A-Bomb in an Epiphone '58 Korina Explorer, C standard tuning

[Dave Sloven]

We played a set live to air on Three D (local community radio station) last Saturday.  Same guitar and amp as last time.  The tubes in my 6534+ are getting a bit tired and replacements are on their way but TBH in the facebook video from the radio station you can't really tell because it is quite compressed.

https://www.facebook.com/ThreeDRadio/videos/10155395414524207/

A friend also recorded it with my camera but the vocals didn't come through very loud as the speakers were pointed back at us as foldbacks.

These are the two videos he recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8dGMtPTQ3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvwMr2_E6iY

The set began with a improvised intro followed by a new song called 'Simian Apocalypse', with lyrics based on the recent Planet of the Apes films and novels.

[Dave Sloven]

You can download this performance from Bandcamp now.

https://slovencoven.bandcamp.com/releases

I did make a few mistakes and my amp is on the verge of needing tubes (and indeed I am taking it in for new tubes this week before we record a proper demo) but it is better quality than the videos and I hope gives a better idea of the sound of an A-bomb in C.

For most of it the main pedals colouring the sound are an EQD Ghost Echo reverb and an MXR 10-band EQ.  At the beginning in the clean section I am using an MXR Black Label Chorus, a Boss RE-20, and the Ghost Echo but you can't hear much there, and then when I switch to the lead channel I have the chorus on through the first intro section but the RE-20 is off.  On any palm-mute sections the reverb is off.  In the lead sections of the first song I am using the bridge pickup with the following activated in the loop of an LS-2: Boss DD-7 (modulate), MXR Carbon Copy, Boss RV-5 (hall).  On the second song (cover) I use the same settings but with the Nailbomb neck pickup.

In the outro I pretty much have all the effects on, including a Boss PS-6 in S-bend mode for two octaves down with tremolo.

[Dave Sloven]

So we have finished our demo and posted one track as a teaser on YouTube before we release it on Bandcamp this Saturday.

You can hear it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlyuDtjUc4

Most of it is bridge pickup on the lead channel of my Peavey 6534 Plus, except on the intro where I do use the neck pickup in parallel mode on the clean channel for some effects, but it is heavily effected with delays and an MXR Black Label Chorus.  There is also a layer on the intro of me using the lead channel with the neck pickup and an Ebow.  The lead section in the first bridge of the song is the bridge pickup with a Boss RV-5, Boss DD-7, and MXR Carbon Copy in addition to the usual EQD Ghost Echo that is on the whole track.  The intro also has a Boss RE-20 on it in places.   The very start of the song proper (between 'Breathing in Caesar's Mist' and 'Into the trees!') has the Black Label Chorus and EQD Ghost Echo on the lead channel.

A couple of tracks on the demo feature my SG with the A-Pig; one of them for half the song (with no reverb) and the other for the whole song (reverb on everything except one palm-muted part).  I don't use the Warpig neck pickup on the demo.