Leon Todd
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Haha! Tom has never "sang" a note in his life. :)
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What should I feed the kids tonight?
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@DrewJD82 I'm pretty used to DI right now - hearing the Axe through some Meyer wedges at Axe-Fest a few years ago was absolutely unreal, so if money was no object a pair of those would do quite nicely!
@Boudoir Guitar it's winter down here so not for a few months. I recently bought a new setup so now that we're coming into spring I'll hopefully get some time to cruise around a little more.
@Hapless the resemblance is uncanny isn't it? Ryan always gets at least one person a t a show scream "SLAYER" or "Charles Manson!" at them with that beard.
@Los-D I love Rocco's playing and vids so I was really fortunate that they invited me on for that one. Tyler really channels Layne in a big way.
@Alex Kenivel I just had breakfast taco's so that's all I can think of right now. taco party!
@Boudoir Guitar it's winter down here so not for a few months. I recently bought a new setup so now that we're coming into spring I'll hopefully get some time to cruise around a little more.
@Hapless the resemblance is uncanny isn't it? Ryan always gets at least one person a t a show scream "SLAYER" or "Charles Manson!" at them with that beard.
@Los-D I love Rocco's playing and vids so I was really fortunate that they invited me on for that one. Tyler really channels Layne in a big way.
@Alex Kenivel I just had breakfast taco's so that's all I can think of right now. taco party!
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We toured the states in summer every year from 2012 to 2016. Self funded, self booked, living out of a van and all the other rock and roll/idiots abroad cliche's that go along with it. Played shows I never could have dreamed of (at both ends of the spectrum) back home. I met my wife there in 2013 and really hope we can come back and do a run of shows sometime soon now international travel is back.
Gear is far more accessible here than it was when I was starting out, but Australia has a pretty high relative cost of living so that all scales up with gear. Availability for more boutique or specialist brands is very limited and there's a definite sense that when it comes to guitars from the big manufacturers we often get to pick at the crumbs of what's left after the bigger markets take their fill.
One of my subscribers recently sent me a collection of old Australian music store catalogues that should make for a pretty funny video at some point.
Gear is far more accessible here than it was when I was starting out, but Australia has a pretty high relative cost of living so that all scales up with gear. Availability for more boutique or specialist brands is very limited and there's a definite sense that when it comes to guitars from the big manufacturers we often get to pick at the crumbs of what's left after the bigger markets take their fill.
One of my subscribers recently sent me a collection of old Australian music store catalogues that should make for a pretty funny video at some point.
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I’m going to have to head over there and find me a wife, ya know, to balance things out.
JiveTurkey
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Got a notification this AM for a killer video on choruses \m/ How time consuming is your channel? How involved is your rig and setup for making vids? I would love to catch a live show as well.
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@JiveTurkey I generally set aside from around 11-3 during weekdays to work on video content, whether it's the actual filming/editing aspect or the "research and education" part; that is to say, the twisting knobs and noodling around part. I teach guitar in the morning (online with my US students) and afternoon (local students) and do at least one gig a week so the channel tops those hours up to being a full time noisemaker.
At the moment the key aspects of the video making rig are some softbox lights, a Canon EOS M50 camera, a Shure SM7b to record my voice, a UA Apollo and a Mac Studio. I have a Marshall 1960TV with greenbacks mic'd in a store room for recording amps, an Axe-Fx III on my desk as a tone generator/input manager and the UA unison preamps/digital ins handle the rest. I live on a corner and have aircon in the room so Izotope RX8 Voice De-Noise works wonders on my recorded voice, and I might use Fabfilter Pro Q3 plugins to massage the cab mic but that's the only post processing I do.
I manually cut out any room noise from my vocal track in the clips where I play guitar and then bounce the vocal/guitar tracks out from ProTools as a WAV, then sync that to the video in DaVinci Resolve. That gets cut up and exported and uploaded straight to Youtube.
If I record a track for a demo video then it's usally SSD5 for drums, Submission Eurobass for bass and some Arturia soft synths to make the backing tracks. Pigments in particular is endlessly inspiring. Fabfilter Pro Q3, Pro MB and Pro L get a lot of use, as does Soundtoys Little Plate, Microshift and Echoboy. I also like to recycle instrument stems from Ragdoll albums on there, partly because it's material i actually know how to play and partly for shameless self promotion!
At the moment the key aspects of the video making rig are some softbox lights, a Canon EOS M50 camera, a Shure SM7b to record my voice, a UA Apollo and a Mac Studio. I have a Marshall 1960TV with greenbacks mic'd in a store room for recording amps, an Axe-Fx III on my desk as a tone generator/input manager and the UA unison preamps/digital ins handle the rest. I live on a corner and have aircon in the room so Izotope RX8 Voice De-Noise works wonders on my recorded voice, and I might use Fabfilter Pro Q3 plugins to massage the cab mic but that's the only post processing I do.
I manually cut out any room noise from my vocal track in the clips where I play guitar and then bounce the vocal/guitar tracks out from ProTools as a WAV, then sync that to the video in DaVinci Resolve. That gets cut up and exported and uploaded straight to Youtube.
If I record a track for a demo video then it's usally SSD5 for drums, Submission Eurobass for bass and some Arturia soft synths to make the backing tracks. Pigments in particular is endlessly inspiring. Fabfilter Pro Q3, Pro MB and Pro L get a lot of use, as does Soundtoys Little Plate, Microshift and Echoboy. I also like to recycle instrument stems from Ragdoll albums on there, partly because it's material i actually know how to play and partly for shameless self promotion!
JiveTurkey
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Holy hell! You have your work cut out for you! Thanks for the breakdown. You're doing the
work! Keep it up always!
Fireproof
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Would be cool to see you do a short video on that process - recording vocals and guitar, editing in protools, sending to DaVinci, syncing with video, exporting. Is that basically the process?
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Yo Leon! If you were gonna mic your amp with just 1 mic, that's NOT an SM57, what would you use?
That'd be me.
JiveTurkey
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Small world! Glad you made it!
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Thankyou again. Brings back a lot of memories!
No worries. Thanks for your guitar gear content. The 21st century gear catalogue.
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@Fireproof pretty much. Great idea, I'll try get onto it over the next few weeks!
@BigHairyGuitars hey Mike! The Senn e609/e906 is always a safe choice if a 57 isn't available. I love the 421 and the SM7b on dirty cabs too. For clean stuff I really like ribbons, so a 121 or Cascade Fat Head. I really want to grab a Beyer M160 at some point as I always love the clips i've heard with those.
@FAKA! ultimately whatever lets you work the fastest. The last Ragdoll single was all tones from my Axe-Fx but I've done sessions over the last few years with mic'd cabs or hybrid setups that are really fun, fast and effective.
@BigHairyGuitars hey Mike! The Senn e609/e906 is always a safe choice if a 57 isn't available. I love the 421 and the SM7b on dirty cabs too. For clean stuff I really like ribbons, so a 121 or Cascade Fat Head. I really want to grab a Beyer M160 at some point as I always love the clips i've heard with those.
@FAKA! ultimately whatever lets you work the fastest. The last Ragdoll single was all tones from my Axe-Fx but I've done sessions over the last few years with mic'd cabs or hybrid setups that are really fun, fast and effective.
