A day alone with my gear.

Life is busy these days. Most of the time I don’t even touch a guitar unless I’ve got a gig. Being a musician and having a family is a very challenging situation. There are rare occasions where I get a day in the house by myself to noodle around and today was one of them.

I started by pulling my trusty Boogie MkIV out. I unboxed my seldom used but hard to part with Roland SDE 1000 (my last piece of rack gear from the 80’s) and hooked it up to the loop. What a joy. I never forget what a great piece of gear the Roland delays were but I don’t often get to use it. I just don’t want to have to haul around a rack anymore. I usually just use my Digitech CF7 in the loop for a little depth when I want it.

I then pulled out my blackface bandmaster and cab. I plugged in quite a few pedals and had a little tonefest all to myself. I put a few homemade OD pedals through the paces. I played with the leslie setting I use on my Zoom Choir. To be truthful I was actually trying to get some tones dialed in for the country stuff I’ve been doing. I think I’ve got the thing dialed in now.

There was some work to be done. I had a bad tone pot on two of my guitars. (Go figure, I hardly ever use the tone control). I replaced those as well as going through a few other things. Then there was the task of the day. I needed to take apart and clean my Echoplex. I don’t use it much but it does need to be cleaned. (especially after the July 4th outdoor gig I did).

All in all it is great to get a day to spend tinkering with your gear. In the end I always end up liking what I like and the rig’s for the gigs very rarely change.

Scott

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