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@@dmnguitarist still thinking about that MJ 😁😁

​@@jimshomestudio Jim your ears are well tuned! I shouldn't be surprised, though. Your mixes are always phenomenal. For this guitar, on my last two videos, I switched to a Texas Star clean on my FM3 which is based on a Mesa Lone Star. For this track specifically, I dialed up my stereo chorus to 30% and it's based on the Dytronics Songbird, I believe. I normally have it set to 11-12% for just a little extra thickness, but this backing track had a lot of harmony so I wanted my lead to harmonize as well. I also boosted the mix on my Aurora multi Delay, based on the Keeley Halo. I also changed the reverb from a studio to room with a little boost. Thanks for the comment! Always a pleasure hearing from you.

@ i have a few chorus go to’s. There’s an old Eventide feature called Micropitch that was used on all the classics up through the 80s. A good example is Boston’s first album. That taught me how to hear chorus, which has that slight wandering pitch, up and down. When I was younger I had a Boss Dimension D, but I must’ve given that away. These days I have TC’s 1210 which is weird to conventional. And the Harmonizers these days have a good collection of Chorus, but you sometimes need to mute your dry signal path and just keep the chorus effect. Never understood that, and still like to keep my dry signal mixed in, which helps my recordings but dilutes the chorus effect so bad I end up putting a flanger plugin on the effects channel. Always interested in how it’s supposed to be done. Watched a LOT of programming Fractal videos from Gurtej Singh and Leon Todd, where the insane power of an AxeFX can be exploited in exactly the same way you would do in a studio with outboard. Sounds like you have your signal routed in series, where the effect is most prominent. Hope it’s a happy holiday for you and the fam Chad.

On a side note, you’re familiar with Floyd Rose bridges? I just got my very first, and discovered a parts company called FU-Tone. I ordered some screws and bolts that are colored to match the guitar, so I want to ‘bling’ it out. That’s when I got paranoid that I could screw it all up and started watching the tech videos how (and how not to) set them up. Wish me luck, that’s my X mas gift to me this year.

@@jimshomestudio Yeah, I've experimented with parallel signal paths but they never seem to meld quite right to my ears. I typically go input>compressor>drive>amp>cab>chorus>delay>reverb in series and just blend with the mix knobs on each block.

@@ziofender6699 Trying to get less sizzle and more tone... You still got the smoothest sound around, my friend!

@@ImprovGuitarJams Thank you kindly! Always nice to get a comment from a fellow improv player 🙏🙏

@@georgeguitar Thanks, George! I really enjoy your music

@@ziofender6699 Always high praise coming from you, my friend!

@@ImprovGuitarJams Thank you so much for the kind words and sub! Cort makes some amazing guitars!

@@dmnguitarist ha doesn't surprise me! They seem to dominate a lot of the Asian production. I love how buttery this one feels. Definitely old school strat vibes. Been trying to rotate in some guitars that haven't seen much love lately 😂 Pat Matrone just keeps getting better and better. I swear half the time I use his tracks, is the backing music that steals the show! I was just thinking how nice it is these days to have all these tools at our disposal. It's a far cry from guitar tab magazines and instructional VHS tapes 🤣

@@cbsaulren yeah I had a feeling it was Cort so I did some digging. Those are cool guitars for the money. Did you see the new MJ yet? Nicest Charvel I've had to date. And yes we're spoiled now compared to back in the day. 😂

​@@dmnguitaristShit, no... UA-cam is weird with the recommendations but I'm def gonna check it out! I've been eyeing them since they announced. I was really wanting a SS fret Charvel. It's like the only down side to their MiM line (not really a big downside imo. Nickel feels nice and soft if that makes sense) but something about SS gives a guitar an indestructible feel and you basically never have to worry about fret wear unless you're crazy with bends and vibrato. I think I'm gonna sell off some of the guitars that I never play and put it towards a MJ.

