HNY listenin’s

if yer a fan, check out ZZ Top Raw, last live Dusty recordings, from the documentary

also diggin’ King Curtis, Live at Fillmore West

the new Hendrix release, Los Angeles Forum 4-26-69

Miles, Agartha

Detective, It Takes One to Know One

Waylon, Brown Eyed Handsome Man

and for sompin’ contemporary:

Chicago’s Horse Girl, Versions of Modern Performance

Bush, The Art of Survival

Vlayman: *Cactus (a 3p.)*

1. Cactus 04:32
2. Crashin’ & Laughin’ 03:57
3. Gas Station Tacos 04:02

writrecordedmixtmas turdsequenced at Fetacentralrecordin g DDL by vlayman in Dec, 2022.

all noises by VLAYMAN except drums is nettage
fartwerk by jose jones

released December 29, 2022

Re recording *Cactus (a 3p.*)

Posting at LO:

Thanks!

These were actually highly influenced by the gear used.

First, the 5-string bass, no effects – all that bottom is from it (Tobias Toby, made by Epiphone);

Second, an Orange pedal, The Getaway Driver – which has a cabinet emulator, and is most of the rhythm guitars here, run thru a Brick tube DI and a 160XT compressor;

Third, a custom distortion pedal I just bought – The Sax o’ Fuzz – what is a clone of a boutique pedal called the Zippy Fuzz; this one has a blend added and the idear is to sound horn-like. I don’t think it necessarily does (would help if I played horn-lines) and I don’t even think it sounds unique as recorded, but it feels different, almost out of control, as I play it thru the Bassbreaker 007, which is inspiring;

Finally, the guitar is a Dean semi-hollow (thicker and heavier than a thinline). It is a great rhythm guitar player (I used the six, pictured below), and the neck is comfy for that, but it is not a great lead guitar as the neck is not fast – I gotta fight it, and I like that.

Pre’s and cloneage

Responding at LO, I said:

I do not believe Joyo actually makes guitars.

FWIW, my understanding is that there are some 3 large factories in China, much like Korea and Japan, which contract to build to spec, and/or build a model that retailers slap their name on.

Pedals and other electronics  are a similar situation, altho’ I did read somewhere that Joyo either builds their own or owns the builder …

Silvie and I both have a variation of a United Audio 710 Twinfinity hybrid pre (his is quad, I think; mine single). There is a Chinese-labeled Alctron that looks exactly the same, cops the design, but is said to use inferior components; check it out:

UA (US$1K):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/175271232643

Alcatron, less than 1/2 the price (US$400):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/114164765906

I think this is Silvie’s quad (US$2.6K):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/354151396292

Note that we bought ours a few years ago – in the case of mine the price has almost doubled.

Vlayman: *Born to Lose Me (a 3p)*

1. Apothesis 04:02
2. Born to Lose Me 03:56
3. Rolex 04:20
4. TBC 04:06

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Fetacentralrecording DDL by vlayman in Dec, 2022.

all noises by VLAYMAN except drums is nettage
fartwerk by jose jones

released December 18, 2022
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