The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[Krosis]

I just realized my Sunn Concert Lead has a footswitch jack. What kind of footswitch pedal would work?

[CaptainBoxman]

When I was looking for one for my old Concert Lead, I read that a Fender 2 button RCA switch would do, but I never tried

[Ancient Astronaught]

I just realized my Sunn Concert Lead has a footswitch jack. What kind of footswitch pedal would work?

If it has reverb and a distortion knob then you need a two footswitch with RCA outs.

[Krosis]

I looked at the jack again and it's one of those DIN type jacks

[conky]

DIY guys, tell me about 2 color screen printing? I've only done one color but I wanna try two color screen printing the jackets for the LP we're getting ready to record.

[John Matrix]

DIY guys, tell me about 2 color screen printing? I've only done one color but I wanna try two color screen printing the jackets for the LP we're getting ready to record.

What do you need to know?

[conky]

DIY guys, tell me about 2 color screen printing? I've only done one color but I wanna try two color screen printing the jackets for the LP we're getting ready to record.

What do you need to know?

Mainly the separation of colors. It it ok to screen one color over another or should I leave that part blank to avoid the colors looking weird? I'll be screening black jackets and want all the colors to look as uniform as possible so I'm not sure if orange would look the same on the black jacket as it would over part of a white screen printed image. I don't have a press so my screens aren't gonna line up perfectly every time anyway though.

[Ancient Astronaught]

Hey Clifton.........

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[John Matrix]

DIY guys, tell me about 2 color screen printing? I've only done one color but I wanna try two color screen printing the jackets for the LP we're getting ready to record.

What do you need to know?

Mainly the separation of colors. It it ok to screen one color over another or should I leave that part blank to avoid the colors looking weird? I'll be screening black jackets and want all the colors to look as uniform as possible so I'm not sure if orange would look the same on the black jacket as it would over part of a white screen printed image. I don't have a press so my screens aren't gonna line up perfectly every time anyway though.

I find that printing one color over another works fine for paper printing (as long as it's dark over light). Just print the lightest color first and let them dry before printing the next color over it. If you try to print wet on wet the inks in the screens will start to change. Now, I always print on light paper so I'm not 100% sure how it's going to act on a black printing surface. In your specific case I think that the orange ink over the black paper will probably look different than over white ink. There are two ways you can avoid this but neither one is perfect.

1: Make sure the ink colors don't overlap. This will be really hard considering you don't have a printing press. Even with a printing press this can be hard.

2: Print a white base underneath all of the orange sections. This also will be very hard to line up exactly without a press. This will be easier to pull off without a really tight registration. Like, if the design is orange with a white outline then there will be some wiggle room. Or you can make the top orange layer slightly bigger than the base layer to make sure no white peeks out around the sides. This technique is used a lot when printing light colored inks on dark colored shirts.

[samzadgan]

Hey T-Rey...i've got around to reading your book...about 30pages in...i gotta tell you this...you have done a hell a job man!!!

Its well written and structured clearly, all the examples and the way you explain concepts are done in a way that makes it feel very personal. Its as if you and i are in a room and your talking to me 1 to 1.

Not sure if you are already on the path, but you should get published...this is too good a piece of work to sit in the sea of self-published work.

I was going to do this on PM, but i think everyone should know how special you are

[samzadgan]

Hey T-Rey...i've got around to reading your book...about 30pages in...i gotta tell you this...you have done a hell a job man!!!

Its well written and structured clearly, all the examples and the way you explain concepts are done in a way that makes it feel very personal. Its as if you and i are in a room and your talking to me 1 to 1.

Not sure if you are already on the path, but you should get published...this is too good a piece of work to sit in the sea of self-published work.

I was going to do this on PM, but i think everyone should know how special you are

[D-Day]

No problem, D-Day, apology totally unnecessary. Hope you get the e-mail thing all straightened out.

Thanks for the patience and understanding my friend!

This email thing is really dumb and came about because my former landlord wanted to refinance that old house and there was some federal program that looked sweet. But to qualify he needed to live there. So we put him as the primary account holder (or whatever) on my Comcast account. Then because nothing at all was different in my life we forgot about it and left it that way. Two years later (four months ago) I'm moving in to this place and the Comcast lady says shit is weird and that I need the other dude to call. Well again, all was 100% normal and I was busy so I spaced it. Then one day a couple of weeks ago *boom* email address gone. I've spent what felt like an eternity on the phone with these people, I've watched my former landlord sit here and chat online with a rep for over two hours and it's like these fucks can't even generate the faintest clue regarding what we're even talking about. So now we live in a world where dirtydrock@comcast.net is no more At any rate I need to update my paypal stuff which I will do as soon as I hit "Submit".

Also this seems like a good opportunity to publicly mention that I've had my first Ape Blaster returned. Not because of any breakage or failure but because it makes a shitload of wild feedback and racket when it's activated and you're not playing. Most of 'my people' don't have a problem at all with that and some folks find it to be a bit of a feature. But the fact remains that the only way to shut it up during a rest or in between songs is to kick it off. Of course I seek total customer satisfaction so I fully refunded that guy when I got the pedal back and would certainly do the same for anybody else.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foCOd-_M9G0[/youtube]

[Barracuda]

No problem, D-Day, apology totally unnecessary. Hope you get the e-mail thing all straightened out.

Thanks for the patience and understanding my friend!

This email thing is really dumb and came about because my former landlord wanted to refinance that old house and there was some federal program that looked sweet. But to qualify he needed to live there. So we put him as the primary account holder (or whatever) on my Comcast account. Then because nothing at all was different in my life we forgot about it and left it that way. Two years later (four months ago) I'm moving in to this place and the Comcast lady says shit is weird and that I need the other dude to call. Well again, all was 100% normal and I was busy so I spaced it. Then one day a couple of weeks ago *boom* email address gone. I've spent what felt like an eternity on the phone with these people, I've watched my former landlord sit here and chat online with a rep for over two hours and it's like these fucks can't even generate the faintest clue regarding what we're even talking about. So now we live in a world where dirtydrock@comcast.net is no more At any rate I need to update my paypal stuff which I will do as soon as I hit "Submit".

Also this seems like a good opportunity to publicly mention that I've had my first Ape Blaster returned. Not because of any breakage or failure but because it makes a shitload of wild feedback and racket when it's activated and you're not playing. Most of 'my people' don't have a problem at all with that and some folks find it to be a bit of a feature. But the fact remains that the only way to shut it up during a rest or in between songs is to kick it off. Of course I seek total customer satisfaction so I fully refunded that guy when I got the pedal back and would certainly do the same for anybody else.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foCOd-_M9G0[/youtube]

I usually have to laugh when my friends try out pedals I make and are all crazy about the noise when not playing. Fact is, you stack a bunch of high gain stages and make a massive wall of fuzz... it's gonna be noisy. If it's not noisy, you don't have enough gain.

[skullservant]

I am personally a fan of pedals making noise and hiss when I'm not playing

PS: Is bassist dude in Cult Leader using an Ape Blaster? I swear I saw one on his board when they were in town a few weeks ago

[D-Day]

I do not personally know the bassist of that band but I've moved about three dozen of these now so it is theoretically possible. Shit I hope he is! Some folks have enjoyed it for bass but I'm not a real hi-gain bass type of dude. Too much gain always squelches the attack and bass guitar needs ATTACK imo