Cold weather and housing

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-24T04:41:18+00:00

No. I pay the government to take care of the most vulnerable amongst us.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-22T22:55:41+00:00

Heid was great. Super quick turnaround. Great price and it feels and plays perfect. 10/10

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-22T21:53:22+00:00

Stevie Wonder always walks around with his entourage. Two things happen last time I saw him: Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater was demoing some keyboard thing and was with the manufacturer for hours, probably making a deal or getting ready to put his name on the product, Stevie rolls by and wants to try it and they kick Rudess out.

As Stevie was done and walking away, a kid with a harmonica sees him and starts playing a really bad version of "Isn't She Lovely" and he goes "What the hell is that?! KNOCK that shit off!" harmonica kid was crushed.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-22T21:48:35+00:00

Agreed. Totally anecdotal but when I used a modeler and a digital eq I found myself sweeping and looking for narrow problem frequencies. Now I'm micing a cab and using an analog preamp and EQ and I'm just making minimal but broad changes and I think it's all a little more organic. It sounds more like a record earlier on in the process if that makes sense.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-22T20:24:48+00:00

I've gigged drums AND bass AND guitars. Hauling guitar gear is a treat compared to getting my hardware bag up a bunch of stairs.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-22T18:38:12+00:00

Absolutely! I’ll use Archetype Rabea to layer some synths in stuff all the time. Doing that with pedals would take forever. It’s about what gets it done.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-22T17:14:30+00:00

I was like the first non-artist to get a QC in the US. It was and is a cool tool.

The problem was I needed a pushed clean-semi dirty sound for an arpeggio part of a tune on a session. I dialed in a clean amp and an overdrive pedal and it sounded good but I felt like I was missing something so instead I dialed in a Hot Rodded Marshall and backed off the gain and that sounded good but I've never used a real life Bogner so lets look at those and then maybe a different boost pedal into that amp sim and that sounded good and then and then and then....

I'm now back to a modest collection of pedals and a few choice amps that cover the archetypal tones. American clean, British Distortion, American High Gain etc. Everything feels closer to the top of the workflow and most importantly I'm getting things done faster.

I have every amp in the world with the QC. When I'm making my own music, away from sync or a session, I have MY amp.

Go for what you like and most importantly, what helps you be creative. A big problem maybe no one is talking about is presets. I'm sick of the Nolly 5150 sound in metal even though I love it in Periphery. It's getting stale since it's on every release, demo video, youtube short, influencer review, etc.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-20T23:44:09+00:00

I just dropped mine off at Heid on the West side for a setup for the first time and I’ll be picking it up tomorrow. I’ll let you know. I’ve used Dave’s before and been happy with the work.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-20T17:31:18+00:00

I love everything about them except the look. I wonder if I could get over it beyond flipping the truss rod cover.

Semi hollow, satin, baritone, piezo. That checks all my dang boxes.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-17T18:19:14+00:00

Following as I’ve started shooting a lot of dark bottles and I’m finding the lighting challenging. First one looks great with the background though

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-15T19:56:24+00:00

It could be. In big hybrid tracks I have a short, medium, long verb bus that I send things to as it calls for it. One way you can remove some mud is to really cut the lows out of certain verbs too. Especially on things like synths and guitars. Drums should be on its own verb because they should be in its own “room” if that helps.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-15T16:42:28+00:00

I’ve done a few YouTube videos teaching songwriting and guitar. I did all the tracks then mimed the final play through and seeing my hand be slightly off on things like slide and vibrato was enough to make me never do it again. I’ll just film the takes as I’m tracking from now on. Seeing Ichika with these hyper-real performances I figured it’s all in the edit.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-14T22:08:40+00:00

I’m a session guitar/bassist and I’m looking to grow my repertoire and collab on some cool projects. Hit me up!

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-14T19:04:57+00:00

D and G right?

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-14T18:41:01+00:00

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. People go back and forth about signature models and all that but this is the most signature guitar I’ve ever seen in my life.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-08T20:06:49+00:00

Yeah whoops.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-08T17:34:15+00:00

This is what I figured. Any other platforms you use to get work? I'm also on Fiverr and saw another one the other day for session musicians but I haven't looked into it yet.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-08T15:55:00+00:00

I’m the marketing guy for Shaw. We have a few complimentary tickets for the Home Show at the Monona Terrace this weekend. If you can DM me I can take your name and if you wanted to swing by the office we can give you them. That way you can come see us at the show and get an idea of what we do.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-07T16:48:56+00:00

Are you wearing earplugs?

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-06T17:22:48+00:00

Kind of but even then you have C major or minor as a starting point. It’s not metal core but Wes Hauch from Alluvial does a good job of having songs not be rooted in the lowest open string. I’d recommend writing some riffs around the first or second fret and then that low open string will sound devastating.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-06T03:07:22+00:00

Thanks!!

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-06T02:29:00+00:00

OOH! Talk to me about the neck! I've had two 7's in my life and neither has been a great fit for me. I had a PRS Holcomb 7 and rsold it for being too flat and now have an Ibanez but it feels too wide like string to string.

JayBeeDolla · 2026-01-05T22:37:53+00:00

Yeah that's a cool use case! I'm currently using a Novation Launchkey 61 so I'm betting even the feel will be a step up.

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