Tag Archives: guitar

What my rig currently looks like on Sundays

by on July 11, 2011 in gear

I’m changing things up pretty often these days and it’s been a while since I’ve shown any pics of what the rig looks like so here ya go. View of my space on stage Pedalboard My View

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Guitar players build *their* sound – advice from James Duke

by on May 21, 2010 in gear, music, tips

Recently I had the good pleasure of interviewing James Duke (guitar player for John Mark McMillan) as well as review his new release from his new project called “All the Bright Lights.” That record is largely instrumental and is a collection of incredible guitar tones and textures. So when I saw a blog post from [...]

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Kings of Leon guitar rigs (Video)

by on April 7, 2010 in gear, video

The guitar tech for Kings of Leon shows off their guitar and effect rigs. I like how straight forward they are, not really any trickery, all standard tunings, pretty straight up rigs. They just know how to write great rock music. I also dig that their lead guitarist plays my amp, Ampeg Reverbrocket FTW!

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Steps to rebuilding my live guitar rig

by on March 27, 2009 in gear, live

Guitar players know how live rigs work, you go through phases, tone phases, effects phases, minimalist to surrounding yourself in stompboxes. You sell things only to buy them back a couple years later. Well poor musicians like myself do anyway. So I find myself rebuilding a lot of what I tore down a couple years [...]

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Him that pisseth on thy guitar is blessed!

by on November 18, 2008 in funny, how to, video

One of my favorite local pastors is Pastor Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church. It was love at first sight when I read their inviting tagline, “Don’t expect anything contemporary or liberal.” I mean that’s powerful, warm and loving all at the same time! Except I have noticed they do use some contemporary [...]

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Gibson introduces self-tuning guitar, dubbed ‘Robot Guitar’

by on December 4, 2007 in gear

Gibson has released a self tuning guitar, they gave it the unfortunate name of ‘Robot Guitar’. How that name passed any level of critique is beyond me. It’s so very typical of the first iteration of any tech advance, where the name overplays the hand. Sooner or later this feature will probably be standard in [...]

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New foot controller on its way

by on November 21, 2007 in gear

Figure it’s time for some gear talk on here since I’m really excited about my new foot controller purchase. A couple years back I switched to Guitar Rig(GR) for my live rig. I never imagined I would be using a complete software rig ever in my life, but that was until I heard Guitar Rig. [...]

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