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Monday Meanderings…

Posted in Guitars, tagged on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

On Master Volumes, Variable Power, etc… A friend of mine recently got a great tube amp, and one of the options he wanted to have added to the amp was a half-power switch. I spoke to him about it and said it really wasn’t necessary since he almost exclusively plays clean, so his main concern [...]

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Saturday Project: Arrange the Studio and Re-arrange My Pedal Board…

Posted in Guitars, tagged on February 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Yikes! Can’t believe how piled up my man-cave got, so I started arranging stuff so I could feel less cluttered while recording. It’s going to be a two-day job – there’s A LOT of stuff to move around; not just mine, but boxes of my wife’s books and sports equipment, etc. In the end, it’ll [...]

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New Song: You Raise Me Up

Posted in Guitars, tagged on January 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Funny how you hear a riff that triggers your creativity. I was watching a video last week at church, and there was this really cool acoustic riff that was played underneath that inspired me. There was something about the chord pattern I really dug: 6-5-1 with a minor root. So I started playing around with [...]

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The Power of Vulnerability

Posted in Guitars, tagged , , on January 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »

I belong to a men’s fellowship group at my church. Ostensibly, it’s a bible study group, but it usually extends far beyond just discussing the particular bible passage that’s the topic for the week. This past meeting, the subject turned towards vulnerability, and we all agreed that much of our success in life – no [...]

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Wow! Made the Finals!

Posted in Guitars, tagged on January 21, 2012 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been entering the SongDoor International songwriting contest on and off for the last few years. Like many emerging songwriters, when I first entered the competition, I thought my songs were hits, only to come to the sobering and humbling conclusion – after professional evaluation and feedback – that my songs really weren’t all that [...]

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New Gear: TC Helicon VoiceLive Play GTX

Posted in Guitars, tagged , on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Just got a news release the other day that I just had to share: VoiceLive Play GTX is the world’s first multi-effects unit dedicated to rocking the world of the singing guitarist. Pro-level TC-Helicon vocal effects and state-of-the-art harmony processing is just half the story. With VoiceLive Play GTX, you also get top-of-the-line guitar effects [...]

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The Risk of Reviewing

Posted in Guitars, tagged on January 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »

A fellow blogger who focuses on wine recently got a hate letter from a winery owner who went a bit overboard with an email response to a review that he wrote of her wine. There was some pretty lively discussion around the letter, with people in support of either the author or the winery owner. [...]

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Wednesday Meanderings…

Posted in Guitars on January 4, 2012 | 9 Comments »

I just read an interesting post on The Gear Page about playing in a cover band, and the poster questioning, along with some friends, why anyone would want to play in a cover band. This, of course, stirred up a hornet’s nest of debate. After reading that post and many of the replies, I thought [...]

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Faustine Amps Has Filed for Bankruptcy!

Posted in Guitars on January 2, 2012 | 5 Comments »

A friend of mine referred me to a thread on The Gear Page forum about Faustine closing its doors. Then I went to the Faustine Amp web site, and lo and behold, the site is gone and in its place is a heartfelt letter from Tim, Faustine’s founder. I really feel for Tim, having come [...]

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My 2012 Gear Resolution(s)…

Posted in Guitars, tagged on December 31, 2011 | 8 Comments »

One thing that I have hated about New Year’s resolutions is that many of them are about denial. For instance, one of my sons said, “For 2012, I’m going to stay away from fast food.” That’s not really a bad thing, considering how unhealthy fast food can be, but it’s still a denial. It’s like [...]

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