Viewer Comments & Questions 1 July 2024 - Not Live!

Lyrics are always difficult, but sorry seems to be the hardest word.

to the person who superchatted to say others shouldn't give their question to the regular chat: hope you get to do something fun today mate

See on the 18th Mick :)

So when Julain Lage sits in a room and practices or "plays" by himself it's not music?

The back up show was brilliant. Please make this system policy for us Monday TPS dependents.

Dan, love your fishing story. A great piece of childhood.

It's not Juan. It's Joan. It's catalan, not spanish.
Pronounced like Joanne in english 🙂
Best from Barcelona and thanks for the VCQ!

D&M, thank you for still managing to make the VCQ despite the internet issues.

Where did the questions come from if you weren't live?

Another great show. Thanks guys.
People asking about silent amps or small tube amps for practice I would definitely advise you to check out the Roland Blues Cube amps. Totally underrated amps imo because they are light weight, they sound great and they take pedals very well. I’ve been using a Blues Cube Hot and a Telecaster for the last 3 years and I am completely happy with it. I add and subtract pedals from time to time but the amp and the guitar are the stars of the show. It’s just a couple thousand dollar setup but it covers all my needs and keeps me content.
Good luck to all in your search for the right gear for you. I hope you all find what makes you happy.
Play on 🎶🤘🏻🎸

Just wanted to say if you want a soundhole pickup, the Gretsch Deltoluxe is very good (albeit rather heavy in weight).

Is music a form of communication? I think it is, so do you need others there to communicate or can you just be communicating with your soul when you're playing by yourself? And for what Dan is saying I think that we communicate with our essence, the non ego part of us when you play something magical by yourself. Isn't that the heart of song writing, the universe of sound and whatever we are communicating to bring something new to the universe.

If you've got a loop pedal or backing tracks it can be music on your own IMO.

The problem with a sealed cabinet is that the speaker resonant frequency (i.e. in cabinet) will increase the impedance really high. A tube amp does not really like driving high impedance. I use aperiotic which was developed by ScanSpeak. It uses a semi port and limits the impedance and tightens the bass. Mick Thiel & Small created the parameters for which speaker drivers are measured.
K&K for me as well, don't like batteries. Dan the woody is still available. Mick funny I have owned a couple Gibson's and they drive me crazy. Currently have a custom Collings C10-35, Preston Thompson and have a Cannon 00M coming in soon.
Wattage x2 = only 3dB more loudness!
Are amps really 2 channels, most of them just stick a gain/overdrive stage in between before the feedback like a Dumble.
Music: Interesting story that happened to me and a good friend. We're at a music event with 18 or so bands. Handed an instrument to sit in and can't get your head around it because it just doesn't feel right (string type, weight, amp, scale length whatever). The performance suffers because your thinking way to much about the instrument and not fitting in.
Thanks guys! Dan if you need anything when your in the US just call.

Hearing what you guys are saying about songwriting, and how it seems to come “easier” to some people- Robert Pollard comes to mind. When he’s not on tour, he gets up around 7 am every single day, and just starts writing songs. He’ll come up with a handful every day, and records simple demoes of all of them on an old cassette boombox. He’s done this most days of his non-tour life for probably 40 years now. He currently has 3,000 songs registered with BMI. No exaggeration… 3,000. Just insane. I’m amazed by everyone with an intense creative drive, but that’s a whole other level.

Q&A question: Been thinking of going from Velcro to 3M DUAL LOCK, but they have so many options. Is SJ352B the one you use?

Q&A question: Been thinking of going from Velcro to 3M DUAL LOCK, but they have so many options. Is SJ352B the one you use?

I have the Gladio, and it’s one of my favourite overdrive pedals. But I was under the impression both sides were Dumble-inspired.

Ted Gioia is a jazz critic, musician/composer, producer, and music historian. I highly recommend his book "Music: A Subversive History."

Hey Mick and Dan, I think I heard that source audio collider flips polarity . Did you happen to notice this and adjust polarity in wet dry setups?

Cheap guitar - Western Auto Truetone Rock Star. One microphonic pickup in the middle, thin body, cheap everything. It had a sound like molten brass. Sold it for $80.

When does it become music: when it's about what you're hearing, rather than what you're doing.
- when is that? I don't know, but I know it when it happens.

