Hey everybody,
today we played the first try-out of our new Vanillewijs theater show for children. We're very happy with the result after many months of hard work.
For you guitar guys I'm posting a part of the soundtrack that we wrote for the show. This piece is the only one which has just guitar tracks in it. It goes with a fight scene between a sea monster and two kids (don't ask, just go and see the show ...). It was quite some fun recording a bit of good old rock guitar, just listen for yourself:
GuitarMassacre
More news coming soon!
bye,
mathias
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Boss ME-70: into PA and guitar amp?
Hi everybody,
just sharing some more of my experiences with the Boss ME-70. I've had it for a few months now and I used it in several live shows. I'm actually not a big effects guy but sometimes I play commercial gigs where I need some effects, and I find the ones in the ME-70's pretty good for my purposes.
I got the ME-70 because I wanted to connect it directly to the PA, so for certain gigs I wouldn't need a guitar amp. This actually works pretty well because the built-in amp simulations sound quite good. I played a few gigs with just the ME-70 and the sound was pretty OK. The only problem I've had with this approach was the fact that I'm totally dependent on the monitoring. Sometimes it was good, so no problem, but sometimes I couldn't hear myself well enough. So my next idea was to bring along my Laney Cub-12, just as a small guitar monitor. But to my disappointment I found out that the ME-70 doesn't really support using the recording/PA output and the guitar amp output at the same time. What happens - and I have no idea why they did it that way - is that as soon as you use the recording/PA output, a cab simulation is activated - at the guitar amp output! I cannot imagine any use of this "feature"; for me it is actually quite annoying because connecting a cab-sim'ed output to a guitar amp doesn't sound too great, and you can hardly compensate for it with the amp's EQ knobs. So far, the only solution to this problem is to connect my own active monitor box instead of a guitar amp to the guitar amp outputs of the ME-70. Anyway, it all remains a compromise that I'm not really happy with. I might as well go back to using my guitar amp with a microphone in front of it, but the whole idea of using the ME-70 was to get rid of the amp and the mic ...
Don't get me wrong, the ME-70 is a good pedal with great value for money. I believe that most of the effects are really good, and definitely good enough for live use. It's just that one thing about the automatic cab simulation applied to the guitar amp output as soon as there's a plug in the recording/PA output that annoys me, especially because I don't understand why anybody would want that; as far as I can see it's just bad design, and that's not something I usually would associate with Boss.
OK, enough of complaining, I'll let you know which solution I'll end up with. It'll take a bit more of experimentation ... If anybody has found a solution to this problem, please let me know!
mathias
just sharing some more of my experiences with the Boss ME-70. I've had it for a few months now and I used it in several live shows. I'm actually not a big effects guy but sometimes I play commercial gigs where I need some effects, and I find the ones in the ME-70's pretty good for my purposes.
I got the ME-70 because I wanted to connect it directly to the PA, so for certain gigs I wouldn't need a guitar amp. This actually works pretty well because the built-in amp simulations sound quite good. I played a few gigs with just the ME-70 and the sound was pretty OK. The only problem I've had with this approach was the fact that I'm totally dependent on the monitoring. Sometimes it was good, so no problem, but sometimes I couldn't hear myself well enough. So my next idea was to bring along my Laney Cub-12, just as a small guitar monitor. But to my disappointment I found out that the ME-70 doesn't really support using the recording/PA output and the guitar amp output at the same time. What happens - and I have no idea why they did it that way - is that as soon as you use the recording/PA output, a cab simulation is activated - at the guitar amp output! I cannot imagine any use of this "feature"; for me it is actually quite annoying because connecting a cab-sim'ed output to a guitar amp doesn't sound too great, and you can hardly compensate for it with the amp's EQ knobs. So far, the only solution to this problem is to connect my own active monitor box instead of a guitar amp to the guitar amp outputs of the ME-70. Anyway, it all remains a compromise that I'm not really happy with. I might as well go back to using my guitar amp with a microphone in front of it, but the whole idea of using the ME-70 was to get rid of the amp and the mic ...
Don't get me wrong, the ME-70 is a good pedal with great value for money. I believe that most of the effects are really good, and definitely good enough for live use. It's just that one thing about the automatic cab simulation applied to the guitar amp output as soon as there's a plug in the recording/PA output that annoys me, especially because I don't understand why anybody would want that; as far as I can see it's just bad design, and that's not something I usually would associate with Boss.
OK, enough of complaining, I'll let you know which solution I'll end up with. It'll take a bit more of experimentation ... If anybody has found a solution to this problem, please let me know!
mathias
Monday, August 13, 2012
Guitar lessons starting again!
Hi,
welcome back everybody! I hope you had a great summer. I'm back too and I will start teaching from this week on. I'm looking forward to seeing all of you again and I'm also happy to welcome some new students this year. I hope we all learn and improve and have fun at the same time!
See you soon,
mathias
welcome back everybody! I hope you had a great summer. I'm back too and I will start teaching from this week on. I'm looking forward to seeing all of you again and I'm also happy to welcome some new students this year. I hope we all learn and improve and have fun at the same time!
See you soon,
mathias
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Student concert tonight @ Kraaij en Balder!!!
Hi everybody,
tonight is the big night! Our students will play many great songs in Café Kraaij en Balder. There will be singers as well as guitar players. Here are some of the songs they will perform tonight:
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Always with me, always with you - Joe Satriani
I'm Alright - Neil Zaza
SRV - Eric Johnson
Breakeven - The Script
Make you feel my love - Adele
The A-team - Ed Sheeran
You've got the Love - Florence and the Machine
I'm yours - Jason Mraz
The only exception - Paramore
Who Knew - Pink
and many more ...
Be there and join us for a great night full of music!
mathias
tonight is the big night! Our students will play many great songs in Café Kraaij en Balder. There will be singers as well as guitar players. Here are some of the songs they will perform tonight:
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Always with me, always with you - Joe Satriani
I'm Alright - Neil Zaza
SRV - Eric Johnson
Breakeven - The Script
Make you feel my love - Adele
The A-team - Ed Sheeran
You've got the Love - Florence and the Machine
I'm yours - Jason Mraz
The only exception - Paramore
Who Knew - Pink
and many more ...
19:30 @ Café Kraaij en Balder (Strijpsestraat 79, Eindhoven)
Be there and join us for a great night full of music!
mathias
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Radio Show: listen to the songs
Hi everybody,
as announced earlier, we were interviewed by Hubert Mol from the Dutch radio station Omroep Brabant and we also played three songs live on air in a small acoustic setting. We were announced for 15:00 but the soundcheck and everything else went so smoothly that we started the interview at least 30 minutes earlier. That's also why many people who tuned in at 15:00 missed us. But don't you worry, here you can listen back to the songs ;)
Irida - vocals | Shidhi Bouwman - backing vocals | Mathias Lang - guitar | Bob Willemstein - bass | Yori Olijslagers - percussie
Enjoy listening!
Write to you soon,
mathias
as announced earlier, we were interviewed by Hubert Mol from the Dutch radio station Omroep Brabant and we also played three songs live on air in a small acoustic setting. We were announced for 15:00 but the soundcheck and everything else went so smoothly that we started the interview at least 30 minutes earlier. That's also why many people who tuned in at 15:00 missed us. But don't you worry, here you can listen back to the songs ;)
Irida - vocals | Shidhi Bouwman - backing vocals | Mathias Lang - guitar | Bob Willemstein - bass | Yori Olijslagers - percussie
Enjoy listening!
Write to you soon,
mathias
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