Some more  Snow boarding pictures from this season I think I have a trip or 2 missing or still on camera.

Henry's House Removal

I have been playing with Photoshop today since Corel is down. Did some batch editing on Henry's House removal.  A little back story the State Of California is expanding the I-5 in the process they have bought and are in the process of removing houses in the way of the construction. Henry's, our next door neighbor, home was purchased and he moved out before Christmas. On Thursday the State removed the house. It took a total of 20 minutes to level the home. I took a ton of photos and made a little GIF of the work today.

Bass Question for Mr Stewart in P-cola

Jacob’s Question:

How do the following options affect Metal-Core 5-string bass guitars?
- Active or Passive pickups
- Ibanez's thin neck or Schecter/ESP's added value
- Three knob EQ or one with just two or concentric ect.


My Thoughts:

First off, the biggest difference in the sound of a bass will come
from the type of string used.

Flatwound gives you a mellow sound and are butter smooth which means less finger noise,
Roundwound are brighter and crisper think lots of pop,
Half flat is in the middle of bright mellow and have many variations.

String Choice and music style lay the foundation for the other options such as
pickups, construction, or EQ.



1. Regarding Passive vs. Active, I have and like both. One thing to
consider about Active pickups is that they require batteries. If you
choose this option, make sure to have extras in your gig bag! As the batteries voltage changes the sound changes till its gone. I like the warmth of the active pickups found on Ibanez guitars and with EMG's pickups.  Passive pickups have a solid consistent sound and are work great if you have a good amp and are using out board gear.


2. Branding Ibanez's thin neck or Schecter/ESP's added value – This depends on
your budget. If you’re not spending over a month’s pay for your
instrument, its junk and that is my opinion (there are some exceptions).  I like Ibanez for the cheaper or more budget freindly stuff. It is better than fender's stuff at the same price point. ESP has really fallen off last 10yrs (long story), but Schector guitars are great have not met a bad one, and Music Man makes really hard-rocking stuff at a decent price.

4. Passive EQ is useless on the guitar if you are playing a real show (passive being an on guitar EQ using pots to change "tone").  You really want to leave that up to your amp, effects units, and other cool toys.  Active EQ pots are cool but just as useless, especially in the studio. As an engineer, let me offer this advice: Never touch the knobs! Guitar players are notorious for brushing them in the middle of a recording and jacking the whole track up!

5. Strings, the decision to play a 5-string falls on the musician
and his sound preference. Aside from considering each other instrument
in the band, the only real reason for a 5 string is if the guitar player is tuning down a seven, and stepping into the bass guitars range and "mudding" stuff up. There
is also the question of anatomy. I have stubby fat fingers, so I
prefer to have 4 strings on my guitars.

Ok taking off the engineer hat now. Hope I answered some questions.

Mr. Wimmer "The Engineer/Bass Player"
 

Snowboarding Early 2012

So I edited a few pictures from the 1st Monday trip of Feb. then my Corel went out so I'm just putting up some others from the next Monday. The second trip is where I decided to start up the Blog so I am post pics from it I may post a video as well.




p.s. Also a test for Flickr not sure how I am doing photos yet.

Second Post

Decided I'm going to be putting most of my pictures her from now on, also I may be doing Musical Thoughts. The background and layout are pretty much set now.

First post!!

Starting something new. Pretty much all around now that I think about. So this is where I'm going to "Rant" on shit that is on my mind. Mr. Torres is going to help with the editing and ideas.