Stop being afraid of your gear
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 8:08 pm
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.
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.
