New Stage Rig
Played a Christmas party on Friday night with the Drop Daddies and it was a blast!
My new stage setup worked out great. All that hard work paid off! The Blackstar Stage 60 sounded righteous, and the HD500X pedal board was perfect.
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New Pedal Board – HD500X on Risers
I’m massively downsizing my stage footprint! This new pedal board will be much simpler- focused around my new Line 6 HD500X, and the footswitch controller for my Blackstar Stage 60.
The only pedals left on the board are my Planet Waves Tru-Strobe tuner and DIY clean boost. More
Enter The HD500X
I’m a couple weeks in with my new Line 6 HD500X, and I’m loving it. My band The Drop Daddies has a gig on Friday, and it’ll be the first with the new Blackstar Stage 60 and new pedal board. So I’m getting up to speed building new presets for songs, and getting used to a whole new world at my feet. More
Blackstar LDS Model
Found this on my amp today at rehearsal with the Drop Daddies.
Apparently, the guys think my new Blackstar Stage 60 is excessively endowed. 🙂
What Do Bad Power Tubes Sound Like?
I was super-excited to get my new Blackstar Stage 60 earlier this month. But immediately after plugging in and firing it up for the first time, I noticed some strange noise issues. I plugged the guitar in directly, with no other pedals and no effect loop. On all 3 channels, I heard some very obvious gungy badness on certain notes. The problem was not evident when listening through the speaker emulated output. More
New Blackstar HT Stage 60
Look what arrived today! I’m excited to try it out. That big hole in the box is a bit worrisome, but hopefully all is ok.
Blame it on the Blackstar
I’ve been using a hand wired VOX AC15HW1 for the last few years, and mostly loving it. I say “mostly” for a couple reasons. It sounds great in many situations, but sometimes I just can’t get what I need from it. More
In-Ear Game Changer
We’ve decided to take the plunge and switch to in-ear monitoring. This is a big change, but I’m super-excited about it.
In my recent post about overhauling our PA with my band The Drop Daddies, I mentioned that our new DL1608 mixer has 6 independent aux outs- perfect for individual monitor mixes.
But running monitor wedges on stage has a number of issues:Â
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Pickup Measuring Techniques
I often refer to (and recommend) Helmuth Lemme’s article The Secrets of Electric Guitar Pickups. The author succinctly describes the guitar circuit and discusses how each component of the circuit contributes to the resulting guitar tone. More
The Talk Box and the Gong
At a recent rehearsal with The Drop Daddies, my buddy Ian made an amusing and insightful comment…
Last year, I added a Rocktron Banshee talkbox to my pedal board, so that I could nail the intro to Sweet Emotion, and the solo in Weezer’s Beverly Hills. Yes, it does that sound, and it does it well.
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