Live sound at Nacho’s Dick’s last concert It’s not easy to keep the Kitarshokak news blog up to date… On June 20th, I had the pleasure and opportunity to provide live sound service for Nacho’s Dick’s last concert. The singer, Aitor, is leaving the band and was the only original member. The band members are considering continuing with another singer and a new name, thus…
RK Fest ´25 Drum Rental in Zorrotzako Gaztetxea It is common for a live with many bands to require agility when making changes between band and band, changes that usually take longer if it is necessary to change the drums and therefore the adjustment of all its parts, microphones for it, etc. … This has been the case at the heavy festival RK FEST ’25…
Sound advice for Ibon Ibon, the guitar player of Amuak (Amuakm on Instagram), a band that enjoys spending time playing with each other and that makes curious videos of close shots on Instagram, has stopped by to help him with the sound of his pedalboard + amplifier gear. Ibon is a person that I have known for a long time and he is very nice,…
Porco Bravo “En el mismo sitio” I start with this album what could be an interesting section of album reviews or any other musical thing that occurs to me…we’ll see how far it goes or doesn’t go… A member of the band recently came to Kitarshokak and brought me the band’s brand new album. I have to say that I am not a fan but…
Rihanna “Diamonds” + Guitar arrangements by Ni Neu This time I have made electric guitar arrangements to a Rihanna song. I see the electronic-based songs or songs with little guitar presence as susceptible to being arranged with the guitar, something like a blank notebook at the beginning of the course ready to destroy with various notes on all sides. Then you have to organize the…
Aitorpenak in Kitarshokak Studioak Aitor from Aitorpenak is a musically restless person, always with new ideas and projects, alone or with his band, Aitorpenak. He is Catalan but with deep Basque roots, always trying to practice his beloved Basque. It is always a pleasure to be part of your adventures. This has been a small last minute detail that he thought of inserting into his…
Trying a Russian Fuzz A Russian fuzz has come into my hands to review and tune up from a customer, so it seems to be working all the time and the effect should be able to be turned off. We will try to provide a solution to the problem. It is a vintage Russian fuzz, which in addition to fuzz is wah and tremolo (although…
Electric guitar arrangement on song “Zurekin” by Bulego Every now and then a song grabs me or I just start playing around with the arrangements that come to mind. They tend to be songs that don’t have saturated electric guitars or to which I want to give another approach. And along the way I show a little what I am capable of offering as a…
Improvisation: old school hard heavy metal riffs A customer contacts me concerned that the amplifier is not working well, making problems in sound and urgently because he has two live concerts coming up. To see if it can be solved quickly, I start checking all the possible problems. It is a Laney Ironheart 60 and I connect it to the Marshall 4×12″ JCM800 cabinet with…
Marshall JCM800 2203 ’89 Test before packing Once sold, I always like to test everything before packing to see that everything works without problems and at the same time let myself go again to see what happens this last time and say goodbye to a certain item forever. In this case it was a wonderful JCM800 from the late 80s that sounds very inspiring. It’s…
