsmoke]

That would work.  An app that reduces the mic level won't really work because the mic itself is being pushed to the max. Reducing a signal that's already clipped by the time it makes it to processing would yield a clipped signal that happens to be quieter.

That makes sense.

Found some stuff, wish I would have known about these types of mics years ago-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=151&v=--FVSsSTTeM

https://www.zoom.co.jp/products/handy-recorder/zoom-iq7-professional-stereo-microphone-ios

https://www.zoom.co.jp/products/handy-recorder/iq6-xy-stereo-microphone-ios

http://www.micreviews.com/guides/top-10-best-ios-microphones

Some can handle 120 or 125 db. Perfect.

[Danny G]

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[Danny G]

Bout to start watching YouTube tutorials until Danimal Johnson (Hank III, Jackson Taylor etc etc etc) gets back from Vegas.

Carter Starter 10-string pedal steel.




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[Pissy]

Carvin is closing its doors. 71 years.  Damn.

https://carvinaudio.com/blogs/news

[everdrone]

Im Axl Rose in my band.  Check us out:  https://www.facebook.com/GUNSOFTEXASGNRTRIBUTE/

compilation:

Rocket Queen

Mr Bbrownstone

[RacerX]

I'm currently living one of those arthritis drug commercials—the "before the drug" part—freakin' Groundhog Day-level reoccurrence.

Every day it gets harder to play through the pain. I'm leaning HARD on turmeric extract, NSAIDs and slide guitar.

/whinyblogging

[Pissy]

Old timers i used to work with swore to me that localized application of WD-40 helped. I'll leave it to you to decide if you want to try it or not- read the label, but if you do, i'd be interested in knowing if its hogwash.  These same guys swore that carrying a buckeye nut in your pocket got rid of hemorrhoids.  Never tried either.

[RacerX]

heh—that made my day, Pissy!

I'm not quite desperate enough to try that (yet), but I may give the CBD extract topicals a whirl.