Pamparo in Toronto

Inspiration comes from many different forms. This was inspired by a comment regarding Line 6 on a latest post @ Guitar For Worship.

This is a D-Dorian progression @ 60bpm recorded using Logic Express with PODFarm (POD XT Live)

Click here to play: I Am Sixty

Enjoy!

Catalinbread's Dirty Little Secret

And you think it’s something interesting!

Thanks to my rarely-used Analogman Bi-Chorus (which was sold for fairly good price), I managed to get this “Marshall-in-a-Box” pedal. Man, only if I can buy the chops of the pros! Alas, it’s not to be! At least, getting stuff like this makes me feel like a rockstar!

First impression … as soon as I struck an open-G chord with the gain barely at 9 o’clock position, I thought that I’d be keeping this for a while!

So there, now you know my Dirty Little Secret by Catalinbread!

Days after I said that I might not buy a single pedal in 2-years, I ate my very own words. Lucky that I had a disclaimer that the decision can change in a heartbeat … and it did!

Well, I just got an Xotic EP-Booster. It’s supposed to be just the pre-amp section of the legendary Echoplex. Rumor has it that the pre-amp is used by guitar legends such as Page, Van Halen and Johnson to make their tones sound spectacular… Well, I really couldn’t care less whether they used it or not as I have my own reasons for getting it. I need a boost pedal & I need it small. And this pedal pretty much fit the bill. To give you a bit of scale on how small this pedal is, here’s a picture I took shortly after receiving it:

EP-Booster's small footprint

It’s very small but this thing feels like a rock! Literally, it’s very heavy for a pedal this size. Don’t be deceived by the size, though. This thing is packed with TONE!

Here’s a demo by Pro Guitar Shop …

Does it work? Yes, it does boost my signal, almost transparently. I said “almost” because it does alter the tone ever so slightly in a good way. Try it out, you might like it, too!