Super congrats on that! All the hard work paid of. That's a great space. Awesome!

I'm with Kris 100% I use LOGIC X for pretty much everything as it comes with a HUGE library of sounds/instruments/samples/etc. which makes kontact sorta pointless. However, this is only for Mac folks as Logic won't run on windows.

Like Kris I do use plugins for drums. I do also use OVERLOUD for my guitar plugin as it's still the best one I've yet found and far better than the stock one in Logic imho. I do also use OZONE. But for pretty much all strings/synths/etc. There is so much built in to Logic that I've never needed much else. I used to own a full version of Kontact that came with the external hard drive. I eventually just stopped using it when I switched away from using guitar rig which came with it.

I realize this is of no help at all to windows users though. It is a good reason to think about using a mac for music production imho. I bought my m1 mac mini for $600 and now that the plugins I do use are "native", it runs great despite only having 8 GB of ram. Logic costs $200 and comes with so many of it's own instruments/samples/midi libraries/etc. that it saves thousands of dollars of expenditure.

Not to mention, it will now run on an iPad

Here is a quick tour of some of logics built in software instruments.

I was teaching at GMC during it's peak and you are SPOT ON imho. I really think it was the live video chat lessons that gave GMC it's edge and was the foundation of what was then a thriving community. Each video chat lesson was a way to attract students on a certain time/day to a certain place on the web to be together and study music, interact, etc. It created the sense of community which then followed into the forum which was thriving.

I still remember when Kris told me that the video chat plugin was going away and we were not going to be replacing it. I knew then that this was going to have a hugely negative impact on the site and the community. Sadly, I was correct. I don't know if bringing video chat lessons back again would fix all of the issues. But I do think that not having them is still a big part of the reason the community is not growing.

Todd

Pix please! Love to see the progress

Sweet Ibby!!!!! I love the Ibanez neck profile.

Welcome back!!!

Post the link to the Facebook group here as Im sure it will help!

Have you checked out this one? It's from OTTO and it's about the heaviest amp sim I've ever heard. it does require a software ilok for the 14 day demo which is a bit of a pain, but once it's installed its' just glorious. It doesn't have any FX or anything. But just to get this type of tone, I usually have to do a ton of tweaking and pre/post EQ. But with this plugin, it's just BAM done.

https://ottoaudio.net/products/ii-ii-ii-ii-...im-14-day-trial

Here is Ola talking about it.

I dig everything about it!!!! What is this backing track btw? It sounds like a Tony Mcalpine song?

I went searching by ear and is it this one?

Very cool!!! I started doing a podcast with a great guy from Norway who loves Rack Gear!! We did two of them so far. Anyone else doing a podcast?

The first one with Jamie Cramer from 80s Christian metal band HOLY SOLDIER


The second one with Joe Moder who worked at ROCKTRON in the 80s

Cool tone and cool playing and a cool guy! I'm shocked he only has 300 subs? It's just criminal. I just don't get it at all. His content is great!!! It looks like he's only been on youtube for about a month or so. I also don't get that at all. Most guitar players have been on youtube for years at this point. Odd.

Just ran across this and I think its' great!! Those are some very cool chords and some great stretches to be sure!!

This is my buddy Matthias from Norway doing a cover of TURBO RIDER by Reckless Love. We have been doing our Podcast series called RACK TALK and are working on the third ep. Here is his huge rack in action.




This is the original video

Custom scales!!! Now that's spiff!

Todd

Super thanks guys!!!!

Spot on as always I agree all the way on the KALI. The LP6 are a great set of monitors. You can get a great deal on a pair of used gen 1 Kali now that the gen2 our out and the difference is minimal in terms of performance imho. The ADAM are also a fine choice. I've got a pair of the Kali LP6 gen 1 and I love them to death. I sold my KRK monitors shortly after getting the Kali.

It's good to be seen I hope you can make a short demo video with your new amp setup to show how it's working with the pedal. Love to see it in action! I have been looking at getting one of those amps for a while.

SUPER CONGRATS!!!! That little amp is a MONSTER!!!! Great practice amp. Also a bluetooth music machine!! And you have foot control as a bonus!!! Also, you can edit patches with software control on the computer which is, imho, the best way to do it. Score!!!

Please do keep us in the loop!! Take some cell phone videos and put them on youtube if possible so you can embed them here and pix etc. so we can follow your build!!!!! MEGA MAN CAVE / HOME STUDIO is there really a difference?

Yup That blue ibby you have will probably be worth a Porsche in a few years

After that JHS vid, they are now worth a couple hundred bux and climbing Folks are asking upwards of 600 bux each!! Just goes to show what one video from an "influencer" can do to product prices. I blame myself and a few others for wrecking the prices of cheap rack gear like the vintage ART stuff which was considered utter trash until a few years ago when myself and a few other youtube guys started doing retro gear vids and them bam, this stuff doubles/triples in value.

he clearly doesn't seem to need social media, even in the age of social media It's actually quite refreshing to see a pro level player who just doesn't care about social media. It does go to show, as Mr K says, social media is a full time job. Just like touring/gigging, it's an every day thing. You gotta be doing it every day or you just can't get traction.

Gotta say I'm officially a fan!!!!

I've started using my biz facebook account in replying in various youtube groups/forums and it's resulted in a huge spike in my page views on youtube and a huge spike in my subs/views on youttube as well. My name on my biz account on facebook is my url for my youtube page. It's my domain name which is a redirect to my youtube page (techniqueswithtodd.com) so every post and every reply to a post that I've made features my URL.

I don't know why I never thought of this before? You can make a youtube biz account for free and use the same login. so you can use your URL as the account name and when people reply to you, it uses your url free promo!



this is in a star trek group on facebook. Been using this account to reply in all of my groups. Guitar related and otherwise.

Doubtful. I don't think there is much chance of seeing it in production again to be honest. It's just seeing a bump in interest due to this JHS video. It will fade back into obscurity pretty quickly I'm guessing and these will get cheap again.

It's great for anyone who has one they'd like to sell! They are going for a couple hundred bux currently!

Here is a link to the current offering of digitech OD pedals. I'm amazed they still make this many
https://digitech.com/pt/distortion-overdrive/



Todd

You may have heard about the internet blowing up over JHS making a video about the Digitech Bad Monkey overdrive and showing how it was just about as good as the KLON and wads of other pricey overdrives. As a result, people are trying to charge upwards of $600 for these cheap digitech pedals that have been out of production for quite some time.

To make it worse, wads of folks have taken to social media to blame JHS pedals and say that its' all his fault for making these types of comparison videos in the first place.

Here is the video in question.


Of course, asking ain't getting and people are only paying a couple hundred bucks in reality.



Here is an article on guitar world about this entire drama.

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/digitech-b...XaeCa1B70UJFAao

What do you guys think?