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    "Signals" and "Power Windows"

    in Rush

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    It's the album in between that I like the best! :dweez: I love the whole period as well. Although I think that Alex would disagree, I really love his guitar sound and guitar work during this period. He had to work outside of the box for these records and I love the choices he made in both his sound and his style of playing.
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    Ghosts/paranormal happenings? Who believes? Curious! :)

    in Random Samples

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    Well, things have happened to me that I cannot explain. I cannot say that they were supernatural experiences or not, only that they are unexplained.

    At my Grandfather’s funeral, I felt something pass through my body. I was 13-14 years old. Can’t explain it but for about 10 seconds, I had a feeling of overwhelming joy and happiness.

    All other experiences I have had have been auditory in nature. Loud bangs in the house that are unexplained mostly. That has happened a few times.

    What is Rush's most technically challenging song?

    in Rush

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    I have been thinking about how to answer this question on and off for a few days now and I have come to the conclusion that it is almost impossible to answer without breaking it down album by album or at least by period of the band (i.e. Rush thru 2112/AFTK thru MP etc). I would even go further as to break it down by band member. To hard of a question to answer on a standard lunch break. :D

     

    There are just so many moments or parts from an individual player in certain songs that I consider to be "technically challenging" to narrow this down. Example - from .26 seconds into Subdivisions to .37 seconds, Neil is playing what I consider to be a technically challenging drum part where he is using a combination of hi-hat and ride with this off snare timing - it's just crazy complicated to me (I've tried to play it) but the rest of the song is not as complicated in relative terms. The guitar part is fairly simple to play as are the bass and Keyboard parts. So, I can't say that Subdivisions is a "technically challenging" song but that 11 seconds of the song certainly are.

     

    I'm over-analyzing...I know.

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    The Amp Thread!

    in Making Modern Music

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    Hi there, cool stuff all you people!

     

    Over the years i became totally fed up moving around big racks and speakercabs, so i made myself a mini rig with most of the essentials for rush tone, but very light weight.

     

    http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee346/peter_heijnen/pbensingle.jpg

     

    The pedalboard: chi wah wah > xotic bb+ > sonic research turbo tuner > byoc trem > byoc phase90 > coolcat chorus > tc flashback. All pedals except the wah were rehoused for reducing amount of total size. Now, the pedalboard nicely fits in the back of my amp: groove tubes soul-o-single 1x12.

     

    http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee346/peter_heijnen/pbinsingle.jpg

     

     

    My main players:

     

    Musicman silhouette - great workhorse:

    http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee346/peter_heijnen/opzijnkop.jpg

     

    Gibson HRF1 - just wonderfull:

    http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee346/peter_heijnen/hrf-1.jpg

     

    Where is the BB+? I am a big fan of Xotic. I have a n AC+, a BB+, an SP compressor, and I am gassing for the EP Boost.

     

    :LOL:

     

    "All pedals except the wah were rehoused for reducing amount of total size."

     

    Pretty good idea.

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    The Amp Thread!

    in Making Modern Music

    Posted

    Hi there, cool stuff all you people!

     

    Over the years i became totally fed up moving around big racks and speakercabs, so i made myself a mini rig with most of the essentials for rush tone, but very light weight.

     

    http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee346/peter_heijnen/pbensingle.jpg

     

    The pedalboard: chi wah wah > xotic bb+ > sonic research turbo tuner > byoc trem > byoc phase90 > coolcat chorus > tc flashback. All pedals except the wah were rehoused for reducing amount of total size. Now, the pedalboard nicely fits in the back of my amp: groove tubes soul-o-single 1x12.

     

    http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee346/peter_heijnen/pbinsingle.jpg

     

     

    My main players:

     

    Musicman silhouette - great workhorse:

    http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee346/peter_heijnen/opzijnkop.jpg

     

    Gibson HRF1 - just wonderfull:

    http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee346/peter_heijnen/hrf-1.jpg

     

    Awesome rig!

    line 6 new variax jtv89f

    in Making Modern Music

    Posted

    Words like "digital" and "active" have no place in the guitar world. Especially on the instrument itself, or the amp!

    Although, I guess if you play death metal and tone is you're lowest priority, then go for it. :)

     

    My nephew has two Line6 amps, and he's into the metal thing, and in that setting -- full blast with the mids scooped -- the amps do okay. Of course, every time I'm over there I plug into them and proceed to play non-metal, and when I turn the guitar's volume down, the gain just doesn't clean up -- from 10 down to 1 it sounds the same, then it just shuts off when I go to zero, and I can't get used to that.

     

    There are players who can get modeling to work. Steven Wilson is a good example. It isn't something I'm ready to embrace just yet.

     

    There is a classic rock cover band called Yellow Brick Road here in town and the guitarist for that band, Mark Cole, never uses an amp and his tone is unbelieveable. He's got the whole modeling thing down for sure. Whatever band they are covering, he sounds just like that guitarist. You have to see/hear it to believe it.

     

    Having said that, I agree with Launch. I prefer the real thing to modeling.

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