It’s been such a long time… it’s been such a loooong time!

Ah good ol Boston!

WOW! It’s been months since my last post! I apologize to you all. I’ve been completely swamped with life (CPA exams, working overtime, a car project) and I’ve neglected my newly formed child, this blog.

Just a few updates. The 65 amps London is one of the most glorious amplifiers I’ve ever heard. So many highly experienced ears that have heard this amp through my rig have been amazed at its tone. Our worship director who is about as picky and fickle when it comes to tone as it gets, was really impressed. That says a lot to me!

My board has a few changes:

A Lovepedal Amp 50: absolutely love the tone of this pedal! Especially with my Les Paul. Lately it seems to be acting a little funny; I’m gonna do some more looking into it. Aside from that, it just has this gorgeous natural overdrive/boost to it that is just perfect! It only has a gain knob, and I’ve never desired a tone knob on it, which is amazing in and of itself.

Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2: one of the best choices I’ve made in a long time. Finally got rid of the annoying tap tempo led “pop” in my signal chain. It powers virtually any pedal. It’s dead quiet. Well worth the price of admission.

HBE Powerscreamer is gone: honestly, I miss that pedal a bit. It was a really nice TS808 style pedal. But it paid for my Tim pedal, that should be arriving in the next week or two.

Tim to come: as mentioned above, I ordered a Tim last December. I was supposed to be in the March shipment, that turned to April, now May. However, I just found out that Paul Cochrane’s mother passed away and that has put him behind on orders. I pray for peace and comfort for him and his family. That is never an easy thing to deal with.

In other news…

I’ve noticed that everytime I play my Les Paul, and then play my strats, I pretty much HAVE to turn the compressor on. Lesson learned: don’t play the Les before the strat. Haha.

Another thing to share: I had a wonderful worship refresher in my soul about a month ago. I was asked at the last minute, to play at the city wide first friday worship service our church holds. Typically, the same team plays that service, due to the fact that it’s about an hour and a half of worship and a great deal is on the fly. Because of that, the teams have to be super tight in the way they operate. Anywho, it was just so refreshing and rejuvenating to play that night. It’s hard to explain, but I’m sure you know where I’m coming from. It was one of those times when you just feel like you got to return to that pure, raw, powerful worship, where you just played and adored God and didn’t really even think. Just played for Him. It was a very blessed time.

Well, its back to work for me. I will be better about keeping my blog updated, I promise!

PS… wondering what that picture of Yosemite has anything to do with my post? Yosemite was my backyard growing up. It’s my home. This post, as well as that worship night, feels like a bit of a homecoming. So there you have it