dude im probably gonna die in like 2 years anyway what the fuck is the point of me being miserable and unable to do the one thing i was put on fucking earth to do
i bought myself a vintage mesa boogie transatlantic 2x12 combo, an mxr 10 band eq (vintage mesa boogies have super distinct crunch but the eq control is basically nonexistent), a basic boss cs-3 compressor and just found a good deal on a like-new line 6 DL4 delay modeler (those things are so fucking cool and ive wanted one forever); im adding all this to my pedalboard w/ waza blues driver, MIJ boss chorus pedal, wammy pitch shifter and behringer digital delay pedal (i make grunge/shoegaze music); would love to post a pic of my setup when its all done
im still playing drums on a sound percussion (starter drum kit) with like one upgraded cymbal lol, so literally the whole kit sounds like shit, but the one cymbal sounds amazing, now i basically have to upgrade the kit
found a guy selling a drum mic kit for $300 that comes with x3 sm57s and a shure b57 or whatever (dynamic kick mic) and i already have two overheads for the stereo cymbal sound i’m hoping to get
yeah i wont be able to go to the hospital for a while but who fucking cares dude im not gonna live forever. this shit makes me so happy. i want to start a nonprofit record label one day and all of this shit is an investment
follow your dreams
sorry for rambling like a lunatic lol
I’ve been tinkering with a couple of different setups lately. I really like what Carcass did on the Heartwork album, so I’ve been experimenting with similar ideas of using an extremely dirty boost into an already-distorted-to-hell amp to use as a blend track. One that works pretty well is a Metal Zone (Waza’s great, but the Behringer works too) into the front of a Marshall Valvestate. Pure filth. The opposite version of that (read: the “real” track) is boosting the same amp with a Wampler Clarksdale – it’s a TS808 clone with a three-knob tone stack, so you can do an even deeper bass cut than normal. Very handy for extended range or low tunings, and it really brings out the grind in the OD2 channel’s distortion.
I also got my hands on a 50-watt 5150 III EL34 last winter, and I’ve been messing with unconventional boosts for the blue channel. For whatever reason, they have a really aggressive low-pass filter capacitor on that channel, allegedly as a marketing ploy to set it apart from the 6L6 version of the same amp head (because they otherwise sound almost identical – the lesson being that the power stage in a 5150 or 6505 doesn’t change the sound very much). Sure, you can mod it to get rid of the filter cap, but if you keep it you can get REALLY weird with boosts. I wasn’t super impressed with the EQD Plumes, but the DOD Looking Glass sounds like it was made for that amp. It’s so goddamned shrill on literally anything else (outside of maybe a 70s JTM), but that low-pass cut tames it really well and gives the whole signal almost a Blues Driver feel… But like, Gojira Magma-flavored.
Edit: Current favorite guitar is a Jackson Pro Series SL3 Soloist (H-S-S pickup configuration) in rainbow crackle. I also have a Mick Thompson signature Soloist that is languishing on my bench until I find time to do a fret level – I’m really looking forward to that one because the EMTY version of the Duncan Blackouts sound freaking brutal.