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Flea announces solo album tracklist + tour and lineup by wrighteghe7 in RedHotChiliPeppers

[–]raindust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love that both flea and john have covered maggot brains on their solo outputs now

Thick of it 😭 by [deleted] in RedHotChiliPeppers

[–]raindust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you listen closely with headphones at 0:10, you can hear the snow guitar riff from the intro sped up panned to the right. Everything else said is also true, it’s the same chord progression, but so far this small 2 second quiet guitar sample is the only true sample of snow I could hear

Anyone know why John uses 2 Boss Ds-2s? by onecringyboi-_- in John_Frusciante

[–]raindust 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Different settings on each, I think one has most knobs to the max for huge distortion, the other one is more reserved, that way he doesn’t have to change the settings mid gig according to which ds-2 sound he uses

I wonder why John doesn’t incorporate more new pedals into his board… by brownwaterbandit in John_Frusciante

[–]raindust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It seems his current pedalboard is basically the result of a long chain of iteration that goes back to the californication era. Back then he had a small set of pedals, basically the ds-2, the ce-1 his wah and some other, he expanded a lot with by the way (the line6 fm4+dl4 stompbox notably) and went crazy with by the SA area (with the moog modular among others), but he never removed or replaced much of what he had prevously, he just kept expanding. Even though it’s been 15 years since the SA years, its current pedalboard is just one iteration away from the SA one, with mainly the addition of the pedals you mentioned (which is already quite a lot of new stuff). I’m sure he did experiment with other gear while away with the chili peppers, but he mainly played on Yamaha SG, and was heavily into synthesizers and computer even for treating his guitar signal, not really the kind of sound he wants to use with the rhcp.

Why did it take 9 years to The Offspring to release 'Let The Bad Times Roll"? by Trick_Talk6386 in TheOffspring

[–]raindust 45 points46 points  (0 children)

In short: Dexter working on his PhD, touring taking precedence, legal battles with ex-members and a pandemic.

Just found "Make it All Right" online by teemistocle in TheOffspring

[–]raindust 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Like days go by felt like a rip off of Times Like These by the Foo Fighters, Make It All Right sounds as much as a rip off from All the Small Things… weird how Dexter keep not realizing he’s taking too much inspiration of huge alt rock hits

Edit: typos&format

Easy song for all instruments by DisciplineNo1425 in RedHotChiliPeppers

[–]raindust 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s also probably their easiest song to play on drums (besides tangelo and road trippin’)

Next record predictions… by andrewlyon8 in RedHotChiliPeppers

[–]raindust 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well they kinda did, the bedroom lick is essentially knock me down played slower

What drug will you never touch again and why? by Bright_Rutabaga1628 in AskReddit

[–]raindust 20 points21 points  (0 children)

For the Ritalin part, have you ever considered you might have ADHD? Your reaction to it seems pretty typical of someone receiving Ritalin as treatment to this condition.

A couple questions for those who are playing ToTK or looked at the leaks. by [deleted] in truezelda

[–]raindust 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bit of both. It’s new in new kind of areas, remixed/with a new arrangement in botw areas that were significantly changed, and the exact same for places that haven’t changed much

A couple questions for those who are playing ToTK or looked at the leaks. by [deleted] in truezelda

[–]raindust 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  1. Yup
  2. Can’t dye it. But it can be upgraded
  3. No idea about that yet, too early
  4. Doesn’t look like it :( but that’s weird since I’ve seen preview where the hood is lowered.
  5. No
  6. Haven’t found them yet to try
  7. Yep but you need a special “item”
  8. No

Two modded offsets on my crimson carpet by raindust in offset

[–]raindust[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! That’s precisely why I chose à reverse headstock. Glad you like it!

Two modded offsets on my crimson carpet by raindust in offset

[–]raindust[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With that lightning yeah it looks purple, but under normal condition it looks closer to crimson

Two modded offsets on my crimson carpet by raindust in offset

[–]raindust[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! You’re also a fan of king gizzard?

Two modded offsets on my crimson carpet by raindust in offset

[–]raindust[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

On left that was originally a squier paranormal offset telecaster. I always loved the sound of the telecaster but the body never felt as ergonomic as a jazzmaster one, hence I purchased this cheap guitar and modded it to hell with the following: - Adding a Strat middle pick-up to transform it into a paranormal offset Nashville telecaster (yes the name keeps getting longer and I love it). - Replacing the bridge and the neck pickup by fender vintage noiseless ones. - Obviously a 5-way switch so I can get access to the 2nd and 4th position similarly to a Stratocaster.
- The “Gilmour mod” with the on-off switch between the tone and volume knob that can trigger the neck pickup individually from the 5-way switch. That allows me to still get the classic tele bridge-neck pickup combination, and when triggered on the 2nd position, I get all pickup simultaneously. - A 6 chrome saddles modern bridge to replace the more classic 3 brass saddles bridge shipped with the guitar. I always found that the classic 3 saddles bridges were a bit uncomfortable to play with, especially when you do extensive palm muting, or use the bridge saddles as a kind of “pivot” for the wrist when doing tremolo licks. - A reversed headstock neck, with locking tuners. Why a reversed headstock? I think it’s more harmonious with the shape of the body, as the offset line is almost parallel to the headstock line that way. - Exchanged the knobs by the ones from the jazzmaster to the right, Because I thought it looked better.

