My day is just starting so I’m gonna default to yesterday-
I had an audition with the cover band I’m intending on joining, I’ve been slacking with my playing lately so I took the day off yesterday to cram/practice as much as I could before the audition, a lot of the songs they’re doing need to be figured out in the room with them for various reasons, so I learned what I could, changed my strings, dialed in a couple specific tones then packed up.
I brought my entire rig not even thinking that we were going to a legit rehearsal studio that had plenty of gear. Ended up just running my FM9 into a Orange CR120 w/ two Orange 2x12’s (boomy AF), audition went GREAT, it didn’t feel like an audition really, more like a band practice as those guys just got to work right away, no shooting the sh*t for an hour before playing, no making noise when people are trying to talk, I was sold on them in the first hour and by the end they asked if I was still interested, so I’m back in a band now.
Now I’ve got a ton of work to do between learning songs and programming. They used to have an 8-piece horn section and a keyboard player but after the pandemic it got tough keeping that many people on the same page, it was a 13-piece band at one point, but instead of dropping half their material the guitar player did a really good job at filling a lot of gaps (the singer is a killer sax player, too) but the dude is tap dancing while trying to sing backups as a result, so I’m going to do what I can to lighten the load for him.
Side note, I got to hear my Orville at band volume and man, that guitar is f*cking crazy. Once I dialed the boominess out of those Orange cabs, the low end of that Orville was just so damn tight and percussive when the drums, bass and I locked in it sounded huge. The fun stuff you don’t get to have sitting in a home studio writing/recording solo, that’s for sure.
