Every musician loves to make music. It's in our minds, hearts and part of our very soul. Music is the best way to convey almost any feeling, but at its best, reveals your deepest ones.
We start with a feeling
We then start humming a melody
We develop a feel
We attempt to transpose for others to consume.
The journey is riddled with work. From learning new components to your musicianship, to finding instruments that best convey what you want others to hear of your creation.
Then it is fine tuned, over and over and over and over...etc.
Then it is changed, as you work on it, develops and encompasses the feelings you have while making it, intertwined with the feelings that started the whole process, to begin with.
You get better instruments, better sounds, better software and strive to make it sound the best that you can. However it turns out, you can be assured that, the quest never really ends.
As a "metal" musician, the main quest is "tone". I was lucky and over the last couple of years was able to bypass my quest for tone. It was achieved. This provided a unique ability to simply, create and let my most inner self out through my "instrument". haha.
Sadly, I must re enter the never ending "quest" for tone. For now.
Of all the searching, it was found in my Line 6 pod x3. Countless hours of tweaking, shaping, etc pretty much exploded. That explosion not only contained popped resistors and melted motherboards, but ended up smearing and splattering my inner most thoughts and feelings, all over the walls too.
In short, and without the drama:
My pod died. And I'm a broke ass nugga. No new music from the badman, until I can replace it. I have no idea how long that will take.
Maybe I'll make techno or dubstep. I think I have fruity loops kicking around. LOL
Merry Christmas, fuckers.
poisened-noise
dude that sucks. Ive got an X3 myself, and to be honest it took me a good 3 months of tweaking until i finally found what i was looking for...if i had to start over again i think id kill myself.
From one guitarist and musician to another - "That sucks like a fuckin black hole. Keep rockin."
Bad-Man-Incorporated
I have a buddy that is loaning me a digitech gnx3000 in the mean time. Don't know ANYTHING about how much I can do with one, compared to what my pod did for me. But I've always wanted to try one!