Oct 04, 2004 09:24 pm OOh! OOOh! tell the one about how the jedi guitarist defeated the evil synth lord... :)
A man's journey
Posted on Oct 04, 2004 08:26 pm
BennisHahn
Ex-Wookie
Member Since: Aug 29, 2003
There was a young man on a journey. A quest to find a guitar sound that doesn't suck in a mix or solo. The task difficult, but the young one brave, he took up the challenge. Waging a furious war on the guitar amp; attacking with multiple mics, different mic locations, different amps, and different pick up combos. All weapons formidable to any sound opponent, yes, but this one stood apart.
One day the young warrior, taking a break from his attacks, journeyed into camp, seeking advice from elders. They gave him many mysterious messages, but one he understood very clearly. Make the amp work hard. Make it push its speaker too the limit, then mount an assault.
So the young man ventured out to duel once more with his venerable opposition. Assaulting with one mic, one randomly chosen position for it, and a pedal to supercharge his guitar, he cranked the amp to its limits. Not knowing what this new attack was, the amp had no time to react. It started spitting furiously raw and biting licks into the warriors face. Quickly turning the mic on and capturing the sound he had achieved his goal. A smile from ear to ear graced the young man's face and all of the sudden he understood. Armed with the knowledge of his opponent’s downfall, he will nevermore be haunted by the impenetrable wall of cheesy preamp distortion or fake vintage amp recreations. No, now it was time to rock out, and rock he did.
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Oct 04, 2004 09:24 pm OOh! OOOh! tell the one about how the jedi guitarist defeated the evil synth lord... :)
Oct 09, 2004 02:04 pm I am still rolling from having read that last night. Very creative. You should turn that into a song of some sort. You could just do a speaking part over a nice new found guitar sound track with some flowwing drums and such behind it.
Oct 09, 2004 03:40 pm Glad you enjoyed it. I will definitely think about that idea Noize
Oct 09, 2004 05:43 pm The jedi guitarist and evil synth lord:
It was a night much like any other in the Jedi Studios, the VU meters were pumping and the music flowed throughout the nearfields. As the engineer took a break the band listened back to the mix. Suddenly something caught the guitarists ear, and that was that no guitar could be found in the mix. Instead it seems to have been a synthesizer playing cheesy MIDI soundfonts in the guitars place. Puzzled the band started to look for the engineer to find out what he had done.
But he was long gone. In his isolation chamber he talked to his master. "my lord depeche mode, I have succeeded in turning this band over to the synth side. Soon they will abandon all their instruments and join us in the world of knobs and algorithms, but there is one... one whos will is too strong, and I fear he could be the downfall of the entire synth side." Returning to the control room the engineer found a startling site, there was the entire band, armed with their instruments of old, ready for battle.
The engineer was quick to draw his Moog, but not quick enough, because as he was fiddling with the sine wave to tweak it just perfectly he was bombarded with insane licks and drop D tuning... his weakness. He tried to flee but as he ran out of the studio he was confronted with a mob of purists, claiming not only that video killed the radio star, but that electronic music was the plauge of the art, and that he and his leader must be destroyed. Seeking revenge the jedi guitarists quickly started to play covers of some of the best guitar solos ever recorded. Knowing his fate, the Synth lord lay down his moog and surrendered.
In two weeks the council will meet to decide what to do with him, and the thousands of tainted love singles that are now attacking the airwaves on 80s night.
Oct 09, 2004 06:08 pm And the Captian ordered us... "Fire all Flangers!!!" I hesitated, knowing the devistation that could be wreaked- "but Sir, they will be destroyed by our Flangers!"
He nodded, smiled wistfully and said "FIRE!!!"
and the cloud of classic 70's flanger rock destroyed all Brittny fans...acouple of boys2men fans and the tour bus of Bob Dole for some odd reason...
Bennis you rock for coming up with this!
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