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Adventures in Groovin’ on my Strat

Posted in Creation Audio Labs, GAS, GarageBand, Guitars, Hardwire, Mk.4.23, Music, amplifiers, aracom amps, booster, gear, guitar, guitarists, inspiration, musicians, new song, tagged guitar, Music, Guitars, guitarists, musicians, Effects, pedals, amplifiers, new song, amp, effect pedals, amplification, Red Bear Picks, V-Picks on July 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’m normally very methodical in my approach to writing music. But sometimes, I just get carried away with playing that I’ll just create a riff, and jam over it again and again until my fingertips are numb. Writing my latest instrumental was exactly that experience. I came up with a riff, added some bass and [...]

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Follow-up: Creation Audio Labs Mk.4.23

Posted in Creation Audio Labs, Effects, Guitars, Mk.4.23, Music, Tone, booster, clean boost, effect pedals, gear, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, musicians, overdrive, pedals, tagged boost, clean, clean boost, Creation Audio Labs, Effects, GAS, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Mk.4.23, Music, pedals, Tone on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you read this blog with any regularity, you’d know that I have this thing about overdrive and distortion pedals. Not that I’m a shredder or let alone a virtuoso at guitar. I just love tone, and there’s something about overdrive that never fails to bring a smile to my face. But ever since I [...]

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Stack it up!!!

Posted in Creation Audio Labs, Effects, Guitars, Music, booster, clean boost, compression, distortion, effect pedals, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, musicians, overdrive, reason amps, tagged Effects, GAS, gear, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, overdrive, pedals on April 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Late last night, I was lurking (and posting) on my favorite gear forum The Gear Page, when I ran across this thread: Stacking ODs? where a player was asking if anyone had stacked any overdrives. I’ve been doing this for years with different pedal combinations, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Through my experiments, I found that [...]

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Gear That Has Changed My Life

Posted in Amps/Amplification, Creation Audio Labs, Effects, GAS, Guitars, Holy Fire, Mk.4.23, Music, Red Bear Trading, SM25, Saint Guitar Company, Saint Guitars Benchmark, Strat, Tone, V-Picks, amplifiers, amps, aracom amps, booster, clean boost, custom guitars, distortion, effect pedals, fender, gear, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitar picks, guitarists, musicians, overdrive, pedals, picks, plectrum, reason amps, style, tagged guitar, amps, guitar gear, guitarists, Tone, guitar effects, pedals, saint guitars, reason amps, amplifiers, guitar pedals, effect pedals, clean boost, overdrive, aracom amps, aracom, RoxBox, Creation Audio Labs, picks, guitar picks, plectrum, Red Bear Picks, V-Picks on March 3, 2009 | 9 Comments »

I recently started a friendship with Vinni Smith at V-Picks – what a cool dude! Not only does he make great picks, but that man can make an axe sing! Anyway, I was e-mailing him this evening about how his “The Snake” pickup has changed my life, and it got me to thinking about specific [...]

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Move over OCD, the Holy Fire is where it’s at for me now…

Posted in Creation Audio Labs, Effects, GAS, Guitars, Holy Fire, Mk.4.23, Music, SM25, Strat, Tone, booster, buying gear, clean boost, distortion, effect pedals, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, inspiration, musicians, overdrive, pedals, playing live, reason amps, tagged clean boost, Creation Audio Labs, distortion, effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effect pedals, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, Holy Fire, Mk.4.23, Music, musicians, OCD, overdrive, pedals, Strat, Stratocaster, tube screamer on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

What do you do when you have two kick-ass overdrive/distortion pedals and don’t know which one to choose because both pedals bring so much to the table? The obvious answer is to use both. But my problem in choosing is exacerbated by limited pedal real estate, so I have to make a choice. Actually, the [...]

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Gear Review: Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire Overdrive/Distortion Pedal

Posted in Creation Audio Labs, Effects, GAS, Guitars, Holy Fire, Music, Tone, booster, buying gear, distortion, effect pedals, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, overdrive, pedals, recording, tubes, tagged Creation Audio Labs, distortion, effect pedals, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, guitar pedals, guitarists, Holy Fire, Music, musicians, overdrive on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire Overdrive/Distortion Summary: Overdrive and Distortion and tons of gain in one box that will NOT alter your tone. Has built-in wave shaping that responds to attack and input gain that simulates overdriving the front end of an amp. Pros: Possible to achieve all sorts of clipping from swampy grind to [...]

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