GEAR

3Sep2021

expression pedal shootout: headrush vs. mission

As multi-effect modeling pedals become more realistic, the interfaces through which we control them become more important…

25Jun2020

To use one last architectural trope, ‘god is in the details,’ after using S1 for a couple months now, I realize how much effort PreSonus put into…

4Apr2018

In 1987 I had the privilege of recording with bassist Mike Cassidy on ‘Untitled no.3’ the opening track off my second release, Resonance…

14Aug2016

I literally had to hide my Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer under the couch, safe from view. This unassuming piece of gear (it only…

23Mar2016

Meanwhile, the GKKIT acts, again, like a magnetic pickup — because it is one — reducing extraneous signals and eschewing the piezo…

4Mar2015

So many of us geeks that grew up in the ’80s and ’90s were moved by Rutger Hauer’s ‘Tears in the Rain’ monologue at the end of the…

28Feb2015

Several years ago, I wrote about being a Nomadic-Utopist — a true “N-ut” being someone that believes that utopia is not fixed in space…

23Feb2015

I customize all my instruments in one way or another, hopefully in artful and subtle ways, but there are always those extreme cases…

28Jan2015

Now that my final 4-track effort statik 3 has been uploaded I want to pay homage to the cassette 4-track recorder that liberated the…

3Dec2014

Houses can be haunted but what about musical gear? Could it be that there are ghosts in the circuitry, the after-image of sonic experiments…