finally got off my ass tonight and have just now finished not only reassembling my Floyd Rose (guitar bridge & whammy bar) (my only goal), but have also restrung it. i also went ahead and tried the lock-stringing method of stringing, which i really didn’t need to, since i have a locking nut (it keeps the strings locked in tune, a must if you have an extreme vibrato bar like the Floyd-types). to my surprise, i didn’t break any strings.
and i think i may have more or less fixed my intonation problem. fucking. a’!
i still have to:
-stretch the strings (oops! forgot…)
-plug it in and check the electronics. that’ll kill me if my jack or a pickup or something is fucked.
–eventually replace the disaster-wood with a REAL body. the neck is a $300 Warmoth, so it stays ;)
also, laid down preliminary tracks for my eagerly-anticipated (ok, by me only) update of my old darkwave jingle (from 1992!) “treachery.” something’s missing though. i may have to dig out the old Juno 106 and do the synth by hand, by god. it just ain’t got no balls the way it is right now. maybe i didn’t tweak the samples enough, or maybe i just overdid it with layering synths. (i just couldn’t find the right analogue-sounding sample, so i layered a few ones that were close-ish.) i need a 303.
also realized that i am going to have to dust off the TR-707 drum machine, because my sequencing program (get this: Music Generator, for Playstation of all things) just can’t handle odd time signatures, and the one song i most want to record is “like we are,” which is in something like 11/8, fer chrissakes. it’s a very Afghan Whigs -sounding song; so much so that for the longest time i thought i had accidentally ripped it off of them (hey, that actually happens a lot in rock and roll!), but one time i went through and listened to everything they ever did, and it’s not in there.
i get some time alone tomorrow, so hopefully i’ll get some vocals or piano done.
i was surprised at the acoustic guitar sound i got on my first try the other day (in fact without even trying at all). i think this is going to be a vastly better set of recordings, once i get it all together. thank god for compression*. i always slagged it off (when i was younger and stupider), but now i know far better than to do something idiotic like that.
p.s., Ann Coulter is a fucking creep who needs to absolutely be The First Against The Wall.
* compression is where you take the volume and squish it all up so that it sounds all nice and even and professional. all records are compressed during recording, mixing and/or mastering, and all radio broadcasts compress audio even further, which is one reason why radio always seems to sound a little sparklier than disc.
