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).

I’ve been spending a bit of time working on this site design and layout, its been a really long time, and i’ve been wanting to try some new CSS3 stuff out here.

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A video from the Phoenix playing with The Reason.

Still loving my new iPhone4. The camera and the video capability is awesome, pretty much exactly what i’ve wanted in the iPhone for about 3-4 years now. Today I ordered this sweet Leica M8 skin for the back (I already have a front protector for it) off of Etsy. If you like it, check out TopDecal on Etsy for more skins.

I ordered a wallet/case for it too, i’ll take a photo when it arrives!

Birds of Wales have been out on tour for the last few weeks around Ontario. Its been a great time, met some cool people, and had a ton of fun. Here’s a video Ben put together documenting our fun times!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VRcGkRaVdk

You may think that touring in a band is glamorous, and always fun, what this video doesn’t show is me sleeping in the back of the van, sleeping on the floor of a hotel, and other debaucherous events. Good times indeed!

Here’s another video of us playing our single ‘Uninteresting’ at our Toronto show at the Garrison. Excuse the technical difficulties we were having with the violin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3PBMr0GLys