Velvet Acid Christ: parasite_instrumental_phrax_mix.mp3, right click to download.

Okay, so I decided to give out a remix, I had no real place to put this left over from lust for blood, i did not want to put it on the new lp, because the new lp is nothing like this stuff. Have fun, and if you want to and like it, please click the donate button to donate something. Starving artist here.

Ok, now for the new lp, well, It is coming real slow. I am stuck on the vocals for faded. Still building my weak voice up, I have not done vocals since lust for blood, and my voice is really out of shape. I have about 4 tracks done, but I am still working on the vocals. and yes, This new lp is a strange thing, there is a lot of acoustic guitar on it. It is very heavily influenced by Neo-Folk. I am also heavily influenced by death in june, madonna, new young pony club, ladytron, and astral projection as well. So this lp is turning out a lot different than I planned. I am playing a lot more guitar, but it is not hurting the vac sound at all. I’m trying to really put out the best vocals I have even done on this new lp. A lot of it is clean. I’m trying to be a better vocalist this time around. I only plan on doing 8 tracks for the new lp in total. I am not doing a super long lp like LFB was. I am not working with todd on this lp after all. I think this will be a solo lp, about the only he helped me on was the phucking phreak remake and one other track. So his involvement on this lp is very minimal.

And yes, I am planning a tour for late summer. I think it will be USA only though. Maybe canada. I will not leave the us until there is a new president and the crappy foreign policy in us politics changes. Well, if I get offered a ton of money, I might consider europe. who knows. Eric never calls me, so it looks like I wont be working with eric. So far it looks like todd and I, maybe one other person, I have my eye on a female bassist from out east, but I wont get hopes up, because shit hardly ever works out, like with eric. oh well.

Holy Shit. I am not kidding. This thing is the bomb. It gets all those mid tones right, and now the attack sounds perfect, you get that growl, you get that thubby attack of a real tube amp. This is a hybrid amp, It has the line 6 digital amp emulations, and a Reinhold Bogner tube pre amp to get the best of both worlds. I recommend this for metal chords, chug, and rythm. For leads, it still lacks that super resonance of an all analog amp. And the clean channel is kind of dull and doesn’t have enough chime for me. But for metal, and power chords, it is amazing. It has a lot of great emulations in it. I can get that rectumfrier tone out of this thing, no problem. The a30 emu is not that great, but ok on somethings. The verbs sound kind of weak, as do most of hte fx, the delay is ok, as is the phaser and flanger. Chorus is a but weak too. I still think the clean sound is weak, you will need something else to do clean with. Pair this with a fender or an old roland amp.

I pair this up with a les paul and a flying V. Great results for metal, and death metal type of guitar which i am now experimenting with. By no way am I saying that this is as good as an old marshal, or an engle powerball or something like that. But to fit this style of playing into a VAC mix with electronics, it works really well if I mic it up and do my mixing tricks. I am able to get the kinds of sounds I want, really mean rhythms. For the price, you simply cannot beat this amp. To get better, you will have to spend thousands more, No joke. This is a huge step up from the POD xt I was using. I mean the it sounds a lot more analog, but not pure, and like I said, some of the high notes don’t resonate and cut as good as real analog amps do. The digital still gets in the way of the high end. But in the middle it’s fine, and that is where I play most of the time anyway so i get great results with this amp so far. I give it a 4 out of 5.