I’ve been thinking some more about Phil Plait’s “Don’t Be a Dick” speech from TAM8 and I keep coming back to what seems to be a bizarre demand from many people that Plait provide specific examples of dickery. Without that, they say, Plait was just attacking a straw man, and talking without evidence …...
I’m working on a new instrumental at the moment (see my recent post for the video of an earlyish version). It’s in my head a lot of the time, which I figure is a good thing. It’s also still a lot of fun – also a good thing. I’ve had a number of comments...
I’ve done a couple of Led Zeppelin covers on YouTube in the last couple of days. Being Led Zep covers, I figured I had to lower my guitar from its neck-high jazz-ish orientation, and get more towards Jimmy Page levels of lowness. First up was a cover of Immigrant Song: The strap was almost as low...
I haven’t used the standard amp sim that comes with Garageband 09 very much. My AMT Electronics Fatal Tube and California Sound do the business for me pretty nicely: However, they don’t really seem to do rhythm tones as well as they do lead tones … or I haven’t yet managed to set them correctly...
I’ve been reading a few discussions about choice of guitar picks lately (things often seem to happen all at once), and it so happened that I had been thinking about my recent change of pick: from a .96mm celluloid chunky triangle thing by Martin, to a cut/sanded-down thick clear plastic thumpick. I like what...
