Vivek Ayer

Eric Johnson – Effects video

Vivek Ayer — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:56 +0000

Bumped into this nice video of Eric’s setup on the music123 website

http://www.music123.com/LMS/Viewer.aspx?vid=104771

Downloading music from BOSS BR-864

Vivek Ayer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:21:59 +0000

Since I don’t do this often enough and forget how I did it I thought I will document this here.

If you have recorded music on the BOSS BR-864 and want to get it onto your computer, an easy way is to use the free BR Wave Converter software provided by Roland. You can download it here

http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=699

It is quite straight forward to use. Just point it at the USB drive and export your song as a wav file to your computer.

The Railway Gig

Vivek Ayer — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:30:06 +0000

We played at the Railway Hotel in Bromley on the November 7th. Here are some pictures from the gig.

Jimi at Monterey

Vivek Ayer — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:56:27 +0000

I was watching Jimi Hendrix’s performance at the Monterey pop festival in June 1967. What a blistering version of killing floor to kick it off. A lot of questions came to mind. How did his guitar stay in tune with all that whammy bar usage during the gig. Was his strat that well setup? I also did not notice any pedals on the floor. Did he use any? Surely there must have been a fuzz box somewhere. The Arbiter or maybe even the Mestro Fuzz-Tone? Definitely a very minimal live setup. No wah, univibe or octavia like his later years.

The official hendrix site has a fairly good feature on creating the classic hendrix sound.

http://www.jimi-hendrix.com/magazine/601/601,features,effects.html

Bad Monkey

Vivek Ayer — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:01:52 +0000

Can’t afford a tube amp? Hell can’t even afford the Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, then the Digitech Bad Monkey is definitely the one you want. At half the price of the Ibanez pedal it does everything the TS can do and more. I have been skeptical about Digitech pedals but I reckon they have outdone themselves with this one. I am more than happy with mine.

Digitech Bad Monkey

Make that cheap amp of yours sound like a classic tube amp