New Guy

[Ferryman_1957]

Jeez, that's a nice set up you have there Torren. Quality gear, check out the thread entitled "what does your home studio look like" or something like that to see the squalor that the rest of us use....

We have lots of virtual "bands" here - check out the collabs and Fests section. These are temporary but great fun. We also have an incredible virtual band called "Jemima's Kite" who are on their third album by now - just search on their name to hear some of their great stuff.

Cheers,

Nigel

[OsCKilO]

Damn bro......


You have been blessed!

Cool lifestyle!!!!!

[OsCKilO]

And great tunes!!!!!

[launched]

That's some awesome equipment - I like the flamed maple cabinet.

Is that home built amp one of those AX87 projects? I want to do a low power amp myself someday.

Peace,

Mark

[Torren61]

That's some awesome equipment - I like the flamed maple cabinet.

Is that home built amp one of those AX87 projects? I want to do a low power amp myself someday.

Peace,

Mark

Well, I found a guy on the AX84 website who bartered a trade of his labor for a lot of spare amp parts that I had laying around.  I happened to get lucky and I worked a storm down in southern IL (I built powerlines) and made a butt load of overtime.  So I had him build me a really cool custom amp using the best components.  That's the Obscene amp (the black one).

The smaller amp with wood sides is the Gilmore Jr. from Guytronix.  It's a kit amp that I built.

Then I traded an SG to the guy who built my amp for two other amp heads.  I kept one and traded the other out.

The speaker cab is flamed maple.  I dyed it and shot it with clear nitrocellulose lacquer.  I had to have a cabinet shop do the wood construction because I would have buggered it.  It's is finger jointed and curved routed on the edges.  It weighs a ton.  I have about $800 or $900 in that cab counting parts and labor but there is only one in the world like it.

The other cab is from the fifties.  Back in the day, they had an amplifier that went with the movie projector in theaters.  This cab was partnered with one of those amps.  The speaker is an antique Jensen and it's rated for 25 watts which is over anything I'm gonna run into it.  That was an eBay score delivered to my house for $94.

I've paralleled it with my Celestion via a Y-box that I built so I could get 8 Ohms out of the two 16 Ohm cabs.  They compliment each other well.

[launched]

Well, I found a guy on the AX84 website who bartered a trade of his labor for a lot of spare amp parts that I had laying around.  I happened to get lucky and I worked a storm down in southern IL (I built powerlines) and made a butt load of overtime.  So I had him build me a really cool custom amp using the best components.  That's the Obscene amp (the black one).

That's what I thought. A really cool homebuilt amp. One day for me...

[Oldrottenhead]

We also have an incredible virtual band called "Jemima's Kite" who are on their third album by now - just search on their name to hear some of their great stuff.

cheers for the up nigel we are actually on our 4th album now. we have about 7 new songs not finished but am pleased with where we are at with them flash is snowed under at work so watch this space for the new ones www.soundclick.com/jemimaskite
torren i am extremely jealous of your set up, im stuck in the cupboard under the stairs but mostly record in the kitchen.
as i write this i am listening to your songs on soundclick i wasnt expecting rap at all after viewing your set up, but i am well impressed with what i am hearing on track 2 so far so good, great in fact.
welcome aboard

[Torren61]

Thank you for the information and the compliments.

I cannot take full credit for the Hip Hop tunes other than I sired that young man.  I can claim co-writing in Get This Bitch Crunk and I wrote and performed the guitar on Haters Step.  Haters Step was our first collab together.

I also uploaded another song on SoundClick called This Lonely Road.

That song has an interesting story.  I recorded a song 26 years ago in a bathroom on an old Panasonc boombox cassette player using a beat up 12 string.  I lost the cassette but found it after 26 years.  I transferred it to digital and sent a copy to my son.  He chopped out the guitar, sped it up and used it on This Lonely Road.  Exactly as I had planned it 26 years ago.....