Recent content by datriani

I believe this to be true. About a year ago I shifted from practicing about 30 minutes a week to 3 hours a day. I've been playing for about 28 years and have been in a band on/off for most of the time and I haven't had to practice too much to keep my chops up but in the last year really wanted...

Check out temple pedalboard, it's kind of pricey but pretty convenient if you like switch pedals around and would rather not deal with Velcro. I also like the side jack design and power jack/switch. Very cool design and you can pick and choose a lot of options. I've owned a few trailer trash...

One of the best pedals to pair with any drive pedal is the empress paraeq, it's a parametric eq pedal. I use mine right after my drive pedals and regardless of the amp, speaker, cab and/or room, I can tweak my sound to standout without an increase in volume. It's about $250 but money well spent...

I've owned one for about 5 or 6 years with zero issues. I've bought and tried a number of mainstream and boutique drive pedals but I've been able to get reasonable close to most of them with the nova drive. I use mine with a few H9 and a midi controller and it's pretty amazing. I think they're...

My opinion is that Andy is definitely on the same level playing wise as Satch. I think anyone who plays professionally as a solo artist/guitarist has to have the chops to command an audience and both have a considerable following. No doubt that they play at a level that we all strive to...

I just left my cover band not too long ago but I still get calls to fill in for other bands and I'll hit random open jam nights at local bars. But I will be looking for another one as soon as I figure out what city I'm going to be living in. I'm 40 and have been playing for about 28 years...

Bruce, long time fan of your amps as well as the products you've developed with Rocktron in the past. I've owned a number of your amps include the TOL50, TOL100, (Rocktron versions as well), rebels, tweakers, renegade but my favorite amp of them all was the M4 Preamp. Like other players in the...

I found some of his stuff on Youtube about a year ago and have been a big fan since. Smooth player with an unique style and approach. After watching a few of his instructional videos and interviews, he's a really down to earth with a tremendous amount of knowledge on how to be a professional...

I've never been a big fan of all in 1 units but this looks like a great utility pedal to with my rig to add a few options while replacing a few pedals. Would you compare the effects (reverb, delay, mod) quality to a Eventide or Strymon products?

Nice board. How you liking the Fix board? I've been on the market to replace my trailertrash and pedaltrain boards and this looks like exactly what I had in mind. Very glad you posted and stumbled across your post. Were you considering any other boards before picking up the Fix?

My old cover band did a lot of random wedding and corporate gigs and for certain venues I'd go direct using a variety of methods, all of which were good enough but never really matched the sound of a live amp on stage, to be expected. At first I would rely on the sound guy for my stage monitor...

Couple of things that I keep in mind when negotiation are 1) I try to figure out how long they've had it I n stock, 2)I'll check out GC site and run a search using the word "used" along with the name (sometime used items will be left out if you don't use the word "used" in the search) to see if...

I just recently dropped my noise clamp which didn't color the sound too badly but I had this elaborate board with a lot more pedals and just stripped it down to 4 pedals. The attack and clarity jumped out afterwards and I couldn't be happier. If you look at a lot the pro boards, most of them...

At some point, some US companies decided they could save money by moving production overseas. This has been going on for a long time and China is far from being the first but they currently have the largest workforce and we happen to be one of their largest consumers. The majority of the money...

I'm pretty happy with the transition I've made to having less pedals. I did jump the gun on picking up a midi controller. I was at a music store buying the H9 and that was the best midi controller they had in stock. Disaster Area and Decibel Eleven make some cool midi controller with loop...