I’ve been slowly improving the last few days. The pain in my back and arms is not quite as bad as it has been. Hopefully i can start getting videos out again for everyone to enjoy soon. I was able to pick up and play guitar last night for longer than a minute for the first time in a little while. So i took advantage and practiced for several hours. Felt good to do it, although by the end of the session, my left arm was in a good deal of pain. Having it extended outward is what hurts. I can play longer higher up the fretboard than down low. Been watching the mews on DOGE and I am excited about what’s happening in my country. The head of a corrupt snake is being sawed off and its body is thrashing around. If Trump doesn’t get assassinated, or Elon Musk, it’ll be a miracle. The corrupt politicians are all but calling for it. If you’re one of these people who doesn’t get why DOGE is absolutely necessary to drain the swamp, watch this :
I made this quick video the other day for a friend and figured I'd post it here as well. He wants to get started in slide, so I was quickly showing him some open tuning concepts to make the transition to slide a bit easier. Kind of like learning slide without a slide.
I'm in the process of creating the demo for an upcoming video on a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb. This is the point where I'm editing the video and audio layers all together with green screening. The studio-captured audio is not added yet. This is just a rough video mix with the RAW camera guide audio for the drums and guitar ONLY! So this is what the drums and rhythm guitar are sounding like in the room by themselves with no close miking and no post processing (other than a bit of compression and EQ). I am actually kind of shocked how good this is sounding even though one of the camera mics (the one for the drums) is from a DJI Action Cam and the other (for the guitar) is a Panasonic camcorder mic. Usually when making this kind of demo, the raw camera mic audio acts as a guide when lining up video clips on the editing timeline and then gets deleted from the final timeline before publishing. In some cases, I will even mix in a hint of the raw camera microphones with the studio mix to give ...
This little tuner does more than just tune, and I think they're going to sell a million of these damn things.
This company sent me a 2.4ghz wireless in ear monitor system for review. The results were less than stellar. The dropouts were so bad on certain channels, I couldn't make it even 5 feet without severe dropouts! If you're in the market for wireless in ears, be sure to do your research and spend a long time looking at the available broadcasting frequencies and their drawbacks. From what I can see, 2.4ghz is NOT RELIABLE for anything to do with live performing. Many systems employ a sophisticated channel-jumping method to get around the crowded channels, but will still see dropouts.
