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I actually remembered a dream on waking this morning! I visited some guy's basement recording studio. He was a hoarder. He had hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of gear there, amid trash bags and piles of instruments. He said his dad bought it for him.Permalink On twitter.com
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I picked up a bass mandolin (not an octave mandolin, which I have, but some kind of weird hollow-body electric "bass guitar" mandolin thing) and started playing a funky bass line. He recorded it.Permalink On twitter.com
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I asked him to play it back, though, and he got all cagey and weird. I went across teh grubby carpet to the mixing board, and tried to find how to turn up the monitor speakers. A small bug crawled out of the mixing board onto my hand. It was that filthy down there.Permalink On twitter.com
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Finally, I found the slider for the studio monitors and brought up the sound, and hit play. But he hadn't actually recorded my mandobass thing. It was a recording of himself playing singing some pop tune off-key, backed by a drum machine and himself struggling w/guitar chords.Permalink On twitter.com
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I stood there, simultaneously sad for him because it was awful and he needed it so badly to be good, and also so incredibly envious: he had so many instruments and couldn't play them, so much gear he couldn't properly use, and it was crawling with bugs.Permalink On twitter.com
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I am pretty sure a part of this is that I'm resigning myself to putting off getting the looper pedal I was supposed to get this spring. It's perfect for what I need, and even works as an audio interface, but stuff's so uncertain right now. It can wait. (Sigh.)Permalink On twitter.com
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In the meantime, I have a few MIDI controller pedals I can try get back into working order. It's a job of work: hard to get the internal battery replacements here, and electronics fixit guys seem thinner on the ground in my small S. Korean city.Permalink On twitter.com
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(I feel like old gear just gets junked here, instead of sold/auctioned off, refurbished, and resold for cheap like back home.) So I guess that's something to keep me busy and learn till the looper pedal is feasible.On twitter.com
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BTW Mandobasses are a thing, but they're not like the funky bass guitar thing in my dream. I have never played one. (I would love to but they're rare and expensive and a contrabass or maybe a cheap bass guitar are much likelier in my future, if anything.)Permalink On twitter.com