Very suggestive job as always !! Surprising sounds all about !!
A most pleasant journey, sir. I approve!
Bass from space is not a bad thing tonight, it's -10 degrees and cold weird is where it's at.
Ah yeah, Space-Bass. Always think of the late Hugh Hopper when those two words are put together.
Gloriously splatty!: One of my favourite moments is picking up a cheap pawnshop guitar like this J&D Strat, taking it home and immediately using it to lay down a track like here. It was only £40 with three Wilkinson single coils on it. This is my favourite Strat like guitar now. I noticed that the tremelo arm was still in the socket and it worked well. Had a good weight and girth to the body [unlike most Squire Strats these days] and had a nice flat fingerboard [not keen on the standard cambered Fender/Squire fingerboard. The pups sound great, put on some warm overdrive and she splats away. My view on Strats is that they are such a great design, that as long as the basic components are good and fit together, it will work well. Unlike a Gibby or Epi, there's no real craftsmanship involved. So to me, a good Strat copy can be equal to a Fender.
Sometimes you find magical weird cheap! I've gotten partial to lighter stuff but that's my health talking (pay it no mind that the stuff I usually play is 9-10 pounds anyway!)
: I don't have a religious preference on fingerboard radius but definitely prefer the modern Fender to Les Paul range (9.5-12"). Paradoxically, for the formative years, I used the old beater 7.25" curved from hell vintage Fender. And yea, bolt on is bolt on - it's why I buy Fender Mexico or higher end Squiers typically in that realm. What price point it was made for in the relative scale of the line is what matters generally, not the origin or specifics.
: I'm thinking that single coils bolt on is the simplest electric guitar you can get - and is actually the best if you are going to use a lot of effects - it gives you that blank canvas - whereas a crafted Gibson with humbuckers is already oozing sounds in and of itself that effects can overegg the pudding
Has to be the right one (and the effects have to like hotter pickups).
: (which in my case isn't an issue, since I like hot ceramic singlecoils and P90s far more than vintage voiced stuff) - also impedance load difference is a big issue with a lot of fuzzboxes. That I can't control except through switching guitars (and to a lesser degree, the strangle switch on the Jaguar/VI, or the coil-splits on the LP). Mostly though I just listen to what the muse of the moment wants!
Yeah, of course - I was wrong to generalise, what I experienced was a certain compatability between whatever effects I used and the Wilkinson single coils - your wider experience and knowledge is always salutary
If this is polar midnight, then I am fine if the sun don't rise again.
Some are born to endless night
: And some just want sleep delight. :)
Always fascinating. .like glittering specks of dust in a shaft of light - it is the specks of dust in that guitar sound that I like - I faded out on the tune to Coronation Street [accidentally of course]
A new species of sound..bubbling and bursting: Extreme fuzz on the 5 string bass through auto wah at points
Gorgeous squalls: That was a cheap Strat copy I bought a few hours before laying down that part - what I liked about the guitar was it had Wilkinson pickups which are worth more than I paid for the guitar. The pickups didn't disapppoint, giving a throaty vintage squall as you point out
I'm enjoying the base layer of continuity from which the rich array of activity emerges. These activities feel vibrant, random. ..present then vanishing - it's constructed in that kind of way - lots of sounds are laid down and then sculpted - both processes often happening at once to allow chance episodes to emerge, as you say, and capitalise on them
lyrics
Polar midnight
And everything repeats
Even beyond Death.
For if the End is not the End,
But yet another End, ad infinitum,
