nope i quit the scorehero gig awhile ago
you should not be here

Age: 19 (born August 1, 1990)
This page was last poked and prodded on 11 April, 2010.

Music Games

GH veteran here. That is, I've been playing since GH 1, so HA. I've since shied away from GH (the last GH game I bought and ever plan to buy was Smash Hits, though I own all the titles up to that one on Xbox 360 (except 1 and 80's). I had no interest in Rock Band until The Beatles: Rock Band was announced and I bought the Limited Edition box set. It is my last planned purchase of any music games. I play expert everything, however I only enjoy vocals on TBRB because I know all the songs. I sing the harmony parts. I am not a score whore, but I do try to beat friends' scores at least.

Team fortress 2

I play on Steam, not Xbox 360 anymore. You can find me online playing at the popular nom-nom-nom.us server under the pseudonym "George Harrison, MBE".
I'm also an amateur luthier (guitar craftsman). I enjoy building and modifying guitars and their equipment, mostly by taking crappy generic instruments and building them into something amazing looking. I have built many guitars with my friend and bandmate. Here are some that have recieved internet coverage:
In August 2009 I submitted my bass guitar to Collegehumor.com's Updating the Home Entertainment Experience∞ contest. On 26 October, 2009 I won the grand prize∞. SHIT.
BassStation in action∞
BassStation live∞
Killtar (August, 2009)
A modified 1980's Peavy Patriot that uses a Guitar Hero strumbar as a killswitch. Got me featured on hackaday.com!
Making-of on my blog∞
The article about it featured on Hackaday∞
Youtube demonstration∞

This page was last poked and prodded on 29 May, 2009.

Xbox LIVE Gamertag: Romanczuk
My experience with Guitar Hero started at the twice-a-year gaming superparties my friends have called Uberfest. When GH1 was new I was blown away by the idea and tried to play, but I was pretty awful like most first-timers. Next year, GH2 was the thing and I picked it up and thought the cooperative mode was fun as I played on medium. It only took me about an hour to graduate up to hard and become the second best at my school in one night. The next morning I hauled ass to Target and bought my own copy, played through career on hard, then graduated to Expert. I bought GH3 on launch day and started/beat it on expert. On Christmas 2008 I got a Wii so I saved up $100 and bought the Wii version of GH3 and GH:A to upgrade. I bought GH:WT on launch day as well, but I'm kind of frustrated with the sloppy presentation of the Wii version. On Christmas 2008 I got an Xbox 360 and have since sold all my Wii GH stuff and upgraded to the 360.
Through the Fire & Flames and Satch Boogie.
I also love playing Team Fortress 2. Right now I only play it on the 360 but I'm saving up for a better PC to get the PC version. I don't get caught up in all this dumb PC versus 360 stuff, I just play the game and enjoy it.

Through the Fire & Flames, Hot for Teacher and Satch Boogie.

Songs I can't pass:
Songs I can't get five stars on:

Concerts

I have weird taste in music. Also through coincidence many of the bands I've seen have four-letter names.
STYX- Aug. 16, 2006
DEVO- Sep. 9, 2006, Sep. 21, 2007
RAIN: The Beatles Experience- Mar. 16, 2007
Return to Forever reunion concert- Jun. 8, 2008
Buckethead- Dec. 31, 2008
The BassStation (September, 2007)

Songs I can't pass:
What? I haven't had that problem for over a year!
Songs I can't get five stars on:
Just Through the Fire & Flames and Satch Boogie.

This project was commissioned by my science teacher to build for my math teacher's birthday. My math teacher's a real fan of mushrooms so I went with a mushroom theme. I started with a very cheap, generic bass and cut down the body and pickguard to a mushroom shape. It sounds really simple and for the most part it was, but it looks amazing. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADAM" appears on the bottom, engraved by a laser.

Not a guitar, but worth mentioning. A pair of pants with an array of peizo-electric crystals inside and an output jack. You can plug them into an amplifier while wearing them to amplify the sound that pants make. You can also sit in them and play your pants like drums and a drum-like sound comes out the amplifier. We still are working on a MIDI converter so you can control an actual drum machine with them, but right now they just make an "amplified pants" sound. Built for out drummer, Miles, for when we can't haul a drumset around.

