I'm a vocalist and I have a mic and lots of free time and well, this kind of music is always fun and ridiculous, so why not do something fun with it? It doesn't strictly have to be grounded to be purely slam, there's for for messing around and experimenting. If anyone is interested in doing a...

On occasion in my shop, I like to try making parts out of non-standard materials, in this case a new nut for my tired old friend, the "Rativerse" (formerly known as 'Potty' the UV). The material is Acrylic Acetate, a hard plastic used most commonly in the pen-turning crowd, and comes in numerous...

Been experimenting with using speaker impulses to record my amp. This is just a quick little demo with my HT-5, but it sounds bloody good, it's easy, and best of all - I can record my amp, and it's SILENT! :agreed: The info for how I did it is in the Soundcloud description.

Surprisingly, the Palmer really doesn't sound all that different. I'm pretty sure Palmer was shooting for a Celestion V30-ish speaker with the "normal" setting.

I've been mulling over the idea of selling my Mac Mini and old (2006) iMac and getting one of the new 17" Core i7 MacBook Pros. So, right now I'm experimenting with my 17" HP laptop driving a 24" external monitor. It seems pretty nice, but I have never had a laptop as my main computer before...

Well, I've been fairly satisfied with my POD + jumble of stompboxes arrangement for ages now, but yesterday I figured I'd shake things up a bit and start experimenting with the COSM sounds on my BR532 four-track again, which I hadn't used in ages... Impressions... The clean tones are just...

OK, my prefered setting for lead most of the time is the Modern High-gain model on the POD, with treble and mids on about 7, and bass on 4, gain on about 6.5, a subtle long delay, and reverb on about 4, supplemented with a DS1 for a little extra smoothness, and generally using the neck PU. At...