eta -OK cool. Did you say that was Arch Enemy or Lamb Of God? Can't remember... lol

Clarky - We still on for that jam next weekend?

ovation - and it's even better if your best pal is a seriously fit chick that can shred like a beast.. and she lets you screw her after some serious jamming....

UTOPIA.... lol

so I guess my spiritually can join in with my physically and mentally on the doomed trip.. lmao..

waffle on and on endlessly about inane bullshit that no one understands or cares about in a futile attempt to appear both sane and intelligent.. when really the sum total of my life experience was gained from watching Simpsons re-runs and reading the backs of Shreddies and Cornflake packets..

One day I may actually achieve the pinacle of my very existance and fulfill my childhood dreams by finally growing up and becoming a spaceman..

sound is made up of moving waves of air just like waves that ripple on the surface of a pool of water.. if you measure these 'waves' you'll find that they have two main properties... amplitude.. which is how high the waves are.. and frequency... which is how close together the waves are...
a large amplitude means tall waves.. which means 'loud stuff'... so co-respondingly, little waves are quieter..
waves that are far appart are low notes and waves that are close together are high notes... this is measured by the number of wave crests that occur in one second in a metric called Hertz [Hz].. 1Hz means that in a single second, 1 wave went past. The 5th string on your guitar is tuned to the note 'A' below 'middle C'.. if you measure it you'll see that it is 440Hz... The part that makes a guitar sound one way and a trumpet sound different is that if you looked at the waves they create [for the same note] you'd notice that there are other very tiny high frequency waves superimposed on top of the main wave.. these little superimposed waves are called harmonics... the main wave is called the 'fundamental wave'... the trumpet waves would be different to the guitar ones.. and it's thes harmonics that give the characteristic tone to an instrument...

the 'equalisation' [eq] on your amp is designed to look at a specific range of frequencies and boost / reduce them as you turn the knob... the lower range of frequencies are bass [normally 20Hz to 700Hz], the 'middle' is the center of the spectrum of frequencies [700Hz to 4,000Hz <or 4KHz>], treble is the top part of the spectrum [4KHz to 10KHz <10,000Hz>]. Presence is the very high part which is within the range of human hearing but from a pitch point of view, these frequencies are well off of the end of the giutar neck [10KHz to 25KHz] so consider this as a 'high treble' control.

Note that the frequencies that I show for each control I just made up.. so they are not 'absolute' .. just a rough guess.. but they are not miles wide of the mark.. and are good enough to be used to explain this stuff...

A graphic eq is the same as what you have on your amp but with more controls, each having a narrower frequency range [giving you more control over the overall shape of the sound].. think of it like.. lo bass, mid bass, high bass, lo mid, mid, high mid, lo top, mid top, high top, really high top.. as you move up the frequency spectrum...

so all this is about shaping your overall sound to your taste....

ome - faith.. this is something that I can have in people.. animals ... machines.. things I trust and things I dont...

faith in a religious, spiritual or supernatural sense just don't make any sense to me at all... not because I don't understand it or anything like that... the whole thing only seems to makes sense in order to explain the unexplainable... "what is the sun?".. dunno but God put it there to keep as warm, make the day and make things grow... now it is pretty clear that the sun is a middle aged 'yellow' main sequence star that was not put here for the benefit of mankind.. in fact man is here because of the sun.... so as each question gets answered, religion and faith offers answers to a lesser number of unknowns.. in the past [and today I guess].. religion / faith has / is used to dwell upon peoples insecurities in order for the few to control and manipulate the many.. [if you don't do this then you're a heretic.. or you won't get into heaven etc]. given all this... religion in my own mind no longer has a reason to exist...

and if there is a God and I've been wrong all along.. what's he going to do with guys like me... we are not really evil people.. we were just never convinced by the religious marketing that the story was good enough to live our lives by... we simply do not acknowledge the validity of religion to answer the un-answerable.. so we looked elsewhere in an attempt to understand the universe in which we live... nothing sinister or malicious... we just dont believe...

Clarky - Good stuff...

clarky: you can't be souless or you wouldnt be capable of what you have just said. so mate, what would you do if you were me? what do you think of my situation?

Is anyone else having trouble with IUMA?? I tried to set up my site last night and got some odd cgi-bin message at the mp3 uplading stage, so I can't even get a basic site up! Bit miffed sonce I've got some new strange (not-so-beautiful) music of me own to share with y'all. booooo!!!!!!!!!!

Any other similar sites you can recommend so I can get up and running. I really want everyone to be able to catch some of my new tunes- even I like some of them!!!! (I might even put a couple of pics of my ugly mug up there as an "incentive" for some help (or maybe that should be disincentive....)).

Cheers

Kev

BTW: clarky I think you managed to say exactly what I was desperately trying to express about JP in my last post- he is a stunning, brilliant guitarist but sometimes lacks the all-important "feel". I mean, Dave Gilmour is a brilliant guitarist- he can express his feelings thro' the guitar, but technically not a patch on 'ol JP.

I'm rambling....

Later!

Somebody hates Steve Vai

Happy New Year!

Clarky, your post makes me feel kinda sad. Anyways, when it's your time to walk into the light, I think you'll be pleasantly suprised to find that there IS more to it than what you think. There is no hell, only different levels of heaven. Hell is something the religious wackos made up to scare people. What matters in life is that your a good person, not if you go to church every Sunday or not.

Do The Stu I think that I might of done that crappy cut and paste job on the g3 album, lol. Yeah I don't like it, I can't buy the dvd or cd off of there, any suggestions on how to? Is there a number on the site I can use?

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