Guitar tone hell
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Sascha Franck
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I'm perfectly aware of that. Which is why the decent ones let me decide what I like to use.
No. But you wouldn't tell the trombone player to get away with what he thinks is a tone from hell.
Sascha Franck
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How are some people still assuming you always know what you have to work with before you even show up?
Because you're asking? And in case you're not, because you're bringing your own emergency stuff all the time?
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You do you, I’ll keep doing me.
I posted this here because it’s fun to rant about with other guitarists who can feel the pain, but I didn’t say a word about it to anyone there, and overall it was a great night. Ultimately to me this is small stuff I’m not gonna sweat
I liked this MD, she’s very cool, she did a great job running the show, and I’m looking forward to working with her again!
metropolis_4
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What is annoying is posting here just to have some fun ranting with fellow guitarists and having people tell me it’s my fault, I’m not being professional, and I’m not running my business correctly
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What is annoying is posting here just to have some fun ranting with fellow guitarists and having people tell me it’s my fault, I’m not being professional, and I’m not running my business correctly
Don't let the usual twats get you down, Met. Appreciate you, and some of us can relate.
ragingplatypi
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Must be nice to be able to choose.
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jellodog
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What is annoying is posting here just to have some fun ranting with fellow guitarists and having people tell me it’s my fault, I’m not being professional, and I’m not running my business correctly
My impression of you is that you've always been one of the most professional members here... if not the most.
I fully enjoyed your fun rant!
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Somebody's got to be.My impression of you is that you've always been one of the most professional members here... if not the most.
I fully enjoyed your fun rant!
The rest of us are just schlubs!
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What is annoying is posting here just to have some fun ranting with fellow guitarists and having people tell me it’s my fault, I’m not being professional, and I’m not running my business correctly
Yeah, that’s TGP behavior 101.
Out of curiosity, has anyone here questioning Metrop ever played a theater gig before? In NYC, specifically, where theater is a whole industry?
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JUST YELL AT THE MUSIC DIRECTOR
Sascha Franck
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I'm not exactly able to choose, but, while I can't tell about the situation over there, whenever I try to imagine a scenario when I was told to not be allowed to bring my own sound with me (especially in case it's old modeling tech used there and new modeling tech in my hands), it'd all turn out to be a scenario I rather wouldn't want to be in. And not a well paid or promising one, either.
And yes, I have been playing tons of gigs with rather strict rules and what not. I have as well been "offered" equipment supplied by the production here and there. Sometimes I just said "great" (it might've even be better stuff than what I'd been able to bring), sometimes it was just ok and when it wasn't, I simply connected my own stuff. After all, people don't only ask me because I can play the notes but also because they trust me to deliver the right sounds. Has not even once in my life been an issue. And if it was, I would do it once and never again.
Life is too short to deal with bad guitar sound, especially as these days there's no technical reasons for it anymore.
What is annoying is posting here just to have some fun ranting with fellow guitarists and having people tell me it’s my fault, I’m not being professional, and I’m not running my business correctly
TBF, I was just responding to people saying it was the professional thing to do to play the rp500 and never consider the alternative options. It’s just as professional to take other options if you aren’t dumb about the way you do it, that’s all I was saying…
If you wanted the gig anyway and had fun, that’s all that matters. I’ve played a gig on a gt6 as a board just to prove to a friend that it could sound great and he didn’t have to worry about the fact that he couldn’t afford something better. I’ve played shows on unexpected back line situations and weird/crappy monitoring gigs. Can always just tune that stuff out and play making it all work.
My posts were kinda more thinking out loud about how/why I treat it differently with a surprise backline amp situation versus a surprise modeler situation. I shrug off the amp and say hell no on the modeler, don’t really know why lol.
I’m still keeping your TGF membership revoked. TGF members are expected to show up with a huge primary rig that may or may not fit on the stage, at least one backup rig, and a stomp in the gigbag on top of that.
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Makes you appreciate what Fractal OffersI looked up the manual when I got home last night and I’m going to get there early tonight to check a few things. I think it’s possible something was turned off.
The distortion I was told to use sounded like a BD-2 with the drive up all the way direct into a mixer
It was so ungodly horrible it was jarring. I played terrible the first half of the show because I was trying to adapt to how bad it sounded.
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Back in the mid 90s, my bar band rig was a Rockmaster into a GSP21 Legend (for effects only), and a MosValve power amp. One night the Rockmaster started cutting out on me (turned out to be a dirty switching jack in one of the effects loops), so in a fit of desperation I plugged the Digitech straight into the board and finished the set with it, using whichever preset I found that didn't sound too bad. I noticed the difference immediately, but it worked and people continued to drink and dance. But, keep in mind this was around 1994 or 95, so it was pretty new technology still...
