This past week my guitar chain has been really noisy and I finally dug around and found the culprit — a failed daisy-chain cable from the power supply. I’ve used OneSpot for about 10 years and it’s never given me any troubles so I can’t really complain too much. Switched things out to a backup power brick I had and all is quiet again.
Guitars and multiple long delays are fun together.
Above: A picture from Emily’s upcoming pedal demo channel on youtube. X-) HAHA
I ate my lunch during a meeting so I had a few minutes for sounds. Arps and delays are fun.
Today was very productive and went by really fast. The ladies slept in and I spent some time trying to learn more about setting up routing for the iConnectmidi4+. This quickly gave way to just making music — layers and layers of loops running into the Avalanche run reverse delay with very high feedback. I love the way everything smears and gets crunchy. Was going to shorten the recording, but each section sounds so different (to me, haha) that I just left it long.
We hung around together for a bit once they got up and then they got around and went to see her parents and go swimming. I got the lumber and managed to get the shelves built. It was a pretty simple project, but I tend to overthink things so am pretty happy I just knocked it out. I also ordered some new lights for the garage because those 2 little bulbs are just not cutting it!
Left: MIJ project guitar (started life as a bass actually), norns, El Capistan
Right: Colorful can designs on surprise gift beers, courtesy of a thoughtful coworker.
Grabbed a Strymon El Capistan for a good price locally after hearing wonderful things about it for years and years. They had me at #disintegrationloops so I played around with a guitar and the looper this morning. Unfortunately nothing really turned out and I will need to play with it more to get the feel of how all the settings react. I can typically tell pretty quick if a pedal is something that will work for me, but the jury is out with this. It’s the type of pedal that needs more digging in to really get a feel for.
Anyway, here’s a clip of some moody electric piano I ran through one of the delay modes.
