Where did I put the super glue?

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Last night I was as good as my word.  I put a set of DR 10’s on my old Travis Bean TB1000S.  I didn’t really get to far beyond giving the old girl new strings, getting in tune and giving her a haircut.  My deposition ended a bit early because my client blew me off.  Glad he’s so involved in the case, that painintheass!  Anyway, I got back around four, downed a Red Bull and got out of my work clothes to see how those new strings felt.  Well, I ended up rocking out so hard that the pickguard came off, as did one of the tone knobs.  It was awesome!  Sorry neighbors.

SourceAudio Tri-Mod Wah – probably voided the warranty

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I’ve never been too good with the wah-wah rocker pedal.  Volume pedal is a different story, that I can handle.  but the wah has never been my friend.  So, several months ago, I picked up this sucker on a whim and it’s a nice sounding unit with lots of versatility.  It can do envelope or LFO and the multi-peaks can get real crazy – that’s always a good thing.

Unfortunately, the switch stopped working several months ago and I foolishly never did anything about it.  The unit still got power and all the settings seemed to work, but I couldn’t work the pedal.  Well, last night, I decided to take a quick look inside and noticed that a spring in the switch had been overly compressed.  I gently stretched out the spring and put it back in place, put all the screws back in and ta-dah! The thing is working like a charm.  I’ll try to get some recording done so you can hear this beauty.  It’s not earth shattering, but it’s a nice little auto-wah/filter unit.

More musical microblogging

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This is Hector and Achilles, composed, arranged, mixed and recorded in about two and one half hours.  It’s GarageBand with the gutar recorded via microphone through LabSeries solid state amplifier.  the guitar is an early 70’s SG with strings that need to be changed.  Some of the sounds were jacked from GarageBand extension packs obtained through bittorrent.

[audio:http://mpomy.com/Music/hecotrachilles.mp3]