Small town Canada for real!

I’m sure you know my pal and occasional bandmate Jesse then!

Also - those Maranger guitars are very very cool! I played a show with a band (strange attractor) who had one of his basses a few months back and it was really striking.

Can I ask where you got the pickup? My buddy Matt makes some off the wall guitars, https://www.instagram.com/maranger.instruments/ - if he didn't make that one he probably wouldn't mind buying them on occasion Of course, yeah! It came from https://mjscustompickups.com/ - he makes the pickups for mi...

I guess the benefit of transformer isolation and ground lift in case you have ground loops and bad hum in certain circumstances. The ground lift on their active reamp box has come in handy a few times for me.

https://i.imgur.com/OZLecWI.jpeg I built up this (relatively) cheap JM parts guitar recently and it turned out really nicely. There's not much of note aside from the pickup which was probably the most expensive single part on the guitar (~250CAD); it's a humbucker styled after teisco gold foils (ki...

TDR Nova might be the greatest free plugin of all the times.

I know it's funny, but that death metal pedal is quite ubiquitous in the world of table top synth noise/power electronics/etc. Makes things sound gross!

(Anyone else's vision get awful in your mid-40s? I used to have no trouble with the tiniest print (like on a disc cap, or an AC/DC transformer), and it feels like a couple years ago that ability disappeared and now I need readers just to clearly see the newspaper.) IIRC I got glasses when I was 13,...