Whilst we have casually drifted into capo territory ... what are peoples thoughts on the Thalia capo:
https://www.thaliacapos.com/collections/all
Are they as good as they look ... ??
1,202 2017-12-22 01:45:30
Re: Types of Spam (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Try the PunBB anti-spam extension listed here:
http://punbb.informer.com/extensions/#1.3
Cheers
Richard
1,203 2017-12-21 03:11:57
Re: The Beatles (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Peatle Jville wrote:
Thank you Jandle
Neophytte here is one of your music composition's put to a video, Let me know if you don't like it and I will take it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOPrNZqHEl4
I give it the thumbs up!! 
Funny thing about that song is that we used it on one of our 'home videos' I make for the kids, specifically this one was traveling down south, where I'd sped up the video, so I always associate the visual imagery of going past cars with that tune now - hahaha
BTW: what video editing program are you using? I use iMovie on the Mac, and it's quite good, but I'm finding none of the special effects like you've applied ...
Cheers
Richard
1,204 2017-12-21 02:58:05
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
easybeat wrote:
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/hey-merry-christmas
Just banged this out,as a few days to go & i`m getting in the xmas mood.
Sounds pretty good for "just mucking about" ...
1,205 2017-12-21 01:08:05
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle wrote:
neophytte, nice spot to sing such a great song in the park
I would love to have heard more with your wife playing along side and singing with you .... hopefully you will get a chance to do it again with her
Thanks
As you can see from the video, we rarely get the time together to sing, and it's a bit hard to find songs to do together as she likes Jazz and I like rock, but sometimes we find a happy medium ...
1,206 2017-12-21 01:04:22
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle wrote:
Here is my last song for this month of Christmas songs .... it was a challenge and i found it hard to find chords that suited my vocals as it is quite low in places and high in other places. Anyway, here is my attempt at it.
That was great - I wouldn't have thought you had struggled with this - it sounds really good ... the low opening vocal notes reminded me of some (famous?) singer, but I can't put my finger on who it was ...
1,207 2017-12-20 07:41:02
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Peatle Jville wrote:
Neo Kings park nice setting. Looks like a plesant area to work close to and you did Hallelujah real good . Nice to catch you and wife and kid on video your a good family man.
Thanks
1,208 2017-12-20 07:39:41
Re: The Beatles (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Peatle Jville wrote:
Good video ... LOL
1,209 2017-12-20 07:36:37
Re: My band "Neon Ceiling", live on the radio (100FM) (2 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Peatle Jville wrote:
You guys did well in that environment
Thanks!!
1,210 2017-12-20 05:55:17
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
My time is running out, Mother-in-law arrives tonight, so went before work to Kings Park (which is about 200 metres from work) and recorded "Hallelujah":
Enjoy!
Richard
P.S. Also tried to do one with the wife the day before, but interrupted by kids: https://youtu.be/geiYRtSa5Qg
1,211 2017-12-20 04:16:33
Topic: My band "Neon Ceiling", live on the radio (100FM) (2 replies, posted in My local band and me)
This is my band playing live on the local Fremantle radio station - it was an interesting experience, normally when you jam you all face each other and have a mic each to do backup vocals, etc, or on a stage situation you'll be facing the crowd with that band interaction, however we were a bit out of practice, and tried to set up in an office at the back of the radio station to get a rehearsal in, but that went pear-shaped when they could hear us in the studio and asked us to stop.
When we got into the studio, which was pretty small, our drummer was sat in the hall with his back to us, there was one microphone to pick us all up, and we had to keep changing positions to have the main vocalist in the right spot (three of us sung in the band), and the only set of headphones so we could hear where we were in the song. I managed to stuff up the intro to the first song, but after that we kept fairly on track.
Here it is, warts and all, I think this was in 1995 or 1996:
http://neophytte.mine.nu/audio/mp3/Neon … t100FM.mp3
Cheers
Richard
1,212 2017-12-20 00:59:16
Re: The Beatles (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
easybeat wrote:
maybe your own music used as backing would be good too.
Or I'm happy for you to use any of my music ... http://neophytte.mine.nu/audio/
Cheers
Richard
1,213 2017-12-19 13:55:10
Re: The Beatles (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I'm guessing it was George ...
1,214 2017-12-19 03:46:48
Re: first public you tube (6 replies, posted in My local band and me)
beamer wrote:
neophytte wrote:Sounds pretty good!! What sort of set up are you using ... I'm trying to get mine as simple as possible ...
But I'm missing being able to add FX to guitar and vocals ....
Hey Neo, thanks for the support!
As far as my set up its pretty much as simple as it gets. There were some rough spots to figure out. so here it is.
[snipped to avoid long post]
Beamer
Cheers for that - at the moment I'm just using a Rode microphone into my iPhone: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ … c_for.html - the iPhone sits on a tripod and I have my iPad on a stand in front of me ... but I'm thinking of making use of the audio interface I have and plugging that into my Mac via Logic, then doing video via the iPhone and putting it altogether in iMovie ... I'd get (arguably) better sound quality, be able to mix it properly, but going froma setup that takes 10 minutes and is *so* portable, to something that would require mic placement, power, etc - I'm not so keen these days to over complicate things ...