Fave sound from a multi pedal: there are three kinds of pedals. Ones with a catalog of sounds (digital), ones that are very adjustable (analog with lots of knobs), and ones that pretty much do one thing (tube screamer).
I have none of the first type.
I have had a few where sounds vary widely when I turn the knobs, and I find definite sweet spots, eg a modulated delay where I crank speed and depth and minimize delay for a resonant flanger - great with distortion going in, and a few simpler pedals where I choose a setting and leave them that way, like fitting a preamp pedal to an amp.
So no, I can't say I know of a particularly great sound on an Eventide pedal or what have you, because pedals of that type frighten me, but I know that the best sounds of any pedal are worth searching for.

Thanks for carrying on without Internet, Dan and Mick! I watched it through and enjoyed it all!

I gotta say, my EVH 5150 iii EL34 50w head has both great clean and great gain channels.

The first lyric I developed from an impromptu poem devised in my head upon a visit to an abortion clinic site. It had to be re-written as a song lyric just to fit the instrumental I'd had kept around in my memory. A lot of my songs became that only when lyrics came to mind which fit a long developed instrumental piece - all of which developed from an exploration in style. Whatever the germ, it needs be related to adjoining elements. The quality of the effort is shown in the relationship of words, meaning and sentimentality of instrumentation.

Aw, great dog!

My brother is running the G&L Custom Shop now and he's revamping the hell out of it.

My brother is running the G&L Custom Shop now and he's revamping the hell out of it.

❤

D&M, Thank you so much for doing this! Your dedication to this community and your own excellence is so inspiring. Your frustration with the interwebs was only matched by our sadness of not have this week’s VCQ….and then this appears! Bravo Gents, Bravo.
PS: Rosie is truly one gorgeous animal.

you must hate football if you call it sucker

as I do music only by myself (unfortunatly), I do say it is music, even on my own

You mentioned a book at 34.40 but didn't give the name of the book or author. Anyone know it? Sounded interesting.

Thank you for everything. I love you.

Where are the upcoming MT Blues Implosion gigs occurring?

Thanks gents for the sound advice on my first tube amp for home use. Just to clarify (limited characters in the chat), I wasn’t particularly looking for a 2 channel amp, I was referring to the secondhand Hughes & Kettner Edition Tube 20th Anniversary 2-Channel 20-Watt 1x12", which as the name notes has 2 channels. Are the controls in this amp shared? Also Mick, unbelievably a local-ish music store has posted a Cornford Hurricane Combo in stock! Would it be to loud for home playing? I was close to pulling the trigger on the Bassbreaker, but I believe it has a digital hall reverb.

One note begets another. Otherwise, why bother?

Late seeing watching this video, but I hope mick wasn’t too embarrassed when he figured out his fly was down… haha

Silent practice, I haven’t had a better experience than the Boss Waze Air headphones. If you folks have experience the Boss and have a preference that rises above please let me know.

Gibson mainly use LR Baggs as Acoustic pick ups

The reason I buy heads and cabs separately- Always have the option for small to large speakers with any amp wattage.

Thanks for the video Music can definitely be made alone…. Or is the question, “are we ever alone?” There is always a bug or some creature in proximity to us. Also,I heard a bunch of music growing coming from practice rooms. Not all the time, but I got to hear people find themselves. And, in older cultures, music and religion/spirituality are completely entangled. From shamans to contemporary religions. “I am playing for god” was a phrase that I heard growing up.

Hi guys. Bit of a noob but I'm keen and I love the show. Big Noel Gallagher fan and my main guitar is an Epiphone NG Riviera. Interested in your thoughts around vibramates and bigsby's. I'm hoping it opens up some cool tones and also look the beans. Thanks guys

I have never seen you review any eqpedals, not seen any on your pedalboards either. To me that is a very important pedal to have. What is your stand on eqpedals?

LOL ... use your voice recorder to get your idea down... how did Chopin et-all cope? :) We don't even have to go that far back... think of anything from the '70's...no quick recorders.

Noel!

I picked the wrong, or right, episode to watch after hittin’ the bong…lol

I agree whole heartedly with Dan. You can connect and commune with your own music and moment you’re producing. It’s music too. 🙂