"Snake in the grass"

[bruno]

Sorry - posted up and had to do pickup duties - hence the short comment.

So the interesting thing with this was that I used the my very first practice amp that I ever bought, tiny VOX (Escort 2.5W transistor) practice amp, and used the Joyo California Pedal to shape the sound. Found it in the loft covered in dust - some 35 years old! On its own sounds like crap, but with the Joyo, wow - transforms the sound.

Have been researching building a Speaker Isolation Cabinet for recording - and someone mentioned that you get great results from small speakers at low volumes - strange, but I thought I'd give it a go. This recording is a tranny practice amp with a 5 inch speaker, recorded at low volumes. It sounded like crap in the open, but sounded (to my ears) great through the mike. Very strange, and very interesting. Works equally well with clean tones and heavily distorted ones as well - quite counter intuitive.

Every day is a school day :-)

Here's the VOX Escort as recorded (NB I didn't use the tonebone in the recording, but the FullTone Robin Tower pedal for the lead)



B

[Hilary]

Ssssssupa sssssmoooth . . .

[Adam GT]

california pedal huh? my daughter immediately said "its like you're at the beach" lol. Guess your using it right!
smooth playing and production. The tone on the guitar is dialed in!

[Hook]

great playing brother, it does have a west coast sound to it & I say however you mic'd it up worked very well.
Rock On!

[Greeny]

Some fantastic and jazzy licks going down here. Super smooth technique and vibe. It's a winner!

[Oldrottenhead]

cool as hell, loving that set up pic.

[Redler]

Superb playing, Bruno! Awesome guitar licks on this! And the tones/production sounds so sweet! Very good composition, too!

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

Oh yeah, love the chord work, oh and the lead work, oh and the production and anything else I missed. Great photo. Roscoe

[andy casson]

Very cool Mr B, some super slick licks, and you got unbelievably good results from that old practice amp, very interesting... I DI everything nowerdays via Line 6, but always good to know!

Andy

[Sundbo]

Very cool guitar sounds and nice groove. Chord progression is natural but still interesting. Well done!