Guitars and bass recorded by The Fintastics.
Drums were electronically sampled.
The bikini model is Dailec Hernandez from Venezuela

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Enjoy - more videos to come!

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Hi, I'm Gellert, guitarist for The Fintastics.

https://www.facebook.com/TheFintastics

Last edited: Apr 01, 2020 13:40:24

grayn wrote:

Cool video.
Tasty music and dancer.

Thanks, Grayn! Social distancing with surf music can be a good thing

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Hi, I'm Gellert, guitarist for The Fintastics.

https://www.facebook.com/TheFintastics

Great tune!

And your bikini model sure is the best dancing Dalek I've ever seen

Surfin’ Europe – Surf gigs in Europe
The Malbehavers – Instrumental Surf Music from Tilburg (NL)
Tout Tilburg Surft – Malbehavers’ debut EP

elmorto wrote:

elmorto wrote:

Awesome! Really liking the guitar tones here. Whats your setup like?

Hey there! It's funny you ask because I was just on your Bandcamp page yesterday and really enjoy your songs a lot ... especially Napalm Nug! I love that type of surf - very much like speed metal!

My set up is extremely simple and it's purely for recording and practicing songs through a PA. I am using a Fender Jazzmaster's bridge pickup for the main tone on Flight of the Surf Guitar. There is also a simple rhythm track that I added (not on the original Atlantics recording) where I used both pickups to get a fatter tone. It's hard to hear but that's how I wanted it...just barely audible to fill in the sonic space.

Aside from the guitar, I am using just one pedal which gives the guitar all its sound. It's a Zoom MS-50G MultiStomp Multi-effects Pedal! I have five effects going through a chain and it took me while to get the right combination to sound surfy enough. Guitar -- noise gate -- compressor --reverb -- Fender twin amp sim -- delay. That's it. The great thing about that pedal is that it is in stereo. My delay effect "ping pongs" back and forth, from left to right giving it a wide effect. I own an original Surfybear reverb and a Hot Rod Deluxe 2x12 that don't get used much.

If anyone owns that Boss pedal, I can share my settings and get you in the right direction for getting the same sound I do. There's a 6 year old thread on here that goes into detail about it.

https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/24232/?page=1

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Hi, I'm Gellert, guitarist for The Fintastics.

https://www.facebook.com/TheFintastics

Sounds and looks great!

Bill
Guitar Player - Secret Agent Men
Dallas, TX
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https://secretagentmen.bandcamp.com

SilverFlash wrote:

Hi Gellert, Great playing & sound and that is a seriously high quality video! I would love to get your Zoom MS-50G settings. I'm always curious about how others set the parameters for each of those effects.

Here you go. I hope it helps you. The patch sounds great in my headphones, but you know sometimes the mix over speakers is only a vague semblance of what you hear through ear cans LOL

The effects in sequence with noise gate first...

Noise Gate - Threshold @ 8 & Level @ 100
Compressor - Sense @ 3 & Tone @ 7 & Level @ 102 "Fast" attack
Reverb Spring '63 - Dwell 20 - Mixer 20 - Tone 49 - Level 101
FD Vibro - Gain 18 - Tube 100 - Level 55 - Treble 78 - Middle 88 - Bass 66 - Presence 80 - cab 2x10 - "line out"
Analog Delay - time 400 - feedback 60 - mix 60 - hi DMP 10 - pp toggled right - level 115 - tail "on"

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Hi, I'm Gellert, guitarist for The Fintastics.

https://www.facebook.com/TheFintastics

Oh ya got my attention.
I agree.
That was some very fine guitar playing!

TheFintastics wrote:

elmorto wrote:

elmorto wrote:

Awesome! Really liking the guitar tones here. Whats your setup like?

Hey there! It's funny you ask because I was just on your Bandcamp page yesterday and really enjoy your songs a lot ... especially Napalm Nug! I love that type of surf - very much like speed metal!

My set up is extremely simple and it's purely for recording and practicing songs through a PA. I am using a Fender Jazzmaster's bridge pickup for the main tone on Flight of the Surf Guitar. There is also a simple rhythm track that I added (not on the original Atlantics recording) where I used both pickups to get a fatter tone. It's hard to hear but that's how I wanted it...just barely audible to fill in the sonic space.

Aside from the guitar, I am using just one pedal which gives the guitar all its sound. It's a Zoom MS-50G MultiStomp Multi-effects Pedal! I have five effects going through a chain and it took me while to get the right combination to sound surfy enough. Guitar -- noise gate -- compressor --reverb -- Fender twin amp sim -- delay. That's it. The great thing about that pedal is that it is in stereo. My delay effect "ping pongs" back and forth, from left to right giving it a wide effect. I own an original Surfybear reverb and a Hot Rod Deluxe 2x12 that don't get used much.

If anyone owns that Boss pedal, I can share my settings and get you in the right direction for getting the same sound I do. There's a 6 year old thread on here that goes into detail about it.

https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/24232/?page=1

Well, that proves once again that you don't need expensive gear to sound great. Keep them coming!

Beach Bomb - Black Surf from the cold waters of Norway!
https://beachbombband.bandcamp.com

Hi Gellert, It would be wrong for me hope that COVID-19 keeps you pinned down for a couple of weeks, but, DANG, I would love to see a few weeks of this great stuff. This makes three stunning releases in a row. You are blowing my mind.

And thanks for posting your Zoom settings. I'll be plugging those into mine as soon as I get a chance (as if that will make me sound as good as you , but I can hope.)

-Tim
MyYouTubeChannel
My Classic Instrumental Surf Music Timeline
SSS Agent #777

Thanks for all the kind words!

Today's upload is our surfy version of Blondie's hit, "Dreaming".

Unfortunately, YouTube flagged our original video due to copyright claim so we had to edit it by inserting a single photo of a 45 sleeve. If you are a Facebook user, however, you can see the full "unedited" video at this link --- Facebook Version.

A fun fact - we tried to form a Blondie Tribute band several months ago (as a side project). It lasted only four practices

By the way, The Kahuna Kings inspired us to do this song.
Great taste, guys!

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Hi, I'm Gellert, guitarist for The Fintastics.

https://www.facebook.com/TheFintastics