626

(13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

CurtRHCP wrote:

Thanks everybody!


I'm still in contact with my US family, most of them live in Columbus, OH. But it's obviously not a coastal city tongue
None of them visited VA beach.

My oldest brother lives in Columbus.  It is a great place.  Ohio State University, A diverse ethnic scattering, pretty good job outlook from what I can tell.   
You have not mentioned your skills aside from your many languages.  That in its self will be impressive. you might want to look into jobs with companies that are multinational and promote your linguistic skills.  Hire on as a Translator maybe.

Cities as you have heard, are vast, and well honestly most of the EU can fit inside Texas alone LOLOL!  Now, I will give you a rundown on the states I have lived in as being military I have moved around a few times.  West Virginia (from birth till 15yrs old), Wild and wonderful it is.  Dense forest and beautiful land.  Draw back, not a lot of employment and Opioids are a large problem, as they are in many states these days.  North Carolina (16 -21), another huge state going east to west.  Divided into 3 regions. Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the Mountains.  I grew up the second half of my life in the mountains of NC.  Much like West Virginia, Asheville is the main attraction, lots of great schools for university level, Asheville has become very expensive to live in as has much of the mountains. 
The Piedmont includes Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham (also known as the medical triangle), and Winston Salem.  It has been too long to give you any good job outlooks but primary industry is banking and medical, and manufacturing.  There are many more however I don’t have any info on them.
Coastal:  I can not tell you a lot, but I did live in a big area called Wilmington NC.  I went to school there a bit for university, but I cannot give you much in the way of better information.
Florida.  So many options but south FL is very different lifestyle wise than North Florida, then you have ocean side and bay side.  N. Florida is pretty much Orlando to the GA border. Jacksonville is very military oriented as there are 3 bases there, there is industry but it’s also been a while since I lived there.  Jax (as it’s referred to) sorta is more like very south GA.  It’s very hard to explain, you kinda just have to be there and travel around to understand it.  South FL is very laid back usually conservative politically, Miami (never been there and a world unto its self LOL)
Now to Texas: it’s almost 50 / 50 politically, I advise staying away from Huston, just don’t like that area.  The San Antonio to Austin area is amazing. Full of rich history, German decent people (your Dutch may still come in handy) in the Hill country area. Lots of diversity everywhere.  You have the coast to the northern panhandle.
From there we go to the Pacific North West.  You can read about Seattle and the industry around there and Portland Oregon.  Lots of Tech, Aviation, and commerce.
So for a fairly  half descent skimming off the top of my head there you are, I hope this helps smile

Well the end of New Years day is drawing fast on us.  So Let me tell you about my New years eve.

After a day that involved A U-Haul and a 3 pc used furniture set that about kicked my and my 2 sons rear ends, I see a message from Z.  It took a few to get settled, but we connected on Skype.  I played GBD, and then we saw TopDown  trying to join, So although we had no vid from him due to camera problems, he could see us.
We had a lot of fun and it was so good to end the year with two great friends.

This morning I woke up around noon, picked up the bedroom guitar and started jamming. I fried the little solid state thing! So doe that mean a good riff?I put it on Soundcloud. I did add some compression, reverb, and delay in with audacity. The distortion is via, MXR FULL BORE METAL stomp box.  Which is a killer pedal!

Glad I had my phone going at the time.Its got a hint of old school  Metallica from the 5.98EP.
https://soundcloud.com/beamer326/amp-breaker1

628

(12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I find I am having a hard time actually going through with it,   though its for same reasons as your NEO, I named my son as a editor for my detail page so it will stay up.  Heck just today I met a 17 yr old kid from Serbia who lives in Germany and has amazing technical skill, but needs to learn to hold back and phrasing, I also met a guy who has a brother who works as a guitar tech for Santana.  Things like that make it really hard to ditch LOL

629

(12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

hire a hacker

630

(12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

While I dont post telling life details, Ill just say that it was poor judgement on a occasional bad habit that takes me into places on a chat that  was my downfall.  I just let my fantasy mind get me into trouble and now I need to take a long break from the media.
The good parts of Fb are that I met a lot of very knowledgeable detailers who I have learned a great deal from, reconnected with lots of old friends. and new. 
Glad I still have this.  I was really getting into the Guitar Zoom page and learning there and sharing there. it is a good group of ppl there also.

631

(12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

i WILL TELL MY CHORDIE FAMILY that those of you I am friends with on FB, you will not be seeing me anymore or for quite some time.  I am deactivating my account.  Of course there is a story behind this but suffice to say, it has caused some issues in my personal life and it needs to go.

THE BRIGHT SIDE I get to keep you guys! I also will still have my sound cloud and you tube channel and my detailing web site.

I hope to see you more often.

632

(27 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

They look over priced.
any capo is going to put strings on frets, frets wear out.  ease of use? spring loaded ones work for me.

633

(0 replies, posted in My local band and me)

I played this at my first CHORDIESTOCK.  Having fun with  a whole circle of ppl playing along. I was taken back! It was amazing and for the second half of the song, I don't even remember singing or hearing my self.  The whole London Bus Pub  porch applauded and Top Down and Zurf were in my face excited like "OH MY GOD WHERE DID THAT VOICE COME FROM?"  To this day I wish I could find it again and I keep trying to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de-6Fa0 … e=youtu.be

song with both!

Jack and Dianne (John Melloncamp)
Jail Break (Thin Lizzy)
Just between you and me (April wine)
Jesus built my Hot rod (Ministry)

D

Do you love me? (the Contours)
Dont do me like that ( Tom Petty)
Dreamer (Ozzy)
D-I-V-O-R-C-E (CIRCLE JERKS VERSION)


bands (not already mentioned)

KISS  of course!
Krokus
Kings  X
KXM
Kingston Trio

ILL ADD MORE LATER.

635

(6 replies, posted in My local band and me)

neophytte wrote:

Sounds pretty good!! What sort of set up are you using ... I'm trying to get mine as simple as possible ... smile

But I'm missing being able to add FX to guitar and vocals ....

Hey Neo, thanks for the support!

As far as my set up its pretty much as simple as it gets.  There were some rough spots to figure out. so here it is.

Finding a good recording program for my webcam:  After trying out my VLC media player capture, I was not happy with the way it worked out.  The search was back on and I found some great FREEWARE.  Debut from NHC home freeware version. http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html

My mic is a Berhinger C1-U usb  mic right into the computer. 

The Effect, well thats the Tak plugged into the RP500 with a model I made with a Tube Screamer 808 and a phaser.   I played around with Mic placement and amp volume to attain the mix of acoustic guitar and amp signal.  My voice was straight as the one Mic was picking up everything.

I would have to be able to Isolate my voice to add effects to it.  most of the time I run a vox mic to my PA cab and have it plugged into my 2 stomp boxes for compression and delay.

If you want easy vocal effects this is pretty much the way to do it.  sometimes I use a RP70 with the stock reverb delay setting  as mic> RP unit> amp  or  mic>compressor>delay> amp  and then adjust volume levels no matter which set up you choose. You gotta find that sweet spot.

Then again there is always the  item that has been on my  amazon wish list for a while, 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0039PPW60/_e … &psc=0

Run all mics to this and this to your computer. With on-board effects  you can dial in your vox on a channel and then cut out the effects to your  guitar.

So thats about it. smile  Hope this helps.

Beamer

636

(10 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I think art by wood burner would be cool.

637

(6 replies, posted in My local band and me)

I finally had the nerve to publicly post to You Tube and Facebook more than just sound cloud.  There are a lot of you who have heard this in various forms and many times.  But I think this one is good with the effect of how the guitar recorded, which is what I was shooting for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcILP0O … ture=share

638

(4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I KNOW THIS IS LAST MINUTE, AND FOR MOST OF YOU ITS ALREADY  230PM  SO I WILL BE ONLINE AROUND 1230 PM PACIFIC TIME  330 EASTERN.LETS HAVE A JAM  BEFORE THE CRAZINESS STARTS! LAST OF 2017.

