What's HBL up to now

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Very reflective and sweet sounding. Toneful and tuneful (third time I've typed that on the forum today - must come up with something new to say soon!). :clap: :thumbsup:

Certainly a hint or two of DG in there, and none the worse for that.

Your hiss, rumble and noisiness when you're messing about is higher than my final version standards! Anyway - point is that it's all good if it gets the HBL music making on the go! :cool:
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Sweet playing and spatial tones! :clap: :thumbsup:
Very nice, keep them coming! :beer:
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Thanks VB, glad you liked it a bit :)
VikingBlues wrote:Your hiss, rumble and noisiness when you're messing about is higher than my final version standards
Exactly my point :wink: Looks like my eighties mixer is in for a caps job, but I'm thinking there to many caps in there.....
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vancouverois wrote:Sweet playing and spatial tones! :clap: :thumbsup:
Very nice, keep them coming! :beer:
Thanks a bunch Chris.
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Ok next one,
Don't think I used this effect that's deep inside Cybie before
Kitty's chords and Cybie's Fuzz is in the bluesroom.
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HalfBlindLefty wrote:
VikingBlues wrote:Your hiss, rumble and noisiness when you're messing about is higher than my final version standards
Exactly my point :wink: Looks like my eighties mixer is in for a caps job, but I'm thinking there to many caps in there.....
Ooops - I should have worded that better - I meant to say that if there was hiss, rumble, and noisiness when you're messing about the quality of what you've done is still higher than my final version standards! I missed a few words and completely screwed up the meaning. But I know your upper frquency hearing is way better than mine so you'll hear much more of these problems than me. :D
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Don't worry VB, I thought so and felt like making a bit of mhhh... pun with it. I hate that hiss, but I could have filtered it out if I had been patient enough to wait and think before I threw away the recording originals after creating the stereo mix track.... stupid me.
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What's HBL up to now..... maybe to no good :haha:

Been playing a little with my CT / Tokai tone a little. adding a little gain, loosing a little presence and switching from the CT's reverb to the Gmajor's
Today was all about dynamics and grit to frequency and atack response.

Found a nice BT in F on youtube and played some notes to test the sound. Thinking of this topic made me cut out a not to bad example and upload it.
What do you guys think, am I there ? should this be my base tone from now on ?

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It sounds quite good, the single coil almost sings like a 'bucker! :cool:
You nailed quite a good tone here and top notch playing! :clap: :thumbsup:
For blues it seems to be the good choice.
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As I said before, I say again. I think you have a lot of good sound to get to. I stand by that. This latest is no exception. You almost always get to the good, I am satisfied. Hope you're happy.
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Yeah - that certainly works well as a tone. :thumbsup:

Certainly one that would would work well on your blues :clap: , though I'm not so convinced it would suit your more melodic based music!
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OMG.... better start watching all my topics again :) sorry and thanks VB.
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Fetched Little sister from her stand and had some fun with a couple of chords, lead lines and some effects.

download/file.php?id=2775

Chords, for a darn good reason ;) are Em, Cmaj7, Am and D
Lead lines... just what my fingers felt like playing
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Very fine melodic lines weaving around those couple of chords. The opening phrase is a very strong introduction to the recording. :clap:

Great skill on display with the depth of feeling to the playing. Shows the chords in the backing do not need to be complicated to make an effective recording. :thumbsup:
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+1... sounds so good! Melodic, fluid, every note at the right place. :clap:
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Quite a good compo, it reminds me some Floydish piece.
Good stuff, keep them coming! :thumbsup: :clap:
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Thanks, was a nice one to play around with. It's a bit odd, how chords, the way they're played and the tempo can make different melody schemes pop-up out of nothing.
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I feel playing the guitar can be very comforting and it's a great way to find some inner peace. Put things aside and just let music flow out of my fingers.

This afternoon I recorded a little chord sequence using the Jamman ( still not sure if I'm gonna keep that pedal, I use it by far not much enough to account for it's value)
Anyway, this evening, the chord sequence ( A,Gm7,Bm,E) got transfered to my PC and warped into my DAW,
Started out with looping the sequence for a couple of minuted.
Then I added some slight chord strokes way below the first track.

Threw the stuf into a loop and kicked record
First lady, Cybie and I had a comforting time :) so I called the endresult "comfort food" (music is food for the soul)
So once again, HBL took a step away from the Blues :whistle:

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May not be so much blues in style but the spirit of the blues is still in there. :thumbsup:

Certainly a lot closer to blues than what some of us are playing these days.

Very soothing, healing music - a very good way to start a Monday :clap: ....... before things go rapidly down hill.
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Soulful lead, very nice and really food for soul! :clap: :thumbsup:
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