rekrdskratcher + Musician in Cedar Rapids, IA

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===Song Contributions===

"Consumption" (Six Seconds Away) - Guitar, bass, vocals, programming, engineering, production
"Cutting Down The Standard Bearer" (Six Seconds Away) - Guitar, bass, vocals, programming, engineering, production
"Lazarus" (NonGrata) - Bass, guitar, engineering, production
"Ashes" (NonGrata) - Bass, piano, engineering, production
"No Mayo?" (The Vainglorious) - Drums, backing vocals, engineering, production
"Flying" (The Vainglorious) - Drums, engineering, production
"Goodness Gracious, My Sunglasses?" (Six Seconds Away) - Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, engineering, production
"The Watcher" (Six Seconds Away) - Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, engineering, production
"Highland Park" (Six Seconds Away) - Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, engineering, production

===Biography===

I am the former bassist for NonGrata (Iowa City), a former guitarist for Torchlight Parade (Cedar Rapids), founder/sole member of Six Seconds Away (my solo studio project) and the former drummer for the bands Nebula Was and The Vainglorious (Iowa City.)

I'm most interested in guitar or drums in new or existing groups, but I am available to fill in as a drummer for temporary/emergency situations, as well.

I am interested in frontman/vocalist duties for new projects - my vocal interests in that case are skewed more towards hardcore punk/spoken-word vocals, but I can do some melodic singing (see songs above.)

I also provide some good demo/entry-level recording for bands/musicians lacking the financial resources or equipment to record their works - see my gear section for more details.

Contact: username to Y!

Screen name:

rekrdskratcher

Member since:

May 26 2007

Active within 1 week

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

14

Gigs played:

10 to 50

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Thrice, Alexisonfire, Thursday, U2, Brand New, Circa Survive, Deftones, Linkin Park, Converge, Radiohead, Kaddisfly, Emery, The Receiving End of Sirens, Metallica, Athletics, Slipknot, Manchester Orchestra, Balance and Composure, Give Away The Plot, Cave In, Happy Body Slow Brain, Funeral for a Friend, New Found Glory, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed and Cambria, Mutemath, Touché Amoré, Modern Life Is War, Accents, O'Brother, Finch, Damiera, La Dispute, Mastodon, mewithoutYou, The Envy Corps, Meshuggah, System of a Down, Tycho, Former Thieves, Poison the Well, The Police, Blindside, Alice in Chains

Instrument experience:

Rhythm Guitar:

Moderate

Lead Guitar:

Moderate

Acoustic Guitar:

Moderate

Bass Guitar:

Moderate

Drums:

Moderate

Background Singer:

Moderate

Other:

Moderate

Vocalist:

Moderate

Vocalist - Tenor:

Intermediate

Keyboard:

Intermediate

EQUIPMENT

--Guitar gear--
*Customized no-name humbucking set-neck Tele with Seymour Duncan P-Rails pickups
*Customized no-name Fender Lead II knock-off with Tele neck, Seymour Duncan SSL-1/SSL-5 pickups, graphite saddles
*Custom Peavey T-60 with Tele neck, Lace Alumitone Deathbucker and GFS Dream 90 pickups
*Ibanez RX-170 electric guitar - customized with DiMarzio DropSonic pickup, graphite saddles
*Fender Blacktop Telecaster - customized with DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup, graphite saddles
*Squier Telecaster Special electric guitar - customized with Seymour Duncan SH-4 pickup, graphite saddles
*Ibanez AXS-32 - stock pickups, set neck
*Series-10 Rickenbacker knock-off with GFS pickups
*Egnater Tweaker 40 combo
*Crate Powerblock 150W amplifier
*Bogen CHB35 amplifier
*Egnater 1x12 cab
*Line 6 HX Stomp
*Line 6 HX Effects multi-effects
*Line 6 M13 multi-effects
*Fulltone GT-500

*Fender Kingman acoustic-electric guitar

--Bass Gear--
*Custom-built Gibson Grabber copy
*Ibanez ATK-300
*1970s Kay P Bass copy
*Squier P Bass Special
*Quilter Bass Block 800 amplifier
*MXR M80 Bass DI+
*ProCo Rat distortion
*Line 6 HX Stomp
*Line 6 HX Effects multi-effects
*Fender quarter stack 2x12
*Fender Rumble 100 combo

--Drums--
*PDP FS Birch kit
*Sabian AAX cymbals
*PDP Hardware

--Recording Gear--
*Audient iD14 with MOTU 8PRE for additional channels
*Custom-built Windows 10 PC, Reaper DAW, Superior Drummer 3, Waves Horizon
*Line 6 HX Stomp
*Line 6 HX Effects multi-effects
*Audix D2, D4, D6
*Shure SM-7B with Cloudlifter CL-1
*Shure SM-57
*Audio-Technica AT2050 Multi-Pattern Condenser Microphone
*AKG P170 Small-diaphragm Condenser Microphone
*Samson C02 condenser microphones
*CAD large-diaphragm condenser mics

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