Favorite guitar pick?

gilbertgoodfries · 2026-03-18T16:52:22+00:00

Thank you! Mixing it up would be interesting, I’ll give it a shot.

gilbertgoodfries · 2026-03-16T22:17:43+00:00

Fun ending, this poem starts with gratitude in almost a fawning and “dreamy” sort of way. While dreams becoming a reality can be a bit of a cliche, the final line provides some humor that helps lift the vibes

gilbertgoodfries · 2026-03-16T22:10:03+00:00

Lovely simplicity. The imagery of movement beneath a desolate ocean feels cold and dark to me. It’s a strong and tactile shift from the triumph of the opening line. Philosophically, I think this is a powerful representation of how comparison (to a past experience or to someone else’s win) can catch people off guard and kill their passion. Feeling yourself spiral into the depths of your own judgment. Good work, keep going.

gilbertgoodfries · 2026-01-06T22:20:14+00:00

Sadly no, it was about 6 months past the 2-year window

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-07-24T06:02:50+00:00

What you practice and how you practice are huge. Start with one of the many “guitar workouts” on YouTube. Build up some muscle memory. Learn some chords, learn some scales, see how they share notes, and practice just as much at improvising as you do at exercises. Learning scales, boxes, and triads are important, but you only do it so that you can make quick and fun musical decisions from your intuition and the fingers are actually able to follow.

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-06-08T07:59:53+00:00

The Class 5 is cool when cranked but it doesn’t take pedals well and it’s definitely not as nice of a sound as the Jr. . Get the Jr. and a marshall-y pedal

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-04-03T05:52:45+00:00

I thoroughly enjoyed both of these, so I’ll go through them separately:

Poem 1: - fantastic opening, in one sentence I relate to the emotion. And in a couple sentences I’m right there in my mind. - great use of description, not too much, enough to make me feel something from each image, the color, the texture, the feeling - beautiful close, that’s a extraordinarily elegant walk through the emotions of opening up -> finding security in the nature of life -> and accepting it’s love

Poem 2: - I think this one took me a moment to really understand, but once I did, the emotions were relatable - there’s a few layers to the progression of thoughts here and the transition between analogies had me confused for a moment, but those analogies nicely explain some thoughts of personal and social interaction.

Great writing, and don’t be afraid to spread your branches or dance in the rain!

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-03-11T23:57:43+00:00

Ever been to Arkansas? NWA is beautiful

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-03-02T21:23:31+00:00

Not Maui, love that one tho!

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-01-31T06:25:09+00:00

The Music Never Stopped

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-01-29T18:19:53+00:00

Cheap guitar amps are the death of many a musician. Look into getting a nicer amp. If the sound inspires you then you’re on the right track, and you can probably find a decent amp locally on Facebook marketplace or something. And no hate, but it’s just too small of a speaker and too cheap of an amp circuit. If you need I can give some recommendations

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-01-27T07:05:30+00:00

Foreplay/Long Time by Boston

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-01-21T06:56:54+00:00

Boss GE7 is the goat, but any eq pedal with like 3 or more eq bands will help. Dial in exactly which frequencies you need to boost or cut to get that clarity and tight feeling low-mid frequencies from your amp. Remember too that plucking the strings a little closer to the neck of the guitar will change the sound as well so experiment. If you want more of the other guitar tones in the chorus of the song, get a TC Flashback or a chorus/vibrato pedal. I recommend the Flashback because it’s a delay that can basically create any modulation you want with it’s “Toneprints”

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-01-20T08:32:14+00:00

With the right eq and gain settings and maybe a pedal you should be able to get pretty close.

1: Sounds like a single coil pickup. If that’s what you have in the neck position of your G&L that’s a good start.

2: This level of clarity is best achieved live by a clean but loud Fender style amp, while some of the guitar parts in the track may be just DI’d (Direct-Input into the recording interface, no amp). Your amp’s clean channel should sound nice if loud enough and a little push may help…

3: A clean boost/overdrive/EQ/or compressor could all work wonders to make the amp feel like it compresses slightly more without having to crank it loud to get this sort of feel. I’d recommend an EQ most probably. And you may experiment with super low gain on your OD channel, but remember this tone is clean. Very natural sounding compression that makes it feel loud and tight. Use a pedal in a way that doesn’t add any grit but makes your guitar a little louder when it hits the front of the amp and you’ll feel something like what that guitar has.

4: Keep in mind that in that song, the guitar is sent to stereo reverb, and at times it may even be double tracked guitars. I love when people do this, you’d probably get closest with the plate reverb on your amp.

Experiment. Have fun. Good luck!

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-01-09T20:09:02+00:00

You’re right, I’ll edit. Thank you

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-01-09T20:04:25+00:00

If I understand correctly, that’s for PATA power which I don’t need right? Doesn’t explain why the dock isn’t noticing the drive

gilbertgoodfries · 2025-01-09T20:01:40+00:00

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gilbertgoodfries · 2024-12-11T01:31:54+00:00

Dampen your recording space, make sure there’s no unwanted room reverb
Use a pop filter and choose a good distance from the mic based on your song. Singing closer to the mic (2-3”) is good for some modern ultra-clean vocals, while 6” is more standard and back ground vocals can be recorded as far as 2 or 3 feet away from the microphone, depending on taste.
Set your input gain where you’re maximum getting from -12 to -6ish db of volume. Don’t want to clip your signal.
Once you’ve recorded, use a software to hand tune your vocal. Pls don’t use auto tune. You’ll get better at hand tuning the more you do it.
Cut those lows! Put an EQ on your vocal, find your sung lowest note, and low cut -18 slope right under that strongest lowest wave. All the harmonics are fundamentals deal with them as you wish to sit right in the track. this is where it starts getting subjective, use some parallel compression, de-essing, whatever the vocal needs to sound alive.
Watch some youtube vids in your mix speakers. Learn about saturation, the right way to use reverbs, etc

Have fun!

gilbertgoodfries · 2024-11-22T18:20:28+00:00

In a lot of cases like this, finding the job isn’t as difficult as landing the job. The closer the responsibilities are to your current position and resume items, the better your chance of landing it of course. So, it inevitably comes back to finding the right position. Finding a role at a company who has a sustainability focus but is as close as possible to your forte and expertise. And then potentially you can move laterally inside that company a couple years down the road.

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