Machine Gun Ramblings
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Please forgive my ramblings. Enjoy the photos. I'm still trying to capture the best sound with more bass with my new gear. The volume that ends up on UA-cam is not what I expect sometimes so I'm still trying to dial it in. Start watching at 2:20, • Jimi Hendrix - Night B... and be amazed about what the master could do.
1964 Strat
1960 Bassman
1964 Super Reverb
Sabbadius #1001 Funky-Vibe
Sabbadius Rainbow Fuzz
Fulltone Supa-Trem (preamp only)
Area 51 Alienist
Area 51 drop-in kit wah-wah
Fulltone OCD-GE
Vintage 1963 Fender reverb unit
I'm eating cardboard and ketchup until I can afford a Sabbadius Funky Vibe !!!
Just hang in there. Occasionally I get a FV in for repair and I sell them for Nico on Reverb at a big discount. It’s usually just a bad switch. I’m expecting one in that got bent in shipping and that will sell for a lot less if I can straighten out the steel case and everything else is working.
Incredible
Unbelievable sound! It's like going back in time. Nice playing too, i can feel it. Thanks for your music
Thank you Inizio. I appreciate it. Makes me want to get better.
No better sound except for the man himself.
Thank you Chris or Christ-opher. That is a great compliment.
Hi...please setting funky vibe sabbadiys...thanks...PEACE!!!
I don't change it much except the intensity. Volume is just above 8, speed to taste, and intensity around 6 but, depending on the vibe, try lower settings around 3 and you may be surprised. I never turn the intensity all the way up or rarely past 7.
I'm always glad to see a posting from you sir!! Very nice indeed.
The #1001 Funky Vibe is the same circuit as the '68 in a special housing, correct?
Yes.
Sir just wondering, do you still have the black 1964 strat?
I sure do. I just put a new Musikraft neck on it This video shows the 1964 right before I installed the neck. ua-cam.com/video/_-cIC-kTbw8/v-deo.html
Need a bass player come on man let's jam and form a band
That's what I'm talking about. I miss that low rumble and having to fight being heard over the drummer. It makes everything sound so good.
Incredible Jimi tone... not to mention playing. Sweet!
Thanks Mac. I appreciate it.
How are you the only man on UA-cam to pull off these sort of tones
I think it is because I grew up in that time and was heavily influenced by all the great music back when we were all playing in garage bands. I always had a passion for that sound ever since.
It could be a bootleg , no problem.
You are in the place
Lol. I should start trying to make fake bootlegs. I would still have to work really hard to accomplish that.
Hi stan!!! Nice reproduction of machine gun!! What is your setting fuzz before or after vibe?
Thanks!
The fuzz is right after the vibe.
@@millstap ok thanks!! You don’t like fuzz before vibe with ocd after vibe?
I find that the swirl of the univibe comes out even better when the fuzz is placed before. (analog fox fuzz is very good for that) I think your maui fuzz too
Sounds great
Thank you Mr. Rockstar.
My favorite hendrix tune here. This is the first recording that made me finally see there was something going on way beyond the others in this dudes head
Check this out if you want to see what “way beyond” means, ua-cam.com/video/4-x1ocJPwag/v-deo.html
@@millstap cant wait to watch that. If I trust anyone's hendrix opinions itl be yours
Nailed it 👌
killer tone!
Killer subscriber, 😉
I like your work. You realy a True maniac of Hendrix
Thanks. It's crazy when I started playing Hendrix relatively recently and went off the deep end once I realized it was the way I always wanted to play. I never even attempted it because I thought he was untouchable and then my band member asked me if I could play Little Wing, and I said, jeez, I should at least be able to play that. That started it back around 2012.
Absolutely Stellar Tone !!! 🤩🤩🤩
Thanks Mitchell. I finally listened on my surround sound system and said, “wow, that doesn’t sound as bad as I thought.” Screw desktop computer speakers. I knew I should never use them for reference. Cranked up with a good sub and I was enjoying it myself.
well done , lucky you playing that good
Thanks Bill. I guess I've been playing now for 52 years. Wow, how time flies when you're enjoying playing music.
