Guitar Gear

About me…

Welcome to GuitarGear.org!

So… Who really is GoofyDawg? Well, let’s take apart the name, shall we?

Goofy - ridiculous; silly; wacky; irreverent
Dawg - an affectation for being flamboyant, ballsy, bold - but not arrogant (or at least I try very hard not to be)

Seriously, GoofyDawg is just a name I made up a long time ago to use as a handle and maintain my anonymity at the time, and it stuck because of my irreverent and mischievous manner. My real name is Brendan Delumpa. By day, I’m a professional web developer (please don’t confuse this with web designer - I’m a hard-core coder, not a graphics person). My nights and weekends are spent composing and playing music.

I started GuitarGear.org because I wanted to share my passion for my favorite instrument and because I love to experiment with all sorts of different gear related to guitar, be it effect boxes, recording equipment, what have you. I also wanted to share a bit of my personal philosophy of music in general.

Like others, I’m on a journey with music in my life - especially as that music pertains to playing guitar. I’m sharing that journey in the hopes that you’ll in turn, share your own. Rock on!!!!

It’s all about tone…

I’ve been playing guitar for over 35 years, and while I don’t even hope to be a virtuoso at improvisation, I do know tone, and to shape your tone, you need gear, hence the name of this site. Over the years, I’ve waffled between having lots of gear to playing pretty bare-bones (frankly, it has been mostly bare-bones). But no matter what equipment I had been playing, it always has boiled down to getting the tone that pleases me the most for a particular time in my life. Like many, I’ve gone through several phases in my musical tastes, and the tones I wanted to produce have changed as well. All in all though, I’ve gained a lot of experience and insight into shaping my tone, and I put this blog together to discuss my experiences and insights, plus share reviews of equipment and places I’ve been.

-The Dawg-