God thats hilarious - as much as I love John Petrucci, I can’t help but laugh…
Archive for the 'Guitar' Category
Back in the dark ages, when I had a PC, I bought a guitar cable from eBay that had a smaller .25″ jack at one end, and the standard 3.5″ jack at the other end, enabling you to plug your guitar into your PC. Under the impression that I would now be able to record my guitar without having to fiddle around with microphones and expensive equipment/software configuations, I went to work. Suffice to say that the impression I was under was false. Sound Recorder did an appauling job at capturing the input from the guitar. From then on, I resigned the cable to a box and carried on with life.
Then recently, after buying my iMac and fiddling around with GarageBand, I suddenly remembered the cable I bought, and fished it out. GarageBand does my guitar justice, capturing every sonic vibration from the strings - it sounds perfect, as if I was playing through a Marshal stack (I did that once, you know… I played through a £10,000 sound setup at TJ’s in Newport with the band… They were strange days).
So since then I’ve been playing around with GarageBand, recording things, adding effects, extra instruments etc. Who needs a degree when you have GarageBand? You’ve got a fricken recording studio in your Mac! 
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And if you’re wondering, the guitar in the picture is an Aria Mac 57/7 - a 7 string guitar. The cat is Moo, one of two new kittens I have (I posted about them a while ago… and their constipated mother that cost me a fortune…). Moo looks really evil with the flash reflecting in his eyes…
Go on, shout ’sell out’ if you must. Fact is I don’t think I generate enough traffic to actually get any revenue, so meh. Finally got them working and not displaying Public Service Ads though 
… Damn google and their ‘robots.txt’ files.
Anypoo, not much to blog about in all fairness, LAN is counting down slowly, PC keeps blue screening (only while playing anything Warcraft related though… :S ), which is a pile of poo.
Bollocks… just remembered I left my Custom PC magazine at Sof’s. Bugger. Not that there was anything of breathtaking interest in it this month. Not even a Quake Wars preview…
Think I might put up a section on my guitars and my rig setup, some people like that kind of thing. Nearly cocked up the Floyd Rose tremolo on my Aria 7-string the other day. I was getting a hell of a lot of fret buzz on the low B string, so I tried raising the bridge a little bit, resulting in the action being too high for my liking and the fret buzz migrating to the E string. Typical. Upon reseating the bridge, the tuning messed up, and it took me a while to get it back to what it was before. Although I may need to unlock the neck-locks and re-tune it using the machine-heads and then fine tune it again. Just because I’m pedantic like that.
Anyway, I’m gonna delve into the World of Warcraft and become Jadiss for a while.
byeeeeeee….
Another google video for ya. And yeah, it’s another guitar video. And yes. Its japanese again. So sue me!
Some of you may recognise the name of the piece, and it starts out pretty familiar to the classisbly minded… but nothing will prepare you for what this Jap does to the peice It’s really quite cool :).
Got a LAN lined up in about a month or so courtesy of Rich aka Odin :D. Will be awesome, although I found out yesterday that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars has been pushed back to September 29th… which sucks balls to be honest.
Hehe, I got a D5 in my QM exam. Ready? 1… 2… 3… OMFG ROFL LOL! Ahem…
Meh, more soon!
byeeeeeeee…..
Have I gone mad? Only if Google is the definition of maddness.. 
You will click here and wittness the Demi-God that is Alexi Laiho while he plays along with the other guy ( I forget his name) from Children Of Bodom.
Christmas was awesome, ZOMG LIGHTSABER. Which I will blog in due time… So be patient young padowan. **zshoooom, whaaaamm, pssstttchhh!** mwahaha