Best way to acheive 'Punk' sondz?

kim · Post by **kim** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:18 am

i hate soccer, my dad was a pro soccer player and my brother plays it too, i grew up around it and got many a leather football smacked right into my face kicked HARD from a few meters distance because i always ended up being the goal keeper. do not want numb face, unless it's from acohol of course.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:21 am

Was your dad Jan Ceulemans? The great Belgium footballer from the 1982 world cup?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:27 am

This is the 'War and Peace' of shortscale threads. Borders will be established, ideologies defined, cultural revolutions begun ... And a whole load of shat in the middle. Luv u guise

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:15 am

Carl. Get your fucking British on.

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Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:35 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote:it's too fuzzy at this point, and it appears the consensus is to drop the bass out a bunch. my main trouble was i didn't want to fuck with my amp settings a bunch, because i have it set for my best sound for my original jams.

You might be surprised to realise how little gain you need in "The Real World." What sounds awesome and perfect at bedroom levels often doesn't work with a band or with other people filling space. It might be an idea to roll off some the gain when jamming. Generally speaking, I've found that more mids and less gain helps to translate a bedroom sound to a stage sound.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:38 am

I could not agree more Paul. Damn, i wanna share a glue-bag with Carl and jam and talk Punk and share riffs and smash windows and get my docs back out...

Skip · Post by **Skip** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 3:17 am

BacchusPaul wrote:
hotrodperlmutter wrote:it's too fuzzy at this point, and it appears the consensus is to drop the bass out a bunch. my main trouble was i didn't want to fuck with my amp settings a bunch, because i have it set for my best sound for my original jams.
You might be surprised to realise how little gain you need in "The Real World." What sounds awesome and perfect at bedroom levels often doesn't work with a band or with other people filling space. It might be an idea to roll off some the gain when jamming. Generally speaking, I've found that more mids and less gain helps to translate a bedroom sound to a stage sound.

this^^^^

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 3:29 am

Fran wrote:Was your dad Jan Ceulemans? The great Belgium footballer from the 1982 world cup?

Also, this question really, really needs answering.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:04 am

BacchusPaul wrote:
hotrodperlmutter wrote:it's too fuzzy at this point, and it appears the consensus is to drop the bass out a bunch. my main trouble was i didn't want to fuck with my amp settings a bunch, because i have it set for my best sound for my original jams.
You might be surprised to realise how little gain you need in "The Real World." What sounds awesome and perfect at bedroom levels often doesn't work with a band or with other people filling space. It might be an idea to roll off some the gain when jamming. Generally speaking, I've found that more mids and less gain helps to translate a bedroom sound to a stage sound.

fuck, after reading back through that, the first thing i noticed was i typed "a bunch" twice within two sentences. how low can a faux-punk get?

i actually have my peavey set to about B-6, M-4, T-8 or so. i'll have to double check that. i actually have a room i'm soundproofing, and mic'ing, so what my amp is at, is generally an all around good eq for jamming, and playing my tunes. i've just dipped into the 'punk' thing, and don't live the lifestyle, really listen to the music, or have any gravity of the scene, etc.

i didn't mean i wouldn't change my amp eq, i just stated i didn't want to fuck with it 'a bunch' because it took me several years to get everything the way i wanted. the XXX (which i'll have to fucking demo, because it appears no one knows what it is?) has 3 channels (clean, crunch, and ULTRA! - which i don't use - EDIT: oh fuck, maybe i need to use this channel?), and never really used the crunch tone until i got my footswitch (a whole otha story altogetha).

when i started using the 'crunch' i noticed my levels were fucked going between the clean and crunch. i've only recently gotten that fingered out, and my problem seems to be lack of true bonding with my amp. the thing is versatile as shit, and i have the attention span of a goldfish. * HUH? WASSAT? *

the only amp i keep for 'bedroom' levels is my pathfinder, which i have all dialed in. funny, i don't even have my own bedroom anymore

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i can't stress enough how important it was to me that i make this thread. and you all have badgered it to the point where i know now that i just need to spend several days fucking with the amp. i'm gonna have a go with no pedals, and see what i can scrounge up.

Fran wrote:I could not agree more Paul. Damn, i wanna share a glue-bag with Carl and jam and talk Punk and share riffs and smash windows and get my docs back out...

midweSSt fest 2010?

less_cunning · Post by **less_cunning** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:15 am

when are the REAL punks gonna chime in this thread ???

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:46 am

Off wondering if it'll totally destroy their realpunk cred to chime in on a thread.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:48 am

I'm so much more punk than you guys. I have an studded belt and misfits t-shirt.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:06 am

Q-Tip but don't enjoy it.

less_cunning · Post by **less_cunning** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:07 am

i nominate the Peavey T-15 as the official punk rock guitar of SSDotOrg. REAL punks can't afford Fender guitars.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:13 am

last time I checked this site was a pretty heavy base of squier users.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:15 am

i'm a punk that chimed in, didn't get a response so i'll go into more detail.
i just use my amp, turn up the mids, lowish gain, ample bass, lots of treble.
now if i'm rocking my acoustic 260 bass amp w/o gain, i use my big muff, and my jaguar with the strangle switch on(you own a jaguar carl which is why i say this).
i use this for every gig i've played, and it's a decent punk sound, i guess.
basically you just have to experiment with your amp.
try a deltalab rd1 rock distortion, or a big muff pi nyc.
all you'll need for it.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:19 am

Oh bloody hell. Drunk douchery ahoy. Lal 'real like punk rock' what a knob I am Sorry Freddy! I still reserve the right not to reveal my lack of ballskill

glad to see things got back in track.

Freddy - Just PMed you.

kim · Post by **kim** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:52 am

Fran wrote:Was your dad Jan Ceulemans? The great Belgium footballer from the 1982 world cup?

as my name is rosez, no. lol he was a goal keeper, beveren, rwdm, standard etc. but yeah in the 80's, i remember some holidays sitting in michel preud'homme's neck and geert de vlieger, they were friends, goal keepers are always the black sheep in soccer often though. in the 90's he got an offer to move to colombia (bogota) for a team, even went there to check out the house, then my mum changed her mind and we didn't do it. haha ...thank fuck.

oh fuck, lol there's pics of him here:
http://www.rwdm-fcbrussels.be/11-FICHES ... s1993.html

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:27 pm

Thank fuck indeed. South American football is proper mental. You'd be living in a house made out of cocaine, and instead of guitars, you'd play cocaine isntead, and instead of music, cocaine would be your main hobby. That, and rioting.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:40 pm

+1.
Great pics Kim

less_cunning wrote:i nominate the Peavey T-15 as the official punk rock guitar of SSDotOrg. REAL punks can't afford Fender guitars.

No, they all use Gibsons instead

I've played and still play with a lot of Punk bands and its quite shocking how many of them have Les Pauls and SGs, even 16 year old 'Punks'. Its funny tbh, gone are the days of scraping through with a Hondo II from the local cash traders but playing with enough conviction and passion that the guitar is irrelevant anyway.

What is a REAL Punk anyway? This has always been a lolworthy debate even in my local circles.