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The closest touchstones with Velvet Hammer have to be American Music Club's Everclear and Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, two other records that bleed with despair and grim reality.
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New drummer Dana Marshall adds a creative instrumental spark, and it seems to have re-fueled his bandmates' creative juices. Though still sounding ragged and a little out of place in the studio, Steve Albini's raw engineering style is tailor-made for the band, especially for this stark material. Marcy Mays is a mediator between mother and child on "Your Mother Wants to Know": "She wants you to like her so try to forget it/ And she's sorry for all the years and what happened to you when you were a kid." In "Take a Swing," she confronts an angered lover: "If you get me started, there's no telling what I'll do." She's stuck in an un-trusting rut in "Prize": "I get flowers/ I get suspicious, too." Throughout Velvet Hammer, the protagonist is at the end of her rope, struggling to find peace of mind amidst inner and outer turmoil. Whether the songs of fractured relationships within are of romantic or familial nature, they sting with equally biting resonance. It's soaked in tears and alcohol, punctuated with bruises and frostbitten fingers. Then, post audio here.Velvet Hammer is one of the saddest, most heartbreaking records you will ever hear.
#Scrawl velvet hammer install#
Then, install the Velvet Hammer PUs with the new strings, then replace the old Chromes and record again.įingerstyle, pick, and slap, at different control settings. I would record the bass with the current strings, and then the new ones. I also have a brand new set of Chromes, and some fairly unused rounds here. I have gigged and recorded with them, for myself and others, with no complaints.Ĭurrently, this bass has Chromes on it, approximately 3 years old, semi-regular play. I don't think they're stock, but they sound good and exactly like a good P Bass, imo and that of others. It has, essentially, an ash body, with a maple neck and a RW fingerboard.currently it has alnico PUs of an unknown make. as it is the closest I have to a 70s style bass. I want the "test" to be as it might have been to a player installing replacement PUs in the era, to see what a person in that situation might have found when replacing their PUs in a world with very few replacement options. That is why (if I have the guts) I might test it in my 1969 Precision Bass, since that would most accurately recreate the change that such a player would have experienced. To confirm: what I care about most is how the Velvet Hammer pickup would have sounded different to a player of those years, at the time of its introduction. Though it may be intended to distill the spirit of the old pickups, it does not sound like them."īoth in consideration of and regardless of comparison to other non-traditional split coil P pickups, I look forward to playing the Velvet Hammer pickup. With that in mind, and believing that the typical sound of early split coil Precision Bass pickups is wooly and is otherwise earthy listing to down and dirty, I think that this pickup is "'57" mainly in its use of a split coil design. No harshness or edginess, and not at all clinical. Rather hi-fi, producing clear and pure audio, nonetheless its sound was warm, relaxed and natural.
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"the Cavalier '57 P-Bass pickup struck me as being well on the modern end of vintage-sounding. The traditional Fender split coil P pickup This stands regardless of subjective assessment of the value of his designs in use.Īll Roads Lead To Red: A Pedal Steel Mixtape / Tribute : Aquarium Drunkard Therefore (Drag City 1996) The Nuns and a Pack Mule (Touchand Go 1989) Scrawl velvet Hammer(Simple Machines 1993) Travel on Rider (Elektra 1996) ln. But it should be known that the Velvet Hammer P pickup design was at the time of its inception in some way novel and innovative: although his invention definitely built upon Leo Fender's design, and possibly was influenced by Bill Lawrence's designs (I only wonder about this), Red Rhodes was an innovator. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands. Packaging All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Some of those features we now take for granted, since whether by chance, or common influences, or later imitation they have in the intervening decades been used by other pickup makers. Protection Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve. That comparison must include consideration of the differences in construction and structure, since those are sure to be the determinants of whatever is sonically characteristic of the Velvet Hammer P pickup as a split coil P pickup. The sonics of the Velvet Hammer P bass pickup should be documented, in itself and (most importantly) in comparison to a traditional split coil Fender Precision Bass pickup. Click to expand.Okay, you got me into it.