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Posted by: Davidzz1988 Mar 15 2013, 05:19 PM

Hi everybody,

My name is David.
I'm from Québec,Canada( so I apologize for the bad English sometimes )
I started playing guitar at the age of 13. My uncle gave me my first Axe(his own guitar) to learn to play. It was an old Charvel with a schaller trem, Emg 81 pickup in the bridge position and a 24 frets all scalloped neck. It was a dream to play with.
I've grown up listening to old rock & metal(Maiden, ACDC, XYZ, Ratt, Mötley crue, etc...) . I've gotten my first band(Punk) about like 1 year later and we have been recording our first Demo Cd at the age of 15. This was a very good experience for me to ''grow up'' a little bit as a guitar player. At the age of 17 I started a new band (Southern rock,Hardcore) with one of my friend. We've both dreamed to be ''rock stars'' someday... We have put everything in that band.We have been in studios to record 2 albums. We had the chance to play in different places in Canada and tour a lot. A very grateful experience. One of the last shows I've played with the band was at a Vans warped tour venue in 2007 in Montreal with big bands like As I lay Dying & Killswitch Engage. It was a dream come true. I left the band a little later because I wanted to finish school since music was not giving us money to pay the bills. Beside shows, I've found a profound love for recording. Listening to every little details that I liked or disliked about my playing and try to be better every time. So I've invest a little bit of money to buy a cheap sound-card at the moment to record myself and my ideas. The passion for recording just kept growing and growing till today.

I'm here to improve my playing since I'm a self taught guitarist and to meet some nice people. GMC is just awesome. I don't know why I've took so much time to become a member. I've found very good lessons with awesome teachers.
I love music and love almost every style! (From Adele to Meshuggah)
My heroes: Greg Howe, Andy James, Eric Johnson, Allan Holdsworth, Guthrie Govan, Tosin Abasi & so much more....
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Gear wise:
Peavey 6505+ Head with Orange ppc412 cabinet
Guitars: Fender Strat, Ibanez S series, Schecter damien Elite 8 strings, Jackson DKMG, ESP LTD ec-1000, Agile Pendulum custom 8 strings.

Bass: Warwick Corvette $$ 5 strings

Pedals & stuff:
Mogami & planet waves cables
Pickups: Emg 81 - 85, Seymour duncan Pearly Gates and Hot rails, Dimarzio D-Activators X, Bareknuckle Aftermaths
Ts-9 tube screamer, Vox Time machine, various boss pedals, Morley volume pedal, Dunlop Crybaby wah, Voodoolab Amp, Axefx STD (Hope to get a kemper or a axefx II soon)
Line 6 Pod x3 pro, Tech21 SANSamp RBI and the list goes on and on...
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Hope to getting to know you all soon!

Posted by: Rated Htr Mar 15 2013, 05:20 PM

Welcome man, the entry fee is that Agile guitar sent to me

Enjoy and rock on \m/

Posted by: Slavenko Erazer Mar 15 2013, 05:48 PM

Hey New!

How's things in Quebec?

Parlez la france?

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 15 2013, 06:24 PM

Hi David! Nice introduction! Welcome to GMC!

Do you have any audio or videos of you playing? This would help us a lot to know how to help you and suggest lessons from here. It's very important to create a good program with diary routines based on lessons and learning theory. There is a lot of great stuff here so just let us know if you need some help.

Enjoy it!

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 15 2013, 06:27 PM

Welcome man! Glad you decided to introduce yourself to the community just let us know what we can help you with and we'll be right on it

Posted by: PosterBoy Mar 15 2013, 06:31 PM

Welcome to the family

Posted by: TreyDeschamp Mar 15 2013, 06:33 PM

Welcome to the site man!

Posted by: Davidzz1988 Mar 15 2013, 08:06 PM

hahaha thanks man!


Hey man, things are doing great
Where are you from?
Oui je parle Français!

Thanks guys!

I got two old videos that I made with my pod x3 last year I think?
Nothing too fancy.
Here are the two covers!






Enjoy!

Posted by: gregc1 Mar 15 2013, 11:42 PM

Damn, those videos are awesome man.

Posted by: Headbanger Mar 16 2013, 12:36 AM

Yeah cool videos!

Posted by: Davidzz1988 Mar 16 2013, 01:11 AM

Big thanks man!!


Thanks mate!

Posted by: Slavenko Erazer Mar 16 2013, 10:33 AM

I am from opposite part of the world - Serbia

That guitar looks sexy. what is it?

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 16 2013, 11:45 AM

Awesome tight playing and brutal tone! Welcome once again mate!

Posted by: Davidzz1988 Mar 16 2013, 12:42 PM

Hey man! Nice to meet you!
This is my old Jackson DXMG. Great guitar with a nice feel. The only downside was the Emg Hz stock pickups. I've replaced them with dimarzio's D-ActivatorsX. The Hz were dark and a little bit muddy sounding. At least for me and my playing. I also changed the knobs for speed knobs!



Whoaa thanks a lot man!!

Posted by: Headbanger Mar 16 2013, 12:54 PM

Hey David...when you made your videos I can see at least three different shot angles. Did you use three cameras simultaneously or did you do three well timed takes which were able to be integrated with the audio easily?

Almost had me Headbangin then....

Posted by: Davidzz1988 Mar 16 2013, 01:31 PM

Hey! I've bought 2 very cheap ''HD'' sony camera on ebay 2 years ago to be able to make cooler guitar covers videos on youtube.
I've got a free tripod with my purchase so what I have done in the videos was 2 shots angles simultaneously. The tripod was placed right in front of me and the second camera was placed on a desk to film the picking hand. I've recorded the 2 videos in one shot
(Press rec on the two cameras simultaneously).

My chain was :
guitar going into the podx3 pro to my Video editor(Sony Vegas 12). The cameras were filming the take as I recorded the pod audio track in Vegas.
After that, I've taken the 2 videos recorded in my cameras to import them in my pc. I've put the 2 videos tracks perfectly aligned together in Vegas. I've erased the two audio track of my cameras in Vegas and I kept the two video tracks align together and I've un-muted the podx3 track that I've made when I was recording my take with the two cameras.

Hope my english wasn't to crappy and that you understand everything I've wrote.
If there is any questions, ask me man!

There are the cheap cameras that I've used:

Posted by: Headbanger Mar 16 2013, 02:18 PM

That's a perfect explanation and perfect English. Thanks for sharing..its appreciated.

Posted by: Timmy b Mar 16 2013, 02:26 PM

Welcome to GMC Man!
Some really nice playing too!

Posted by: Davidzz1988 Mar 16 2013, 03:00 PM

No problem my friend! Thanks a lot


Hey Timmy! Big thanks!!