Tuesday, November 30, 2010

我的結他雜記: Fender Mustang II amp

上個星期去朋友屋企,帶埋支Steinberger去玩佢個新amp,係Fender Mustang II,以前未見過,賣點係平得黎(US$200)都有40W仲有amp modelling(已內置八款,可經電腦下載更多)

果個metal同90年代(grunge) models都幾啱,不過我玩jazz,重點係試佢Fender Deluxe model,d聲又幾夠jazz味。

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Mark Feldman and jazz violin

Saw John Abercrombie at Yoshi's earlier this week and was very impressed by his violinist Mark Feldman. Here is his website:
http://www.markfeldmanviolin.com/enter.htm

Too bad he didn't mention what violin he plays.

His myspace page has some audio and video as well:
http://www.myspace.com/markfeldmanviolin

Definitely has classical background. Seems like that's the norm for jazz violinists.
On the other hand, jazz guitarist with classical background seems to be minority. My guitar teacher, Jimmy Bruno, does have classical training. He got some ideas about practicing from Wohlfahrt!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

我的結他雜記: Danelectro N10 HoneyTone

結果都係忍唔住買左隻Danelectro N10 HoneyTone, a battery powered mini-amp黎玩,扭下幾個掣都可以校出多隻唔同聲,由jazz到metal都有。

Friday, April 30, 2010

我的結他雜記: Pocket Pod and amp

關於PocketPod的amp modelling,我又要呻笨,剛才睇manual,話其中一個掣上下按可以選擇不同amp及cabinet,包括著名jazz amp:
Fender Twin Reverb及Roland JC120。通利果位姐姐又無專業知識,攪到我白費減價好機會。

而家把心一橫,睇緊Digitech RP255(見Insomnia位仁兄用digitech,對呢個牌子重拾信心),呢部都有以上兩amp
model。仲有得踩wah wah及轉preset既腳掣(雖然無乜用),在美國只比pocket
pod貴少許,I'm still not sure...... one thing I really like about Pocket Pod is that I could use battery with it. The Digitech uses AC power only.

最新體會:舊年買左個 external sound card,係EMU 0404 USB,本來係用黎聽歌(好似比內置sound card好聽同推headphone好力水d)

但佢跟埋幾套software,其中兩套係Cubase LE同Amplitude。當時我裝落部舊電腦,發覺彈左一陣先有聲出,唔掂。

尋日想bid部Pocket Pod,又唔記得左落bid,結果俾人平買左,心有不甘,再裝過Cubase LE同Amplitude落部新電腦,都係彈左一陣先有聲出,原來device setup可以改用ASIO for EMU 0404 USB,就可以即彈即出聲,有十幾個amp model/preset可以玩,其中一個彈jazz好掂,其實都係clean聲,校到Bass勁多,treble勁少。

諗諗下,其實只要個amp跟住咁樣調校,根本乜model都唔重要。我個100W bass amp,試左用黎彈jazz都OK,果d amp modeller同multi effect對我可能真係無乜用。