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In case you didn't see the announcement thread, I have some big news: Audiobus – the app – is going to a new home. Francesco and Andrea are developers and musicians who are keen to pursue Audiobus’ further potential, keep it updated and enhance the experience for users old and new – and unlike me, they have the resources to do so! They’re full of ideas and energy, and I am confident that Audiobus will be in good hands.
The Audiobus Forum, however, is staying right here with me. After some consultation with the community here about what to do, I've decided to rename it to the Loopy Pro Forum, at forum.loopypro.com.
It has a new name and new colours, but otherwise, it's the same place, and nothing else will change.
Cheers,
Michael
Guitarists’ Guide
I just thought I would try making a thread after learning about all of the awesome guitarists we have on this forum. It seems everyone is a great guitarist from a different background or genre so I thought it would be fun to make a registry and running thread just for guitarists and guitar related content and info etc. I didn’t know what else to call it so we can change the name lol. I’ll just start off with the following list and you can add or subtract whatever you want.
Name: (only if you want )Chris
Location: NYC,USA (it would be cool but not required )
Genre/type of guitarist: “arabesque” metal* / lead
Guitars:esp custom shop 6 string and 8 string , Ernie ball music man JP 7 strings , Ibanez 6,7,8 strings, Vigier fretless 6 string, Steinberger 6 string
Favorite /influences: Vai, Malmsteen, Satriani, Impelliterri, Gambale, Petrucci, Becker, Gilbert, wylde, evh, Hendrix, Michael Angelo, Moore,…more I forgot about
Favorite pickups: Fishman Fluence(carpenter set), EMG 81/85, Dimarzio tone zone /air Norton
amps/cab: axe Fx iii + Neo clr
fave Fx/pedals axe Fx iii
Samples/albums/tracks:
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/62786/metalmorphosis-by-delafraih
Fave apps /for drums: one shot , auto fills and Octachron .I hope with One shot! I can make my tracks with ease now
Fave DAW: Cubasis 3, AUM+LP+drambo, [Logic Pro (desktop )]
News/what’s going on: I haven’t been able to record myself[well] until recently and I’m still learning how to make better productions ; but I am working on a cover for my fave Van Halen track atm 
*I created a genre I called “arabesque metal” which is a fusion of Arabic oud/folk style inspired mixed with some flamenco and of course American style progressive and speed metal and some European shred to just give you an idea of what elements it’s constituted of.
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Ofc it’s totally voluntary whatever you wanna contribute to this thread. I’m just curious to see what kind of guitarists are using iPad , what equipment and apps and setups and workflows you use, and how you compose on iOS .Beyond that, it’s up to any and all of us who participate to see where this goes if it goes anywhere. Point is: share whatever inspires your guitar work if you please
Thanks
Comments
@yellow_eyez
This genre sounds wicked.
Anyways here's a little jam I did when testing my dRambo+Loopy Pro template.
Mr .Ishmael, you’re absolutely fabulous from guitar to bass to dRambo . I love the LP +drambo video; it is SOOOOO funky bro, u really slapped the stank on that take.
That drum module in dRambo looks illlll son….im gonna watch this a couple times over before I really weigh in
But thanks for the reply sir
o7 respect
After 2017 I stopped playing jazz after four decades, and switched to ragas. I did not play guitar for about five years--my first extended break since I was a teenager. Then two years ago I got a fretless classical. I'll upload something with it some day.
These are the last two fretted guitar things I made back in 2017. Both are long improvisations in a single take.
🙏🏾
I also explored ragas for awhile both rhythmically via drums and percussion as well as melodically via guitar.
It takes one someplace else musically.
Fretless classical?
Wow, I would love to hear some of this.
I can hear you exploring ragas in your playing.
I really like this piece and the accompanying visuals are stunning.
Instant head nod.
Thanks for sharing.
First of all - this is a very cool idea for a thread!
Name: Michael (no surprises there…)
Location: York, SC (via a lot of other places)
Genre/type of guitarist: Rock, indie, folk, blues, funk, punk
Guitars:: Strat, Tele, Ibanez RG, Jackson 7 string, Epiphone acoustic, Gretsch resonator, Squier P Bass Special
Favorite /influences: John McGeoch, Syd Barrett, Captain Sensible, Dave Gilmour, Nicky Garratt, Geordie Walker, Ron Asheton, Eddie Hazel
Favorite pickups: Vintage single coils, hot P-90s, PAF style humbuckers
amps/cab: Vox AC30, Blue Cat Axiom for software, NUX Amp Academy for amp in a box
fave Fx/pedals ProCo Rat or Russian Big Muff Pi
Samples/albums/tracks: Not much right now, but I post here occasionally.
