Umm…. what happened?

Yeah, this post is just quizzical at best….

I’m an 80’s child. I have found memories of Hulk-mania, Rambo, Rocky and the Punisher. Here is a prime example:

OH yeah! Someone is going to get kicked in the head!

So imagine my shock when this popped up on youtube.

*sigh….. a death of a hero.

How to Repair a Ernie Ball VP jr for cheap!

Wow, So I just repaired my VP jr, and did so for under $6 USD. You see, you can send the pedal into the factory and pay them $25 to fix it all, or do it at home and save $20!

here is the link: Amazon.com

and a video showing how easy it is (almost super easy, the “connect to the spring” section took a few mins).

Keep playing!

Pedal death?

Just thought I would pose an interesting question. Sunday,  I was doing some sweet, sweet volume swells. Then, in the middle of a swell: “BWAANG – ANG- ANG-ang- ang…” The volume pedal broke and the delay echoed my note, but not as smooth as it would’ve been.

I decided to switch to a light tremolo with delay to float in the background as a pad. It worked, but not exactly as the volume swell would’ve done. But that’s okay… sometimes you have to make do in a cinch!

Have you ever had a pedal die on you during a middle of a performance? What happened, and what did you do?

On to repair my Ernie Ball VP jr!

Interesting Performance Tip

I stumbled upon a very cool tip while researching some guitarist/gear/gearpage stuff.

Scott Henderson (think modern jazz) uses his Boss RC-2 looper in his rig to record his rhythm and a lead part. Then he walks through the venue- at all angles- to HEAR what the audience hears. From there he decides what reverb, if any, to use and what his tone adjustments should be as well as his delay settings.

I wonder what I would hear if I walked around and listened to what I play. (kinda humbling, eh?)

Its a good practice! Hmm…. I think some of us “tone crazies” should take a peak into this!

Redirection/reformation…. house cleaning…

Greetings…. This is not a real post

Over the next 2 weeks I’m going to be cleaning up this blog. I need to change out my headers and things and generally clean up some content. You may see favorite posts that come, go and then get revamped. At first, everything will be gone as I get it organized. Slowly it will all come back. Hang in there!

See, at the beginning I had a small vision, and I’m 80% there. I need a few tweaks.
Basically when I’m done, you should have a Category link to “effects” and you can learn about those. “Mods” and learn about those… “lessons” etc…
So this blog is easier to find what you want. At this moment I was trying to pull up a favorite post and It took me many hits of hitting the “older post” button to get there. Not cool.

Also, I have a lot of Q&A on pedalboard stuff. I want to give some more attention to that and make what I already have …. easier to understand?!?! Something like that.

Hang with me and I’ll try to get this jump started again.

-L

Tone Tips from a Random night…

So here I am… not having updated my blog in awhile, and playing more than I was before. I’m currently working a pretty long/tiring clinical rotation and have not had a lot of energy past going home and sleeping. 9 more months before I wrap this school thing up!

Without further to do: wow… my tone sounded awesome this past month! Now I try to figure out what I did…..

Some Inspiration…

Our worship team is going through some transitional phases as we have a new leader. She is an incredible, exciting vocalist… but knows nothing about music. Therefore we as the band are having to work with finding the correct keys and modeling into her style. Its tiring, exciting, and a complete dichotomy of feelings. We have had several really great services and we have had several not so great practices/performances.

So what do we do then?

I for one get some musical inspiration to help inspire