Progress

Harry Potter casts a Confundus on us all and I prove I really know bugger all about guitar wiring.

Well, my apologies to those of you who tune in with the naive hope that I’ve actually got some song writing or recording done.
Nope, I haven’t, but I am a step closer to getting the sound I want out…

A podcast in which 4 electric guitars face up to the challenge of competing on the Clarity and Sparkle Game Show. Who will be the lucky winner!

In which I show you the trick to getting bags of tone out of your guitar.

And this is why you should never allow your children to bring their friends into your studio in your absence. It’s not as if it’s made of tissue paper either. It’s tough stuff, just not as thick as the little…

I said I would post a recording of the real thing, and it’s taken only a week longer than I’d planned, but I’m guessing you’re used to that by now.
Anyway, without further ado, and with only a discreet fanfare…

In this tiny recording studio, I’ve managed to squeeze in seven guitars but only one guitar amp. But what a monster it is!
It’s a Marshall 4140 ‘Club and Country’ 2 x 12 100 watt combo, made in 1978, covered…

I know, it’s been ages.
But hey, I’ve been busy!
Work, as always, gets in the way, and at one or two o’clock in the morning, it’s very tempting just to wind down with half an hour of WoW.
Half…

As my avid readers know, the hub of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition is a 20″ 1.8 gHz iMac, which takes pride of place in the studio. But recently, I’ve been getting even less stuff done than usual, because when I…

Ah yes, the truss rod…
When I was but a young lad, dreaming sleep away with erotic dreams of sinuous, curved Fenders and dark, sweet Gibsons which shamed my clunky third rate guitars, a truss rod was just the thing…