How To Destroy Angels: The Space in Between [HD] from How To Destroy Angels on Vimeo.

By now everybody probably knows this but Dropbox is a great solution for syncing and sharing files over the internet. I first learned of it back in college and it proved itself worth it since i placed my work at school and when i got home, Voila!! it was there too.

Long story short, as some of you know i play in a band called Buffalo Picnic and we record our rehearsals to use as reference to modify songs or to recall ideas when we jam to later make them into an actual song. This is a very useful tool for bands, i sometime play the songs at home and play along with my guitar to make new parts for our songs.

to avoid going into too much details here is the deal, if you sign up following this link i get free extra space and you get free extra space, even if you don’t know me at all, win to win!!! so please click this link to sign up and let’s get some extra free space!!!

I’ve been thinking about redesigning a website I did for school, spiderlegdeli.com It is a food recipe website that was meant to be updated constantly by adding recipes made by me or modified by me.

Anyways i’m very tired at this moment but the new website will be public for all but will have a few people posting new recipes, mostly people i know or referred to me. Anybody can sing up and leave comments and participate, maybe even having merchandising or donations to help keep the website live.

I will be posting more info on the progress of this project.

first of all HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 2011!

Anyways, a few years ago i bought an amp, the crate XT120R because it was cheap and i had no job, i do not remember how much i paid but after owning it for years i can see that it was the worst amp ever created.

When i first bought the amp i was under the impression that it had the “flexwave” technology that simulates tubes but apparently it didn’t. The amp sucks big time by itself pretty much.

What i have been doing to compensate for the really bad ugly sound this amp has is using effect modelers/processors. I have been using Digitech for a lot of years, i started with the rp-100, then moved to the rp-200 and currently using the rp-2000. The sound of the latter could be better but does the job for this horrendous amp.

The idea is simple the effects processor is being used as a preamp to boost the tone and sound quality of the solid state using the insert, send/return connections. This works but it’s better if you have an actual tube amp or a good solid state amp.

Lately i’ve been considering using individual stomp boxes instead of an effects processor and been pondering how to compensate for tone. The possible solution i came up with is to buy a preamp that uses a tube (mainly used for vocal work), already stared gearing up with some effects pedals and hopefully it works. I will make another post to see if the preamp idea works.

I want to give a piece of advice to everyone, although kind of too late. Whenever you see the Crate XT120R for sale on Craigslist.org, pawn shop or any other place please do yourself a favor and don’t buy it. The money you will have to invest to get it to sound good plus the cost of the amp is already enough to get a tube amp or a solid state like a Peavey brand that will perform better. Later i will make another post to see how the preamp idea works on tone and volume for solid state amps.

I found the coolest app for musicians who have android phones. Uloops it’s called, uloops.net, anyways I managed to figure it out and made a song. I look forward to the day our phones are powerful mobile recording studios for us musicians out there to record music when creativity strikes.

Here is the song I made “Run Away From Dreams” (listen from uloops.net) or just listen to it here

The other day I had to make a flyer that later became a facebook tab at work, when I was conceptualizing I needed some icon graphics but couldn’t find the right sizes and shapes for what i wanted to do and since I wasn’t that busy I decided to make my own and then modify them with the stock graphics I have.

So anyways I made a couple of icons for you to freely use, all I ask is to give me some type of credit wherever they are used.

I was surfing on facebook for an assignment at my job and found this infographic that i thought everybody who has heard about facebook would be interested.

Via: Online MBA

A couple of months ago my band played in a Vietnamese festival, “San Diego Lantern Festival”, we played 2 days and it was very cool to see the different diversity of styles. We were the only rock band there and as soon as we start to make noise people approached the stage. Had some good and some not so good food, lost my AC adapter for my camera but managed to film the show.

Anyways here is a peak.

Hit the Ground from Rene Padilla on Vimeo.

for more songs visit my vimeo channel

I’ve been thinking in various occasions or rather asking myself why is it that radio stations don’t air the new material of The Cure and Depeche Mode? It is a bit of a mystery to me since their new stuff it’s petty good.

Yeah I agree that those bands have timeless classics but that doesn’t mean they don’t make music as good. In my experience as a fan I’ve been listening to their music and yes I agree not every song made by the bands is awesome but they still make music as good as the classics.

I listen to a radio station called FM 94.9 that supposedly airs awesome music regardless of it’s age or billboard’s rankness as it’s slogan says “It’s About The Music” but they don’t really air the new cool music of the cure and depeche mode. So please I ask you all to call your radio stations and ask for the bands’ new music. Now i leave you with 2 links to songs of the mentioned bands, enjoy.

Freakshow by The Cure

Fragile Tension by Depeche Mode

I was working on some new music material to post on ReverbNation, 2 songs and a music video to be exact and some none music related like a website. Anyways I was doing writing some emails and the infamous blue screen of death pops!!! on my laptop’s screen! ARGH!!!!

Well you get the idea. As very common with these things it left that partition of the hard drive inaccessible making me loose the songs I was recording and the website I was working on. Lucky for my I had an online backup of an earlier version of the site but the songs will need to be remade from memory.

This setback won’t hold me back on bringing the songs I was working on, so expect them soon, one of them by the name “walk before you run”.

By the way the picture is not the actual screen that my laptop got but something along those lines.