Recent content by Empiar93

First instrument I played was drums, back when I was 8. Picked up the guitar when I was 11, just out of fifth grade, but didn’t take it super seriously. When I got into middle school and joined the band class I went onto the drums, but there was too many drummers so I had to switch. Guitar...

Ah, definitely not. I glanced through the thread but didn’t see that criteria til you asked. All I saw was the post saying there was a separate list for amps 250 watts or less.

How about the Ampeg SVT Micro?

Actually, cereal wasn’t the way to go. Had some damn good waffles instead. Made it so easy, I didn’t even to pull the trigger myself :D

The bass player’s the most important member of the band - if he chooses to be

Guitarist did, but if I'm being honest I'd made the decision long ago, it's just a matter of when. Drummer is due to be a father next year so he was on borrowed time to begin with and he even admitted as much. And actually, it’s kind of comical how it went down. I knew the guitarist and drummer...

I should have specified; he's experienced as a musician in the Chicago scene, but not necessarily as a drummer. He plays guitar and does vocals, has released an album with another band and I think does session work, but has also been drumming for years. Dude's got chops but his drum performance...

:laugh: For all intents and purposes this was becoming an online relationship. He wasn't leaving us with very many options.

The irony is, we’d have been nice enough to fire him in person if he’d ever show - but if he’d ever show we wouldn’t have had to fire him! It felt dirty even just reading the text message. But I guess unprofessional behavior sometimes warrants an unprofessional response.

I think there were two main reasons why I didn’t just can him right away: 1). The first couple times it happened we didn’t actually need him there, we just asked him to show up (guitarist or I were recording or otherwise discussing band matters). So I forgave him on account of the fact his...

That’s good thinking. So good, in fact, that that’s what happened in this scenario, because the whole idea was to bring this dude in and all he’d have to do is adapt to the songs that were written and then we can record, play shows once COVID ends, and so on. The results were... as shown above...

Yeah, not only was he not practicing on his own (and again, studio was a 10 minute bike ride from his apartment), he was also the one who would tell us when to show up half the time, and he would still be late or no-call no-show. It was more of the guitarist wanting to keep him onboard than me...

That’s just the thing, he’d put together these plans, kinda get our hopes up, and early on he DID show some promise, but then he started pulling full-blown no-shows. We kept wanting to trust him because we’ve also struggled to find drummers for this band and in another band the guitarist and I...

I’m currently on vacation (well, heading back home today). Yesterday, the drummer was absent from yet another practice. No call, no show. So the guitarist, who showed up the studio and waited for hours on his own, in vain, sent a text to the group: “Gotta move on without you”. Over the past...

I just picked up the TT 800 and have it running through an Orange OBC410 and it’s fantastic. I think that TT800 would sound good through about any cab that can handle it. The sound is fantastic, lightweight, and it’s got all the options you could want.