Sunday, December 11, 2016

CHRIS CORNELL - SUNSHOWER


CHRIS CORNELL - SUNSHOWER
=========================

Transcription: DelValleKidd
Tuninng      : Standard
Chords Used  :

  D9   G/C   G/B   G/Bb  G/F    A7   Asus4  E    Bm  Bm7  F#m   D
|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0----2----2----2----2----|
|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----2-----3-----0----3----3----2----3----|
|-2-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----2-----1----4----2----2----2----|
|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2----4----4----4----0----|
|-------3-----2-----1-----x-----0-----0-----2----2----2----4---------|
|-------------------------1-----------------0--------------2---------|

Intro: D - D9 G/B G/F G/E G/Bb A - Asus4

D       D9     G/C               
Dark as roses  fine as sand,
D         D9                G/B   G/Bb
Feel your healing  and your sting again

D        D9              G/B       G/F
Hear you laughing and my soul is saved,   
      G/B    G/Bb       A - Asus4
on forgotton graves you cry

D        D9     G/C              
Cry like ivy up my spin
D          D9           G/B   G/Bb
through my nerves and into my eyes
D         D9        
Cuts like anguish or
G/B    G/F          E                A - Asus4
Reco - llections of better days gone by

           Bm                 D                    
But it's alright  when you're all in pain
        F#m                Bm - Bm7
and you feel the rain come down                       
       E               D                     
It's alright  when you find your way
         F#m              Bm  - Bm7
then you see it disappear
       E                  D                  
It's alright  though your garden's gray 
       F#m              Bm           A
I know all your graces  someday will flower ooh
E       A7
Oh-oh   Oh-oh
                D    D    D    D    A-Asus4
In the sweet sunshower

D         D9         G/C
Eyes like oceans  so far away
  D       D9         G/B    G/Bb
A feather trail to a better way
D       D9            G/B  G/F 
Worried mornings turn into days
     E            A  -  Asus4
then into worried nights

           Bm                 D                    
But it's alright  when you're all in pain
        F#m                Bm - Bm7
and you feel the rain come down                       
       E               D                    
It's alright  when you find your way
         F#m              Bm  - Bm7
then you see it disappear
       E                  D                  
It's alright  though your garden's gray 
       F#m              Bm           A
I know all your graces  someday will flower ooh
E       A7
Oh-oh   Oh-oh
                D    D    D    D    A-Asus4
In the sweet sunshower



Thursday, December 8, 2016

Low Impedance Input

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Great link about buffers and input impedance.


With my pedal board I setup an input unit that has an input buffer/booster with a tuner output.
The input signal always goes through the booster, then the stomp either directs the signal to the rest of the board or to the tuner.

The booster is an AMZ mosfet booster with high input impedance and moderately low output impedance..


Wednesday, December 7, 2016

More Links and Pedals.

Trying to keep up with info on the internet is an endless task.
Here is another to tuck away for later reference.

http://somuchsound.blogspot.jp/

Also trying to keep up on pedal accumulation.

BB Preamp for 5750 JPY plus 510 shipping. Fixer-upper with busted knobs.


MXR Blue Box for 2150 JPY Plus 300 shipping


And an array of tuners. I am trying to decide on a tuner for my pedal board and it seems it will end up being the Ibanez LU20

BOSS TU-70.



KORG AT-1




I am trying to decide on a tuner for my pedal board and it seems it will end up being the Ibanez LU20

Thursday, December 1, 2016

DIY Switch-3/FS3/TC Helicon Three Button FSW

Here is my DIY 3 button Momentary switch.





Derived from the schematic found online.


Here is a gut shot of a fs300.



Wednesday, November 30, 2016

First Zoom R8 recording - Cherub Rock

Here is the first recording using the Zoom R8 MultiTrack RecorderCherub Rock in a studio jam. I used the onboard distortion and did not try the footswitch input, so the intro is full on distortion.



