Gear Diary
When is 9V not 9V?
Answer: when it’s 13V! As I mentioned previously, my pedal board’s power supply died, so I’ve been temporarily using an old Korg 9V power supply. I’ve been getting some hum from Ryan’s Fulltone Fat-Boost, and finally decided to do some sleuthing to figure out why. Fortunately, before I even cracked open the Fat-Boost, I hooked […]
Pedal Power Fiasco
The night before my St Patrick’s Day gig with the Drop Daddies, we were setting up at a rehearsal space for a last minute practice. I powered up my gear, and none of my pedals were working! After a bit of trial and error, it was clear that my ancient SKB PS-25 pedalboard power supply […]
GarageBand feedback resolution
Some users of guitar interface cables like my DIY cable project have noticed an unreasonable amount of feedback when using Apple’s GarageBand iPad app. Good news- Apple rolled out an update to GarageBand yesterday which appears to resolve this. Thanks PaulB for letting me know!
A POD in your Pad
The new Mobile In iOS guitar interface and Mobile POD app from Line 6 claims to put the POD sound library in your iPhone or iPad. This interface connects to the 30-pin dock, which as I described in my DIY iOS interface project, is the higher-fidelity lower-noise way to get audio into your iPhone/iPad. This […]
Digitech JamMan Delay EMI problem and solution
I wrote about my love of looping back in 2010, when the new JamMan Solo and JamMan Stereo were announced. Now, I’ve finally replaced my old Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro with a shiny new JamMan Delay. This unique pedal combines a looper with a nice delay modeler. It doesn’t do everything my old Echoplex did, […]