@@drawingwithsound8022 I'd be happy to help any way I can! Though, I imagine there's much more capable teachers 😁 A million thank yous for the comment 🙏🙏🙏

@ nonsense! Besides.. they’d be too busy for the likes of me anyway🥲. Unless I can afford them😅. How about it? Give me some free lessons? Lol seriously. I am after some techniques than theory, not that the theory is less important. It’s just that techniques take longer to master

@drawingwithsound8022 I'm willing to make a video of some of the techniques I use... Are there any in particular that you are interested in? I've never given lessons before but I can give it a shot Just to be straightforward; I'm not a "pocket lick" kind of player. Certain staple licks that you hear from other guitarists might require me to learn them myself before trying to relay the technique to anyone else 🙂

@@ziofender6699 Thank you, Zio! I enjoyed your new one as well 👍

@@dmnguitarist Thanks! I thought it fit pretty well. Reminded me of the old school Winanp visualizers. I've had this one sitting around for a while but I finally finished it up. The synth player (Dan) has been sending me some stems to play around with. Might have to make it a legit project

@@ziofender6699 thank you Zio - just saw your new track. Incredible job!

@@nebojsa7851 Thank you!

@@drawingwithsound8022 You are too kind 🙏🙏 I studied scales and licks but all you really need is a strong feeling 🙂

@@cbsaulrenthere! At around 3:49. Can you do show me how to do that please? Whats your picking technique, and thought process as you implementing it on your improvisation? Thank you in advance! 🙏🏽

@@drawingwithsound8022 Haha the fast runs are fun to play! I'll work on making my next video an instructional one. I've learned quite a bit in the last few years from various sources and it wasn't until recently that it all started to "click". Sometimes you practice and practice a technique and it doesn't sound quite right until you forget it and it comes out naturally in your playing. Hopefully you'll see what I mean

@ looking forward to it! Cheers mate!

@@ziofender6699 Thanks Zio!

@@jimshomestudio Thanks Jim! I really had a good time with this one

@@supersuperragettygargaming4263 Thank you so much for the kind words!

@@2n3chordjams70 such a great track!! I could've kept on jamming. Mikee is one of my favorites for a reason 😁

@@jimshomestudio Jim, you never have any shortage of kind words 🙏 You're right about some people being drawn more to the visual than the audio, but I guess all we can do is make the art we make and hope someone finds something about it to appreciate. Glad to have friends that encourage me to keep making my own!

@@dmnguitarist haha yeah I saw yours this morning and I wasn't even that surprised. Pat did a phenomenal job with that one. I wanted to do longer but I fucked up lol! That's why I said I need to practice cuz you were shredding the whole 7 min. Glad you pointed Pat's channel out to me. Dude is mega talented

@@cbsaulren Pat makes great stuff. Nice song like structure to his tracks and some of them have actual key/mode/tempo changes that can get pretty challenging. He deserves way more subs. I almost didn't upload mine. There's some cringe inducing slop in there but I like the mood of it. I need to stop taking these long breaks.

@dmnguitarist same dude.. I've been working on other stuff and neglecting my practice routines. Also, it never fails that I'll be improv'ing to it playing perfectly and think "hey I should do a video" and then all of the sudden I can't play anymore. I really liked the switch from F#m to G lydian in this one

@@ziofender6699 Thank you so much Zio!

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I can't put this guitar down. I tried playing my Cort and it lasted ten minutes before I wanted to pick this one back up again 😂

@@cbsaulren I've been working on a better method for shimming the Floyd on these things. You'd be surprised how much room for improvement there still is with these. Is yours still 100% stock?

@dmnguitarist As far as I know it's still stock. I've had several guitars with Floyds, but I've never heard of shimming them. What's the shim do?

@@cbsaulren Your Charvel has a 12"-16" compound radius fretboard. The Floyd Rose R3 nut it came with has a 12" radius. The saddles of the Floyd also have a 12" radius built in. So your strings are 12 to 12 but the fretboard flattens out underneath them. Your strings are not following that radius. You change the bridge radius by putting small shims under each saddle. It's tricky to get it just right because there's really one shim available from All-Parts. They list them as being anywhere from .16mm to .2mm thick but according to my measurements they're pretty consistently just under .18mm so I'm using a combo of shims and HVAC tape (3.9 mil HVAC tape is .1mm thick and made of aluminum) to get it just right. I put 2 shims under the E saddles and 1 shim with the HVAC tape under the B and A saddles. It's pretty good but still needs a little work. WAY WAY flatter feeling on the picking hand than stock. All my Floyd equipped Charvels also have brass blocks, Floyd Rose noiseless springs, Floyd Push -in bar and occasionally some other small details like titanium string inserts or stainless steel hardware.