Picked up the unit on Yahoo! Auction for 12,000 JPY plus 800 jpy shipping. It came with all the included items with original box, cubase cd and the sd card.

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

PedalBoard using BOSS RC-2 Loop Station & OC-2 Octave

I bought a Boss RC-2 Looper for practicing at home. Before I just used Boss-DD-7 or TCE Flashback looping feature, but was sold by some YouTube videos showing the Looper. I want to buy the RC-3 because of the larger sampling capacity, however this RC-2 was available for 5000 JPY plus 510 shipping. I put the Octave OC-2 in front of it to sample in bass riffs for jamming. The white box is a diy dirt box that includes a MP-Sweet Honey OD >> MIA CruchBox >> BJFE Arctic White Fuzz. The case is a Buffalo Router Box I bought for 108 JPY in Akihabara. I just gutted the inside and loading it with dirt pedal hardware. When I stomp the MP-SHOD, instead of bypass it is output to the Boss TU-70 tuner. I plan to make a TapTempo box for the RC-2 like the Dual Boss FS-6U with a stereo jack.


Sunday, July 31, 2016

Pedal Case Junk Collection

Bought these two cases for 610 yen plus 510 shipping.


And these three for 630 yen plus 510 shipping.

I plan to build them up and perhaps sell a few to cover some of my own project costs.

Ibanez RS100

Picked up this one on tokyo cl for 20,000 yen. I sold the pickups for 13,000 so now looking for some ibanez pickups to replace and back into working order. The frets need replacing so I figure I can use this beater as a learning  project guitar.






Sunday, July 24, 2016

Water Slide Decals

Here is a list of water slide decals I made and still not used. I want to eventually use them up, so I want to make a list to remind myself before I store them away in a box I wont open for months.



  1. Zvex Super Hard On with Vol Control
  2. EM-Vibe (Dual pedal with Em-Drive and Vico Vibe, Dark Blue and light Blue)
  3. Analog.Man King of Tone (actual Prince of Tone)
  4. Roger Mayer Octavia with Oct lifter switch
  5. EM-Drive x 2
  6. Wampler Plexi-Drive x2
  7. DAM MeatHead
  8. Lotus SnowJob
  9. Paul Cochrane Timmy (Clear)
  10. ColorSound Tremolo x2 
  11. MI Audio CrunchBox Distortion
  12. Xotic RC Booster
  13. Xotic AC Booster
  14. Xotic BB PreAmp
  15. Little Angel Chorus x2
  16. ZVex SHO with 2Vol,2Stomps
  17. ZVex SHO with 2Vol,2Stomps,Tuner OUt

Friday, July 15, 2016

VOX WAH-WAH MODEL V847

Picked up this unit for 1,234円 plus 800 shipping. I got it to complete my wah pedal line up. I will upload all the wahs lined up after they are ready to go.








Pre-Modded Cry Baby => Colorsound Wah ?

Picked up a pre-modded Cry Baby for 1234 JPY plus 510 shipping. I was going to do a true bypass/led mod myself, but this one already had it done to save me some work. I am thinking of putting a DIY Colorsound Wah because this one does not work.




Friday, May 27, 2016

wah mods

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Picked up a cheap CryBaby and busted VOX wah and Also have a Maxon Blubber Wah that had a broken input connector, so easy fix

Below are some mods on the TO DO list

>True Bypass
>DC input jack
>On/Off LED
>Wah-Volume Combo
>Volume Boost
>9v-18v

Had a hit on some modding below.



Thursday, May 5, 2016

50K Rev Log Pot

Image result for potentiometer mod
Here is the curve when using a 1M resistor and a 250K Lin Pot.

Rtotal = R1×R2/(R1+R2)

R1 = 1M
R2 = 250K Linear




Headphone Amp Project Update

Lately I have made some progress in building some cabinet simulators for my headphone amp.

The headphone amp is the mxr headphone amp.
I gutted a DC power supply and used the original switch and lamp jewel.
The pots are mounted to control A/B input (plan to add a 2 channel mixer) and master volume.

