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27 Aug AC/DC Tone: a continuos search. Part 1, Eleven Rack attempts

Posted at 01:00h in Blog, Gear Reviews, Gear Tutorials, Premium, Reviews, Software Amp & Recording Modelers, Tutorials by SoloDallas 66 Comments

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UPDATE: I changed a lot on this patch, after listening to it I think it sucked majorly. Lack of higher frequencies and not enough "middle crunch". Here it is to you again with a few changes. The equalization curve is VERY important, even for YOUR setup! Please listen to the clip. Yes I know, all of us are striving to achieve AC/DC tone or for that matter, classic rock tone. Therefore, please give it a listen before you continue reading (soundpatch version 2.0): Angus Tone on Back in Black from SoloDallas - Attempt Since this is an extremely long subject that I intend to treat as in depth as humanly possible (many, many considerations are needed here) I will just narrow the matter here and just talk about my current settings on the Eleven Rack (a piece of hardware built into a rack shape by Digidesign - Avid Digital - that "models" guitar recording) to achieve decent AC/DC (Angus', but it could apply to Malcolm's as well) tone.

26 Aug Gibson SG vintage Heels (i.e., neck joints)

Posted at 05:40h in Gear Reviews, Guitar Reviews, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 17 Comments

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This will be a post I will try to update as more info on the subject is known to me. For now, I had shot these two pictures of some of my SGs in my new home studio (it's actually a basement in my Roman flat). I think it is striking to see the differences among all the neck joint types, i.e., "heels".

26 Aug 1952/53 Les Paul Goldtop

Posted at 05:00h in Gear Reviews, Guitar Reviews, Premium by SoloDallas 10 Comments

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[singlepic id=282 w=1024 h=768 float=] This was my first ever 1950s Les Paul. I bought this one circa 20 years ago in Florida, at the “Guitar Broker“. I was there because at that time I was engaged to a young Floridian (Miami) model (yes, I had good times ). So every now and then, I visited guitar shops in the area. The price was ridiculous (I forget really, but it was cheap: there wasn’t a hunger for older ’50s bodies at the time, or less so than today anyway) and I’d already found out that ’50s wood was something special. This is what basically started my quest for ’50s tone – for Les Pauls anyway – and this guitar was my main instrument for several years to follow. For the most part I played it live, though not in the shape you see it here. This one had already been (poorly) converted into a “burst”, with humbucker pickups and a sunburst finish. The finish had been very poorly applied, as had also most of the features of the guitar.

25 Aug Quota 1000 Users reached (and surpassed)

Posted at 03:54h in Blog by SoloDallas 9 Comments

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It is with pleasure that I can announce that we - I am referring to "us", as a forming community - reached (and surpassed) quota 1000 users (1030 as the time of writing this).

18 Aug 1964 Gibson SG Standard

Posted at 07:53h in Gear Reviews, Guitar Reviews, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 38 Comments

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This one…… was a major issue guitar for me. I bought it for 2k USD, maybe two years ago.

18 Aug Why do I do it?

Posted at 06:42h in Blog by SoloDallas 23 Comments

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One note I feel I have to add, and right now I feel it could finally be the right time, is "why I do it". I have been asked that a few times, plus I now feel I developed my own philosophy for it. I have been called an "Angus Clone" many times. A poser, Angus' lost brother, etc.