Recent content by Bob Hoover Ross

Yeah, I finally got on the Angine de Poitrine train just this past week, and I gotta admit I'm loving it. Everything I've heard from them is exciting, engaging, and fun as hell. I described it to a friend as "a cross between Sonar and Battles, with a little bit of Clown Core thrown in" ...but...

I haven't watched the video yet, but are they talking about superimposing pentatonic scales over chords other than their root? That was something I picked up from John Scofield (who probably picked it up from Michael Brecker) and it totally revitalized my appreciation for pentatonics...

Not strictly a "single-coil" but fwiw I've been using three Seymour Duncan Vintage Rails in my Strat clone for the past ~30 years, and they are indeed A) noiseless; and B) everything I could want from a Strat pickup sound-wise. They're going to get moved to my Warmoth All-Padauk Tele build as...

Okay, so, first of all, full disclosure: I don't have a picture of my Warmoth Secondly, my Warmoth isn't even completed yet (STILL!) so I don't even know if it will be my "number one favorite player" Thirdly, I can't narrow it down to just one, so as of now it's a two-way tie: It is either...

My only opinion on that whole direction in guitars is, do not get the neck shaped and/or fingerboard radiused to match the original Jaguar spec from the 60s if you've never played one before! It is a very polarizing shape. I used a mid-60s Jaguar as my main (actually, my only) guitar in the...

I'm currently working on a 3-pickup guitar* and am pretty certain I'll use what Lindy Fralin refers to as "Nashville Telecaster" wiring: three single-coil pickups, a 5-way switch (so you easily get those in-between Strat sounds), but just one Master Volume and one Master Tone control. * and by...

Pretty sure this is what you were waiting for: It's not supposed to go on your hands.

After resisting on principle (?) for so many years, I finally gave in and listened to some Jon Anderson performances with The Band Geeks ...and I'll be damned, they're not only immensely better than that current abomination that's touring under the guise of "Yes" -- I know, a low bar if ever...

Ha! I've never heard of ^^^them, but back in 1982 my senior recital band was called "Not Indigenous"

Thread Drift: That reminds me of how so many Alembic owners (or Alembic fans) refer to the Series I or II instruments as "chambered" or "semi-hollow" ...um, no, just because you have so many electronics in the instrument that you need to chunk out huge sections of the body on both sides of the...

I would argue that neck-through construction defeats the purpose of semi-hollow or chambered construction (other than weight-reduction). The body wings on neck-through basses contribute very little to the sound of those instruments. But most of your list -- piezo pickup, 35" scale length...

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean literally "stolen" I just meant copied. Verbatim. I updated my earlier post.

Okay, totally arbitrary question about an old progressive rock album that has nothing to do with the music...but I'm hoping maybe some prog freaks here have some insight into the (presumed) drama surrounding this question: Did Kim Poor -- who is credited with the artwork on Steve Hackett's...

Yes! ^^^THIS! At the time it came out it seemed like a much better system than either the Floyd Rose or the Kahler ...but it seemed to disappear very shortly thereafter. Always wanted one.