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A photo of the mostly-disassembled innards of a Pirate MIDI "BRIDGE4" controller sitting on and around a magnetic iFixit mat. There's a selection of screws, and next to the circuit board is the TRS jack that's been ripped off it.

Well, fuck. I managed to break the MIDI-out jack on my MIDI controller. I guess this will be a good test of my soldering skills. 😬 I've been watching a bunch of That Pedal Show on YouTube and was rejiggering my pedal board (I ended up removing everything from the effects loop except for the looper pedal, put the flanger before the boost/overdrive pedals, and it all sounds amazing), and I leant the amp forwards a bit so I could get behind it to plug the effects loop cables back in. The jack sticks out far enough from the MIDI controller that a significant portion of the 13kg weight of the amp ended up on jack and just ripped it straight off. 😢

Posted on 6 May 2023, 21:46

A photo of the bottom of my guitar pedal board. There's a large silver power supply attached to the bottom with lots of cables coming out of it, with a FAR smaller black one (the old one) sitting on top. Just eyeballing it, by volume I reckon the new power supply is probably like six or seven times larger, if not more.

I bought myself a new and properly chonky power supply for my guitar pedal board, because the old one had five outputs and I had eleven pedals and was doing lots of daisy chaining and if I had the looper and MIDI controller pedals going at the same time as everything else, the voltage would sag and the volume would massively drop. Check out the size different between the two. 😅 (Old one on top, obviously.) The new one has eight outputs, but the price increase to go up to the one with twelve was _significant_ so I didn't bother. It's got a USB-C out so I can run the MIDI controller off that instead of taking up an output, and the daisy chaining isn't a problem for the noise suppressor/overdrive/distortion/fuzz pedals because they collectively use a TINY amount of power compared to most of the others.

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Posted on 2 May 2023, 13:22

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. 🤘🏻

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Posted on 27 April 2023, 21:21

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 photo of the box of Games Workshop's new Warhammer Underworlds box, "Gnarlwood", and four Boss guitar pedals. The Underworlds box has artwork of a guy in furs and looking very shamanic, and the guitar pedals are the DS-1W distortion, DD-3T digital delay, GE-7 equaliser, and Reverb RV-6.

Christmas loot! Hope everyone's had a good one.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 13:47

A photo of a square black guitar pedal with "RAT" written on it. There's three dials labelled Distortion, Filter, and Volume, and a clicky footswitch to turn it on and off.

A friend lent me his "The RAT" distortion pedal since he hasn't been using it. 😁 Very excited to give it a blast tonight.

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Posted on 8 December 2022, 16:34

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

My little footswitch arrived! It's so little and adorable. And because it can be used for different things depending on the amp it's plugged into, they give you this set of little stickers to stick onto the front of it so you know what the actual function is that it's triggering.

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Posted on 17 October 2022, 14:53

A photo of a two-row pedal board with seven pedals of various sorts on it.

NOW we're cooking with gas.

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Posted on 10 October 2022, 20:44

A photo of the box of a Boss FZ-1W fuzz guitar pedal, and a D'Addario "XPAND2" pedal board, which is a two-row pedal board made of aluminium that can become wider as you get more pedals.

Woooooo! I'm waiting on just one more thing (at least until Christmas 😅), an Orange FS-1 mini footswitch so I can switch between the clean and dirty channels on the amp without having to lean over and down to actually fiddle with the amp itself.

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Posted on 10 October 2022, 13:30