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@SourceDist Sorry about the low-tweetage, but rest assured it means exciting things are afoot at Source...
@NAMM Enjoying the many company bands in SF at the Fortune Battle of the Bands
@YamahaEducUK Back from the FMS conference. Great to chat to so many music service friends and colleagues and hear bold plans for the coming year.
They slave at the MI coal face during the week, but at weekends the sky’s alight with the guitar bite. For those about to rock, we…tentatively acknowledge you….
Gavin Coulson - JHS Artiste Liaison/National Product Demonstrator
Band: Gav Coulson Group
Line up: Gavin Coulson, guitar and vocals; Chris Pilkington, keyboards and vocals; Roy 'Ratty' Standhaven, bass and vocals and Tony Race, drums.
Who are you ripp…
er...influenced by? Jimi Hendrix, Gary Moore, Joe Bonamassa, Allman Bros.
What’s your big number? Either Joe B's Django/Just Got Paid or Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain
SOUNDALIKES
Best gig played: Leeds Guitar Show 2010
Worst gig played: Probably our drummer's birthday bash – not because the gig was bad, but because my 16 month-old son decided to re-enact the vomiting scene from The Exorcist two songs into the set – covering his mother, and the other kids in the process.
Describe your sound: Heavy, bluesy, rock
Is there a website? Oh yes.
www.gavcoulsongroup.co.uk
@mikedolbear Its my 16 year wedding anniversary today and I'm away on tour in this lovely city of Edinburgh with Gavin Harrison something's not right!!
@MiProEditor New
www.miamusicawards.co.uk site looks great. Loving the MI Pro-sponsored Twitter wall #miaawards
@rotosound_uk We'll be at the #mirc2011 show on 29th June, see you there! @MIRC2011
@Roland_UK Roland on tour with Take That: Roland gear at the heart of Take That’s Progress Tour
@MiProEditor At JHS Event in Leeds. Plenty of dealers. Free bar surprisingly quiet. But it’s early.
MARK PIRRO - Polyphonic Spree & Menkena
I am currently playing a Stingray that I’ve severely modified. I took out the active electronics and the block pickup and replaced it with a passive P bass pickup. I love the sound of a Precision bass, but love the feel of the Stingray. For my amp I use a Fender BXR 300
with a single 15. It’s nothing special, but it’s rugged, compact and plenty loud. I use it more like a monitor and let the PA do most of the work. In the past I haven’t used many effects, but recently I’ve been experimenting with a number of pedals. It’s been a struggle to find a suitable bass distortion, as most distortion pedals lose the low end when the effect is engaged. I’ve tried running two
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signals in parallel – one distorted, one clean – but more often than not, this approach is subject to phase shifting, which can suck the low end out of the signal. However, I am using a handy pedal
by FEA Labs to solve this problem. I split the signal and run one clean into channel one of the FEA Labs and the other into a WMD Geiger Counter (for distortion) and out into channel two of the FEA Labs. The two signals can be blended to taste and it allows me to have all the grind I want along with my clean tone with all its low end. I am also using an EHX Freeze
pedal. It’s an effect that allows you to loop any note indefinitely.
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