Confessions of a gear noob

[jrfox92]

I still have no idea how to use the fx send on my Behringer mixer.

[rickenbastard]

Have bought dream gear thinking it would stop me from wanting more stuff. Boy was I in denial.

For a time I owned more than 1 5-string bass.

Forgot a Warwick bass at a venue. It was stolen.

[ThurberMingus]

I wrecked a sweet vintage Japanese guitar to try and put a strat hotrails pickup in it. I wrecked the pickup trying to install it into my Tele.
(Edit: the guitar in question is currently being resurrected by my luthier friend)

I bought one of those matte black Schecters with bat inlays and a Floyd Rose.
I traded that guitar for a Crate V33 head.
I wrecked the head by thinking I could mod it to Soldano specs (wtf was I thinking?) it was actually a pretty sweet sounding amp too. I wonder if I could bring it back to life?

I asked my parents for a TC Electronic G Major for Christmas and had a shitty pseudo rack setup for a while. I would like to get that unit and use it for synth effects!

Man times were tough. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of gold but those are some stand out failures in my life.

[goroth]

I still have no idea how to use the fx send on my Behringer mixer.

Me neither.

[goroth]

I still don't understand automation, nor auxiliary busses,

Dude, you need to get on aux/busses/sends. Not only does it make stuff easier like having one reverb/delay for any number of tracks, you can kinda treat it like an effects loop for reverbs/delays and add whatever other plugins you want to the wet signal only.

[01010111]

I still have no idea how to use the fx send on my Behringer mixer.

Me neither.

I'm looking for a new mixer, and this is essential. It's one of my favorite features. It's super handy.

[kralc]

I still don't understand automation, nor auxiliary busses,

Dude, you need to get on aux/busses/sends. Not only does it make stuff easier like having one reverb/delay for any number of tracks, you can kinda treat it like an effects loop for reverbs/delays and add whatever other plugins you want to the wet signal only.

Honestly, I looked at Logic specific Aux Track Tutorials on youtube to attach when I made my above post, but all the barely audible guys on there started talking about Channel Strips and were loading in preset sends, and I became the gear noob. Logic names stuff weird.



auxes/sends/busses are still cool though.

[oscillateur]

Aux sends in a few words : it's like a tiny mixer with a separate output. The volume for each channel is determined by the aux send knob (this actually depends on whether it's pre or post fader but let's keep it simple). The sum of all this goes to the Aux send jack. The Aux return is just another channel but without any EQ/etc. controls.

[hbombgraphics]

how to imbed youtubes on ILF

remove the "s"


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY[/youtube]

OK, it's called Youtube, how does that help?

[hotknife]

how to imbed youtubes on ILF

remove the "s"


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY[/youtube]

OK, it's called Youtube, how does that help?

lol

Remove the "s" from "https"

[waltdogg]

well this is very amusing.

definitely guilty of plugging in pedals backwards though i've never sold off or traded away anything i loved and regretted it. i learned early on to keep anything that felt or sounded nice.

i can also admit that i'm a sound engineer but i barely understand busing and auxes and shit in pro tools. i can kinda do it, but sometimes it just ends in horrible feedback and screeching.

oh and here's a good one, for years i just used short instrument cables instead of speaker cables. that was great. i blew up a sunn concert bass doing that once.

[ognoy]

First(not counting a Zoom multi FX) stompbox I bought was a compressor(Marshall), cause I thought it was the same as a boost, needed it for solos.

Even though it could boost the signal a little bit, but just a nudge.

[waltdogg]

oh yeah, my first "dirt" pedal was a compressor too. boss cs-3.

[lost in music]

To get extra high gain I would crank my little practice amp, then run the headphone output into the input of my bigger amp.

I also did this with two solid-state amps. I also stabbed holes in the practice amp speaker with a pencil because I had heard that was how Link Wray invented distortion.

In early gear days, I asked my parents for a Boss Noise Suppressor pedal for xmas because I thought it would fix the noise from my shitty amp.

Another xmas I asked them for a mixer, when what I really meant was a 4-track. They were gear noobs too and they bought me a DJ mixer (from Radio Shack). I never ended up using it for recording anything and it sat in a box for a couple years, but then I got some use out of it by doing cool crossfades on mixtapes.

I'm still very much a gear noob. So much shit I don't know shit about. Recording anything? Midi? Tube amps? Head/cabs? I try to be more cautious about my buying habits these days and research stuff extensively online.

Actually though, about 2 years ago I bought a cheap-ass Lexicon audio interface and something went wrong. I can't even remember what it was but I think it came down to a Mac/PC issue with the included software or something? So that's been sitting on a shelf for a while, but I've since switched from MAC to PC. But the computer I've got now doesn't even have a disc drive though, so I don't know what the hell I'm going to do. Great, thanks ILF. Now I'm feeling like a noob again!

[odontophobia]

Sold my first guitar, Lake Placid Blue Telecaster for $100 and a Futon because I wasn't playing guitar seriously enough.

Then sold a bunch of awesome synth gear for. Of nearly enough money.

Also, my first band used use a Lowry organ. It was s pain to drag around but sounded great with the built in tube amp mic'd up. For portability we decided to hack it up. Then we just bought synths and emulated the sounds. Fucking stupid.