But thanks for your set up info - it sounds similar to what I'm contemplating ...
Cheers
Richard
1,215 2017-12-19 01:25:04
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Peatle Jville wrote:
Neo you got a natural way of tackling any song it is nice to listen to.
Thanks for the compliment
1,216 2017-12-19 01:18:56
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle wrote:
neophytte..... haha yep couldnt resist the jingle bells mate one!
Yep I've been trying to get the kids to do the actions* to the "Aussie Jingle bells" (which is pretty similar to the one you did!!), but time has been running away from us - seems every weekend is full and this week my Mother-in-law arrives from overseas so probably won't get to it 
Cheers
Richard
*My eldest did this as his "end of year" show in kindergarten with the rest of the class ..
1,217 2017-12-18 12:03:01
Re: first public you tube (6 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Sounds pretty good!! What sort of set up are you using ... I'm trying to get mine as simple as possible ...
But I'm missing being able to add FX to guitar and vocals ....
1,218 2017-12-17 07:33:17
Re: Dear Santa ... (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Jandle wrote:
I want a 6 string electric ukulele LEFT Handed .................bah tried everywhere, can`t get one! So finally decided to go with a 8 string non electric ukulele which i will use with the 8 strings for a while .................. but may take 2 strings off to get the 6 string effect which is much nicer.
Couldn't you reverse string something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-GL1-Guita … 2SSP2QPYWZ
Cheers
Richard
1,219 2017-12-16 11:32:30
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle wrote:
Ok, here is my very quick attempt at covering Christmas on the beach.
That was great!!
Jandle wrote:
Ok managed to get another quick one in tonight, Jingle Bells - Mate!
Hahaha Aussie Jingle bells with a NZ twist; I like it!!!
1,220 2017-12-15 11:50:01
Re: Free software (34 replies, posted in Recording)
Whilst this post has been resurrected, Tracktion T6 was released for free:
https://www.tracktion.com/products/t6-daw
Cheers
Richard
1,221 2017-12-15 11:45:33
Re: electric guitar for an experienced acoustic (12 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Tenement Funster wrote:
I've personally found that Epiphone's are exceptional quality for the money.
Yep, I'd second that ...
1,222 2017-12-15 11:44:01
Re: electric guitar for an experienced acoustic (12 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
TIGLJK wrote:
This may a dumb question then ----
why would any one pay $2500 for a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop when the could buy a much less expensive guitar and just buy a couple of P90's, new strings, and switch them out for the cheap ones ?
There is a difference between a cheaper guitar and a more expensive one, but I'm assuming that the price point the OP is looking at it's not going to make a big deal ...
The build quality is usually better on higher end guitars, including small things that make it a nicer to play ... I own some expensive ones, and some cheaper ones, generally you go through a few cheaper ones to get a good feeling one, and if you buy four at $300 each, you may as well have bought one $1000 guitar ... if it's affordable to you, and it's worth that much to you ... but sometimes people start out cheaper to get a feel for it, and trade upwards when they feel ready ...
There's also a bit of ego attached to what's on the headstock, which is why the Chinese copy guitars sell ...
Cheers
Richard
1,223 2017-12-15 01:25:40
Re: Tagima guitars (3 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Can't help with experience, but they have a wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagima
1,224 2017-12-15 01:22:15
Re: electric guitar for an experienced acoustic (12 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
alexandrkorv wrote:
neophytte wrote:TLDR: budget for an amp and effects, buy what feel right, not the name on the headstock ...
So, the guitars themselves do not really matter? Sound and quality depends entirely on amplifiers and other devices?
The guitars matter less with electric - the quality of the pickups are more important than tonewoods - effects and amps will change the original signal quite a bit.
Russell_Harding wrote:
... more of skill and action on the frets ...
And, like Russell said, the action of the frets comes into play as well - I think that comes under my summary of "how it feels for you", because if you like thin, fast necks (like Ibanez), then you'll find one that suits, but if you like chunky necks (like Gibson), you'll find one like that ... and if yoiu have a guitar that feels right to you; you'll play it more often.
Hope that clarifies, as I'm trying to be fairly generic ...
Cheers
Richard
1,225 2017-12-14 14:39:49
Re: electric guitar for an experienced acoustic (12 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
I find that playing electric and playing acoustic is almost like two different instruments; acoustic is more about the woods and the tones you can achieve from that - with electric the focus is primarily on the pickups .. with an electric, expect to pay more for adding an amp and external effects - in fact, I'd probably spend half of my budget on those ... so whatever your budget is, half it and look at guitars in that price range.
As with acoustic, it really is a case of trying out a number of guitars and seeing what 'feels' best. Sometimes looking at the brand is a hinderance unless you intend to sell it later down the track (where better know brands tend to keep their value better than unknown/lesser known brands). But you know, I still have my first decent electric I bought for $au200 a long time ago - it's not a known brand, but the neck feels really good, it doesn't get much of a play these days, but when I pull it out, it feels good (still, after all these years!!)
TLDR: budget for an amp and effects, buy what feel right, not the name on the headstock ...
Cheers
Richard