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  • January 5, 2010 at 11:03 am in reply to: Open tunings #106074
    Kevin Demuth
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    I always have the same gauge and tuning on the bottom two strings for that droning sonic youth-esque sound. I have one guitar tuned in DDDDAA ,its my favorite tuning! As for the tunings I created, i dont give them out cause I’m kinda secretive about how I do things musically. 😆

    NOTE: you should always swap gauges when you use odd tunings to get the most out of your guitar, dont stick to a standard set, make your own sets. It takes me two or three sets or more to string one guitar. That’s one of the reasons I buy 24 packs at a time for 3 bucks each set from http://www.webstrings.com/ great strings!

    Doing this also prevents some strings being too tight and some being too loose.

    why don’t you buy single strings? or would that work out more expensive?

    January 4, 2010 at 8:52 pm in reply to: What pedals do you currently want? #106039
    Kevin Demuth
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    (knowing melx) some kind of distortion or fuzz i reckon.

    it’s gonna be a foxx tone machine. :) (you know me too well)

    ….been having problems with my dano french toast (dodgy switch, dodgy jacks), so I bought a ‘general guitar gadgets’ PCB and bought the parts over a few months, I got the last bits just before christmas. It’s a good way of getting something you can’t afford to buy in one go. I got some nice parts too…. panasonic and Xicon caps, carbon comp resistors, NOS original trannies, switchcraft jacks and all that snazzy jazz …. so it should be cool as and last a lifetime.

    Mike Livesly is gonna build it for me….. that’s shortscale mike of ‘here’s a bit of back in black’ you tube demos fame.

    lol, oh yeah and it’s having one of these

    http://www.banzaimusic.com/LED-5mm-RGB-multicolor.html

    in one of these

    http://www.banzaimusic.com/LED-Socket-5-LENS-BLK.html

    lol, i figured why the hell not?

    that sounds really cool – the colour changing LED especially! :D

    January 4, 2010 at 6:57 pm in reply to: Open tunings #106027
    Kevin Demuth
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    i hardly ever use a typical open tuning; quite often though i’ll just re-tune one or two strings from standard…

    i have some songs in these tunings:

    E A D G# B E

    E A D G A E

    E G D G B E-or-D

    D A D G Bb E

    .

    or i’ll use an open tuning with a slight variation such as:

    D A D F A E (i really like this one)

    D A D F Bb D

    (both deviations from open Dm)

    December 31, 2009 at 2:31 pm in reply to: What pedals do you currently want? #105922
    Kevin Demuth
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    just this…. which will be built in January

    SL272430.jpg

    what is it going to be?

    (knowing melx) some kind of distortion or fuzz i reckon.

    December 30, 2009 at 2:23 pm in reply to: Post your Pedalboard #105859
    Kevin Demuth
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    …i thought getting a small pedalboard would help curb my addiction…..it isn’t working :P

    😆

    cool board, with a nice range of cheap to not-so-cheap pedals. :thumb:

    what’s the yellow/gold one on the left? it looks like a Z.Cat to me – delay/chorus?

    December 28, 2009 at 7:40 pm in reply to: What pedals do you currently want? #105769
    Kevin Demuth
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    …

    Gonkulator, purely because I thought the name was cool when I was a teenager and have wanted one since.

    …

    i like DOD pedals but i wouldn’t bother… it’ll just make you want a better distortion and a better ring modulator.

    December 26, 2009 at 10:36 am in reply to: Whos your favorite all time guitar player???? #105708
    Kevin Demuth
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    The Pope got jumped today.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8430508.stm

    “The Vatican said the 25-year-old woman involved was mentally unstable and had been taken to hospital.”

    …….I’m still thinking about that remark.

    the same woman attempted it last year too… wearing exactly the same clothes!!!

    December 24, 2009 at 10:51 am in reply to: best pedals for shoegaze sounds #105651
    Kevin Demuth
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    First of all, thanks to everyone for the suggestions/advice. I’ve been checking out the various EH delay pedals, and some of the reviews of the Memory Man w/Hazarai say that it kills tone. Is that true? I’m still trying to decide which one to get – Memory Man, Memory Boy, Memory Toy, etc. I’m also thinking about waiting until the Deluxe Memory Boy comes out next month. Any thoughts?

    I’ve heard people say that about the Haz, but I’ve never noticed it myself. I use a lot of vintage pedals, so I don’t even take that stuff into consideration anymore. My solution is the Carl Martin Octaswitch. That saves me the hassle of worrying over signal degradation.

    i’ve never noticed any tone issues with the Haz either.

    the thing with the Hazarai is, if you’re using it as a mono-in/stereo-out, while the pedal is off it will be passively splitting your signal – that could explain why some people say it kills tone. maybe.

    December 21, 2009 at 7:31 pm in reply to: Post your Pedalboard #105575
    Kevin Demuth
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    it’s an Eight Bit Organism – one of the pedals he makes.

    December 20, 2009 at 8:12 pm in reply to: The Best CE-1 Clone #105560
    Kevin Demuth
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    have a look on ebay for old early-80s chorus pedals; lots of them may have similarities to the Boss CE-1 or have a sound you like even more.

    i’ve got quite a few inc. 2x Pearl CH-02, Guyatone PS-013 and PS-023, and a Rayder/Washburn stereo chorus… all are analogue and sound beautiful.

    December 17, 2009 at 2:37 pm in reply to: Post your Pedalboard #105481
    Kevin Demuth
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    smaller board than usual in preperation for gig friday. improv sets. dont need to rely on stereo spread or looping so much.

    pedalboard_december2009.jpg

    lovely as always, tape. :thumb:

    it’s just a shame the right hand side of the picture has been chopped off.

    i can’t remember what the little green one is next to the Micro Pog though.

    December 16, 2009 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Clean tones #105435
    Kevin Demuth
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    the Germanium OD can produce a lovely clean sound; a touch of compression with a ‘vintage’ sounding smoothness.

    December 14, 2009 at 7:44 pm in reply to: best pedals for shoegaze sounds #105341
    Kevin Demuth
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    That officially sparked my curiosity. What is that?

    it’s a 4ms Tremulus Phaseur.

    have a look here for more crazy looking stuff.

    December 14, 2009 at 6:31 pm in reply to: Voice Box / Vocoder – Mute instrument output? #105338
    Kevin Demuth
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    i don’t know if i’ve ever said this before, but you’re a GENIUS!

    No … and think ‘bodger’ is probably nearer to the word you are looking for.

    i’m just checking in my dictionary…

    yep. you were right. ;)

    December 14, 2009 at 6:10 pm in reply to: Voice Box / Vocoder – Mute instrument output? #105335
    Kevin Demuth
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    yeah, many ways around it like Kev said….. or if you had a cable with a ‘neutrik silent jack’ on the end you could just pull it out!! 😆

    i don’t know if i’ve ever said this before, but you’re a GENIUS!

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    Makes sense. I use a multi-effect in front of the vb, so I wasn’t carrying a tuner around. I suppose that’ll be the next logical step though.

    to be honest though,
    i like the idea of you running back and forth to your amp, turning it up and down! :poke: 😆

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