Vintage VS6 Gloss Black only £119

Vintage VS6 Gloss Black

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Vintage VS6 Series

• Body: Mahogany
• Neck: Mahogany – Set Neck
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Scale: 24.75″/628mm
• Frets: 22
• Neck Inlays: Pearloid Crown  Tuners: Wilkinson® Deluxe WJ44
• Bridge: Tune-O-Matic with Stop Bar Tailpiece
• Pickups: Wilkinson® Double Coil x 2 (N)MWVC (B)MWVC
• Hardware: Chrome (VS6/ VS6B/ LVS6) Gold (VS6CG)
• Controls: 2 x Volume/ 2 x Tone/ 3-Way Toggle

Vintage VS6 Gloss Black only £119

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Squier By Fender Telecaster Custom only £209

Basically mic’d up the Champion as pictured below,

Volume set at,

Fender Telecaster fitted with Seymour Duncan bridge pickup,

Because the Boss GT-8 has a ridiculous amount of effects we decided to record just a selection of what we could.

We used no additonal effects – we’ve also tried to show what the effects can do, in some recordings we’ve gone with the stock settings. In other recordings we’ve tried to showcase what the effect can do.

Autowah

Chorus

Tremelo

Vibrato

Reverse Delay

Slicer

Humanizer

Harmonist

Plate Reverb

Sitar

Spring Reverb

Uni V

Warp Delay

Wave Synth 1

Wave Synth 2

Equipment Used:

Microphones – Shure sm57 and sm58.

Mixing Desk – Behringer Xenyx 1622.

Planet Waves guitar cables.

Fender Telecaster(mexican)

I really like this cheapo pedal, it looks like a brick and sounds like a ton of bricks.

If you’re looking for a cool budget distortion then this in my humble opinion is it.

It’s very light when handled.

Bit of blurb below,

Behringer Vintage Distortion

Vintage Distortion at your feet—from screaming loud to whisper soft!

First Audio is a recording with Sustain cranked to full as seen in above image.

Second Audio example is a recording with Sustain set half way as seen in above image.

Recording scenario, mic’s placed as in  image below.

Amp set on stool, 9-12 inches above floor in centre of large room.

Amp is a Fender Champion 600 5 watt valve amp.

Volume set as pictured below,

All guitar recorded playing a Fender Telecaster fitted with a seymour duncan bridge pickup.

Audio has not been processed.

Microphones are a Shure sm58 and sm57.

Pre-Amp used is the Behringer 1622 Xenyx built in pre-amps.

Guitar leads are by Planet Waves.

Enjoy!

Novation Nocturn £69 @ Dolphin Music

Loads of other bargains there as well.

Novation’s most affordable hardware controller to date, Nocturn is an intelligent plug-in controller that promises to unleash the full potential of all your favourite instruments and effects. Featuring the latest Automap Universal 2.0 software, exclusive to Novation controllers, Nocturn provides automatic, instant and intelligent control of all automatable plug-ins within every major sequencer, including Pro Tools.

Nocturn features eight touch-sensitive rotary encoders, each equipped with a bright eleven-LED ring (ideal for laptop DJ’ing in a dark club environment). These are accompanied by eight user-assignable illuminated buttons and a smooth, professional 45mm cross-fader. The finishing touch is Novation’s unique ‘speed dial’; a touch-sensitive rotary encoder that instantly takes control of whatever your mouse is focused on!

Key Features

• Exclusive Automap Universal 2.0 technology - Novation’s instant and intelligent control technology leaves you free to focus on what matters most – your music.
• Heads-up transparent control GUI - Automap Universal 2.0 provides a transparent control map across your computer screen, so you can see at a glance how every parameter is assigned.
• Novation’s unique ‘Speed Dial’ - An instant access touch-sensitive control for composers and performers alike, allowing you to take control of whatever your mouse is focused on!
• Touch-sensitive controls - Nocturn also features eight touch-sensitive rotary encoders with bright, eleven-LED rings. Simply touch an encoder to assign to any parameter.
• The Lap-top DJ solution - Alongside the brightly lit encoders, Nocturn also features illuminated buttons and a smooth, professional 45mm cross-fader, making it ideal for laptop DJ’ing in a dark club environment.
• Instant ‘learn’ function - Simply click on the software parameter and touch a Nocturn control to assign it. Now you can re-assign every control in seconds.

Specifications

• Controls
  • Assignable Rotary Encoders: 8 – Infinite Rotation, touch-sensitive, LED surrounds
  • Speed Dial (Encoder): 1 – Infinite Rotation, touch-sensitive, LED-surround, press and rotate for second function
  • Assignable Buttons: 32
  • Assignable Crossfader: 1 x 45mm
  • System Buttons: ‘Learn’, ‘View’, ‘Page+’ and ‘Page’
  • Group Buttons: User, FX, Inst, Mixer
  • Interfacing Data Ports: 1 x USB MIDI
• Weight and Dimensions
  • Size: W=239mm (9.41”), H=137mm (5.39”), D=18-28mm (0.7”-1.1”)
  • Weight: 0.5 kg (1.1 lbs)
• Minimum Operational Requirements
  • Mac OSX 10.4.0 or greater (Leopard also supported) or Windows XP with
    Service Pack 2 or greater (Vista 32/64 also supported)
  • Minimum Computer spec: Mac – G4/1GHz, both with 256MB RAM or PC -
    Pentium 3/1GHz/256MB RAM (machines running Vista will require a higher spec)
• Interfacing
  • USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 compatible

Get it here £69 @ Dolphin Music

Below are recordings of some of the more famous effects.

