Latest addition: Haunt Fuzz by Old Blood Noise. It's like a crisper Big Muff with some additional chaos. The Gate is a clip that squashes the signal in a "oh no, the amp is too loud and it's breaking" sort of way that I like in small doses. Running this into a Catalinbread DLS in Super Bass mode is [metal chef's kiss]. I was inspired to record one minute of doom noise to demo: https://d1x6es5xzge33k.cloudfront.net/onfocus/2022/05/haunt-demo.mp3
birdsite strategy day
Getting serious 2018 vibes from that website so I went through and made sure I'm getting people's alternate sources--either RSS from their website or subscribed to their newsletter. I need to be completely off but I'd still like to hear from people I follow there. And luckily we have Today in Tabs to keep up with The Discourse™ without actually keeping up with it.
covid
This is the CDC warning that shows up when you look at transmission levels and it reads off to me for some reason. Nothing to see or do here! As you were!
covid
There’s a local covid surge happening where I am. Notifications from school coming in and several friends are positive. Just a reminder that the CDC is only watching hospitalizations now so it’s worth looking at their ‘Community Transmission’ for your area despite their warnings about not using it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
This is the current state of my pedalboard. I found a used Cry Baby mini at a good price and I can’t believe I’ve never owned a wah pedal before—so much fun.
This is my first electric guitar that I got when I was 13. It's been in a case for at least 25 years more memorabilia than a playable instrument. So last week I took it all apart, sanded the body, oiled the fretboard, and swapped in a black pickguard. (A little Gilmour tribute.) Jammed with it last night and really enjoyed playing it again.
On the real pedal front, this catalinbread DLS is my favorite distortion sound right now--a dark, growly Marshall sound. (Makes up for the weaker heavy distortion sound on the Blackstar.) And this digitech Mosaic is a fun, jangly 12-string simulator.
Long time, no pedal update. So this isn't a pedal but I somehow got this little Blackstar tube amp and it is the best. The overdrive sound on this thing is just [chef's kiss].
Spotify
I wrote some more words about this on my blog: https://www.onfocus.com/2022/01/8295/spotify-wrapped
Spotify
After a contentious family meeting last night we are canceling the Spotify Family plan. Moved my playlists last night and it wasn’t too bad. I’ve been thinking that Music isn’t entirely rational—it’s about feeling. These centralized music services don’t feel like music. They’re not run by music people. I’m not surprised their Podcast business is at odds with music.
Of the Corvallis Bausches.