Secret Weapons - Let's see them
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@oddbod Jan 2019
Got any new interesting or unusual instruments up your sleeve you plan on using this February?
Here's mine -
A suitcase kick-drum. The suitcase was my dad's when he was serving in WW2 . That's his name and address written on the front.
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@headfirstonly Jan 2019
Brilliant!
I picked up this third-hand monster last month. Humbuckers for that warm electric sound, piezo bridge for acoustic stuff, and a Roland guitar synth pickup and controls to sound like everything else:
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@standup Jan 2019
Getting reacquainted with an old friend
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@jmadison Jan 2019
Um, how do you add pics? I only see this text box and the "Add your thoughts" button.
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@standup Jan 2019
See mine above, I did not accomplish it smoothly! But your photo has to be hosted on the web somewhere, then link to the photo. I'm trying to use Flickr, which I haven't used in ages. It's free.
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@sapient Jan 2019
I love these pics... Really quite envious of them all 😍
I have two new guitars. An acoustic, and this one, a Gretsch Baritone. I predict there will be significant quantities of twang in my FAWM this year... 😎https://www.instagram.com/p/Br8OdLbFA... -
@jmadison Jan 2019
Here we go. My new mando.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Mxk...
I have played guitar for a long time, but in the past few years have added bass and mando too. I'm planning to put down some blues tracks with it in Feb. -
@paulhenry Jan 2019
@oddbod , that is one cool kick. Can't wait to hear how it sounds. I have no secret weapons this year. In the past, I've used everything I could to be lazy: Band in a Box, insta-drumming via Logic Pro, MIDI keyboard.
This year, I'm trying to do everything in Linux. Since there will be time taken with learning-curve, my setup this year most likely will be: voice and guitar. And maybe this:
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@thelostcartographer Jan 2019
@headfirstonly oh man, I wanted one of those for YEARS, but never had the right intersection of available cash and available guitars.
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@paulhenry Jan 2019
FYI, if you have your jazz hands, you can host your photos with your FAWM file hosting. Just upload a photo like you upload your songs and then click on it to display the photo in your browser. Copy and paste the browser URL into your comment and it should "voilá!" when you post it.
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@ianuarius Jan 2019
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@ben Jan 2019
I mentioned it on FB, I'll see about posting a pick tonight!
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@headfirstonly Jan 2019
@thelostcartographer Me too - I had to wait a year before the previous owner could find someone to fix it, though. Parker used the wrong glue on the frets to adhere them to the carbon fibre fingerboard, and half of them had fallen out! Luckily there's an advanced engineering firm up the road from me called Renishaws, and someone there was a glue expert (seriously).and knew what to use. Most importantly, he had some of the stuff 😀
Silver lining: I got it for much, much less than they usually go for as a result. -
@spikedirection Jan 2019
Probably going to record using this baby,
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@spikedirection Jan 2019
Also my new guitar, it's a cheap epiphone les Pal but this clever man in Yorkshire made it into a resonator.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs2v0PzlR... -
@axl Jan 2019
@headfirstonly Oh, I've always wanted a Parker, too. Hope you have a lot of joy with it.
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@iwilleatyou Jan 2019
Oddbod that's awesome!
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@w1n Jan 2019
This ridiculously heavy Russian vocoder/stringsynth, the Elektronika EM26 sounds great
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@gubna Jan 2019
NDLR!
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@dasbinky Jan 2019
Built myself a cajon in the off-season. Not sure if it'll appear in anything for FAWM, but it's on deck if needed!
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@radioovermoscow Jan 24
This.
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@scottlake Jan 25
Duplicate post
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@scottlake Jan 25
Dang - Trying to figure out how to share google photos.
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@netnoise Jan 25
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@resonut123 Jan 25
My cheap cocktail drum setup.
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@resonut123 Jan 25
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@headfirstonly Jan 25
@resonut123 That. Is. AWESOME!
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@resonut123 Jan 25
Thanks @headfirstonly , I use it a lot if the song has a simple beat.
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@scottlake Jan 26
This is a bit of optical illusion:
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@scottlake Jan 26
Because inside there's this:
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@jmadison Jan 27
Sneaky Yamaha....
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@w1n Jan 27
The Roland RE201 is the piece of gear I have owned the longest. Love the sound.
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@kable Jan 28
No pics, but I picked up a Push 2 for more precise DAW control. https://www.ableton.com/en/push/
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@tseaver Jan 28
Dug this one up in the garage, plugged it into the bass amp, and I have stand-up bass sounds:
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@candle Jan 28
http://forums.jeskola.net/viewtopic.p...
I'm a longtime user of the Jeskola Buzz DAW. One of the machine developers just recently released a new Peer/MIDI Controller Machine called Magic that seems to combine the powers of a lot of Buzz's Peer Machines. I've already played around with it & the possibilities intrigue me. Think it might be a mainstay in my output this year.
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@tseaver Jan 28
@scottlake Nope -- my daughter and I found the box while on vacation (ten years ago!), and worked on the design together (she is the real bassist in the family). Real tuners would be nice -- this one is eye-bolts and wing-nuts. Weed-whacker line for the strings works mostly OK: the low E is pretty loose / buzzy. Dumb piezo pickup under the bridge is pretty microphonic, never a great thing. We tacked on the foot later to make it possible to play standing.
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@sph Jan 28
Discovered a Liuqin in our attic - unfortunately with only one string left and without a bridge. Already ordered strings and hope to get some sound out of it before FAWM ends.
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@tawalker Jan 28
One of my project ideas for 2019, is to record a set of songs featuring, as far as possible, only my ukulele "collection" here:
(L-R: 2012 Yamaha GL-1 guitalele ("Tigger"); 2016 Risa Solid electric tenor ("Rod"); 2016 Enya EUR-X1 acoustic soprano ("Fry"); 2018 Buzzards Field custom-built electric ukulele-bass ("Clyde"))
I'm aiming to have a "dry-run" for that project this FAWM - watch out for them 😀 -
@resonut123 Jan 28
Ukulicious, nice collection.
I have a tenor uke and a Kala U bass that I used last year as my main bass. Hopefully this year they will both make an appearance again. -
@dragondreams Jan 28
Not new, but one of the "secrets" behind the Dragondreams guitar sound...
Hand-carved, black mother of pearl plectrum. Over ten years old and starting to wear at the end, but still my amulet. 😉 -
@mikedebenham Jan 31
My new weapon is a Zoom H1n handy recorder. Haven't had a chance to test it out yet, but I'm hoping to use it during FAWM for field recordings, birdsong and general outsideness.
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@kubton Jan 31
I have a pedal problem. -
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@apertome Feb 1
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@apertome Feb 1
whoops.
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@apertome Feb 1
Sorry guys. I think I got it. Any way to delete the old posts that I messed up?
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@netnoise Feb 7
I always use this cord when recording guitars or bass. Maybe I'm just too embarrassed to bring it out in public.
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@tawalker Feb 8
I'm also in a bit of a "lo-fi"-sort of phase at the moment (albeit using digital tech rather than analogue - hey, I'm lazy 😝 ), but I'm increasingly finding these two little chaps make a rather good team...
That's a Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator PO-12 drum-machine on the left, next to a Stylophone Beatbox - a delightfully-eccentric electronic percussion machine. I've owned the Beatbox for almost a decade, but never really "got" what to use it for... until I realised it makes a great partner for the PO-12 (for overdubbing "hits", "bloops" and the like over PO-12 patterns).
