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Retired graphic designer; Lifetime guitar player and Boykin Spaniel lover.
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When I was a kid growing up, we had cats. I’m not sure why, but I suspect it was because my dad was the only boy in the family and his sisters had a long line of “scotties.” Scotch terriers. They’re well known for becoming attached to women in a household with more women than men, and snotty as hell to the men in the house. I remember visiting my aunt and grandma and “Dougal”…
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I confess I love You Tube. I originally started watching You Tube videos (2000s) to learn how to use new software for work and for “how to’s” on my music software. When software companies began outsourcing their tech support to overseas companies or only offering support through their website, you were left to wander the vast internet for answers to problems you couldn’t solve on your own. It was no fun. I spent probably 20%…
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I remember back in the 60s when I started playing guitar, there were a limited number of choices. If you wanted to get the guitar of your dreams, you had to save your money or beg your parents to buy it. Today, Fender has so many lines of their classic guitars (strats and teles) I can’t keep up with all of them. They have made in Japan, made in Mexico, made in the USA, and…
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A couple years ago I decided to look at Looper pedals, so I could record my guitar playing through my amp with a drum track playing along in the background for timing. In the past when I tried recording guitar into my DAW, I was never able to get a good sound, like what I was hearing from my amp and pedals… And it seemed too complicated to set up and just not very spontaneous.…
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For most of my life I was a guitar purist. I’ve owned many of the most sought after vintage guitars and tube amps and basically I just plugged into the amp, and used a little reverb… no pedals. As my long career as a graphic artist was winding down I decided to look into some of the newer guitars and amps available and look at adding some pedals, for fun. After spending some time looking…
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