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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 the slightly-off-white Boss "NS-2" noise suppressor guitar pedal. It's an austere-looking unit with three black dials with white faces on the top of it.

Last pedal arrived! Now the interminable wait until the end of next month for the guitar itself. Lots of fun to have with my current one and the new pedals in the meantime though!

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Posted on 1 September 2022, 14:48

YESSSS.

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Posted on 31 August 2022, 13:01

A product shot of an electric guitar. It's black around the edges and fades into raw maple in the middle of the body as well as the headstock, and has three pickups (two humbuckers and a single coil in the middle).

A product shot of the Boss SD-1 "Super Overdrive" guitar pedal. It's BRIGHT YELLOW and has three dials on the top of it. Fun fact, this pedal has been around since 1981 and still kicks huge amounts of arse.

A product shot of the Boss RC-5 "Loopstation" guitar pedal. It's in a handsome red colour and has a small LCD at the top with a dial next to it and some buttons that light up red and green.

A product shot of the Boss NS-2 noise suppressor guitar pedal. It's an austere-looking unit in white with three black dials with white faces on the top of it.

I've been eyeing off one of Ibanez's guitars for a little while now, the Nita Strauss signature "JIVA10", and was going to get it when my bonus comes in at the end of next month.

I emailed the music store (I buy all my big stuff through Musos Corner, they're based in Newcastle and are really good) and they said that guitar is a special order and that if I ordered it now it'd arrive in late September, and they can take it out of the box before they ship it to me and make sure all is well and that it's all set up right and tuned up and such. So I figured fuck it, I'll get a head start and buy it now so it'll arrive at the end of next month. 😛 Also picked up some pedals as well, I'm REALLY looking forward to using the RC-5 loop station, apparently a looper pedal is absolutely brilliant for learning guitar with, and this one actually has a bunch of drum kits and styles in it so you can practice along to something more interesting to keep with than a straight metronome.

Also, just LOOK at that guitar, it's so PRETTY. 😍

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Posted on 29 August 2022, 21:10

My First Song (Electro Mix)

There we go, I present to you "My First Song (Electro Mix)"! 😁

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Posted on 26 August 2022, 21:21

A screenshot of Logic Pro showing three audio tracks and two floating windows above it with all sorts of knobs and dials.

I am having ENTIRELY too much fun in Logic Pro right now. I've taken the song I recorded back in May, recorded a bass track with my guitar amp/load box/audio interface setup, and have turned it into this electronic-sounding thing. (Once I'm happy with it, I'll upload it.)

Also, man, listening to this back again I can really hear that I sucked at keeping the guitar in time with the drums. 😛

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Posted on 25 August 2022, 21:42

A photo of a set of wooden drumsticks, and the boxes of an Ernie Ball "Volt" power supply and a drum practice pad.

Why yes, it IS more music-related things!

I got a teeny little power supply for my yet-to-exist pedal board because I don't want to have to deal with 9V batteries, and a practice drum pad because I've seen multiple (extremely good) drummers mention that every aspiring drummer should have and use one.

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Posted on 23 August 2022, 13:09

A photo of a shiny black electric guitar sitting on a guitar stand.

There we go, one fully restrung and intonated guitar! (I haven't chopped the overhang fully off the top of the strings yet because I'm not convinced I wound them around the tuning pegs enough. Going to give it a couple of days and make sure it's not slipping out of tune.)

I can definitely tell how much brighter the sound is with the new strings, even without having plugged it into the amp yet.

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Posted on 19 August 2022, 17:13

A photo of a set of guitar strings, two guitar wall mounts, two straps, some patch cables for connecting guitar pedals together, some string cleaner/lubricant, some 1-metre instrument cables, and a set of heavy-duty velcro for fastening guitar pedals to a pedal board.

Also my next batch of guitar-related bits and bobs arrived. Looking forward to getting the new strings onto my guitar, I realised it's sounding pretty muddy at this point given I haven't changed them since I bought it two years ago. 😬

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Posted on 18 August 2022, 15:59