@dmnguitarist oh ok! I always wondered about Floyd Roses and radii. I figured they were just a set radius but I didn't imagine they would be as curved as 12". I know on a compound your bridge should be closer to 18" radius. I might have to look into that! I've always just accepted that action was part of the compromise of having the stability of a Floyd. I used to hate FR but for some reason lately it's all I play. I have that $200 Jackson dinky with a junk FR on it but I still love it. I think I play it more than any other guitar including my Charvels because I leave it sit out everywhere with my wireless Nu-x for easy access. It plays just like my Charvel and I don't have to worry about leaving it out. I'll have to look into those shims

@@PhilCytheria Thank you for the kind words 🙏🙏

@@gabrielberns93 Thanks, Gabriel! It's my new favorite guitar😁

@@2n3chordjams70 Wow thank you so much for the compliment!!

@@dmnguitarist Thanks man! I really like how thick the synth gets

@@jimshomestudio I can't think of a greater compliment!! 🙏🙏🙏

@@jimshomestudio I'm glad like it! This backing track had all the makings of a great song I just tried to find a melody 😁 I always get nervous trying to do these improvs... Even when I have an idea of what to play. Sometimes I have a hard time getting out of my head and into the music but I feel like I finally warmed up a few minutes in on this one 😂

@@dmnguitaristThanks man... yeah definitely!! I'm certain a good number of my guitars are going to be sitting idle a while after getting this one. I tried that middle position! I didn't realize my primer gray has the same config. It's a very unique sound - somewhere between a single and humbucker in terms of output with a ton of articulation. I was on the bridge for this one. I didn't really think about switching I was really into all the pinchy harmonics I was getting from that full shred 😂 YT Jam tracks has been putting out some crazy good stuff. Really there's so much good content out there for improvising I can't even keep up!

@@2n3chordjams70 very kind!! I'm very grateful for the cool music community we have here 🙏🙏

@@YTJamTracks This track was absolutely killer 🙏🙏 I appreciate your dedication, my friend

@@Hammer24dk 🙏🙏🙏

@@JeremyMcCant Too kind!! 🙏🙏

@@dmnguitarist ya know I haven't really used it much. Might have to try it out! I absolutely love this guitar. I set it up right after I brought it home and it's played perfectly and stayed in tune ever since. Honestly I didn't think I would like the blue color as much as I do to. Something about how it contrasts with the ebony and black hardware that makes it pop. I'm in love!

@@cbsaulren right on man glad to hear you're liking it. Give that 3 position a shot it's kinda telecaster'ish.

@@jimshomestudio what a prolific picture you paint of your memory with a few words, my friend! I don't think we're too dissimilar in age, as I can remember a few points from the decade, but it was also a great era for music! Melody has always been more interesting to me than the super shredders of that era, but don't get me wrong because I love to (try to) shred too! I feel like my guitar journey has taken me back to that era more than once to study the masters. And my childhood memories of 80s artists were probably the most formative in my affinity towards music. My mother's favorites were Journey, Chicago and Styx 😂 😂 REO was certainly in the mix.

@@cbsaulren You hide behind such a wonderful track too, I noticed the mix this time. I wonder if you’ve tried to do the behind trick but push up your 2k? A nice level track you never disappeared, but some 2k would take your mids and present them (you), perhaps matching the fidelity in all the other instruments.