I think this was the last thing I posted:
Fave apps /for drums: Nothing in particular - I mostly use sample triggered by me playing an electronic kit
Fave DAW: Logic or Ableton Live
News/what’s going on: I don’t play guitar as much as I used to, and mostly play acoustic now, often slide guitar in open D. I play piano way more than I play guitar
Name: Dan
Location: NSW, Australia
Genre/type of guitarist: Failed jazz/Psych
Guitars: Martin D28, few 70’s Greco Les Paul, few partscasters and a 1976 Greco Jazz Bass
Favorite /influences: Zappa, Carol Kaye, Hendrix, Sonny Sharrock, John Mclaughlin and too many others to list.
Favorite pickups: Early 60’s strat, PAF, Dimarzio Cruisers
amps/cab: Fender - 1973 Twin Reverb x 2, 1964 Deluxe, 1973 Bassman Ten, 1972 Musicmaster, 1968 Vox AC50, 1968 Galaxie 600R & 4x12 (Rola 12PEG), Heaps of old Acoustic brand amps… I know the amp collection is 20+ and needs to go.
fave Fx/pedals Tape echo, Wah
Samples/albums/tracks:
I post clips here sometimes, I don’t share my music career or lack of 😂
Fave apps /for drums: Patterning was pretty sick but I prefer Note these days. Loopy Pro is my favourite app for guitar followed by Mollilooper.
Fave DAW: Ableton
Name: Evan
Location: Ohio, USA
Genre/type of guitarist: Rock/Metal/Industrial/Thrash/punk/black metal (sort of)
Guitars: ESP Ltd, Kasino bass I’ve had since I was 8, Rogue Acoustic
Favorite/Influences: Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Fear Factory, Infected Mushroom, Black Sabbath, Hendrix, Queens Of The Stone Age
Favorite Pickups: HSS setup
Amps/Cab: NAM, Tonex, i have a peavy supreme half stack that I haven’t played in a very long time that I’m looking to sell… I mostly use Gigfast now with Marshall JCM 800/Engl Fireball/Plasma Pedal profiles into Bogren IRs.
Fave FX/Pedals: Tubescreamer, WAH, Shimmer, Glitchy stuff… EQD plumes, Bad Horsey mini, EHX Canyon, Joyo Dark Flame. Only have the Bad Horsey now (considering getting rid of it too). I have moved exclusively to IOS pretty much, did have an RC600 and all those pedals and many more but now just Loopy Pro and AUV3s. As mentioned Gigfast, Tonex, used to use Nembrini Stuff, Aurora DSP stuff, BYOD, Tonebridge began the rabbit hole journey. Recently mostly Gigfast, Anyamp IR, Taurus, Cascade.
Samples/Albums/Track: Coming very soon… I Jam every night mostly when the kids and wife go to sleep. I make a rough “Song” out of it every couple days. Sometimes I’ll put a little more work into it but very rarely. I mean to eventually polish everything a little more and add more vocals and whatnot. My free time is very limited these days so it’s gonna be a while. Been thinking about at least just putting up some jams on SoundCloud. My guitar chops are certainly not what they used to be and I have never been very technically proficient, another goal to work towards soon.
Favorite Drum apps: Sitala, Koala Sampler, Blip Box, Relic Flow, Fractal Bits… Mostly use Bogren samples for acoustic drums into FAC smash and sometimes Punchlab/Transient/Altispace
Favorite DAW: LOOPY PRO!!! FL studio, Ableton
All the introductions remind me of an AA group. Maybe we should have an additional comment for how long it's been since our last gear/app tone hunting purchase.
Why don’t you introduce yourself and join the circle…?
Ha ha ha ha! "Yeaah man, I've been off the string a while now, it's hard man.. real hard"
https://on.soundcloud.com/DjV1Abt8bA6XJUZcA
Name: dblonde
Location: Greater China at moment close to Shanghai - but i'm from Wales.