So far I have built the Simple CabSim and the AMT S1 Legend CabSim.
Next I would like to build the Marshall, Condor and Multi CabSim and bundle them all into a seperate box.
I picked up some Buffalo Routers for 100 yen each and plan to gut them to use as the housing.

Below is an excellent reference to cabinet simulators.


Also found the pedalboard design a great reference for my own builds.



Saturday, March 19, 2016

Lenny Kravitz - Butterfly

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Title:                        Butterfly                  (Lenny Kravitz)

G       Daug             Dm                   C        (*)
        You are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen

G    Daug                Dm                    C          (*)
        You shine just like sun that rains on the winter snow

Cm                      G
        I just had to...tell you so

G       Daug      Dm                    C                       (*)
        Your eyes sparkle as the stars, like the moon that glows

G       Daug       Dm                                 C              (*)
        Your smile could light the world on fire...or did you know

G       Daug                Dm                C         (*)
        Your mind's full of everything that I wanna know

Cm                    G
        I just had to let you know

Cm                    G
        I just had to tell you so

Cm                            G
        You're my butterfly...flyin' high

Cm                    G
        Flyin' high...fly, fly, fly...


        Chords:         E A D G B E
                        ===========
                 G      3 2 0 0 0 3
                 Daug   x x x 3 3 2
                 Dm     x x 0 2 3 1
                 C      x 3 2 0 1 0
                 Cm     x x 1 0 1 3

        Twiddely bit:   (*)   Lenny does a bit of quick fingering here that
                        sounds right, but perhaps there's a better way of doing
                        it -- so please mail me if you figure it out.

        Examples:
                        xSLy - x Slide to y
                        xPy  - x Pull off to y

     G         G         Daug      Daug      Dm        Dm  Dm     C    C
E |--3---------3---------x---------x---------x---------x---x------x----x---
A |--2---------2---------x---------x---------x---------x---x------3----3---
D |--0---------0---------x---------x---------0---------0---0------2----2---
G |--0---------0---------3---------3---------2---------2---2------0----0---
B |--0---------0---------3---------3---------3---------3---3------1----1---
E |--3---------3---------2---------2---------1---------1---1------0----0---
                 You     are        the most beautiful thing I've ever seen



               C            G         G         Daug      Daug      Dm
E |------------x------------3---------3---------x---------x---------x-
A |------------3------------2---------2---------x---------x---------x-
D |------------2------------0---------0---------x---------x---------0-
G |------------0------------0---------0---------3---------3---------2-
B |-1SL3P1-0-1-1-1SL3P1-0-1-0---------0---------3---------3---------3-
E |------------0------------3---------3---------2---------2---------1-
                                        You     shine      just like...etc

OR -- FOR THE CHORUS:

               C            Cm        Cm        Cm        Cm        G
E |------------x------------x---------x---------x---------x---------3-
A |------------3------------x---------x---------x---------x---------2-
D |------------2------------1---------1---------1---------1---------0-
G |------------0------------0---------0---------0---------0---------0-
B |-1SL3P1-0-1-1-1SL3P1-0-1-1---------1---------1---------1---------0-
E |------------0------------3---------3---------3---------3---------3-
                                       I just   had to     tell you so...etc


Notes:
The chords here in the tab bits are only the down
strums taken from the album "Mama said", but it'll
sound great any way you play it.

This is dedicated to John "my guitar guru" Bradbury who taught me how to play
it, and especially to my love Sib who inspired me to learn to play guitar.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Drums?

There is a practice studio near my work place that charges 500 jpy per hr.
I can pop in during my lunch hour and get in some practicing during the week.
Each studio room is equipped with a drum kit that is included in the 500 yen charge and 200 yen additional charge for guitar rentals.
I don't really understand why one is included and the other is not...?

I always wanted to learn drums so I will take advantage of the cheaper rates and try to learn drums this year. The first attempt is to dive into learning songs. Below songs seem relatively simple for beginner level, so I will try to master these songs before thinking of the next steps.

Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule
Weezer – Undone (the sweater song)
ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin
AC/DC – Highway to Hell




Saturday, January 9, 2016

You're the One by The Black Keys - Magic Potion


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nice tab. seems accurate. 
 
                       + You're the One +
                   The Black Keys - Magic Potion


     Slight Overdrive   
INTRO:                                      
     Am               Bm    C                                
e||-----------------------------------|----------------------|
B||--5----------------7---------------|--------8----7--------|
G||--5----------------7-----9~--------|--------9----7--------|
D||--7----------------9----10---------|-------10----x--------|
A||--7----------------9----10---------|-------10----x--------|
E||--5----------------7-----8---------|--------8----7--------|
          
  |--------------------|----------------------|---------------------|
  |-----7----5---------|----------------------|---------------------|
  |-----7----5---------|----------------------|--7-----9------------|
  |-----9----7~--------|--------------7-------|--9----10------------|
  |-----9----7---------|-----------7----------|--9----10------------|
  |-----7----5---------|-----------5----------|--7-----8------------|

  |-------------------|---------------------|-----------------------------|
  |------7------------|--7----5-------------|-----------------------------|
  |-9----7------------|--7----5-------------|--5------5-------------------|
  |-x----9------------|--9----7~------------|--5h--7--7--5----7----5\-----|
  |-x----9------------|--9----7-------------|--5h--7--7-------7----5\-----|
  |-8----7------------|--7----5-------------|-----------------------------|
   
VERSE: 

  |--------------------|-------------------------|
  |--------------------|-------------------------|
  |----------4---------|-----4-----4--/7~--------|
  |----------5---------|-----5--5--5--/9~--------|
  |-5--------5----5----|--------5--5--/9~--------|
  |-3-------------3----|-------------------------|
   Was_                                Thir_ 

  |--------------------|-------------------------|
  |--------------------|-------------------------|
  |----------4---------|-----4-----4--/7~--------|
  |----------5---------|-----5--5--5--/9~--------|
  |-5--------5----5----|--------5--5--/9~--------|
  |-3-------------3----|-------------------------|
   _teen                                 _my mom......                                      

  |-------------------------|-------------------------|
  |-------------------------|---------------5---------|
  |--5----------5--5--5-----|----5--5--5--------------|
  |--7--------5h7--5--7--5--|--5h7--7--7--------------|
  |--7--------5h7--7--7--7--|--5h7--7--7--------------|
  |--5----------------------|--------------------3----|
     One_                                   I
  |---------------------|----------------------------------|
  |---------------------|----------------------------------|
  |------------5--------|----------------------------------|
  |----------5h7--------|---5-------5----5---5h7--5--------|
  |----------5h7--------|--(7)--7--(7)--(7)--5h7--7--7--5--|
  |-5-------------------|----------------------------------|
    adore.........

  |--------------------|
  |------(5)------(7)--|
  |-------5--------7---|
  |-------7--------9---|
  |-------7--------9---|
  |-3/-5--------7------| 

CHORUS:

  |--------------------|--------------------|
  |--------------------|--------------------|
  |-9--------------9---|-7--------------7---|
  |-10-------------10--|-9--------------9---|
  |-10-------------10--|-9--------------9---|
  |-8--------------8---|-7--------------7---|
    Ohhhhhh......

  |---------------------|----------------------------------|
  |---------------------|----------------------------------|
  |-5----------5--------|----------------------------------|
  |-7--------5h7--------|---5-------5----5---5h7--5--------|
  |-7--------5h7--------|--(7)--7--(7)--(7)--5h7--7--7--5--|
  |-5-------------------|----------------------------------|

LYRICS:

When I was 13
My mom said
Son, you're the one I adore
Now I'm old and wise
When I see your eyes
You're the one I adore
Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh, ohhh
Will you be true?
Till life is up
Be the one I adore
Oh
You're the one I adore
Ohhh, ohhh