Basically mic’d up the Chimp as pictured below,

Volume set at,

Fender Telecaster fitted with Seymour Duncan bridge pickup,

(Amp shown in picture below is Fender Champion 600)

Again because the Boss GT-8 has a ridiculous amount of effects we decided to record just a selection of what we could without messing with the settings.

We used no reverb, compression or delay just Distortion or Overdrive.

The playing on these records veers from sensible to half arsed clownshoes style stunt guitar.

Please engage your sense of humour when listening.

OD1

60′s Muff

Muff Fuzz

Oct Fuzz

Distortion

Heavy Metal

Metal Zone

Equipment Used:

Microphones – Shure sm57 and sm58.

Mixing Desk – Behringer Xenyx 1622.

Planet Waves guitar cables.

Fender Telecaster(mexican)

Basically mic’d up the Champion as pictured below,

Volume set at,

Fender Telecaster fitted with Seymour Duncan bridge pickup,

Because the Boss GT-8 has a ridiculous amount of effects we decided to record just a selection of what we could without messing with the settings.

We used no reverb, compression or delay just Distortion or Overdrive.

The playing got a little bit silly please have a sense of humour when listening and bear in mind that I am promarily a punk and country style guitarist.

OD1

60′s Muff

Muff Fuzz

Oct Fuzz

Distortion

Heavy Metal

Metal Zone

Equipment Used:

Microphones – Shure sm57 and sm58.

Mixing Desk – Behringer Xenyx 1622.

Planet Waves guitar cables.

Fender Telecaster(mexican)

A big white monkey 5 watt Chimp – Link

It is of course an valve amp and not an electrified furry beast looking for tarzan.

Anyway a couple of days we decided to get the thing set up and recorded much in the same way I recorded my Fender Champion a day earlier.

From their website:

‘We started off modifying guitar amps as a project—trying to get the sound and feel we wanted from amps already out there. The Fenders, Epi’s and others gave a great sound, but just didn’t have what we were looking for.  So we went back to the drawing board and designed our own.  We came up with mods you won’t find on any other amp, which help get the tone and sound we wanted. ‘

Getting any info on the Chimp is quite difficult to be honest – there’s plenty of it there  on the website but it’s all very technical and a guitar smacker like myself can’t be arsed reading, I want to hear the bugger.

So that’s what we did and we recorded it for reference.

Equipment list:

Fender Telecaster(mexican) with single coil seymour duncan bridge pickup.

Shure sm57 and sm58.

Planet Waves guitar leads.

Electro Harmonix double muff.

Behringer Xenyx 1622FX mixing desk.

Let’s get started…

Amp settings below,

Mic placement as in the three images below,

From the pictures above you’ll see that the amp has been placed on a cusioned stool about 9-12 inches from the floor.

Two dynamic mics have been placed directly in front on the cone.

These are a sm57 and a sm58 as stated earlier.

Each recording has been recorded in three states with three different pickup selections.

Clean, Single Muff and double muff – for each variant Guitar Toggle Down, Middle then Up.

Tones and Volumes on guitar are on full.

Warning you may hear some jibba jabba as this recording setup had two people involved.

Chris is playing on these recordings.

Recording 1: Open Chords

Recording 2: Palm Muting and Power Chords

Recording 3: Lead

Recording 4: Funk

Hope you likey.

Big White Monkey

The trick itself itself was to tune an acoustic to the key of the song your recording, place said acoustic next to amp then place a mic near the body facing the soundhole.

This trick was designed for a clean guitar sound and is supposed to have the effect of creating a tuned reverb chamber.

So today a friend and I decided to give the trick a go.

We used my Mexican Fender Telecaster and set up my Fender Champion 600 as below.

Mics used in above picture are a sm57 and a sm58.

Set amp volume to middle and set Electro Harmonix double muff (single muff)

First recording we did was micing the strings and body. We used a Takstar PCM 6100 – cheapo condenser mic that is worth much more than the £4 I paid for it on fleabay.

The second recording we did was by placing the mic over the F hole as pictured below.

Each time we recorded we split the recording onto two tracks.

In each case Track 1 we have the ‘tuned reverb’ and Track 2 we have our main track.

To boost(exaggerate) the reverb I then placed a compressor on the the ‘reverb’ track.

So first recording: Mic on the strings ->

no reverb

with reverb

Second recording: Mic on the F hole ->

no reverb

with reverb

The resonator is a Harley Benton HBN100 that I was bought. It came from Thomann and for £200 it’s well worth it.

Apart from the compression applied to the first track there has been no other processing applied.

Best to listen with headphones or dedicated speakers.