AC Power Cable Shootout

With all this talk of amp tone, and the current amp shootouts that are always taking place both on this blog and in my mind, I’ve realized one thing. And that one thing is often the most overlooked factor in amp tone. It’s the AC power cable. I mean, this is what actually pulls the [...]

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The Edge Vs. Lincoln Brewster

hehehe Can’t believe I’m doing this. Alright. Very rarely does a comment reply become a blog post; but this stuff kicks around in my head a lot anyway……and with one very small mention of Lincoln Brewster in the last post, almost every subsequent comment was directed at that part of the post. Add to that, [...]

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The Things I Never Thought I’d Do (…and, of Course, Made a Huge Deal About Never Doing)

I am very opinionated. At least in my head. Sure, I’ll smile and nod and say, ‘What great tone you have’ and ‘Sure! As long as your Vox Valvetronix makes you happy’; but inside, ooh, scariness of self-verified lofty facts…uh, I mean, opinions. And every once in a while God says, ‘Here you go. Humility [...]

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Post Phase-Inverter Master Volume & Taming Stage Levels

There are more important things than tone. I know…the very nature of that seems heretical. But, if we have established that our evoking-of-tears-anti-solo-with-sweet-Johnny-Buckland-ripoff-reverb-decay actually means nothing without the chord structure from the bass, piano, acoustic, rhythm electric, cello, whatever……then if you also cannot hear the chord structure from the bass, piano, acoustic, rhythm electric, cello, [...]

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Divided by 13 RSA31 Vs. Matchless Spitfire Vs. Divided by 13 RSA23 Amp Shootout (Or…The Downward Spiral of a Gear Junkie)

It’s all downhill from here. I adored my RSA23. It was better than almost any other living thing. But with all things you adore, the true test of whether you really adore it or not, is by how many duplicates you buy of it. So I decided, this is the best thing I’ve ever heard [...]

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Boss FS5L Review & Demo

Splendid.
Karl.

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The Coolest Looking Pedal I Own–Review & Demo

Which is entirely the point. Anyone can sound good. But can you look like Keith Urban while doing it? (Sorry to go country right there, but you gotta admit that Keith Urban’s got it going on. So does his gear. Wow. So many poorly chosen phrases in such a small portion of writing thus far.) [...]

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What My Tone Has Spoken

I like to think of Tone as its own entity. (And from here on out, ‘Tone’ shall thereby be capitalized, as it should be.) It is living, breathing, is all around us, and we are just trying to tap into it with our rigs, hands, and minds. We’re trying to hear what it tells us, [...]

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If only…

…I could have this much passion when I’m playing, I might have made it big by now. (And by big, I mean like, playing the Hollywood Bowl……as opposed to having a blog where I just make fun of Steve Vai a lot in order to make myself feel better about posting demo videos where I [...]

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Worship Leading Choose Your Own Ending (Part 1)

You’re on stage. Fingers deftly sliding down from the 17th fret as you end the big, driving anti-solo. You hit your TC Nova delay off so that the delay continues to trail into sweet oblivion from your incredibly gut-summoningly well-placed notes, but does not delay further the big chord you are about to hit, finishing [...]

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