Owen wrote: Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:24 pm Not really a tech question, but isn't weird how putting a new band together sometimes feels like dating?

I am talking with this guy about becoming the singer/guitarist in this new project and it's so weird how it mirrors dating. Every band I have ever been in has been just a bunch of friends, this time, total strangers.

penningtron wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:13 am oof yeah.. and with strangers it can be like being on a blind date that's going reasonably well until they casually mention growing up in Scientology or something..

I remember playing with this one guy in Rogers Park I met on CL a few times and things were going alright. After getting a little more comfortable with a few arrangements I started adding bolder fills to things. After one of those run throughs, he says to me "could you maybe not do that one fill, it sounds a little.. (said with disgust).. metal". 1. it really didn't, unless you're a total fucking baby and 2. yeah I realize we were going for a more art rock thing, but other influences and experiences accumulate over time and that's what gives us our unique voices. Let's not pretend like we came out of the womb with a copy of Trout Mask Replica..

So I never bothered with that dude again.

tommy wrote: Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:55 am

Tom Wanderer wrote: Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:47 am

penningtron wrote: Thu Mar 10, 2022 8:55 am ...avoid just any cheapo tremolo if you plan to do more than just lock it in place. The springs won't hold tuning very well...

I should give credit to the Mastery trem as it did vastly improve the tuning stability. I attributed a lot of that to the bridge (I could practically feel the wrapped strings dragging through the V shaped notches on the previous TOM bridge) but the trem has worked great too.

I vote for the AVRI trem (or whatever Fender calls the US made ones these days) because it has the lock. A lot of people don't use these but I think they are great when setup correctly. It's been forever since I played a show but it saved me during a string break on more than one occasion. You break a string and the tension change on the springs throw everything else out of tune. Avoided with engaging the lock. Also, avoid the MIJ trem. It sucks because of the lighter springs and it rocks unevenly.

Owen wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:04 pm Just to continue my saga of putting a new band together.

So far so good. Working with a "real" singer is cool, right now we are just collaborating remotely (yay technology), but the process has been productive. We figured we will write 4 songs together, once we are happy, send them over to the rest of the band. Then proceed to bang them out and refine in the room together.

In the meantime I had another person reach out interested to join the band. They play keys and have a really good voice. I never really pictured keyboard or piano in this project, but I feel like a chump turning away what seems to be a real talented musician. On the other hand, I don't know if keys fit.