Rough Hewn Trio – Some Live Excerpts
The Rough Hewn Trio – an instrumental trio consisting of Chris Lavender on Warr guitar, Craig Bunch on drums and myself on guitar are getting back into the rehearsal cycle and gearing up for some shows this spring. To get a feel for what the shows will be like here are some live excerpts from some … Read more
AU LAB/POD FARM 2.0/LIVE LAPTOP RIG TUTORIAL PART 6 – Dual Rig Distorted Tones
In previous instances – I haven’t had a whole lot of success with running both A and B channels on a dual rig – but I thought I would try to steal a tone idea from Joe Bonamassa, and give it another shot – this time running a dirty and clean tone at the same … Read more
Recycling Shapes or Modular Arpeggios for Fun and Profit
When improvising, I need to be able to access sounds immediately. One tool that I use for this is Sonic Visualization (which is really a cornerstone of the GuitArchitetcure concept). In Sonic Visualization – I associate shapes with sounds so that I can make changes, modify or develop ideas in real-time. Here’s one example of … Read more
Laptop Guitar Setup Or Notes From A Live Show
For the Onibaba show last night, I decided to use only the laptop rig that I’ve been working with and not use the typical Atomic/Pod X3 rig that I use. The short of it is that from a technical standpoint – it worked without a hitch. I don’t think that anyone noticed that there weren’t … Read more
AU Lab/POD Farm 2.0/Live Laptop Rig Tutorial Part 4
Welcome back! In this post, I’ll be integrating SooperLooper into the AU LAB Live rig I’ve been building. If you haven’t read the earlier posts about this (part 1, part 2 or part 3) you may want to read those before continuing on. An Important note about sample rates: From here on out – if … Read more
AU Lab/POD Farm 2.0/Live Laptop Rig Tutorial Part 3
Hello again. If you haven’t read the first or the second posts about setting up POD Farm in AU Lab, you may want to review those first. Automating Parameters with MIDI Learn: Now let’s complete the clean guitar setup and then automate some parameters in POD Farm. First I’m going to delete the delay and … Read more
AU Lab/POD Farm 2.0/Live Laptop Rig Tutorial Part 2
In the previous post, an AU Lab session (or document) was established and an A/B POD Farm patch was created. In this post, I’m going to start modifying the patch to make it more useable. Building the rig: Okay first I’m going to swap out the amp. I like the Double Verb instead. You can … Read more
Setting Up “Testing Environments” Or Multi Layered Tones In AU Lab
One site that I always forget to link to and need to do so now is the Guitar Amp Modeling Blog, which is just a really tremendous resource. It’s really inspiring to me to see so many people working on pushing more and more into alternate live and studio approaches to guitar. A couple of … Read more
A quick lick – and a rig du jour update from Ho Chi Minh City
Greetings from the former/current Saigon. (Technically Ho Chi Minh City but many of the locals call it Saigon). I had hoped to post a couple of blog updates up before I left, but instead was running around checking things for the trip. Now a jet lagged – iced coffee and soon to be bahn mi … Read more
Tech Limbo (Neither Heaven nor Hell R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio)
So I’m packing, moving and simultaneously trying to get some stuff ready for the Cha’ak’ab Paaxil Festival in Yucatán, México June 3-5th. My plan is to leave the amp here and to use a combination of Line 6 gear and a guitar to play the shows. After playing with Wael Kakish and the Middle Eastern … Read more
