Link: The Outlaw Radio Show

Earliernibsaw one of the best musical performances I’ve ever seen… Alex on guitar, jay on sax, chad on bass and dan and phill on drums.

No joke this was some seriously great shit.

Here are the photos.

Here are a couple of stills that our director Joe Harris sent over.

Lots of good musicians out tonight.

Talk to ya later world…

In Rainbows doesn’t dissapoint if you like these guys… it’s another Radiohead album  and it lives up to their discography.

Read on if you are interested in riaa ranting and the future of music

I bought the album for $1 in order to sample it… since I like it I am going to buy it again for a friend and pay somewhere between $5 and $10.

I hate the RIAA , all of their flying monkeys and other their other sub-conglomerations… which is strange because I’m a liberal in almost all aspects of life, but fiscally I’m a conservative…  I’m what you might call a “business hippie” but when it comes to music I’m all about the art form and quality, which the major record companies obviously aren’t.

Cheers to Radiohead, fuck you to the RIAA labels and hell yes to the artists that follow similar models.

Even if there is a minimum price ($2.50 per album might be acceptable since it’s widely known that bands make less than $2 per CD sale in most cases) this is still an awesome model for music sales. $.99 per song is a rip off, and so is $8+ for a full album.

anyway… this is nothing formal… just a quickie to mention that the future is here, sort of.

bye bye

I based my layout on the gaussmarkov layout… this is supposed to be quieter and solve some of the noise issues that previous layouts have had.

I have not built this box previously so I can not compare the noise level to other layouts, however, I will say that this is a noisy build and I can see by moving the wires around that it would be even noisier if it wasn’t layed out as it is.

Day 1: I started out by making a layout for perfboard from the gaussmarkov layout and comments here at this thread. I also found an old box meant for switching one keyboard between two computers. Nice and big.

Day 2: I went ahead and populated the perfboard and soldered it all together.

Day3: I completed the build by soldering all the wires, pots, switches, the led, and the jacks. It was easy to bias the jfet drains to 4.5v.

Night 3: I added the build to my pedal board and went to the gig…

This thing was extremely noisy!!! Waterfall sound like crazy, I guess that’s white or pink noise… I should do my homework about the names of noise eh?

Anyway… I still used it, but even with the guitar volume at zero it made so much noise that it was obvious to everyone on the stage. We’re a rock cover band that also does jam music jazz, fusion, and blues… we play loud.. for others to be able to hear my the noise it had to be extreme.

I came home from the gig knowing that the hundred or so posts that I had read about quieting the Dr. Boogey would pay off.

Day 4: I went back through the forum posts that I had bookmarked and got some ideas about lowering the noise. The first thing I did was changed Q1 from J201 to MPF102…. This helped substantially and left so much gain that I still probably won’t set the gain knob to full. While I was in there I added a 100pf cap parallel with the 20pf cap…this slightly tamed some of the highs… there was just a little too much high end crunch for me before.

When I went to re-bias the build I realized how much trimmer noise I was getting. I set Q1 to about 4.8v and the rest at 4.55ish and tested it one last time… sounded great, still a lot of waterfall sound…

I bit the bullet and replaced the trim pots with fixed resistors….WOW WOW.

Taking out the trim pots took away 85% of the annoying waterfall sound…

I brought home my Twin Reverb and my fx board and tried it out with my normal rig at stage volume…

Now my Dr. Boogey is only slightly noisier than my fulldrive2. It’s about as noisy as a fuzz face or something.

AWESOME!!

Big thanks to the DIY community for making fx building information available to the world!!

Photos:

Parts and Board

All wired up… check the old school foam pad

Wiring details

Slightly modded

All done

Back side

Added to board

Marc Sabatella’s Jazz Improvisation Primer: 3/7 Voicings

I’ll post more about tonight when I get the videos this weekend.

The songs are Pride and Joy and Tell me Something Good. There is some really good playing on these clips… top quality musicianship. We have a saxophone player in these clips. His name is JB Saxx. He is from LA. He gigged with us for a couple of months this summer but he left today to go back to cali. He will be missed; we had an awesome time making music with him.

I better get to work, I have about 20 clips left to upload (what a slow deal) Public plea to YouTube: give me ftp upload please

Link: Chris Brown Guitar Videos on YouTube

Please check out the videos and go to the Chris Brown YouTube Channel and leave me some 5 star ratings and comments etc etc.

Thanks Friends!

The lineup is Chris Brown (me) on guitar, Mike Brown on bass, JB Saxx on Saxophone and Bono Saunders on drums.

Here is the first in a series of videos from that gig…

Come hear him play hit songs and lot’s of cool jazz and blues stuff.

Check the calendar at BoneDriven.com

Life has been nice. The last couple of weeks have been beautiful for me.

I finished the book Sleight of Mouth by Robert Dilts… Super awesome… one of the arts of changing minds… Check it out if your into NLP/persuasion/people helping.

Although we haven’t gone out partying lately, we did in fact crack the punch. We thawed our Jamaican rum punch from Halloween… Amanda and I had a fun night running around our house and yard, drinking punch. I had just as much fun as if I had gone out with a bunch of friends to the club or whatever. Good times.

I’ve been working my ass off programming PHP for my latest script – RSSBIN Lite: Podcast edition. This sweet little script will syndicate your information across multiple domains OR we could just say this: “you can now syndicate your articles and audio to anyone with a RSS aggregator.” But I’m not going to get into that here… I post this type of stuff on my “Internet marketing from home weblog” give it a visit here.

Early next month I plan to have a “photo night”… probably at cave’s lounge, but we’ll see.

What is a photo night? Take a look at the gallery.

If you’ve been absent from our recent photos then stay tuned to fidosrevenge.com and find out when and where you can get in on the action.

What I’ve been listening to: Holdsworth, Martino, Miles Davis etc etc… Not a lot different this week.

Oh yeah… Our jazz band, The Brown Brothers will be playing live soon… Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement about our web site… We are kicking ass! We sound great, we practiced last Saturday and everything was perfect… I’ll be sure to post some audio clips or a podcast of us.

I do various audio projects… here is a less than descriptive ‘step by step’ for you…

If you already have a means by which you can hook your tape player up to your computer, then all you need is some software that allows you to record. Windows sound recorder won’t work because it has a 1 minute restriction, but something like a shareware clone of sound forge will do the trick. Try Audacity… I haven’t used it, but I hear that it is of the highest quality, and it is FREE! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

1) Test input level (must be below 0.0)
2) Cue tape
3) Press record on audio software
4) Press play on tape
5) Stop tape and recording process
6) Save file

Good luck on finding noise reduction software that is affordable. Most are pretty steep. Waves restoration bundle and ray gun are the good ones… maybe they have trial versions??

Have fun!

Our jazz band had another practice today, and I’ve ‘gotta’ say, we’re sounding really good… I hope you all come see us when we start performing. I know you will.

Peace!