They finally came up with something that doesnt just intentionally break their search or make the site less useful for the purpose of social engineering or political activism. This is a new feature I'll actually use. If you notice my new videos being presented with multiple thumbnails, you'll know why.
This was the full jam session on the Gibson L1 I did recently. As you probably know, I usually will jam for a while on something and then pick a few highlights to show in a final video. A ton of stuff got edited out. It's not all great, but it's not all bad either. I find it kind of soothing, this quiet acoustic stuff. I'm never sure where the mood will take me.
I made this quick video the other day for a friend and figured I'd post it here as well. He wants to get started in slide, so I was quickly showing him some open tuning concepts to make the transition to slide a bit easier. Kind of like learning slide without a slide.
I'm in the process of creating the demo for an upcoming video on a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb. This is the point where I'm editing the video and audio layers all together with green screening. The studio-captured audio is not added yet. This is just a rough video mix with the RAW camera guide audio for the drums and guitar ONLY! So this is what the drums and rhythm guitar are sounding like in the room by themselves with no close miking and no post processing (other than a bit of compression and EQ). I am actually kind of shocked how good this is sounding even though one of the camera mics (the one for the drums) is from a DJI Action Cam and the other (for the guitar) is a Panasonic camcorder mic. Usually when making this kind of demo, the raw camera mic audio acts as a guide when lining up video clips on the editing timeline and then gets deleted from the final timeline before publishing. In some cases, I will even mix in a hint of the raw camera microphones with the studio mix to give ...
This video won't go live until Saturday morning. I figure Saturday and Sunday mornings are pretty good times for long-form videos because people are probably settling in with a coffee somewhere, maybe doing a hobby, or having breakfast, so they aren't in doom scrolling mode just yet. But for my Locals peeps, I'll give you the link early in case you got more time on Friday. Don't say I never did anything for ya! ;)
Hi guys. I built a Hiwatt DR504 - that's not a sentence I had on life's bingo card. Anyway, since it's a clone and not a priceless antique, I want to tinker with it.
1st thought is I want to change the Brilliant input to Marshall spec. The Bril channel would otherwise not get used except for maybe jumpering channels. It's pretty thin and shrill in stock form. It currently has a 220k plate resistor, 2.2k cathode and a .47 bypass cap. I'm thinking we change that to 100k / 2.7k / .68uf and ditching the bright cap.
The other thing I was thinking was: since the Hiwatt's master volume is -> right after the tone stack -> makeup gain stage -> then the phase inverter, what if we replace the master volume pot with a fixed grid stopper & leak of some values and install a post phase inverter master volume? I don't know how useful this would be. The amp is LOUD and it is CLEAN. Cranking the preamp volume all the way up doesn't get you much crunch and the little you get is kinda just blocking ...