Genre/type of guitarist: Pop, Rock, Folk, Midi Digital.
Guitars: Lowden O10, Ibanez 6 string electric, Fender Bass, You Rock digital, Jamstik+, Lap Steel.
Favorite /influences: Kelly Joe Phelps, Paul Simon, Jimmy Page, Jan Akerman, Andy Summers.
Favorite pickups: Fancy a beer babes!, How you doin'?
amps/cab: Vox AC30 brown cloth 1970s, Vox Valvtronix 50, Roland Cube street+
fave Fx/pedals: BOSS wah,
Samples/albums/tracks:
Fave apps /for drums: EZ Drummer, Goran Grooves, all the ios ones.
Fave DAW: Cubasis 3, Bitwig Studio, desktop Cubase 13.
Thanks for the great replies so far everyone
Lmao haha
Yes, that’s why the last part I left was
“News/what’s going on” : so please by all means tell us your latest gear purchase or your current productions you have going or whatever you want….we can see where this place goes
Yep, great idea for a thread. Thanks @yellow_eyez for starting it.
Name - Gary , Gaz, Med (nickname from when I was roughly 5 that some people still know me by)
Location - the far east of England
Genre - punk, post-punk, noise rock.
Guitars - Favourite is a Hondo All-Star. Lovely low action, coil tap for a variety of sounds, it’s got beef and twang.
Squire Tele - thought it’d be my main but the Hondo is still king.
In bits - A Kay (Teisco) something with terrific pickups that punch like P90s. Light and thin body, very playable. It was broken up when I got it and the scratch plate has gradually fell apart. Need to get this sorted and playable again (yes I love “cheap” guitars but with a decent setup they can be special)
Influences - Daniel Ash (Bauhaus), East Bay Ray (Dead Kennedys), Tony Byker (GBOA), Andy Gill (Gang Of 4), Ichiro Agata (Melt-Banana)
Amp and set-up - I run various fx into a pedal replica of the head of an HH IC100 head (70s British solid state amp) then into one of a selection of IRs for power amp, cab and speakers. My “sound” is usually noise gate-> Harmonic Percolator-> tape delay -> amp. Ring mod and chorus are on the board too.
I prefer the “feel” of pedals and running fx before the amp so apps don’t really fit. Would love some of the delays and modulation we have available on iOS in the chain though. The two “Shaper” apps are a lot of fun too.
Apps for drums - DM1, Octachron, auto fills, DigiStix 2.
DAW - Cubasis 3. Logic if I’m on the Mac but 99% of what I do is on iPad
News - waiting for my partner in crime to put vocals on an ep we’ve just about finished. About to start writing more.
I’m 54 so “getting the band back together” is my midlife crisis project and I really hope we can play live again.
Ooh, an invitiation for guitarists to talk about their gear/themselves!
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Name: Nah
Location: Portland, OR
Genre/type of guitarist: Was hardcore flamenco for years. Even moved to Spain to study. Now, I’m a lot of things. Rock, jazz, country, spaghetti western, surf. Pretty much everything but funk and 12-bar blues.
Guitars:
Gretsch g5420tg hollow body,
1934 Gibson archtop (L7?),
Revelation RLR (Les Paul Personal clone)
Jose L. Postigo flamenco blanca
Ibanez Yairi classical
Jerry Jones baritone
Republic resonator (biscuit)
John Morton 7-string tricone resonator
various frankenstein project guitars
various lap steels and an Emmons pedal steel
various ethnic stringed instruments from around the world
Favorite /influences: Paco De Lucia, Bill Elm (The Friends of Dean Martinez), Tony Iommi, David Gilmour
Favorite pickups: Filtertrons, p90s and Jerry Jones lipsticks.
amps/cab: Sold all amps a while ago and use iPad only now. So, Tonex
fave Fx/pedals: tape echo, spring reverbs, and am currently loving Scaler EQ
Samples/albums/tracks:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0ifeJLgZNZLDG8pKTd3xev
Fave apps /for drums: Session Band
Fave DAW: Cubasis 3
News/what’s going on: I’m creating a soundtrack for a documentary about a Slovak settlement in Arkansas. I’m arranging eastern European folk songs into Americana (blues, jazz, bluegrass, etc). I just finished arranging one in the style of Chet Atkins.