639

(6 replies, posted in Electric)

Thanks guys, NEO  the vids were all with the new stuff, the old stuff was in the sound-cloud, and looking at it again I don't know why it has that long silent gap. maybe the vocal didn't come through enough.

The difference between the first vid and second, in the first one there was compression, a hint of chorus, and reverb.  In the second it was just guitar  to amp.

640

(1 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

update, please go to the ELECTRIC section.  the B4 and both vids posted there.

641

(18 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Put the links to the after tubes in the Electric area.
ill post the b4 sound bite there also.

642

(6 replies, posted in Electric)

Here is the sound cloud with my before change out.  recorded with Berhinger C1 about 10 inches left of front .  the vids are just the phone mic.

https://soundcloud.com/beamer326/origin … est-bugera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DidBbx6 … ture=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUmrcZf … ture=share

643

(2 replies, posted in My local band and me)

I am glad you liked it NEO,   Especially for something that was like no thought  involved and sort of ripping off Silverchair LOL.

644

(1 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Well I posted my fun with octaves in the my band and me,   but that is with the new amp guts put in. I made a B4 audio but its just too long as I was doing 3 different guitars, I need to clip to just the LP and and then Ill add an after.

  I uploaded them to the Guitar Zoom  page but for some reason they will not share to my wall.  So I will add them to YT tonight after work.   

Cheers!

645

(2 replies, posted in My local band and me)

I replaced my tubes and speaker yesterday and was having some fun.  so here it is.  Oh I wanted to mention that this is using my sons AXL Strat, which we gutted the wimpy stock pickups on and the  bridge is a single coil size hot rails humbucker from GFS and the middle and neck are the Brighton rocks like I put in Betty.  The difference being that the middle pick-up is wired out of phase with the bridge pick up in the second position. and that is the selection for this.

https://soundcloud.com/beamer326/fun-with-octaves

Doug_Smith wrote:

Beamer Buddy !!  I did not utter those words in way of recommendation..... I know exactly what you mean.  I had a recall on some Motorhomes with bad film graphics that we needed to replace with paint, and an owner who had mopped Armor-All over the entire coach annually (so his tapes wouldn't fade).  You can guess the rest I'm sure..... everything had to be stripped of all graphics, sanded, solvent washed (several times), soap and steam cleaned, then fully sealed and reprimed.  There wasn't enough fish-eye-eliminator to get anything but HP100 to stick to the prepped surface, then all the rest could be redone.  The replacement film graphics cost about $125 plus labor & prep...... The full repaint almost $30K !!!

Lesson Learned.  big_smile

I doubt he learned. probably blamed the decal company and bad mouthed you.  Some ppl just dont want to listen to truth OR that the "back in the day" method has taken a light year leap of technique and products.  smile

topdown wrote:

I use Car Wax on one of my guitars regularly. Being an old car guy, my go to products are typically from Meguiars.

Of course, that guitar is my CA - completely made out of Carbon Fiber.

I bet beamer could put a real nice polish on that one - next time he makes it to chordiestock!

would love to, and when I do make it I am bringing  My polisher  since now I have enough backups that i dont have to worry about a broken one.

LOLOL and I just bought a 2 pound bread machine for my wife this year.  Hand in the air she asked for one. (and a dbl waffle maker) LOL

649

(18 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Next on the list is a micro 4X8 half stack smile By raping the V5 of its new speaker and buying 3 more (@ 30 bucks a pop its more than affordable) Celestion's, I can make a nice cab, and then taking a saw to the V5 box, I can fit it into a nice looking head.  I will rename it as I did my Berhinger into a Triumph amp.  I have another tank badge I can use smile

650

(18 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Tenement Funster wrote:

Nice!!!

Great choice to go with EL34's instead their "swap-able" counterparts (6L6's). EL34's break up nicer (IMHO) to get that fat & crunchy Marshall tone, whereas 6L6's tend to have a bit more sparkle and twang. Does your amp self-bias, or are the tubes pre-biased for it?

Happy NTD, Beamer!


From everything I learned, with only 1 pre amp tube and 1 power tube,  there is no need to worry about biasing (even the amp guy in the above listed  vid mentions that and i think I can trust him lol)