The New Tone Thread

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Bubba po said:
This is more like it - I moved my mic closer to the dustcap, took the gain down half a notch and the bass down a notch. Still gainier than the record for the reasons mentioned.

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Where the hell is Dodsworth? He was supposed to be kicking ass in the tone thread, not fucking about in the sea on a fibreglass plank! :mad:
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The second clip sounds much better. Still has that rubbly quality at the bottom though. Fuck knows what to do about it.
 
Greg_L said:
Well, without question, my two fave Pistols songs are "No Feelings" and "Bodies". Maybe I'll take a swing at one of those.
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Ha! It was nearly "Bodies" that I chose, but I ended up going with "Vacant". Great stuff. :)

It would be good to compare our versions.
 
Bubba po said:
Ha! It was nearly "Bodies" that I chose, but I ended up going with "Vacant". Great stuff. :)

It would be good to compare our versions.
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I'll try vacant. I know how to play it, but don't know HOW to play it. I don't know Steve Jones's licks and nuances and shit. I'm just gonna bang it out.
 
Haha, pretty good. Fuck this and fuck that I don't want a baby that looks like that.
 
My dad got kind of mad at me one time when I was a kid for listening to "Belsen Was a Gas" really loud on Easter sunday.
 
Bubba po said:
Here's my take on "Bodies".

Red crunch, Gain 5, everything else the same as previously.

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That's gotta be my favourite Pistols song! There's still something weird with the clip though that I can't put my finger on on. Kind of like a fizzy buzzyness that I can hear right in the middle of my head! Greg might be able to spot in - I don't fucking know - but aside from that, sounds decent enough.

Have a laugh at this - I love my guitar chair - and I can rest my left hand on the radiator too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Agor6rcd3g

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Greg_L said:
My dad got kind of mad at me one time when I was a kid for listening to "Belsen Was a Gas" really loud on Easter sunday.
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Speaking of Easter - I've always thought its more of an Ironic Friday than a particularly good one.
 
Nice playing! It sounds like something written for Rockschool or something. Is it?

I don't know what the fizziness is - I can't hear it in the room. I appear to have accidentally nudged my micstand with my foot. It's a bit close to the centre of the speaker.
 
Greg_L said:
Haha nice vid. Man, you really fucking love those andertons guys, yeah?
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haha, they're actually pretty helpful with the gear reviews and shit and they seem like decent guys, they were cool when I met them after their gig in Bristol last year - I was pretty pissed though. Suppose the point of the Anderton's videos is to give you mad GAS... which I'm managing to avoid... kinda.

I came across that tutorial video a few weeks ago when one of the other guys on here (Tad maybe?) was doing riff of the week tutorials as I thought it was a really good tutorial and really well explained. I learned is cos there are a couple of sections in it that are nothing like my usual guitar style, there's a long ascending section with loads of string skipping in it which I never do and I never normally go anywhere near fucking fretboard tapping! I'll record it again at some point when my hands are properly warm - I did about 10 takes of that and my forearm was fucking aching! Even on the one I posted there I fuck up the really fast pentatonic bit.
 
Bubba po said:
Nice playing! It sounds like something written for Rockschool or something. Is it?
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Its from a tutorial by Rabea Massaad, the big bloke who does the Anderton's videos with Rob Chapman.
Bubba po said:
I don't know what the fizziness is - I can't hear it in the room. I appear to have accidentally nudged my micstand with my foot. It's a bit close to the centre of the speaker.
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That could be it - I had something similar at first with my old speaker - I just hadn't realised how fucking massive the dust-cap on the speaker was so my mic was slightly inside it and I had a fizzy harshness that I couldn't work out.

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JDOD said:
Its from a tutorial by Rabea Massaad, the big bloke who does the Anderton's videos with Rob Chapman.
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I see - those are some nimble, spidery fingers you have there. BTW, it sometimes takes me ten takes to do the simple stuff. :)
 
Yeah, they're pretty long aren't they? Whenever I see my hands in photos I always think my fingers look like the legs off the facehuggers in the Alien films.
 
Greg_L said:
You do have long spindly shredder fingers.

I have stumpy powerchord hands.
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My fingers aren't too bad, but my thumbs are short. I'd like to, occasionally, be able to hook my thumb over the top rock 'n' roll style for some low-slung action, but no dice. :D
 
JDOD said:
Yeah, they're pretty long aren't they? Whenever I see my hands in photos I always think my fingers look like the legs off the facehuggers in the Alien films.
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I began to get that impression earlier, when I saw that pic with the plectrum in your hand. Your knuckles are like camel's knees.
 
Bubba po said:
I began to get that impression earlier, when I saw that pic with the plectrum in your hand. Your knuckles are like camel's knees.
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haha. Camels knees! Excellent.

That plectrum is great by the way. Supposed to be virtually indestructable and won't wear either. The horn plectrum I had from Iron Age Guitars wore down pretty quickly.
 
Greg_L said:
You do have long spindly shredder fingers.

I have stumpy powerchord hands.
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I'm not a shredder! I suppose I should get back to recording some stuff which is more my kinda thing really.

Long fingers are rarely a drawback until you get above about the 17th fret though... and I don't go there very often at all.
 
JDOD said:
That's gotta be my favourite Pistols song! There's still something weird with the clip though that I can't put my finger on on. Kind of like a fizzy buzzyness that I can hear right in the middle of my head! Greg might be able to spot in - I don't fucking know - but aside from that, sounds decent enough.
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nie .... always cool to put a face on someone's persona
 
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