Recent content by StefTD

I just started playing in a new band, I start learning the songs while sitting down and listening to the music, but as soon as I get the basic sheme I stand up and play the song 1 or 2 times. Than I start playing it and walking around, sometimes I close my eyes, try looking outside of the...

It really sounds like it has some kind of error, I tried the LH500 a friend of mine has, with the suiting 4x10 cab. It was one of the loudest amps I've ever played, he plays with it in a death metal band and a heavy rock band with a really loud drummer and 2 guitar players with fullstacks and he...

@Meddle, thanks for your lovely writing, I was very amused, sincerely yours, StefTD

Just remembered a few things more: Played a show once, we were the opener, the band that played later is halfway famous in the German metal scence, they suck but this is another story :D so after like 15 minutes their bassplayer, about 6ft 3" and 400pounds at least walks over to the guitar...

I was singing in a death metal band once (no problem if you don't like this ;) but the other guys were extremly talented) and in the city we lived, there's somekind of a marathon around christmas everyyear through the forests around the city, so they asked us to play there, we thought it would...

I am halfway good painter and graphic designer, but nobody is able to read when I write by hand ;) And I still suck at playing ;) A bit more serious now: if you're good at painting or drawing, it just means (like Deathblade Eric said) that you have a good eye-brain-hand coordniation, but that...

It depends on the mix! In some cases it's not bad to scoop the mids but it's all about the context. For Example: A modern rock band with heavy distorted guitars should leave the bass to the bass, the guitars just get muddy if there's to much lowend, so you can high pass the guitars to 100hz or...

wasn't meant as an offense or something like that ;) Just talked to a luthier I know about that thing, he started building everything by hand, but nowadays, he does all the modelling for the cnc, send the data to a friend who has a cnc at work and gets the bodys from him. He visited Warwick a...

Yep, but imho that doesn't matter as long as the selection of the parts was done by a person and not a machine, CNC is way more precise than a human can be, so no problem for me if the neck/body joint is done by a CNC. If I buy a bass that's handmade but the neck doesn't fit very well or...

I am using Addictive Drums and it's pretty awesome, paid way more. I actually use it for heavy stuff (most of the time technical death metal or groovy, more doom inspired things) you just have to use the 16 channel output thing so you can use more vsts afterwards on every channel and not only...

@Snarf did you mean the little unknown German band Stunning Cunts? I like "Breschdleng", it's Swabian-German for Strawberry and almost nobody knows what it means in every other part of Germany, they play hardcore with German lyrics about their hometown and stuff.

In my former band (where I was the singer) our bass player just started playing the bass, didn't own one, but he was really talented, so I gave him my bass, I am a lefty, but play right handed. He's a lefty, too, but plays left handed, so he played it with the strings upside down and learned it...

Met Jonas Hellborg when he played here on the toilet of a museum :D Met a few guys from different metalbands, like Amon Amarth, Soilwork, Krisiun, Alex Webster from Cannibal Corpse and I saw Gene Simmons at the Airport in Berlin a few years ago. The only guy I met who wasn't nice was Matt Sinner...

Why don't you want to use a computer? Way more flexible, better ways to upgrade, you could get a nice 8 channel interface for 300$ used. You can do way more, there are tons of great free plugins and stuff. About microphones, it all depends on your budget and what sound you want, I would go for...

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