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Archive for November, 2007

Review: Gator Pedal Tote (Unpowered)

Posted in Effects, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear on November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Okay, yet another product review on a fairly mundane piece of gear, but hey, sometimes you have to be practical! A few years ago, I was pretty spoiled when it came toting guitar gear around. I was using a Line 6 Flextone III as my amp, and as a modeling amp with all sorts of [...]

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GarageBand: It Must Be Karma! Another Crash! But I’m ECSTATIC!

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, gear, iMac, mac, recording on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Talk about putting a product through its paces! My Mac fatally crashed yet again! Yikes! When that happened, I didn’t panic because based upon Boyd Jarvis’ input in my previous article on my Mac crashing, I went down to my local Apple store, and purchased a copy of Disk Warrior. I also talked to a [...]

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GarageBand: Don’t get caught with your pants down!

Posted in GarageBand, recording, songs on November 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Actually, this goes for any Mac user: BACK UP YOUR MACHINE!!! Spend $100 on a decent FireWire drive, and save your life! I was going to go into the horror story first, but I decided to just come out with the point of this article  instead. About a month ago, my iMac started acting up, [...]

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Review: Dunlop DCB10 DC-Brick Multi-Power Supply

Posted in Effects, Guitars, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, pedals on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »

A power supply? I know, kind of mundane, but if you’re still using 9V batteries, you might want to rethink your power supply needs. Here’s a common situation: You’re in the middle of a set, and your beautifully clean tone starts getting kind of fuzzy. It’s not too bad at first, but worsens as the [...]

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EBay Is Your Friend For Gear ~ IF You’re Careful…

Posted in buying gear, gear, guitar gear on November 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »

For several years I’ve had a love/hate relationship with E-Bay. I’d gotten burned a few times by dishonest people, so I stayed away from buying really expensive things, save some trinkets that I’d get for the wife. But being a tone freak, and a gigging musician, I’m always in need of gear, either to replace [...]

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