General Music Chat

That damned drunk guitarist used to point his lil Peavy right at me when we played, & of course I was standing jammed right up next to the friikken cybals & drums. He had it on a stand, so it was aimed right at my head, & it was all I could hear. I stopped that, though. One time, after complaining about it ot no avail, I just went over in the middle of a song & hit a real loud E, & let it ring out while I adjusted his amp & turned it to the wall. heh heh heh

I think he was scared of ma a little...he left it there for the rest of the night.

Phil is c-ryas. He no jokin
Good stuff.
That's the Line6 one you're talking bout, Crip, eh?

Yup... I'm in the process of purchasing the Line 6 Bogner tube amp... it sounds awesome and I can still use my pedal board with it...

No, I hafta keep the amp turned down during recording sessions, & I can never hear my work until it's done. I hate that, & someday I'm gonna force some which way to get some headphones for myself when recording so I can cut loose a bit & actually hear what I'm doing, rather than constantly playing by memory! Shouldn't be that hard to do. Frikken drums & guitars & vox are all I ever hear when I work in that studio. I'd rather dub in my stuff later, but it's s'posed to be band practice.

If its just for rehearsal, who cares if it bleeds?
I like it when a room is wired up with headphone jacks that come off the board.
Y'all get some headphones on, turn down a little and go to town. You can really dial in parts that way, cuz you can hear everything clearly.
I'm sure you know that though. Just sayin...

If your tracking for keeps, just do one instrument at a time, no?

But for the rehearsals that I'm involved with at the moment, theres just vocal p.a.
We dont mic anything else. We just try to keep the volume moderate.
If the volume creeps up to where the Kick drum cant be heard clearly, then we turn back down.

But, to your original questions Andragon:
How far apart the guitar amps are and at what angles, depends on the room we're jamming in. But as far apart as possible.
Which is usually about 10 to 12 ft in our case.
A P.A. for vocals, with decent to good vocal effects has been a must.

For my personal recording, I jimi-rig a mini stereo cable into a laptop line in. Use a Tascam CD-GT1 for the clean signal, with Garageband patches for some different effects and sounds.
On one occasion I used one of the dirty patches straight from the Tascam.
I have a USB M-Audio Oxygen8 midi keyboard, for some other stuff.
It's a pretty 'mad ghetto-scientist' setup. But it works.