Stop being afraid of your gear

[Woolworm]

If you have a clean amp, dont use the effects loop & go in the front and instead use the effects loop like you would use one in a pedal. Add an oscillating, run away feedbacking, LFO waves, pitch shifting goodness etc. I think its a big reason why people can have all that gear and I'm sitting there looking at them play and I'm like "all that gear and you can barely make any noise? Nothing interesting?", then I just ask them if I can have a go and show them how its done, show how they should be using what they have, give them pointers, show them NOT TO BE AFRAID OF YOUR GEAR!, then I go back to sit down and see if they've headed my words.

Why should you not use the effects loop and go into the front of your amp? You're not letting the tubes or transistors give a microphone to the beautiful fx pedals and them sing, give them a chance, like American Idol. If you put in the loop, you're just letting it float pathetically in a buffer barely being audible or be a true effect to the signal. Do you know how POWERFUL a reverb sounds front of amp? How it multiplies your signal, how one guitar now become millions, and you attack the audience with a guitar ensemble. Music is about math. Forget about minimalism, this is 2020, we about maximalism, we about music in the next dimension, what the higher beings listen to, that's where we want to be, that's what evolution is, so we might as well get there now.

Now I know, maybe its because I'm not classically trained in guitar and I don't fucking care about your scales and your note reading and your know how around the fret boards, HAVE THE FRET BOARDS, I'll be on the pedal boards. Let me on the boards maaaaaan, I'll bring the house down! See, to me, I don't care about playing guitar, I don't care about being a guitar player, I don't care about the history or sacredness you people hold guitar and guitar music, I'm about sonics, I'm about melody, I'm about mathematics, I'm about music, not being a "guitar player". To me I play the pedals as much as I play the guitar. You know one of my friends said the most amazing thing when he was just watching me a little stoned play the guitar. He said you're not playing the strings, you're not playing the guitar, you're playing what's coming out of the amp, so what I did on the fret board or my strumming was dictated by what was coming out the amp post fx, not the guitar. I felt so understood for the first time in my life. And yes guitar might be my fave thing to put through them, but I'll put through anything through that has an electric output, samplers, microphones, other electric stringed instruments like John Cale.

But anyway, the point is, forget those nerds on thegearpage. I mean yeah they know their stuff and I do admit I visit that site about the more nuanced techy things like choosing speakers for my 4/12 amp meticulously or the differences in sound of pickups. But, I don't relate to these people, I will never relate to these normies. Guitar music is dead if you've haven't noticed. Post rock failed miserably. Remember when post rock music actually had vocals and melody? And when I say post rock its more of a catch all term. Actually artistically driven and pure guitar music, not commercial industrial guitar music. So now all you get is shitty indie pop music with shitty band, terrible dream pop, terrible neo psych, terrible garage, just embarrassing. For fucks sake, 'Passing Complexion' by Big Black came out in 1986 and I bet you there won't be a guitar based song this year that is as innovative or as new sounding as that song. 34 years later? ARE YOU FUCKING OUT OF YOUR MIND? That's so pathetic.

You see my username? That's from a song called 'Woolworm' by Indian Summer. A fairly average Skramz / Emotive Hardcore band from the early 90's, but for one song, they made one the greatest hardcore song ever made. That's pure. That's being in service to something higher than ourselves, not money, not status, but to the thing that can exist, the beauty of life that can only be there if we render it into existence, if we do nothing, it won't be there, only in our heads and what could have been, never shared, never enjoyed, our evolution never pushed forward.

You are the resistance. Godspeed good people. X.

[Blackened Soul]

Yes! exactly do your own thing and leave others perplexed

This is why I have such a big problem with the current gear/music culture too much stuff and thoughts around making things too easy to do and plug in and play.. Oh! you want to think outside of the box? well look here our new box is a think outside of the box box so you don't have to think outside of the box to be outside of the box! Not only that but you can now think outside of the box just like that famous guy that thinks outside of the box is famous for thinking outside of the box with his new box! so you don't even need to think at all!

[Woolworm]

Yes! exactly do your own thing and leave others perplexed

This is why I have such a big problem with the current gear/music culture too much stuff and thoughts around making things too easy to do and plug in and play.. Oh! you want to think outside of the box? well look here our new box is a think outside of the box box so you don't have to think outside of the box to be outside of the box! Not only that but you can now think outside of the box just like that famous guy that thinks outside of the box is famous for thinking outside of the box with his new box! so you don't even need to think at all!

Things will change very quickly. People will have better audio gear to consume music, and more and more innovative technology to make it. But what is it all in service to? I mean pop music honestly makes me wanna kill myself. All pop music is a self reflection of the 'hip' part of the culture and their morals and their inclinations and their sensibilities, and boy is it not pretty.

Art should be transcendent, guide people to be better people with it being solace and empathy engines, not materialism and whatever fucked up things modern pop music advocates. How is that in being an example for youth? For what is important in life, to how to behave towards others, what to place your priorities in, not be self absorbed and solipsistic entity so insecure and worried about how you are seen and to fit in. Its pathetic. The youth are pathetic. The culture is pathetic.

And I don't get me started on the white chicks who listen to indie pop bullshit. Such shit music, and their fake as well. They're as insecure and self absorbed as the rest of them, just like to pretend to be spiritualized (great band btw). THEY'RE ALL FAKE! And the middle class white boys are just even more embarrassing. The amount of shitty average music they listen to, just because they fit their aesthetic and personality they desperately want to be.

Rant over.

[spacelordmother]

Why do you care? Stop paying so much attention to what other people are doing and you’ll sleep better. Live and let live.

[coldbrightsunlight]

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

I too sometimes enjoy cocaine

[BlackOceans]

Always been a believer in just find whatever you like, plug in, and play too. Who care about the rest, just have fun. I understand the playing for what comes out the amp part, I find myself doing the same.

[Woolworm]

Why do you care? Stop paying so much attention to what other people are doing and you’ll sleep better. Live and let live.

Thats what Primal Scream told me. But I dunno, if that sentiment is correct tbh.

[crochambeau]

People will have better audio gear to consume music

Just out of curiosity, what duration of observational sample are you basing this perception on? I ask because, by and large the baseline music (as a product consumed) delivery system has been spiraling down the big shitter for quite some time now.

[John Matrix]

FX loops are tight tho

[Dapper Bandit]

I've alway gone into the front of my amp, mostly out of laziness and why the duck should I buy two extra cables just to plug stuff in? But most importantly, the riffs and tunes are of paramount importance. I don't think I've ever been put off of a song because of a buffer.

[Velcro Bottom]

I too sometimes enjoy cocaine

It smells sooooo good.

[mcatano]

Every time this dude posts all I can think about is this:

[coldbrightsunlight]

loves dog's and cat's what?

[retinal orbita]

You..... ask people to play their gear and then explain to them why they’re doing it wrong?

Hey fellas I think y’all just found out what it’s like to be a female musician!!