Amp Build – Part 2

Components on the turret board.

Next up is the circuit board, something I had been looking forward to for a long time: Soldering all those cool components onto a real turret board (hand-made style) and setting them out in optimal position.

Amp Build – Part 1

Following instructions and trying to avoid electrocution.

Problem: I cant afford any of the amps I want to buy (except for this guy, looks quite interesting).

Opportunity: Build my own.

Solder On

Bass amp – dead

Tonight I made my first move into the DIY electronics space. I fixed a broken amp.

Floor POD Plus+ Demo

Line6 Floor POD Plus+

The other night I set up 2 Floor PODs for use at church. The idea was to set up 4 amp models and cater for really clean to a really overdriven tones. I used a nice set of Sennheiser headphones, my SG and a mates Strat.

Use Whats Available

Gus delivering the brutalz

Hi all!

Sometimes I am so focused on the gear I don’t have that I can overlook the gear I do, and what the point of even having gear is – to make music. I was reminded again of this when listening to a demo I made with my old band Corban Ablaze. We had a few originals that we were really happy with and wanted to make some basic recordings of them.

Guitar Rig 4 – JCM 800

GR4 - JCM 800

Hi.

I was messing around in my new closet rig tonight, finally learned me a cool song by brilliant Aussie band The Butterfly Effect. The guitarist Kurt Goedhart uses Marshall JCM 800′s for just about everything I think, so I dialed up a nice 800 sound in Guitar Rig and played along. Once I got it under my fingers I recorded it to a metronome to start getting some fitness and accuracy back into my playing. It’s been a quite a few months since I’ve had any regular and focused practice and almost 2 years since I’ve done any real recording. So I recommend for anyone out there feeling a but rusty like I do right now, set up some kind of practice rig, use a metronome and record yourself. It will fast track you to studio fitness.

OSX Lion, The Axe, And The Wardrobe

Closet Guitarist

I just had a fancy idea. A problem that I face with playing guitar for the fun of it is that I usually don’t have much time. Even 10mins is better than no guitar for 2 weeks at a time. But living in an apartment means there’s no space to leave even my POD set up. So if I want to play for 10 minutes I need to allow for 20 minutes to set up and pack up. And usually 10 minutes playing time turns into 20 anyway. Then I’m late for whatever it was.