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    Was: From the ashes of disaster...now various projects

    in Build Diaries

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    Next....

    Three teles....I've been slowly putting these together for a few months, a chance to test a few ideas.

    From left to right:

    For the first time I'm not using reclaimed wood for this guitar. It's going to be made entirely from British native timbers. Single piece Dorset grown ash body, sycamore neck with beech fretboard. 

    Middle- this is the now reassembled "extreme relicaster" . A white poplar body blank that was left to rot for 18 months to acquire some character. It now has a lot more interest and colour as well as a mahogany band in the body and neck. The neck timber is unknown (from an old sofa) , the fretboard is reclaimed teak from a garden bench. As it was after it 18 month exposure:

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    After reassembly and sanding:

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    Right- If you Google "can I build a guitar out of oak" you will come across some odd reasons why it apparently won't work " oak is sonically dead" , " it gives off a gas that corrodes metal" , too heavy, too unstable etc 

    Let's find out....oak body , oak neck, oak fretboard all reclaimed. 

    The exact spec for each guitar is yet to be decided...

    Most of my pictures were too large to upload and I'm far too lazy to try again. 

    More pictures of these builds and others can be  seen on the Scavenger Music Facebook and Instagram pages.

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    Another band with the same name?

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    It was an abomination

    7 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

     

    That works, as a band name. Simple, familiar, quirky without being weird.  And a brilliant band name when it comes to naming your albums!

     

    Sock it to me - the funk album. 

     

    Pop Sock - an album of chart-friendly tunes.

     

    Sock for Christmas - the inevitable Christmas album.

     

    Lost Sock - the collection of rare B sides, demo tracks and live versions. 

     

    Back in the day we made a posterwith the dictionary definition of sock on it including all of the examples of uses of the word 

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    Another band with the same name?

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    I'm in band called Sock. We started in 1990 and apart from a  brief twenty year hiatus have been going ever since. 

     A few years ago another much younger band started up with the same name. People occasionally tag us in Facebook posts intended to be about them.  

    We find it funny and if they were based nearer to us we'd love to do a gig together. 

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    Another band with the same name?

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    14 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

    18 years ago we wanted to call ourselves The Junkyard Dogs but careful searches revealed that there was already a Junkyard Dogs playing in the NorthEast so we ditched the idea.

     

    Two years later following some changes in personnel we wanted a new name and - to my complete astonishment - the Junkyard Dogs near Newcastle at that moment posted that the band was folding, it had been a great xxx years, thanks to everybody who had come to their shows, blah blah blah. Righty-ho then, we'll have that thank you very much and The Junkyard Dogs we immediately became.

     

    Around the same time a band in the West Country started calling themselves Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs but we never noticed a problem. On a couple of occasions pubs in Devizes and Marlborough tried to book us, presumably Hobo Jones received enquiries from pubs in Ealing, who knows?

     

    Fast forward 12 years and - lo and behold - the original band near Newcastle decided to reform, still using the same name. By this time of course we were so well established on social media that we were the first hit on any search for a band called The Junkyard Dogs in Britain, so within a year or so they changed their name to The Junkyard Dogz. 

     

    But still we weren't in the clear, because quite recently Hobo Jones has presumably decided his band's name is too much of a mouthful, and they seem to have started calling themselves ... wait for it ... wait for it ... The Junkyard Dogs.

     

    So where's all this going, I pretend to hear you ask? Well, we were booked (by phone, through someone I've met face to face) for a West London gig at a new venue last week. The booker said he'd do his own poster, which was nice. Then he sent us the poster.

     

    The band details were all for Hobo Jones' band down in the West Country while the photo of the band showed the original Newcastle band. I'm still trying to work out if this is wind-up or just an example of Irish humour.

     

    I know another band in age south West called Junkyard Dogs , no "the" and no connection with Hobo Jones. 

    Home recording or banging my head against a wall.

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    1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

    To the OP. I'm going to be brutally realistic here and it's probably not something you want to read but here goes anyway.

     

    There appears to be a mistaken notion particularly with software, but also with a lot of high-tech hardware, that simply the act of owning it somehow gives you the immediate ability to start producing professional standard results when, as others have already said, these things take time and patience before you even start producing something passable. I bet you weren't ready to join a band within 10 minutes of picking up a bass guitar for the first time, you probably weren't ready within 10 weeks even, so why should recording be any different?

     

    Add to this the fact that some people simply don't have the ability to ever do anything more than passable not matter how good their hardware and software is. I learnt the long, hard and expensive way, that my recording ability is pretty much limited to being able to get a decent level signal from my bass into my computer. Everything else on my band's recordings is done by people with the appropriate skills and far more talent when it comes to producing a finished and professional sounding product. There is also no shame in recognising your limitations and accepting them.

     

    It seems to me that from the original and subsequent posts that the OP mostly wants to vent rather than actually sort out any problems. That's not necessarily a band thing. Venting does have its uses. However if they want some useful help we'll require the following:

     

    1. What OS are you running?

    2. There are lots of different Focustite Scarlett interfaces. Which one do you have?

     

    I have a Scarlett interface and although it's been a number of years since I had to set it up, IIRC all the associated software including a cut-down version of a DAW, is available for download once you have created a user account with Focusrite and registered the interface. To the OP: have you done this yet? 

    In many ways you are correct.  I had spent another frustrating afternoon achieved nothing and needed to vent.

    My frustrations arise from the fact that the marketing implies that you'll be recording in minutes which I have found to be completely untrue. 

    To compare my experience of digital recording with learning to play bass I haven't even managed to get it out of the case yet.

    I will respond to some of your questions when I've had a chance to try again. I had forgotten that we got a new computer and so yesterday's troubles were down to not having appropriate drivers / focusrite account etc. Once I have those I'll be back to square one or maybe two. 

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