Guitars, Synths And Assorted Madness From The Coolsounds & Magick Studios
Hmmm ….. rest assured there were, and part of them were even streamed to our HQ at Rastafairy Beach. One of the perks of owning some land in SL is that you can do stuff like that, which only the people that happen to pass by will hear. No trippy hippie stage setups, just little old hexx nestled in the beanbag and strumming da grooves.
Peacefull bliss on a cold and windy night. What more could we want?
Now that the evening has fallen again in Meatspace, we’d like to show y’all a little stage we built today. Before doing all kinds of Important RL Stuff, that is. Darn! Where does that daylight go so quickly, nowadays?
Anyway, since pictures are no good when you wanna show moving objects, we made a tiny film.
And so it came to pass that the übercool video stream from the Coolsounds & Magick Studios started messing up our audio bigtime, presumably because it exceeded the upstream capacity of our internet connection. So the choice was a simple one: no more video until our ISP does the substantial upgrade to our connection which, if rumours are right, should be somewhere in the spring of 2010.
It’s a pity, but no disaster. Sounds that come in colours can do without video as well.
And so it came to pass that Mr. Gumbo and us managed to get a Ninjam session up and running on Halloween’s evening and night (local time). Grinning from ear to ear as we rolled it all out. Some mighty good stuff in it, for real. It felt like being in the same room – actually listening to each other is a kick-ass way to create music together. Makes you wonder what would happen if we actually started working on it.
Which is what we’ll be starting to do on Wednesday.
What can we say? A dark rosewood fingerboard on a 2-piece mahogany neck, abalone dot inlays, gold tuners with pearl buttons and a Thinline under-saddle pickup and OP30 preamp, a very nice honeyburst finish and a beautiful sound.
In the old days, 30-something years ago, we started out on an Ovation. Today, we went full circle.
Those interwebs are full of surprises and nifty little applications for rockstars like Madame and me. Oh yeah. Today, for instance, we managed to set up something called Ninjam, that promised to enable us to jam online with other rockstars. And to our great surprise, it even worked! After an hour or so of fiddling with settings, we actually jammed with a bass-player from Portugal – so now the next step is to figure out how to stream the jams into the world of SL.
But hey. One step at a time is good enough for us.
