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Greg_L
Banned
I once took different sized round wooden cylinders, stretched thin plastic over the top of the ends, and beat them with sticks. I called them drums.
Dogbreath
Im an ex-spurt
I've mastered the 9 finger guitar playing. 
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
I can't claim to have "pioneered" this becase I'm SURE someone has done this before, but I was working on a song years and years and years ago where I wanted a "synth pad" soun (this was in 2000 or so when I'd just started digital recording), but of course I didn't have any synth gear. So, I decided I'd do the best I could with my guitar and a DAW, recorded three-part harmonies for each chord, one note at a time, opened them in an audio editor,trimmed them to exactly one bar, reversed them, opened them back up in the workstation, and mixed down the progression as a stereo file where harmonies "swelled in" from nowhere, and then went back to the editor and went to down with a compressor, chorus, and flanger, saved, then went BACK to my DAW and opened the new file, looped it, panned it back and forth to taste, and then doused the whole thing in reverb and delay. It sounded pretty damned cool - nothing at all like a guitar sound.
Dogbreath
Im an ex-spurt
That's pretty creative dude. 
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MrBlackthorne
Funkmaster
Intonation is also a biggie. Any type of guitar where the intonation is a little off will always sound worse as you capo up the neck.
I never noticed any tuning issues when I put the capo on my bass...
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
Me or Gerg? 
It's a cool sound:
This is the second tune I tried that with
Mind you, that's me in '01 or so.
It's a cool sound:
This is the second tune I tried that with
Mind you, that's me in '01 or so.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
I figured out that I could take some colored stage lighting gels and cut them to fit the halogen track lights in my studio. The lights have a glass UV filter that's held in place by a metal clip. The gels fit in-between the clip and the glass filter. 
I have like 20 lights spred around my studio...I can create a nice vibe using the colored gels. I have three red/gold/orange lights over the drum kit...when my drummer comes over, he won't play unless I turn on the "stage lights" for him.
At my mixing position, I only use very light peach/flesh tone gels...just to soften up the bright halogen light.
I have a mix of spots and floods...depending where I'm using them.
What's nice about it is that the gels can withstand the heat from the halogen track lights (I only use 25W bulbs)...so the gels last a long time.
I've put in fresh gels maybe once a year, if that, though sometimes I'll take them off and just wipe them, as they can get hazy over time, but the glass UV filter helps to keep the color in the gels from getting bleached away too quick.
Besides that bit of pioneering…I drove a covered wagon across the plains to Wyoming.
I have like 20 lights spred around my studio...I can create a nice vibe using the colored gels. I have three red/gold/orange lights over the drum kit...when my drummer comes over, he won't play unless I turn on the "stage lights" for him.
At my mixing position, I only use very light peach/flesh tone gels...just to soften up the bright halogen light.
I have a mix of spots and floods...depending where I'm using them.
What's nice about it is that the gels can withstand the heat from the halogen track lights (I only use 25W bulbs)...so the gels last a long time.
I've put in fresh gels maybe once a year, if that, though sometimes I'll take them off and just wipe them, as they can get hazy over time, but the glass UV filter helps to keep the color in the gels from getting bleached away too quick.
Besides that bit of pioneering…I drove a covered wagon across the plains to Wyoming.
Paulie Jay
New member
Why, what's so dumb about that? Ringo was a left hander playing a right hand set up. He lead with this left hand and made frequent reference in interviews to the fact that he had difficulty playing "proper" rolls across his toms. Asking a right hander to set up for a lefty and lead with their right hand might produce some interesting results. If that's dumb, then it's no more dumb than asking a right handed drummer to lead with their left hand even though you know that they won't.
mshilarious
Banned
One time I flipped my drums around and played the reso heads, it sounded like Men at Work 
noisewreck
New member
Don't be modest.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Glen has pioneered the music/food analogy
noisewreck
New member
I was doing music for a theater production at my highschool, and the production director wanted a dulcimer sound. Well, we didn't have any damn dulcimer players in our music department, so the next day I showed up with a couple of drum sticks. The teacher looked at them and said "I didn't know you were a drummer, and I don't think we're using drums for the music", and I said "na, this is your dulcimer", then proceeded to take the music rack off of the piano and hitting the strings with the sticks. Took me about a month of practicing to get it right
In the same production they wanted this "horrific thunderous sound", so I stuck a crash cymbal on the lowest strings of the piano and banged on the keys with my forearms. I was told it was so effective that some people in the audience jumped out of their seats!
Good times... eh, I miss those days
In the same production they wanted this "horrific thunderous sound", so I stuck a crash cymbal on the lowest strings of the piano and banged on the keys with my forearms. I was told it was so effective that some people in the audience jumped out of their seats!
Good times... eh, I miss those days
SouthSIDE Glen
independentrecording.net
Credit where it's due. I grew up on Paul Revere and the Raiders:Glen has pioneered the music/food analogy
"I'm hungry for the good things, baby"
Have you been providing consulting for Blue Man Group? For their concert they took a grand piano and put it on it's side and banged the harp with a huge mallet. The funny thing is all they used it for was the "bum...BUM bum" part of the intro to Who's "Baba O'Reiley". A long way to go for a couple of bars
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Terry Wetzel
New member
I stand corrected!
I viewed the video and, I'll be damned if you are not correct! I always considered my brother and I to be Buddy Holly afficienados. If J.I.Allison says it, can it be wrong? Would you know where I might purchase that video? I'd love to have it in my Buddy & the Crickets collection. Thanks
Mr Clean
AKA Teddy Wong
You can get it on Amazon
Amazon
I got it in the UK from play.com but they don't seem to have it on site anymore. It really is a fantastic DVD though. Being a Buddy Holly fanatic (much to my girlfriends dismay) I had to have it! Along with my other DVDs, Records, Tapes, Books.
Sorry for going off topic!
Enjoy!
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Being notorious for going off at tangents myself, I can hardly complain. However, you are forgiven, my child.
Mr Clean
AKA Teddy Wong
Thanks Dad! ;-)
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NYMorningstar
Recording Modus Operandi
If you put the capo right on the fret as opposed to behind it that will lessen the tension.
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Terry Wetzel
New member
Long live Buddy and the Crickets!
Would you or anyone here be interested in hearing some of my Buddy Holly covers?
Mr Clean
AKA Teddy Wong
I would definitely mate. Always interested in hearing other peoples takes on Buddy's songs. Send a link for a listen
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happymatty
New member
one of my first experiences in sound was doing exactly that, i had some cheap taccy acoustic, and a poundland microphone (a shop that has a random yet amazing range of product's that are horrid but are sold for a dollar would be your american equivalent if you dont have them?) and i wanted to record the acoustic on an old tape player, instead of putting the mic somewhere OUTSIDE the guitar i decided to knock a big hole in the side. actually sounded quiet good as i can remember.