Tuesday, November 08, 2005

G.A.S. attack

(G.A.S. = Guitar Addiction Syndrome)

I'm playing at the Virginia Music Educator's Convention in a week and a half and I just had to mess with the guitar rig yet again. The psychosomatic illness de jour: I've never been totally happy with my tone in the second movement. On the CD, I used an electric classical guitar for the first half, but I don't have time to switch instruments live, so I have to compromise and only use one guitar. So I've decided to take drastic action:
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Eddie Van Halen model MXR-90 Phase Shifter. I'm pretty sure I'm going to use this instead of a chorus pedal (my beloved TC Electronics Chorus -- the only pedal that's been used on every CT performance up to now!) and a chain it into a digital delay (an old Boss DD-5). It should sound a lot more... dramatic.

(For the uber-tweaky, I'm using the MXR-90 with the "script mode" ON (the mids don't seem to bunch up as much), and the speed knob at about 10:00. Both the phaser and the delay aren't true bypass, so I'll run then through a Keeley bypass looper to keep everything as clean as possible... ooh, that WAS interesting, wasn't it?)

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