The "Going To An Audition" Thread

[la szum]

Nice! How's the Schecter Baritone treat you? Are you looking at adding a 7 for the full experience or is the baritone enough being in the same tuning? Would you miss that high E string?

I've had it since 2006. Was a primary gigging guitar for a bit, and then I moved on. It's been
cased for at least a decade. Time to break it out and see what I can do with it. I don't miss
the weedly weedly string.... or one of them. Have other guitars that I can do that on.

Going to go see if I can find what case it is in now.

 

[Warmart]

Cased for a decade since the death of nu-metal.

 

[State of Epicicity]

the death of nu-metal

 

[la szum]

I found it. Buried beneath a mountain of bubble wrap.

Shocking that it has no Pickups in it.

I have a few sets around here, though. :lol

Thinking Dimarzio Mark Morton Dominions for the heavyz!!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Ahhh shit you have had that for a spell!

 

[la szum]

It was my first decent electric guitar purchase after only playing acoustic for over
10 years. Bought it when my son was in the womb, and I was like, "Shit! I need to
start making more $$$ STAT!"

That was like 19+ years ago.

 

[la szum]

Schecter was a great entry point back then for broke-ass, expectant Fathers.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Schecter was a great entry point back then for broke-ass, expectant Fathers.

NTTAWWT!

 

[la szum]

Found the Dimarzio Dominions. Have to keep hunting for the Pickup Rings
for the guitar, which have to be around here somewhere. Hoping to get this
all squared away by Thursday, so I can take a Drop A Baritone to practice.

It'll be nice to have a guitar setup for that guttural pounding with some high
output, Ceramic-Mag Pickups.

 

[la szum]

Gotta get that Bridge Pup dropped in there before 4pm today.

 

[Warmart]

Gotta get that Bridge Pup dropped in there before 4pm today.

On a similar note, perhaps I've changed my last pickups?

 

[la szum]

You'd be proud of me, Dad!

I could only find one Pickup ring laying around, so
I am rolling with it like this tonight. I also found a set
of .013 to .062 strings, and have enough time to spare,
so I can slap them on there. These 15 year old strings
are so not cutting it.

 

[la szum]

On a similar note, perhaps I've changed my last pickups?

I feel ya..... but don't believe ya!!




I did it so much in the past that I pretty much can't be bothered with
it----unless I end up deciding to use a guitar that has NO Pickups in it.

I am excited to unleash the Thunder and bring the Boom tonight.
We've never really tag-teamed like this with the extra thick wires.

 

[Warmart]

I feel ya..... but don't believe ya!!




I did it so much in the past that I pretty much can't be bothered with
it----unless I end up deciding to use a guitar that has NO Pickups in it.

I am excited to unleash the Thunder and bring the Boom tonight.
We've never really tag-teamed like this with the extra thick wires.

Outstanding, way to get it done! Hopefully you don't lose too much toan out of the neck pickup route! Should at least tape it up or something.


Idk, yesterday evening was the 1st time in all of recorded history that I've had 12 guitars all with pickups I like!

 

[la szum]

Dear Diary,


........................

What a fucking Soap Opera. It's like Yellowstone without the alcohol, big money, horses,
and epic Mountain vistas.

So, other guitarist is sending the 7 string back. Should have known. I sold him my Schecter
Blackjack 7 string many years ago and he traded it back to me for something else a few
months later.

I'll find out tonight exactly why, but I am guessing he didn't like how uncomfortable and
awkward it made him feel.

I did get with the singer, and we are going to get together (just the two of us) and work
on writing some songs together. We are both itching to work on original material more,
so I called him and we are planning to hang for a few hours Monday night, and see if we
can come up with anything redundant, boring, cliched, and already beaten to death by
others.

 

[la szum]

Singer came over Monday night and hung out for 4 hours. Played him some stuff I had
been writing and recording. He was super stoked! So much so that he knocked over
a Mic Stand holding a Condenser Mic, and then yanked the Headphone Cable he
was using to track some Vocals, and busted the plug plum off the dang thing.


He called today after work and wanted to know what to buy to replace the Headphones.

"I was so bothered by that all day!"

Me: "I didn't even think about it once today. Shit happens. "

"I'm replacing those Headphones."



It's only one night, but I noticed that we seemed to work better together working on
original material than we do covers. We jam a lot and mess around in between songs we
work on. I have known him for nearly 15 years, and this is the first time he has been to my
place.
We have a shared objective to get a few tracks written and fully recorded this winter.

Off to a stellar start. So far.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Singer came over Monday night and hung out for 4 hours. Played him some stuff I had
been writing and recording. He was super stoked! So much so that he knocked over
a Mic Stand holding a Condenser Mic, and then yanked the Headphone Cable he
was using to track some Vocals, and busted the plug plum off the dang thing.


He called today after work and wanted to know what to buy to replace the Headphones.

"I was so bothered by that all day!"

Me: "I didn't even think about it once today. Shit happens. "

"I'm replacing those Headphones."



It's only one night, but I noticed that we seemed to work better together working on
original material than we do covers. We jam a lot and mess around in between songs we
work on. I have known him for nearly 15 years, and this is the first time he has been to my
place.
We have a shared objective to get a few tracks written and fully recorded this winter.

Off to a stellar start. So far.

Awesome. That's the most encouraging post yet. There's nothing more sacred in this than being able to write original music with someone you like being around. Mazel tov!

 

[TSJMajesty]

Awesome. That's the most encouraging post yet. There's nothing more sacred in this than being able to write original music with someone you like being around. Mazel tov!

That's definitely great!

I consider it a win just to get 3-4 other people in the same room, at a regular agreed-upon time, know how to pick up a phone, can play halfway decently in time, can get along, and don't have car/wife/gf/job/drug/dog ate my homework/etc. problems, mostly know their parts, don't need to be the star/too loud, and can act like an adult.

Actually come to think of it, that's nearly impossible!

No wonder bands are so hard.

ALWAYS PULLING FOR YOU DAVE, CUZ I KNOW HOW MUCH YOU ENJOY IT!!

 

[la szum]

Awesome. That's the most encouraging post yet. There's nothing more sacred in this than being able to write original music with someone you like being around. Mazel tov!

Truth! My first and deepest love when it comes to playing music.


I am not too precious about it, though. I was such an unrepentant
idealist when it came to original music when I was young.

 

[la szum]

That's definitely great!

I consider it a win just to get 3-4 other people in the same room, at a regular agreed-upon time, know how to pick up a phone, can play halfway decently in time, can get along, and don't have car/wife/gf/job/drug/dog ate my homework/etc. problems, mostly know their parts, don't need to be the star/too loud, and can act like an adult.

Actually come to think of it, that's nearly impossible!

No wonder bands are so hard.

ALWAYS PULLING FOR YOU DAVE, CUZ I KNOW HOW MUCH YOU ENJOY IT!!

More truth!

That's why I don't bail when the frustration with this, that, and the other thing comes up.
I know what a blessing it is to be my age, live where I live, and have friends I can play music
with weekly. It is so not the norm.

I tell them that, too. Fuck, the space we play in has to be heated, too, and we are lucky that
our friend dedicates his entire garage to the band, and then puts a wood pellet stove in there
so we can jam even when it is 15F out, like it is today. Lucky!