Moving the Blags

I'm re-consolodating my blogs. 

I know, you wanted them separate. But my little mind just doesn't work that way.

All my blogging -- politics, music, theater, film, etc., will be at 

blog.pleasurefortheempire.com

Get Ready

Brittany Bowman is a drummer.

Here are a bunch of images from my desktop.

Pultec EQ

1. The first group controls the low frequencies and has three controls: boost, attenuation, and frequency select. This section is a shelving EQ.
2. The second group controls the high frequencies and has three controls: boost, bandwidth, and frequency select. This section is a parametric boost EQ.
3. The third group also controls the highs and has two controls: attenuation amount and frequency select. This section is attenuation only shelving EQ.

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I have this fantasy about making something like a Pultec EQ pedal for guitars.

Duncan amps makes a tone stack calculator.

The Riff Step is a Digitech Whammy sequencer.

If you want your MXR Carbon Copy's output to be 100% wet, you gotta cut R48.

Lighten up

I'm kinda over using heavy strings. As a teenager I played absurdly heavy flatwound strings. I still have my Hagstrom electric -- it won't even set up properly with the original bridge and anything short of some stupid heavy strings.
Right now most of my guitars are 10's with heavy bottoms. But it seems that the "heavy is better" thing is a myth (one that I bought into just because I was very used to hard-to-play instruments.) Billy Gibbons, Jimmy Page, BB King, Brian May, I mean a lot of guitar players known for their guitar sound use(d) pretty light strings.

And of course it is impossible to do a double-blind comparison. But it seems the biggest difference is feel anyway. Of course, one big difference between me and (say) BB King (the only difference, really) is that he was a vastly better guitar player than I am.

Cat is unimpressed as long as I'm not using cat-gut strings.