Wednesday 30th of November 2011 by Gabi

Homegrown Softbox Spiderlight

Softbox Spiderlight

Many of you are now familiar with my photography and video fixation lately. If not, watch my latest YouTube videos and you’ll understand (while there, hit Subscribe, I’ll love you for that!) After many make shift lighting improvisations including very hot 500 watt shop lights, clamp lights and what not, I came to the conclusion that it would be really nice to have a softbox which will project a really nice soft light with no harsh shadows on the subject. So I found Alex Campagna’s home made softbox blog post and I used it as an inspiration to build mine with a couple twists.

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Friday 4th of November 2011 by Gabi

Premier Guitar Reviews The Stinger 7

Stinger 7 review in Premiere Guitar Magazine

It somewhat a great way to start a day by waking up to news that your Gabriel 7 w amp got a stellar review in PREMIER GUITAR magazine. It’s a very concise and truthful review, fun to read and to the point. Make sure you listen to the recorded clips in there as well.

PREMIER GUITAR’s verdict:

“The Gabriel possesses a bluesy and rocking musical soul. Most everything there is to love about rock and roll is presented to you in this little combo—the irreverence, the fun, and the grit are all there for the taking. It won’t do super-saturated modern sounds, nor is it supposed to. But because it’s got the craftsmanship and essential musicality to compete with boutique amps at twice its price, the Stinger should be shortlisted if you’re hunting for a sweet low wattage screamer.”

Well, that cannot be worded better if you’ll ask me. So yes, indeed the Gabriel Stinger 7 got a well deserved exposure in the PREMIER GUITAR magazine which I might add that it is a publication I respect and you guys should subscribe to it!

 

Wednesday 7th of September 2011 by Gabi

Videosongs Blog Intro

Videosongs Blog

Videosongs Blog

By now you must be familiar with my latest fixation about videosongs. You must, if you follow my secondary YouTube channel and read/watched my Mission Impossible post about the videosong I made that got 3rd place at the Movie Show 1 Minute Videosong Competition. I thought it was time to reveal my primary source of inspiration, support and tutorials in creating a videosong from A to Z. Ladies and gentleman, please welcome (visit and subscribe to) the Videosongs Blog, maintained by a good friend from Paris France — Arno Ceres! Read the rest of this entry »

Friday 19th of August 2011 by Gabi

New Videosong Setup and Door Handle

Forcing myself to battle procrastination and be consistent in at least one thing in my life: vlogging. Here about the new videosong recording setup and a trip to the hardware store for a… door handle.

Monday 6th of June 2011 by Gabi

Mission Impossible Videosong

Had some fun over last weekend making a videosong for a Videosong competition hosted by Electro Harmonix and the Videosong Blog. The idea was to make a 1 minute videosong of a TV show theme. After much debate, I went with Mission Impossible.

But What Is A Videosong?

Nothing more than a delivery medium for your songs. It is very different from a video clip where everything is lip-synced, so you don’t actually hear whet you see. For a videosong, there are only two rules:

1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).

In other words, while you are tracking your audio, you are recording the video as well. Simple as that. Once you are done, you simply do your audio mix-down, then on to your video editing program where you sync your video with your audio and start creating! The concept has been around for a while, but it’s being gaining great popularity due to artists like Jack Conte and his band Pomplamoose that are true wizards of this craft.
Videosongs Blog (the main info source on this subject) has a more detailed explanation of how to make a videosong but you get the idea. Here is my result:

Friday 13th of May 2011 by Gabi

Glen’s Gabriel Stinger 1×12″ Combo

Thought of making a quick video of this deliciously sounding Gabriel Stinger 7 watt with a Greenback G12 going to Glen. The 12″ gives a nicer more round bottom end. Enjoy!

Tuesday 10th of May 2011 by Gabi

How To Solder

A quirky video on the art of soldering. It is an art – it really is! Enjoy:

Wednesday 13th of April 2011 by Gabi

Caffeinated Amp Building

This is what happens if you have too much coffee before building guitar amps! In a way, I wish this would be the case! I could build with the speed of one amp every 3 minutes or so!

The time lapse amp building video features me building a Gabriel Stinger 7 watt that’s now at Fat Tone Guitars. There were a total of 8.45 hours of amp building spread out in a span of 7 days (an hour or two of work every day). There were 3,657 shots taken at an interval of 7 seconds with a Nikon D40.

Leave a comment if you like coffee!!

Wednesday 30th of March 2011 by Gabi

The Lava Cable Contest Winner

Congratulations to the winner of the Pink Diamond Lava Cable giveaway! And thank you for the new subscribers and video comments! Please stay tuned and subscribe to Sound Garage Tales on YouTube for more exciting amp building videos and of course giveaway contests. You never know what you might win!

Monday 14th of March 2011 by Gabi

Lava Cable Giveaway Contest

Welcome to the first GSG giveaway of a $30.00 high end Pink Diamond 12′ Lava Cable!
It Features G&H Industries Gold-Plated Show Shavers™ plugs, a 99.9% pure copper low strand count conductor, 23 pF/ft low capacitance, a 93% spiral shield for excellent RF rejection and it is and assembled with 4% silver solder to maximize signal flow. Made in U.S.A.

Not affiliated or sponsored by Lava Cable, so this one is personally from me!!

The rules are simple:

1. Subscribe to GSG’s YouTube Channel
2. Favorite this video
3. Leave a comment (on the YouTube video page NOT here!) with a random number between 0 and 1000.

The lucky number will be announced on the same video on March 21st, 2011! Details in this video: