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Post by bluesbruce on Mar 3, 2015 8:20:49 GMT -6
Tony,
Huge improvement in sound quality from your old videos! Now if you can add some simple video effects - like fade in and fade out and some simple text titles - all the technology never ends... So how did you input your guitar for this recording - was that with the Behringer guitar link?
Bruce
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 3, 2015 8:38:38 GMT -6
Very nice improvement in sound quality Tony! Glad you've got that all up and functioning. It's great to have a community to get advice from. Needs more guitar faces though   |
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Post by cunningr on Mar 3, 2015 12:47:12 GMT -6
Audio was excellent quality, but I was getting some sync issues with the video, might be a stream issue on my end though.
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Post by Phil on Mar 3, 2015 15:48:12 GMT -6
Tbone, I've amassed a collection of cheap microphones, none of which I'm very happy with. They say you've also got to have an amp worth miking... I've just stuck with direct plug in for recordings - it's hard to beat for shear ease, plus the ability to alter the tone after the fact.... Bruce I have to agree with Bruce on this. I think I've turned on my amp maybe 3 times since I got the interface a year ago. I usually play late at night and before I got the interface I'd have to play unplugged. The interface allows me to play and damage my hearing without annoying anyone else.  |
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Post by Phil on Mar 3, 2015 16:01:27 GMT -6
T-Bone,
Yeah, the video you just posted has very good audio quality. Isn't technology great?
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Post by cunningr on Mar 3, 2015 16:37:26 GMT -6
I agree also for ease of use and quite practice the interfaces are nice, but when you amp up it does make a difference. I have a mic and still trying to figure out a good way to mic my amp, just too noisy around the homestead. I did finally figure out how to get the sensitivity turned down which has helped.
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Post by Phil on Mar 4, 2015 14:54:54 GMT -6
...yep, the audio quality is good now - the playing sucks, though. So, while the recording technology is great, my guitar technique sucks... running up and down chord scales and arpeggios or fingering strange chord inversions fmight be good for something, but overdoing this stuff in the last few months surely took everything bluesy out of my playing - if there was something in it to start with. Very, very frustrating. The work out plan is now to review and re-record all BYCU and BRYCU tunes whilst learning more about recording... counting on your feedback smack-down style.  Many, maybe even most, of us older guys spent years doing that and making no progress. Hence, my signature line. The BYCU books are filled with little useful phrases the can be used over and over in different places. I know that I will just meander all over a scale without accomplishing much if I have the opportunity. I need the structure that licks give. |
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Post by joachim on Mar 5, 2015 5:28:19 GMT -6
tbone, I admire your approach to practicing - at one point you have to start on improvisation like you do. Learning more and more studies is certainly fun and develops your technique, but it will only take you so far... I want to get started on improvisation as well soon, but I want to finish the intro books first.
Wonderful playing, thanks for sharing!
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 5, 2015 6:13:20 GMT -6
That was some nice stuff Tony, I especially liked the ideas at the beginning. I totally hear what you're saying about coming from a different background - when I started playing I was totally into rock and heavy metal and although people say metal is just the blues with more distortion, it's actually completely different. My improvising these days certainly doesn't have an "authentic" blues sound, it's more blues influenced rock, which I'm perfectly fine with because I want to express my individuality on the instrument. Though I am jealous of these guys who do have an authentic blues style  I think the only way for me to get that would be to stop listening to all other types of music and immerse myself in the blues for several years. In my improvising I just work on playing the five notes of pentatonic minor and very gradually working on being able to hear what I want to play and then actually playing that, and not just "let my fingers do the walking". That itself will take me quite a while (like the rest of my life lol). But I'd wait until you've mastered that in your improvising before you start worrying about all that technical/theoretical stuff. |
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 5, 2015 8:04:18 GMT -6
@ Jack: BTW, who told you metal is just the blues with more distortion?!? Oh I don't know, it's one of those things "they" say lol. Just kind of a common adage. |
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Post by bluesbruce on Mar 5, 2015 12:38:26 GMT -6
Did anyone notice that I always whine about not having that much practice time only to type endless posts like those of today?  Greetings, t. Tony, I think you and I have the same affliction! Now, in the words of Frank Zappa, shut up and play your guitar! Bruce |
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 5, 2015 13:07:26 GMT -6
I remember when I used to hang out at Harmony Central years ago. There were guys there with like 38,000 posts asking "Why can't I play like my guitar heroes?!?!"  |
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Post by Phil on Mar 5, 2015 14:40:14 GMT -6
Man, T-Bone, I have to digest what you wrote before I can write a response. I've got to try to get in an hour of practice right now before it gets too late. |
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 12, 2015 5:29:37 GMT -6
I've noticed that Pod Studio can sometimes seem rather quiet too. I think it depends on the amp sim and effects you're using - if you've got the gain cranked way up for a heavy metal sound it can be very loud, but for most of the mildly overdriven blues sounds we use, it can be pretty quiet. You've got the Pod Farm software installed, right? Some things to try:
1) In the top right corner of the Pod Farm software, there's a knob for "out", you can turn that up higher (until it starts clipping of course).
2) add a compressor to your patch and turn the gain up - of course that can change your sound depending on where you've got the threshold set.
3) you can just turn the volume on the amp up, but that may or may not give you a bit of power amp distortion.
4) For recording, if you go into the mixer part of Pod Farm, (click on the "mixer view" box towards the top just to the right of where is says Line 6), you can adjust the output that it sends to Reaper. For my bass, in "REC: Tone A" I'll sometimes hit that +18 dB button and then lower the slider until I've got it where I want it.
Other than that, I just have to lower the volume on whatever backing track I'm playing along with.
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Post by Phil on Mar 12, 2015 11:17:18 GMT -6
Because the $40.00 Behringer is a better interface? Just kidding. Can you be more specific? Quieter through your headphones?
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 31, 2015 4:41:35 GMT -6
Jack, I can't have leave both the guitar and the bass guitar plugged in the UX-2 whole time but have to plug one off in order to plug the other in... do you have the same problem or do you use some kind of device like an adapter or such that allows you to overcome this? Being as it is I find this back and forth to become quite annoying... Greetings, t. If you go into the Pod Farm software and click on the mixer  and then click on that "input" box  it should bring up a list of the various inputs and you can choose which one you want to use. Of course my UX1 just has one instrument input and one mic input, so I don't know if the UX2 allows you to choose between the two instrument inputs. But take a look I've got my drum machine plugged into the auxiliary inputs in the back, my bass amp plugged into the mic input via a headphone jack to XLR adapter cable I've got, and I can have my guitar plugged into the instrument input, all at the same time, and I just choose which I want to use via that menu. |
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Post by jack1982 on Apr 2, 2015 10:02:53 GMT -6
Hi Jack, so if I would buy this cable I should be okay? Does it need to go through the bass amplifiere or can I plug the cable into my bass guitar directly? Thanks and greetings, T. I think that needs to go to the bass amp - I tried plugging my guitar directly into the XLR input on my Pod Studio and I can't hear anything even with the input gain up all the way. I plug that XLR cable into the headphone output of my amps - that mutes the speaker and also provides a line level signal. I think guitars and basses must be well below line level. Did you check that input selection in the Pod Studio software? If that allows you to choose between the two 1/4" instrument inputs then I think that would be the easiest way to do it. |
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Post by bluesbruce on Apr 2, 2015 17:17:36 GMT -6
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Post by Phil on Apr 3, 2015 12:47:35 GMT -6
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Post by bluesbruce on Apr 3, 2015 13:06:57 GMT -6
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I think the only way for me to get that would be to stop listening to all other types of music and immerse myself in the blues for several years.
