Archive for January, 2011

Inspiring guitar videos

January 11, 2011

What guitar videos are inspiring you?

Tom Bukovac is the man!

Nice tone and feel that reminds me of Michael Landau and Bukovac

I want to sell my acoustic but this video at 50 seconds is making me reconsider. 🙂

I like how Pete uses the Whammy octave up sound along with the raw Plexi sounds:

Gear in Review

January 5, 2011

2010
Acquired:
Skreddy Echo
Skreddy Lunar Module Deluxe
Fractal Audio Axe-Fx Ultra
Damage Control Timeline
Wolfetone Dr. V pickups

Sold:
Skreddy Pig Mine
Pearce G2r amp head (bought it new in 91)
Line 6 POD 2.0

cash raised from selling my amp turned into an Ipad for my wife.
paying in cash kept it off the credit card statement so she didn’t know what she was getting for Christmas.
psst Ipad is just a big iphone…don’t tell anyone…

2011:
Sold:

Damage Control Timeline
Lovepedal 200lbs of Tone
Lovepedal Echo Baby
Fractal Audio Axe-Fx Ultra

Trying to sell:
Digitech Whammy WH-1
Digitech Whammy II

time to move some guitars?
Grosh Retro Classic
Larrivee OM-09

Considering:
used Anderson Classic
Danocaster Tele

Turbo Tuner
V2 or Analogman Small Stone
El Capistan
whatever Strymon releases next week at NAMM 🙂

Scumback H75 for my Egnater TOL 50 combo – it is time to replace the original speaker from the late 90’s
Taking out one Vintage 30 from my 2-12 cab and need to find a speaker to pair with the remaining V30

Egnater Mod 50 head
blackface Fender Princeton
Two Rock? I’ve been driving past their building at least once a week for the past year when I take my kids to their dance class (two buildings down the road). Is it time to buy local?

best songs I heard in 2010:





best video of the year. I tried my childhood home but there wasn’t enough google streetview data.





everything you know about music production is wrong.
digital clipping makes me 🙂


best music viral video

best old song I heard in 2010: