S★m V★rm★
samvarma.bsky.social
S★m V★rm★
@samvarma.bsky.social
Chicago, U.S.A. | Guitarist, video editor, photographer
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#introduction! I'm a pro #guitarist with the band Maggie Speaks. Freelance video editor (indie doc Cover 21: Ignite Chicago, on Amazon). Amateur #photographer.

Interests:
#guitar
#music
#musician
#audio
#recording
#MusicProduction
#photography
#VideoEditing
#postchat
#camera
#design
#typography
Hey @thespaceshipper.com ! My brother just shared with me that the company he's worked for his whole life did the in-scene/diegetic computer graphics for the Nostromo for the film alien. Don't know if you've ever seen this, hope you enjoy! Here's a link:

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“Equatorial orbit nailed”: the story behind the computer animations of ‘Alien’.
The retro-futurist design aesthetic of Ridley Scott’s Alien lends authenticity to the depiction of the commercial towing vehicle, Nostromo, that veteran of untold ore-processing r…
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August 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Tomorrow morning at 11am ET, shit gets real.
April 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I just figured out what happened…

At rehearsal I set up my bass player’s unit, and connected it to my laptop to program my presets. I noticed that his unit was on firmware 2.0.0, and mine is 3.0.0.
Oof. Now the Friedman IRX has died... again. It was an open-box unit when I bought it, and died the first time I used it. Friedman very kindly sent me new tubes, and it's been fine for a year.

I re-contacted them and Dave immediately authorized a replacement unit...
April 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My band has a service called Celebrity Sit-In where we invite well-known musicians to play a half dozen of their most famous songs with us at events we have been contracted to play. We recently performed with KT Tunstall. She was truly delightful!

Edited by yours truly!

youtube.com/watch?v=d_RX...
KT Tunstall
YouTube video by Maggie Speaks
youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Oof. Now the Friedman IRX has died... again. It was an open-box unit when I bought it, and died the first time I used it. Friedman very kindly sent me new tubes, and it's been fine for a year.

I re-contacted them and Dave immediately authorized a replacement unit...
March 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Good lord.

I've been programming the #EventideH90 since 10am today to get all my basic sounds back together. The good news is I feel like I am back in a super solid place (where I was with the H9), and a place I could not get to with the Source Audio Collider + Line 6 HX One combo. (1/9)
March 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Listening — for the first time — to this bonus track from the Darkness' debut, "Permission to Land".

If you ever wanted to hear a song that only exists because Marshalls exist here you go

JFC no other amp makes that noise

youtube.com/watch?v=TV5b...
Makin' Out
YouTube video by The Darkness - Topic
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March 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Interesting… Diving into the (extremely sophisticated) routing options in the #Eventide H90, which has 4 inputs and 4 outputs. Turns out you can route these any way you want, in series or parallel, and use them as a little patch bay. 1/n
March 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Turns out 4hrs was not enough time to get this thing ready for a gig 🤣😩 Trying to grok the UI, configure the MIDI, download & poke around editor apps, do the firmware update, create PRE/POST routing, and modify/save presets was too much.

That said, I can tell this is the droid I've been looking for
March 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#introduction! I'm a pro #guitarist with the band Maggie Speaks. Freelance video editor (indie doc Cover 21: Ignite Chicago, on Amazon). Amateur #photographer.

Interests:
#guitar
#music
#musician
#audio
#recording
#MusicProduction
#photography
#VideoEditing
#postchat
#camera
#design
#typography
December 7, 2024 at 4:26 PM
March 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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regular dog: ruff

metallica dog: ruff to never never land
February 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#introduction! I'm a pro #guitarist with the band Maggie Speaks. Freelance video editor (indie doc Cover 21: Ignite Chicago, on Amazon). Amateur #photographer.

Interests:
#guitar
#music
#musician
#audio
#recording
#MusicProduction
#photography
#VideoEditing
#postchat
#camera
#design
#typography
December 7, 2024 at 4:26 PM