Progress

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…

OK, I know it’s not a fair contest.
The Yamaha FG200 is from another millennium, when budget guitars were made from plywood (sorry, laminated tonewoods ) and the Freshman is made of solid woods throughout, 21st century and designed to…

Gulp! I’ve bought a new guitar…
As if things weren’t confusing enough already, with all this technology updating faster than my learning processes can cope with, I finally decided that my 30 year old plywood Yamaha FG200 just didn’t cut…

One of the interesting side effects of stopping smoking is that the extended mid-life crisis that is the 50th Anniversary Edition is now having a little mid-life crisis of its own.
Having stopped smoking, it was time to clean out…