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A photo of an electric guitar and bass guitar propped against a wall, sitting next to a bass guitar amp and a regular guitar amp, with a pedal board filled with pedals sitting in front of the whole lot, and cables going everywhere.

Current status. 🤘🏻

Posted on 27 April 2023, 21:21

A photo of a small bass guitar amp with a bass guitar leaning against it, and a novel sitting in front. The amp is an Orange Crush Bass 25 and has a black mesh on the front with the rest of it being the customary bright orange colour. The guitar is a Yamaha BB434 and the body fades from black around the edges into a dark rich orange/red wood in the middle. The book is a sci-fi novel "Empire of Silence" by Christopher Ruocchio.

A photo of three guitars hanging on a wall.

Birthday loot! 😁 The book was a surprise gift from @yayKM, the reviews are glowing so I'll definitely be starting that next when I finish my current book. And I've gotten the bass all nicely wall-mounted already. Very excited to start learning it, I've heard very good things about the Bassbuzz course (https://www.bassbuzz.com/lessons/beginner) from LOTS of people so I'm going to start with that.

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Posted on 20 April 2023, 10:12

A photo of an Ibanez JIVA10 guitar sitting against a wall next to an Orange amplifier, with a pedal board in front of them with 10 Boss compact pedals on it, plus a MIDI controller pedal and little footswitch pedal for switching the amp between the clean and dirty channels.

And we're all set up!

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 19:13

A selfie of me, a white man with short hair and a short red beard (and a very receding hairline) wearing a black Metallica t-shirt and holding a black electric guitar. In the background on the floor are my guitar amp and pedal board.

Look out world, I have a guitar and I'm not afraid to use it! I'm thoroughly enjoying the ability to plug my amp into the load box and play on headphones for nights like tonight where all the rest of the house has all the windows open because it's a lovely temperature. I close the door to the office and close the window in here and I can rock out to my heart's content without annoying everyone on the block.

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Posted on 27 October 2022, 22:10

The setup is complete! ...at least until my new guitar arrives, and also until I inevitably decide I want more guitar pedals and thus need to build a longer pedalboard. 😅 Man, that delay pedal is such fun. If you set one single repeat and set the delay before the repeat occurs to the right timing, you can get it to essentially play notes in between what you're playing, so it sounds like you're playing more. Or you can set a really long delay with lots of repeats and lower the intensity, and it sounds like you're in a vast hall. Or you can go in between those and just get a much fatter-sounding tone.

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Posted on 21 September 2022, 21:52

A photo of a DIY guitar pedalboard. It consists of two horizontal planks of wood screwed into two shallowly-angled pieces on either end. The two horizontal pieces have strips of velcro on them, and there's three pedals attached to it. The cables are extremely neat and tidy and mostly tucked away underneath the body of the board.

A photo of the pedalboard sitting in front of an Orange (and coloured orange) guitar amplifier.

That was a HELLA productive day off, look at my pedalboard! Everything is so neat and tidy, I'm fucking STOKED at how well it came together.

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Posted on 5 September 2022, 17:09

A photo of an Orange Rocker 15 guitar amplifier which is clad in bright orange vinyl and looks like it came directly from the 1960s, plus three guitar pedals sitting on the floor in front of it (an overdrive, a noise suppressor, and a looper).

Ahhhhh, this is so much fun! Creating a chord loop and turning the drum kit on (which is matched perfectly to the rhythm of the loop you recorded), then playing over the top of it. Definitely excellent practice for getting my timing up to snuff. And that overdrive pedal is so good, I get fantastic distortion now without having to crank the amp volume too high.

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Posted on 2 September 2022, 21:42

A photo of a bright orange guitar amp with a wheat-coloured front grill sitting on the floor next to a shiny black electric guitar.

The same orange guitar amp but this time sitting on a little elevated wooden platform in the corner of a room under a standing desk.

It's here! 🤘🏻 And it fits PERFECTLY on the little stand I made!

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Posted on 2 August 2022, 14:43

Eeeee, I just ordered a guitar amp! And not just any amp, a proper vacuum tube one. Feast your eyes on this orange monstrosity! I think my favourite feature (and a significant part of why I chose this one specifically) is that it has a switch at the back of that goes between "Headroom" and "Bedroom" modes. In Headroom mode, it puts out a full 15W, or 7W if you flick the "half power" switch. In Bedroom mode, that's dropped to 1W and 0.5W at half power, but it doesn't appreciably change the actual sound of the thing, it's just not nearly as loud so you can play it inside without annoying the shit out of your neighbours or significant other. I'm also getting a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Gen 3 USB audio interface and a Two Notes Torpedo Captor load box so I can hook it up to the computer and do some proper recording. (This page has a good description of what a load box is: https://travelingguitarist.com/what-is-a-guitar-load-box/. I only found out about them last night as I was researching how to hook the amp up to the computer since it doesn't have a headphone jack or line out.) EXCITE!

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Posted on 28 July 2022, 22:10