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Winter 2011 Pedalboard Update

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Pedalboard Winter 2011Lots of changes on my pedalboard the last few months. Actually, not many major changes, but i’ve switched up from a Pedaltrain Mini to a Junior board. This made sense for me, as I occasionally want to try other pedals out (i’m always looking at the local Craigslist for good deals), and the larger board made sense to me, since I’m not really carrying my gear around any more.

My board, since joining the Reason has been very minimal. Minimal tones are required, nothing much more than overdrive and delay. I’ve thought about adding some kind of modulation (Phaser/Rotating speaker) a few times, but I haven’t jumped at anything yet, I haven’t seen a need for it really.

This week I added the Mad Professor Little Green Wonder pedal (LGWD). Its a much higher gain pedal than my Sweet Honey Overdrive (which is my favorite pedal of all time). I can’t say that i’ve instantaneously fallen in love with the Little Green Wonder, but I can say that i’m going to give it a chance on the board before swapping it out for something (possibly another Sweet Honey – What can I say, now that i’ve found what I like as far as overdrive, I can’t get enough).

Birds of Wales – ‘Uninteresting’ Video!

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Today we released our video for our single for ‘Uninteresting’ instead of talking about how awesome it is, please just watch, and share it with your friends!

I hope you enjoyed it!

Xotic Ep-Booster (nerdy guitar content inside)

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

I’m in Ottawa this weekend for my cousin Emily’s wedding. Luckily I had a bit of time to head over to the local music shop (which i’ve heard a lot about recently) called Lauzon Music. They had a relatively decent assortment of higher end Gibson’s, Fenders, various acoustic guitars, and a room in the back that had a bunch of Dr Z amps – which was really nice to see. I love me some DrZ! I had a Z28 for some time, and it was certainly one of the nicest built and sounding amp for the money that I can think of. I’d definitely consider getting one of them again in the future (probably a Ghia).

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Klon Has Landed

Friday, February 12th, 2010

The Klon pedal arrived today! Yay! So stoked to try this thing out – I hope it was worth all the hype!

In other news, I picked up a Skreddy Screwdriver pedal last night as well. Haven’t played with it for more than an hour, but its certainly going to be a staple on my board. What an amazing pedal. Very Fat sounding. I’ll post some photos, and a review as soon as I get a chance!

Oldie, but a Goodie!

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

This is a couple months old now, but I was just watching it, and thought it might be nice to post it here. I believe this is us playing in Saskatoon when we were on our opening tour for Mishka. Good times!

I was playing my old telecaster that had a bigsby on it. Missin’ the bigsby!

The thing I remember the most about this gig, is that it was in this wicked restaurant that gave us the pick of anything we wanted. Naturally, we all chose various meats, Nachos, I think I actually had ribs.. mmmmmmm..