Death before dis Hohner

[zeekat]

I've made an another regrettable purchase and now own an outmoded headless Hohner. Replaced defunct bridge (well known design flaw) and now it's proper operational. It's pretty comfy to use with lack of unneeded extremities and all. Here's playthrough of a tune I made to mark the official start of using it, complete with all embarassing flubs:



Real Steinbergers (I mean those original, graphite ones with fancy transposing bridges) are the coolest.

[Time Waster]

The guitar just looks wrong without the head. Probably a good idea though. Great job playing it, your mistakes are way better than my finest guitar work.

[zeekat]

Definitely solves the problem of knocking potted plants over with headstock and strings ringing in the wrong places.

[foxAsteria]

I think the guitar looks/sounds pretty cool. Reminds me of those sports cars with doors that open vertically. Is it really going from clean to distorted with just the pickups? Can't tell if you're hitting stomp pedals or not.

What are you using for those choir-like sounds in the track? They make it sound a little black metal at times and make me want some double-kick action.

I'm curious; after you compose a track and record your play-through for the video, how likely are you to ever play it again? Just wondering, cos I almost never play my songs again after recording them since I stopped playing shows.

[zeekat]

Yeah, the guitar is super 80s. Hohner made a bunch of metal guitars back then, most pointy with rare pointless exceptions like this one. I recorded to clean and higain tracks at the same time (Line 6 clean and "modern high gain" which is fittingly modelled after some 80s shred Soldano preamp) and automated it to mute/unmute at parts when I planned to use particular pickup (took a bit of training to not, say, switch all the pickups on by accident).

Keyboards are all some old synth1 patches through Valhalla supermassive and a lil bit of freeware rhodes. One of the intermediate versions which I binned had a bit more kick drum but at certain point I was so stuck I just trashed it and started from scratch.

No need to play it again, so in a few weeks I'll probably remember how to play the beginning bit at best. I did a poll in the lounge once if people remember how to play their stuff without gigging and apparently most don't . I re-learned an old one once and it felt almost like I was writing it anew.

[foxAsteria]

Originally Posted by zeekat

I re-learned an old one once and it felt almost like I was writing it anew.

Yea that's how it is with me too.

[ivansc]

Originally Posted by zeekat

Definitely solves the problem of knocking potted plants over with headstock and strings ringing in the wrong places.

Now you need to replace at least one of your Hercules guitar stands.

[toleolu]

I wish my regrettable purchases sounded like that.

Really like that tone and your playing.

Nice work.

[zeekat]

Originally Posted by ivansc

Now you need to replace at least one of your Hercules guitar stands.

Fits on the old stand with rest of the guitars, it's just a bit silly looking there Good thing I didn't get the oar shaped one.

Originally Posted by toleolu

I wish my regrettable purchases sounded like that.

Really like that tone and your playing.

Nice work.

Thanks!

[tjw1979]

Some lovely riffing and tones on this.

Enjoyed that!!