dwsabianguy
Senior Member
Instead of making several separate threads to cover what is, essentially, one topic, I'll just maintain one here.
Cygnus X-2 is the Rush tribute group I put together with a few of my favorite local Raleigh musicians. Warren Sharp was the frontman of Stammerings, and we've known each other since high school. I think it was 2014 where Stammerings opened for a band called Kindler from Greensboro, whose singer/bassist Cameron Fitzpatrick absolutely blew us away with his animated bass playing and stratospheric vocals. We had a beer after the show, I asked if he was a Geddy Lee fan, he said he was, and the idea for a Rush tribute was born. We didn't get started until 2018, when my roommate and keyboard wiz Kevin Teachey joined us and we started learning Hemispheres in its entirety for its 40th anniversary.
We've played a grand total of four actual shows so far. Mostly because I do bring out the whole stupid kit. And it's awesome. But that's twelve hours of moving drums.
So we're doing live streams from my garage every two week on Facebook (click here - the next one is this Saturday at 8pm EDT), and hopefully on other platforms as we continue to learn about how all the video stuff works. My girlfriend's laptop is set up in a corner of the studio with four phones connected to it, so we have some pretty awesome shots. She has also made several hand-drawn graphics for the live streams.
What else... Warren's got a real Gibson EDS-1275 now and a stereo guitar rig that sounds incredible, Cameron is playing a bass rig that includes my new Rickenbacker 4003 (which, honestly, I bought for him to play) and Bassman 135 in full Ric-O-Sound "Saturate" Mode, and Kevin's got a bunch of analog synths running through my Neve clones. It all sounds really good.
Here's Red Barchetta from the first stream:
The first stream's audio ended up a good bit overdriven, so I'm going to have to check the gain staging. I'm running the audio as a stereo output from my recording rig, into a second interface for the video laptop, so it's not exactly the purest thing in the world. Still feels good though, but this week's audio should have more dynamic range.
And here's 2112 from our last legitimate show on March 11th:
Cygnus X-2 is the Rush tribute group I put together with a few of my favorite local Raleigh musicians. Warren Sharp was the frontman of Stammerings, and we've known each other since high school. I think it was 2014 where Stammerings opened for a band called Kindler from Greensboro, whose singer/bassist Cameron Fitzpatrick absolutely blew us away with his animated bass playing and stratospheric vocals. We had a beer after the show, I asked if he was a Geddy Lee fan, he said he was, and the idea for a Rush tribute was born. We didn't get started until 2018, when my roommate and keyboard wiz Kevin Teachey joined us and we started learning Hemispheres in its entirety for its 40th anniversary.
We've played a grand total of four actual shows so far. Mostly because I do bring out the whole stupid kit. And it's awesome. But that's twelve hours of moving drums.
So we're doing live streams from my garage every two week on Facebook (click here - the next one is this Saturday at 8pm EDT), and hopefully on other platforms as we continue to learn about how all the video stuff works. My girlfriend's laptop is set up in a corner of the studio with four phones connected to it, so we have some pretty awesome shots. She has also made several hand-drawn graphics for the live streams.
What else... Warren's got a real Gibson EDS-1275 now and a stereo guitar rig that sounds incredible, Cameron is playing a bass rig that includes my new Rickenbacker 4003 (which, honestly, I bought for him to play) and Bassman 135 in full Ric-O-Sound "Saturate" Mode, and Kevin's got a bunch of analog synths running through my Neve clones. It all sounds really good.
Here's Red Barchetta from the first stream:
The first stream's audio ended up a good bit overdriven, so I'm going to have to check the gain staging. I'm running the audio as a stereo output from my recording rig, into a second interface for the video laptop, so it's not exactly the purest thing in the world. Still feels good though, but this week's audio should have more dynamic range.
And here's 2112 from our last legitimate show on March 11th:
