Doobs must be brewin up on hell of a post for his 4,000 th post
That's all I kin stands, I kin stands no more!!!
It's been murder not being able to post!!!
I've decided to post my bass cover vid on post # 4001, in honour of Geddy Lee and the song I'm doing.
The guitar he used to record the song was a Rickenbacker 4001, and I've been modding my Ibanez 6-string's tone (for months now) to sound closer to the old Rickenbackers.
It's not perfect, and never will be, but it gets me closer to finding MY "signature" tone.
I hadn't played the song in a few months, so I was too rusty at it yesterday to get it done in time.
But I played it over & over a couple dozen times and ran through my normal trouble spots another 100 times.
By the end of the night (well, this morning as the sun came up) my fingers were cooperating 90% of the time, even though the tips were raw and the muscles were tired.
I've been going through a bad bout of rheumatoid arthritis the past few years (thanks to the follies of youth, and the wages of sin), and the past month my left shoulder has been in agony most of the time.
And my left hand is tingly from an impinged nerve somewhere.
I hate pain pills, but my doctor suggested ibuprofen to help reduce inflammation, but I have to take the max recommended dose (12 in 24 hours) for any relief.
But I spent the night practicing the song, modding my guitar's tone with my GT-10B fx board, and getting Ableton Live set up to do the recording (test recordings to get levels set and ready to go).
And I had to spend some time to repair my Cam-tar 6000 headstock DVR bracket. The camera is mounted, but I need to plug a usb cable into it from the computer so I can adjust the view to get the full fretboard in the view.
Anywho, the test recording, while sloppy-ish, sounded pretty decent by the end of my endurance, so tonight I work on a final recording of audio & video.
And now for something completely different:
I got a good buzz on, give me a break.