​@@jimshomestudio generally what I do with backing tracks is run my FM3 as the main audio interface for Chrome, and then capture it via output to my 16ch mixer. If I play along with the track it'll come out as a single stereo ( two mono ) track and I can't do much in post to change the guitar levels. Not only that, I've noticed that for a while now I've been using a template that neglected to pan the two channels so I was getting mostly mono! This time, however, I played the entire backing track through my mixer to record it and then used a new pair of mono tracks for my guitar. Not only am I able to mix them a little better, I'm fairly certain the previous way I was recording had a slight delay between what I was hearing and what was tracking and since it wasn't accounting for the delay, I didn't quite get the synchronization I wanted. The only inserts I use on either track is an "all-in-one" compressor/limiter/multi band EQ (Vitamin from Waves) on which I do tend to cut a little from the low mid and high mid to keep any unwanted hiss or warble from getting through. I think I over compressed on the guitar a bit because there are a few instances where I think it's getting lost in the mix. I'll try giving them a little bit of a boost in that HMF (2k ish) range next time to give the guitar a bit more bite! Also I might've over accentuated the HF range. It was late and I was hearing that sparkle 😂😂

@@cbsaulren Ah I see! I didn’t know it was the venerable Fractal at work! I have always been curious. You can get lost in there! It’s a whole studio.

​@@jimshomestudioI couldn't be more happy with the FM3! It's just connected via USB. I could use it without the 16ch mixer if I wanted but my work station is set up for me to be able to record multiple instruments for when I'm composing. I really am grateful for the setup and I think fondly back to when I was 13-17yrs old and mixing tracks with the windows recording software by playing a track over the speakers and recording my playing over it. 😂 Technology has come a long way and it really is a golden era for music production.

@@davidvanberkel5599 You are too kind!!

@@zokkb986 Thanks for the comment and for listening!

@@byronlove4846 BJ!!!! Man I miss you too, dude

@@jimshomestudio Too kind as always, Jim! I'm really enjoying this guitar. Now I need to work on my mix a little 🤨 If I had the chance, I'd request to track at your studio 😂

@@cbsaulren You would be welcome anytime! I also LOVE that guitar!! 😜

@@ajpend 🤩🤩

@@nebojsa7851 Thanks for listening, friend!

Thank you so much for listening! Glad to be a part of the community. 😁

Thanks, Jim! I need to work on better lead structure. I tend to "babble" way too much. 😅

@@cbsaulren Leads can lean towards Freeform expression. Or think of a singer, and the way singers repeat words or phrases. They double or triple pulse on a note, so don’t feel obligated to trail down a scale fully. You can stop along the way and rest on a choice note or harmony note. The tremolo was nice to see, and hear you employ. All in all, I liked it. Haven’t had a Floyd in many years! 💪

@@jimshomestudio I've had mixed feelings about Floyd for a while but the more setups I try, the more I realize if I want a tremolo, the FR is the most reliable. I'm also in the habit of using my hand on the bridge to vibrato and most of the time I don't even keep a tremolo arm attached. I don't want to sound like a stereotypical player by any means, but I definitely wish I could use more meaningful note choices. I've spent the last few years practicing scales forwards and backwards as well as different techniques that I never bothered to learn in the 20+ years before that. It's hard to break the habit of just running through the motions but it's a process and I'm trying to remember it'll take time. 😁

@@cbsaulren please understand that I offer the suggestions to help and not to criticize what you have done here. Because we often self reflect. Floyd’s are the bomb. Nearest I have is the Ibanez Low Pro Edge 7 which really stays in tune. I just have to wrestle the 7. Wish I had a nice Floyd, don’t want to part with the money for an ESP. Still saving for that damn truck! When I’m tracking, I will play like wild for a few without hitting record. Then I start recording and the only thing that comes out is trash, so I refine and hear a melody part I like and record that. If it still sucks I have been known to punch in and replace bits. Bends, my nemesis. Rare that I challenge myself to record 3 minutes of perfection. I used to do that, but underwent a period of critical listening, where I edit out anything that stinks and rerun the effects after, cutting the dry mix and re building the wet hides flubs real well. After all is said and done, I listen for the part someone might be able to sing along to. And if I like the theme enough it’ll get rehashed somehow back into the song end or something. Kinda like you had at the end of this one. What I enjoyed so much is the exploration, you landed on something you liked. I liked it too.

@@jimshomestudio oh I doubt I would ever consider any comment from you as anything but constructive! I'm just being critical of myself and trying to improve. I notice that your songs tend to have recurring themes. Your guitar always fits very nicely in your songs and the mixes make them sound very alive. I really didn't need to buy this guitar, but the girlfriend was nice enough to gift me the majority of the money for it so I bought one I knew she would like. Blue is her favorite color. 😁