Disquiet Junto 0725 Rack It

The Junto assignment this week is to "Change the “focus” of a track as it plays."

I had an idea to record a few instruments, but decided in the end that I only had energy for one take.

As I'd been watching Rick Beato's interview with Tony Levin, so I thought to use a bass which wears his likeness. 

There's a pedal board I put together for bass and you can hear it uses EHX Superego for a drone, then an MXR phaser for modulation, before adding EHX Talking Machine.

Jimmy Chamberlin on AI-generated music

"Consume art with your heart" gets to an argument I believe about the emotional connection that humans expect in the media they consume.

Your money or your wife

Fender pretender

Anyone had experience with Chinese copies? 

Surprised to see my guitar for sale, then I noticed a few details like mine has mint on the pickguard and cream around the humbuckers. 

So I bought this copy, just so I can not worry about scratching the paint on my real Fender Meteora. 

It'll be interesting to see how close it lands when it, um, lands. 

Me

 

Disquiet Junto 0724 Work It

The prompt this week is "Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do."

At first my mind turned to the folder of lyrics that I'm yet to record, but as I opened it I noticed another on my desktop.

The track I recorded for the "Dense Fog Advisory" Junto was one that I'd been meaning to tidy up, in the same way that I'd gone back to refix that track last week.

I had been surprised how well the guitar breaks worked, as I recorded them quickly and at the same time as the vocals.

It was good to clear space in the mix and then I had an idea to shift the key.

I dropped the instruments down a fifith, but took the vocals up a seventh.

The result makes me sound a bit like Neil Young, I think.

Partscaster

Recently I had an idea to change a single coil pickup near the neck with a humbucker for a guitar that was tuned closer to being a bass

I looked on Marketplace and a bloke in Deni was selling a loaded pickguard with all these switches for about the same as buying one pickup.

When it arrived it wouldn't fit and I didn't want to pull apart a working guitar or chisel a bigger cavity, so I decided I'd get a cheap Stratocaster copy.

This used SX brand came from Cash Converters and the strings sit a bit too high because the bridge is bent.

Despite it feeling too light, I was surprised at how smooth the neck and frets feel.

Then I soldered in the new pickups and it has been remarkable.

The humbuckers make only a little noise with the nastiest of Devi Ever's distortions, and those little switches can make the pickups sound like mellow single coils.

Now I'm thinking I'll change the bridge and it'll still only be around $250 in total.

 

A young Karl Marx wrote how the worker must see themself in their labour, and I'm finding the effort invested is developing into an attachment not shared with my other guitars.