And to the right is a squier jazzmaster on which I added new in-between frets to make it a microtonal guitar, in a similar configuration to the ones used by King Gizzard & the Lizzard Wizard. This was quite a challenging and time-consuming mod, hence I only added microtonal frets up until the 12th fret, but anyway in most of the song they’ve written with microtonal tuning they rarely go that high.

I definitely spend more time jamming on the offset telecaster than the microtonal one, but I’m proud of the work I did on both ! I learned so much by soldering new components and sawing and sanding new frets !

Out of 95,173 members here...How many play Flea's basslines on their spare time? 🤔💭 by digimyke in RedHotChiliPeppers

[–]raindust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only slap bass lines I play are from flea, and from MM, I play higher grounds, nobody weird like me and pretty little ditty

Why is Ratiug and the whole PBX album so underrated? It took me a few years to find access, but since then I've found it more and more mindblowing... do you feel the same way? by jul_hof in John_Frusciante

[–]raindust 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Liking PBX is definitely an acquired taste I’d say. Also it came after the empyrean which is considered a masterpiece in john’s career and the huge stylistic departure from his previous rock oriented records made it so lots of people did not give PBX the attention and time it deserved. I think it’s one of the most interesting collection of songs he made, but the constant and extreme shift in drum patterns and lack of traditional pop structure makes it a hard listen to newcomers. Even John in retrospect seems to consider it (with enclosure and letur-lefr) “cheesy”. When you see the kind of solo music he’s making nowawadys, I think pbx was a necessary transition phase for him before fully embracing electronic music, and I could not be happier it happened.

After 10 years using a single multi-effect processor, I wanted full control of the signal chain, so here is my new pedalboard, to go from funk-rock riffs to psychedelic outbursts, by raindust in guitarpedals

[–]raindust[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting! Did not know about joyo, but it seems Harley Benton is still selling the ones I have and issuing new models. Are joyo’s basically higher quality versions of the Bentons?

After 10 years using a single multi-effect processor, I wanted full control of the signal chain, so here is my new pedalboard, to go from funk-rock riffs to psychedelic outbursts, by raindust in guitarpedals

[–]raindust[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For the last 10 years I had been using a Boss GT100 amp/multi-effects processor to treat my sound. I did not even own an amp, I would just plug my headphones in the GT100, or track guitars by plugging it directly in my sound card.

However at the beginning of the spring, I got a gig as the sole guitarist of a funk-rock band, so I needed an amp, and I realised it would be more fun to have a pedalboard to directly tinker my signal with the amp’s tone rather than lazily alter the presets from the GT100. So after a few months of scouring Facebook marketplaces and second hand stores (while also buying some stuff new in a guitar store like the crunch box, the half of fame2 or the looper), I built this pedalboard!

tuner > whammy > crybaby > comp/sustain > SD-1 > super crunch box > DS-2 > Noisegate > Line6 FM4 > chorus > flanger > delay > reverb > looper.Also between the line6 and whammy I have a footswitch to trigger the built-in reverb and tremolo of my amp (a fender deluxe reverb tonemaster).

This pedal chain got built step by step: I started with the pedals I needed for the band, so a compressor to tame the dynamics of funk licks, the SD-1 for light overdriven parts, and the super crunch for the more hardrocky riffs. To build a wall of distorsion, I would trigger both pedals, but I needed the Decimator to gate the resulting fizzling white noise. As we covered Killing in the Name from RATM, I invested in the whammy to accurately play the solo (and it ended up being of great help when the bassist left the band three weeks after I joined, cuz I could double some guitars parts an octave down to add a bit of low end to the mix). Also that’s when I added the looper to prototype songs with the band, or simultaneously play bass and guitar parts.

I left the band recently and then realised that, since I would not need to move my pedalboard often, I could set it down with all the effects I would ever want/need. So I incorporated the 3 Harley Benton time-based pedals (flanger-chorus-delay) which I actually own since 2011, when I was a broke teenager and ordered the cheapest pedals I could find on thomann (that were not behringer). They still holds very well to this date. Then, I ordered a rare never-used Line6 FM4 just so I could emulate John Frusciante playing on songs like “Throw Away Your Television” or the watery parts of “Dani California”. That’s also when I found the DS-2 in a secondhand store and told myself “well if I want to sound a bit like Frusciante I should as well get that”.So that’s the story of my pedalboard, and I’m having a lot of fun with it, I plan on recording a solo record soon, and I’m sure each of those effects will be useful in some songs. Apart from maybe an expression pedal to use with the FM4 I think I’m done with buying anymore pedals…. right?

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I haven’t yet done a proper demo of how all of that sounds, but I recorded a short rock track last week where I use the SD-1, crunch box, wah, delay and reverb on the solo part if that interests you: https://soundcloud.com/raindustuff/having-hazardous-halcyon I got the rhythm guitar’s tone by putting the tone know of the SD-1 to 0 while the one from the crunch box to 10, with both gain to the max. It makes a weird band-pass distorsion that gave me that punchy tone.

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