Noise!

The 2015 RPM Challenge includes actual amplified guitars. It’s a miracle. I only had a few minutes to sneak a few parts in today before digging into some serious house cleaning, but my ears are killing me!

Birthday

Today is my step son’s birthday. I picked out his gift this year…

Now we can be Les Paul buddies.

The Downside

I just stumbled on the downside of being in a band again.

I was recording some guitars tonight using my Les Paul. I had decided that Les was going to be the only guitar I used on these old songs this month, and it would probably be the only guitar I used for RPM next month.

Then I broke a string. I haven’t broken a string inyears. It wasn’t until this moment that I realized all of my spare strings are in my equipment bag at Mike the Bass Player’s house.

Damn it! So the ES-335 makes an appearance on this months demo project. The best laid plans and all that happy crappy.

Rawk On

Recording guitar parts to songs written in the late 90s.

Rock on, brothers and sisters!

Pedal Board

My pedal board had its first successful test at rehearsal tonight. My hands were cramping like crazy, but my effects were aces.

Next up on the gear wish list is a new pick up switch for my Les Paul, maybe a new tremolo bridge for my strat, a little wiring maintenance for my es-335, and maybe… A Gibson Dirty Finger pick up for the bridge position on the Les Paul. Maybe?

Room for Expansion

I need to swap the two on the far left so that I can access the stereo output on the flanger (that I have never used, not even once) but otherwise this looks okay. My Cry-Baby Wah-Wah will sit off the board on the right side, and the triple switch for my amp will go… somewhere. Best of all, this leaves me tons of room for expansion.

Practice

See? I’m practicing those cover songs.

New Toys

So the two pedals I bought yesterday were used at a band practice last night. The tuner was no big deal, except that it is actually a bypass switch. When you turn it on the signal goes in but not out. I thought there was something wrong. I plugged in the input and switched it on, then plugged in all of my other pedals and turned on the amp and… nothing. It only took a minute to figure it out though.

As for the phaser… sah-WEEET.

I am hoping to mix a song for NaSoAlMo tonight. I’m telecommuting tomorrow too so hopefully I’ll make a big push to finish off the four remaining songs.

Before that though…

Chicken, quinoa, broccoli, and the Bruins (hopefully) kicking the crap out of the Penguins.