Hey millstap, really learning a lot about Hendrix tone from your vids but one thing you don’t quite touch on is amp settings in itself. I’ve seen a lot of people say just max out the bass treble middle. Do you do that or is it individual to each song. Thanks
On a side note, I recently watched your jam on Gloria. A tutorial on that would be great, seems like such a fun song to play
I rarely fiddle with the amp knobs. If I do, it is usually just the treble. The bass is low on 1-1/2 because the Bassman has a lot of natural bass. Most of adjustments are done on my effects and I don't them much either. It's more like set it and forget it and use my guitar volume and tone knobs and switch between effects to get the sound I'm looking for.
@@millstap okay that makes sense, I’ll have to just mess around for abit. Thanks for the help
Voodoo Child would be proud .
Oh, I've been getting some killer Voodoo Child but haven't had the nerve to play my version.
Love your playing and feel ! Can you get a good sound with only the vibe and fuzz ?
Yes, actually I have been pairing down my effects over the past few days and a lot of times, the less the better. I mix and match between the fuzz, two preamps (Supa-Trem and Funky-Vibe) a treble boost and an overdrive. You can get a lot of combinations and each one unique in its own way. The fuzz sounds different with the FV preamp on and off. I experiment and it usually sounds good but I have my off nights. Tonight was an on night (not this video) and a lot of times, I don't know why it sounds better some nights than others. I think everyone experiences that. Maybe it is just our ears and mood.
@@millstap Thank you ! It all makes sense espacially thedifferent on some nights and ears and mood part ! lol Have a great day !
Sounds so good
Thank you Ed. ✊
Since watching your videos over the last few years, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about the importance of phrasing in the quest for the vintage sound. I got a small reissue Moog Modular, and when I crank it up, I didn't really hear the vintage tones associated with the classic albums, even though it uses the same basic components. Thinking about phrasing has gotten me much closer, as have simple things like tape delay speeds. Your attention to Hendrix's playing style would probably make the difference between you and I playing licks on your setup. Great to see you are still posting. -Eric
Hey Eric. What is a Moog Modular. All I found was a synthesizer. Phrasing is important for sure. I remember some of my favorite nights playing gigs is when I would get into a groove and play some decent phrases. People would even comment on it. That is when it would click. I think that's what I am working on most of the time when I'm jamming but I'm not so disciplined anymore. It is so difficult to get it to flow constantly like Jimi and Stevie did. They would channel the power.
@@millstap A Moog Modular synthesizer (Electric Lady Studios bought one that Hendrix didn't live long enough to see; it eventually became T.O.N.T.O. and ended up being used on Stevie Wonder's Innervisions album) is one of the forerunners of the modern synthesizer. It was used by Keith Emerson, Tangerine Dream, and many many more artists. Switched-On Bach was the album that made the Synthesizer world famous. It later was shrunk down and simplified into the Minimoog. You have put more work into nailing Jimi's sound than probably anyone else. I wish I could send you my Bassman for the three-pronged plug modification. haha '64 6G6B.
@@Rhythmicons I remember listening to Switch-On Bach. I think my dad bought that album. So you have a Blonde Piggyback Bassman? Putting the 3-prong cord on there is pretty easy. Hoffman Amps has everything you would need, cord, strain relief. hoffmanamps.com. Just Google the instructions. I think you may have to disconnect the "death cap" if it has one. I can't remember if it does. It's strange on getting Jimi's tone. It sort of fell into my lap because I grew up listening and wanting to play like that even though my first big guitar influence was Mark Farner with Grand Funk Railroad.
@@millstap We spoke awhile back. I just learned how to solder over the summer so I'm hesitant to start messing around with this unit. I'm the second owner and everything is all-original, but when I took it apart to get photographs and check the pot codes, et al. The one thing that I didn't look at was the doghouse. It might have had a modification there but from what I understand it happened early-on. The dude had a P-Bass with it but it sold quickly. I think I paid like 3400 for it, but I doubt that I never would have found another in that condition within driving distance again so I drove up to St. Louis and bought it along with a '89 Les Paul standard. I got this amp for Clavinet duties though. Thanks so much for the link I will check it out! I wish I could send you some pics, do you have a website or an email? Rhythmicons is my google account.
My very favorite Hendrix tune...
It seems to be a favorite for sure. I hesitate to play it but when it gets to the solo, I'm all in, lol.
Check this out starting at 2:20 and tell me your not amazed, ua-cam.com/video/4-x1ocJPwag/v-deo.html.
@@millstap Dude.... Nice! Thank you so much for sharing!
Hendrix could have been a brilliant magician, too.
I think he could have done a bunch of stuff well but he was born to change music. He was a poet too.
@@millstap When we were young, we thought the SOUND coming from Hendrix was because of his guitar playing. Life is just a competitive game. Why don't guitar gods publish guitar instruction books? Because they know anyone can do what they do, if they had their knowledge, and access to their technology. There are boys and girls from China who can play Hendrix and Jeff Beck songs perfectly, while there are men in their 70s who struggled at it all their lives.
@@larryjackson6075 An instruction book is only going to teach them how to copy someone else. It will never teach them how to invent a whole new genre of guitar playing that, to this day, brings the whole world together. Playing guitar is more than just hitting the same notes someone else has already played. You've got to eventually become yourself, which is the difficult part.
@@millstap Did Hendrix copy from others? Everyone copies from others. Yes, it's wise to have our own sound, but take from others, too. Everyone takes from others. If Hendrix or anyone else offered to teach you, would you say to them: "no thank you, I want to find my own way by myself."
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Could you do a tutorial on phrasing? Or your practice routine maybe… Just watched your Gloria cover, really loved it!
Gloria is fun because you can just let loose. My practice routine is to play as much as I can. I try to learn how to play what I hear in my head which isn't so easy. It has taken me a long time to be able to hear a note and play it and I will probably work on that until I can't play anymore. It would be so much more fruitful if I was playing off of other guys in a band like a trio. Just listen to what you like and try to figure it out by ear. I've been doing that my whole playing life. It has paid off when it comes time to do the Hendrix tutorials. It is ear training. I did take a few years of music theory at North Texas State University and they teach you sight singing and ear training. That probably stuck with me some. They would play different intervals on the piano and you had to name each one on a test or sing a song by just reading the notes on a sheet of music. Hendrix has kept me focused mainly on the pentatonic scale which, in its pure form, is pretty cool. It all adds up.
You from Texas brother?
@@on-the-rise-productions44 I am basically a Texan although I have lived more of my life in Louisiana now from transferring here when I was working in the oil business. I transferred out to California for 15 years and that is where I met my wife and all three of my children were born. My family was based out of the Houston area when I was a toddler. From there, we moved to Midland when I was just a little boy. We moved to Denver for a year when I was in the 6th grade. My dad was also in the oil business so we moved around. Then we went to Louisiana then back to Seabrook, Tx. between Houston and Galveston, ten minutes away from NASA. I graduated from a high school there, then went to UofH for a year, then Alvin Jr. College, then North Texas State, then back to Houston. I was born in Kansas, but I still claim that I am a Texan. I love Texas. My daughter and her whole family live in Round Rock so we go there several times a years to visit.
@@millstap ok yea I live out in Katy
@@on-the-rise-productions44 All of my beginning band days were in Houston. There used to be a club called the Cactus Club that everyone played at. I think it was in Pasadena but I may be wrong. Long time ago. I met my first pro band members in Alvin, Tx when I was in the Jr. College Jazz Band. Fun times. We played at Liberty Hall once downtown. We would travel around a little to Victoria and Austin. The frat parties at UT were pretty crazy.