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Howdy fellers—I used to post in late 2000’s when my musical world was much more active before pre-then teenage kids and work consumed me for over a decade. Now, slowly trying to awaken the musical soul again after a bad bike crash gave me opportunity to reorient focuses. Been recording new...

This is an old timey favorite of mine from Steve Morse addressing a range of skills, not just his usual alternate picking throughout. If you’ve never seen this one, tackle it bar by bar, then putting two bars together, etc. It may be useful to isolate single problematic measures and slowly run...

I’m not sure they modified that for me, but will check when they get back from NAMM. It seems very similar to before, but I’m running it at pretty much maxed volume into cabs. I like the feel for most of my music (with more gain) with master at around 8, then gain on front of amp around 7-8 plus...

This an older thread, so not sure where you are on your quest now. Although I have a masters degree in music, I still appreciate the simplicity of scale and chord diagrams like most guitarists. This book by Don Latarski is hands-down the best single source I have seen for practical beginning...

I've only had my SL68 back for a few days with the new MkII mods, but they are not subtle. I'd recently just finished mixing a tune, where I'd been agonizing over rhythm and lead tones, but finally made it all work...now, I'm already re-tracking with new mods. I'm not always a big fan of what...

Here's a short little clip demo'ing this great new mod to the Egnater Vox by Rob at Jaded Faith mods in NJ. I thought i'd post a raw composition idea on day one before adding a bunch of other parts gtr stands out. The preamp has two channels, so the lower gain is ch A and then the angry grittier...

I am loving this new Classic with a few mod's from the elves at Suhr. It's a spectacular, snappy start-styled guitar with a wide a array of tonal options and expressiveness. It's loaded with two ML single coils and a Thornbucker in the bridge option with push-push coil tap on the tone knob. The...

Suhr Classic, Pineapple Boost, Egnater, Port City WGS spk: https://soundcloud.com/john-czajkowski- ... singlecoil Some new tones for me--with Suhr Custom Classic with ML Standard single coil (neck position) on lead guitar and Thornbucker at bridge split into single coil for doubled rhythm...

https://soundcloud.com/john-czajkowski- ... king-title Another in a series of compositional sketches. Guitars are Suhr Classic T, EB bass and Morse. The Axe FX is all guitars and bass. I appreciate the T's varied tones, expressiveness, broad freq spectrum and punchy mids for a nice edge in the mix.

https://soundcloud.com/john-czajkowski- ... l-partmix2 This is a new idea I began this past weekend to get to know Logic Pro X...maybe for for the next Hectic Watermelon album too. All guitars and bass are direct into Fractal Audio Axe FX II XL+. The amazing Suhr Classic T on most parts with EB...

Abstract Logix has featured a recent interview conducted by Randy Allar on his radio program, The Fusion Show, where we talked exclusively about my new album featuring Marco Minnemann, West ZooOpolis, in great depth. I hope you can make some time to review our conversation as it will provide...

From the May 18th Hectic Watermelon Newsletter: My new album, West ZooOpolis, featuring Marco Minnemann is now available for you at Abstract Logix! To recap, this album was written over a tremendous 51-minute drum performance Marco recorded and then invited me and several other composers to...

From the May 18th Hectic Watermelon Newsletter: West ZooOpolis, featuring Marco Minnemann is now available at Abstract Logix and many other distributers. To recap, this album was written over a tremendous 51-minute drum performance Marco recorded and then invited me and several other composers...

The Tonefreak Severe pedal is on all distorted guitars going into an Egnater B'Man - VHT 2/50/2 - Port City. This includes the EBMM Morse with PAF and Area 61 on distorted doubled rhythm parts. The Suhr T gets all the leads in middle position. The backwards leads are the T's neck single coil...

The Tonefreak Severe pedal is on all distorted guitars going into an Egnater B'Man - VHT 2/50/2 - Port City. This includes the EBMM Morse with PAF and Area 61 on distorted doubled rhythm parts. The Suhr T gets all the leads in middle position. The backwards leads are the T's neck single coil...

Here's something I just started on with Suhr Classic T - XTS Precision OD - Egnater VOX - Scumback - 57 - Pacifica - PT. The Suhr T is just killing me in terms of playability and expressiveness and range of uses from chicken picken to doubling detuned grind. Amazing geetar! :D Player...

Here's something I just started on with Suhr Classic T - XTS Precision OD - Egnater VOX - Scumback - 57 - Pacifica - PT. Pardon the repetition as I'm just putting ideas together here, but I'm digging the tone. Usually, I almost always default to the B'Man for my ODs, but I thought the VOX B was...

https://www.soundclick.com/util/getplaye ... 32207&q=hi Here is a thing I started working on yesterday with the EB Bari as the main rhythm guitar. It hits the EG5 on the left with bridge humbucker and is doubled with the HBE on the right with the bridge single coil selected. I think the two...

Motor Ave. BelAire 12-string tunage https://www.soundclick.com/util/getplaye ... 14792&q=hi Here’s a quick TV tune written on a Motor Ave. 12-string on loan from a friend hitting Egnater VOX. It’s a really versatile guitar with a fat neck, but easy to play. You can blend between pickups and...

Hairy Brown Eye compared/combined with Egnater EG5. Here are three chugga clips back-to-back that show David Friedman’s HBE (in an Egnater module), then the same stuff played with the Egnater EG5, then both combined and panned for a nice combo. VHT 2/502 going to two separate cabs – a Port City...