Awesome
I totally forgot to put my flamenco guys (paco , Sabicas, tomatito, Vicente amigo)
Great resquiado
Glad another flamenco style guy is here
I have a Cordoba F45 nylon
@Sabicas
I didn't expect to hear compas or variations of compas at all.
That was a pleasant surprise.
I was exploring creating a tango and flamenco touring agency in the early 2000's
so I have a broad understanding of flamenco no were near in depth like yourself.
Living in Spain and studying with the gypsies would do that for sure.
By the way I saw both Paco de Lucia and Paco Pena back in the 90's
Stunning performances from both, thanks for the reminder.
and more imprtantly thanks for sharing.
Are bass players welcome or is that another thread?
awesome. I can’t believe I forgot to list my usernamesake as an influence, which he most definitely is.
A bass is a guitar. 😎
Unless it's one of these. If so then you've come to the wrong forum.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/StripedBass.JPG/1600px-StripedBass.JPG
this is great. I didn’t expect there to be another user, much less two, here who has real knowledge of flamenco. It seems so electronic-music/beatmaking/midi themed around here, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I got to see Paco De Lucia one time back in 2001 I think it was.
More the merrier
welcome Ben
Haha ofc I knew you meant to add him, but who doesn’t list paco as Their man man ?!
I also wanted to add Miguel De La Bastide, I think he’s a new generation player with great talent
This is awesome
@gravitas you don’t tell me you knew flamencooooooooo!!!?? Ishmael is getting more and more points every day
Nice idea @yellow_eyez, thanks.
Name: Paul
Location: South Korea (originally from the UK)
Genre/type of guitarist: Mainly blues, rock, jazz, (everything & anything)
Guitars: Fender Stratocaster, Gibson ES-225, Taylor GS Mini
Favorite /influences: Too many
Favorite pickups: Strat Fat 50s
Amps/cab: Nembrini Double Reverb, Faceman, MRH810, York Audio IRs (Real: Sovtek Tube Midget 50H with an Electrovoice EVM-12L cab)
Fave Fx/pedals: Nembrini Minotaur, Delay3000 (Real: Mythical Overdrive, OEBN Haunt, TCE Flashback)
Samples/albums/tracks:
https://m.soundcloud.com/dutchee
https://m.soundcloud.com/pbelgium8
Fave apps /for drums: Garageband Drummer
Fave DAW: Cubasis 3
News/what’s going on: Play in a couple of bands. Make music on my phone.
Due to a bad back I’m thinking of replacing my Strat with a Strandberg guitar. Anyone had any experience with these (or other recommendations)???
Lolololol.
I toured Spain for about 8 1/5 years and
whenever I saw gypsy flamenco guitarists I would sit in.
I didn't know how to play flamenco but they seemed to like what I did.
It was great fun.
If we're not welcome I'm going to have to go.
Bass player here as well.
Heavy electronica guy here.
Yeah, he was the don on guitar.
Anecdotal story,
I'm sure you know "Friday Night in San Francisco", the three guitar kings???
They did a second studio album and I worked with their producer engineer
from that album (we're still good friends actually) and he had some stories to tell about them.
They were(Paco has gone now)/are very funny individuals.
Great musicians with ego's to match.
Name Mac
Location Denton, Texas
Genre Rock, blues, metal
Guitars. Mitchell HD400, Squire Strat 3/4 scale (bought for my stepson years ago but it is still fun to play)
Favorites Eddie Van Halen, Nuno Bettencourt, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Randy Rhoads, Tim Henson
Favorite Pickups Whatever it has, I'm good.
Amps / Cab Nembrini BG Extasy, MRH Brown Sound, Rhino
Pedals Nembrini Wah, the "Electron Dominatrix" and "Squawk Box" in Tone Stack Pro
Samples I played the real guitar solo in this video I made 2 years ago while MelodyBud Cality and Aphelian supplied the rhythm parts
Fave app/For drums Rock Drum Machine by Lumbeats
Fav DAW Cubasis 3, AUM
News / What's Going On?
These days I use Riffler and AudioLayer to create virtual guitar stuff since my hands have taken years of factory work abuse and playing for any length of time is difficult.
I like the solo on this one.
Nicely played.
I really like this piece especially the arrangement and choice of sonic textures.
The guitar parts are Riffler?
Ohhhh....
I think I may take a closer look at Riffler then.
Thanks.