All of the tracking for the 11 June project songs is complete. Today I recorded the last two vocals, the last four lead guitars, and finished one mix.
The Klon KTR into the overdrive side of the Keeley D&M drive really clicked for me for the first time today. Also, the Bonamassa signature Crybaby is really great. The more I use it, the more I like it, and I’ve been using it a lot.
I’ve got five songs to mix and then we start looking forward to the kick off of 50/90 on July 4th. Yikes!
This was posted to a Rush group on bookfayce today. It’s an ad from The Boston Phoenix for the first Rush concert I ever saw. December 3, 1987.
We were in the balcony so it was probably $15. We bought tickets at the door.
I’m getting old. I’m out of shape. Bending down to see something that’s on the floor is no picnic these days. Also, I’m going blind. My eyesight is getting suckier by the day. Also, the printing on the Keeley D&M Drive pedal is really, really small, and the color scheme doesn’t help. The little sucker is hard to read.
Fortunately I have an iPhone. I can reach down and take a pic with the 2x lens, then zoom in on the image and magically I can read the labels on the knobs.
I love living in the future.
Except for the whole pandemic thing. That bites. The other stuff, the tech stuff, is cool.
My wife and I just walked around the block. It was the first thing that I did that even remotely resembled exercise since I cut the grass almost two weeks ago.
My back is screaming for vengeance. To say that my back really hates my guts right now is the understatement of all understatements.
Ouch.
I need exercise so badly, and yet when I try my body completely revolts against it.
Catch 22’s suck.
As of 8:07pm, my UPS tracking number still says out for delivery for today by 9:00pm. Yesterday they changed the delivery date from 6/22 to 6/23. I expect the same at this point. I could really have used a piece of good news today, even if it was something as stupid and pointless as a 50 pound package from UPS. Pretty safe bet I’m wasting my time and effort. Thanks
Those are tray tables. They are not a guitar amplifier.
I heard a sound outside. It sounded like a large vehicle. I looked out the window. There was a UPS truck driving away.
Oh happiness! My amplifier!
I went outside. There was a package. It was large. It weighted about five pounds. What? The amp weighs over 40 pounds.
Crud. It’s not my amp.
There’s me, thinking I’d be recording with a Vox amp tonight. Nope. Still the same Fender. #sadface.
UPS hasn’t come with my amplifier yet. The tracking number still says Out for Delivery, but the delivery date now says the 23rd. Tomorrow.
Denied!
My new Crybaby wah pedal is on my pedal board. My RYRA Klon Klone and Keeley Blues Driver clone are not. The board is powered by two MXR bricks. The two non-board pedals each have their own plugs.
I was using the two clones, but I wanted to use the crybaby with them and I didn’t have a third plug. I took it off the board and did what you shouldn’t do. I put all three pedals onto a daisy chain. I did leads for one song and then tore it all down.
Don’t daisy chain pedals together. My already noisy rig reached new, previously unimagined levels of awful noise. Just don’t do it.
The crybaby sounded great though.
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