Romanczuk

Real name: Raymond Michael Romanczuk, Jr.
Age: 18 (born August 1, 1990)
Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
Current location: Seattle, Washington

Name

My name is quite a strange beast. Here's the deal: Online I go by "Romanczuk", which is my last name. People think It's "Roman-something" but its actually my name, not something about folks from Rome. If you ever meet me in real life at a get-together, learn to pronounce it. It's Ukrainian and pronounced "row-MON-chuck", not "Roman-kizzuck". Or you could just call me Ray. I'm sure you can pronounce that right.
Technically, I'm not a Jr, but my birth certificate says I am. My father's name is Raymund Romanczuk, spelled with a "u" as you can see. Well, he wasn't there right when I was born and my Mom named me "Raymund Romanczuk, Jr." after my Dad, but the nurse wrote the traditional spelling down instead of the correct one. Now I am where I am now.

Guitar Hero

My experience with Guitar Hero started at the twice-a-year gaming superparties my friends have called Uberfest. When GH1 was new I was blown away by the idea and tried to play, but I was pretty awful like most first-timers. Next year, GH2 was the thing and I picked it up and thought the cooperative mode was fun as I played on medium. It only took me about an hour to graduate up to hard and become the second best at my school in one night. The next morning I hauled ass to Target and bought my own copy, played through career on hard, then graduated to Expert. I bought GH3 on launch day and started/beat it on expert. On Christmas 2008 I got a Wii so I saved up $100 and bought the Wii version of GH3 and GH:A to upgrade. I bought GH:WT on launch day as well, but I'm kind of frustrated with the sloppy presentation of the Wii version. I'm considering selling all my GH stuff for Wii to buy a 360 and rebuild my GH collection on that platform.

Other Games

I'd say the only other game I play as competitively as GH is Super Smash Bros. Brawl, however I get in clashes all the time with people who try to chop the game's balls off and make it a tournament title. Face it, it's a party game.

Musicianship

My skill is not limited to guitars of the plastic variety. I'm a professional multi-instrumentalist who specializes in bass and used to be in a band but now I'm having a hard time getting in another one because people want me to play for them but they think I'm too young to gig. I teach lessons to people in the Seattle area. My other instruments include trumpet, accordion, theremin and the generic ol' guitar & piano.

Lutherie

I'm also an amateur luthier (guitar craftsman). I enjoy building and modifying guitars and their equipment, mostly by taking crappy generic instruments and building them into something amazing looking. So far I have made three custom guitars/basses, with more planned in the future:

The BassStation (Septenber, 2007)
A Playstation 2 converted into a Bass guitar.

Seb's Guitar (Spring, 2008)
This guitar is ridiculous and, appropriately enough, was ridiculously difficult to build. It was built for my band's guitarist, Seb.
It started with a Floyd Rose guitar with speedloader strings. We chopped the head off so it's headless. Then we built our own body in the shape of a Gibson Explorer out of quarter-inch thick pieces of material stacked on top of each other and alternating between wood and transparent Plexiglas, as cut by a laser engraver. Then we inserted neon glo-wire and LED's everywhere and put his Simpsons poster under the first transparent layer to make that the cover-art. On the back, Seb's signature was scanned and engraved by a laser.

Chanterellecaster (December, 2008)
This project was commissioned by my science teacher to build for my math teacher's birthday. My math teacher's a real fan of mushrooms so I went with a mushroom theme. I started with a very cheap, generic bass and cut down the body and pickguard to a mushroom shape. It sounds really simple and for the most part it was, but it looks amazing.

Electric Drum Pants (I don't remember, 2007?)
Not a guitar, but worth mentioning. A pair of pants with an output jack. You can plug them into an amplifier while wearing them to amplify the sound that pants make. You can also sit in them and play your pants like drums and the sound comes out the amplifier. We still are working on a MIDI converter so you can control an actual drum machine with them, but right now they just make an "amplified pants" sound. Built for out drummer, Miles, for when we can't haul a drumset around.

Future Projects

The Flying N
A double-necked guitar/bass in the shape of the Nintendo 64 logo.

The Red Snake
A guitar shaped like that one measure of Through The Fire and Flames. Not going to work forward on it much until I finish the Flying N.

NOM Pedal
Like a Wah pedal, but it produces NOM NOM NOM instead. We're still analyzing the spectrum of NOM to see what kind of filtering we need, but it will probably be done by the end of 2008.

Your Commission
That's right, I take commissions! If you want me to build you a wacky amazing custom guitar/bass, hit me up with an email!
NES_fanatic AT hotmail DOT com

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