Here it's '72 every Saturday Night, babe!

Hello again,

Need to get a habit writing stuff  here. It is relaxing. All I do is write nagginly so I would rather do it proper!

I haven't slept much at all, I have a hard time breathing through my nose (not due to covid! I'm tested) so I wake up at like 6 every morning; not that fun I you get home from work at 5AM.

Had a little fun last night. I was all set up to sit back and screen some Tarkovskij in my dungeon. This was cut short though. Just as I got to the title card of "Solaris" I was invited to a night of "good ol' punk records" and homemade burgers.

I had a swell time. We did get time to recount adolescent Black Flag fandom and discuss how great King Crimson are and make Clicheed statements about the narrow-mindedness of punks; we are well-seasoned music fans with broad views. Peppar, peppar...

After a couple of burgers and Tullamores we listened through the last live set our band did. I had not heard it before and it was exciting. I remember my bass tone got compliments but I had not heard myself more sterile. Overall sound was great though with some 80s drums of doom reverb. If we have any diehard fans this would be a treat. Maybe we should get together again, build a wall of sound, and focus on making hippie metal for tapers.

I also got reminded of an embarrassing performance I did. Once I noodled away on a monosynth over your typical garage rockers; today I was offered to become the organist of said garage rockers. I wonder: is a transexual going all Kauro Abe on a Moog really the hip thing? The 60's must be back. Let the punks drop acid!

Now I can keep my pile of synthesizers for another year at least. Gonna finish off with an Idea of Matt's. He told me to rate all my pedals I use. Here we go, in the order of signal-path:

• Wilson Wah-Wah: I have no idea what this is I think it is a clone of a Maestro Wah Wah, I have no idea who has used a Meastro Wah Wah. I only bought it cause it costed as much as a Crybaby 535 and it popped up used. I had heard good things about the Wilson ParaPedal copy. Sounds killer, cops the Wetton wah wah and that's the only thing I want. The pot is way too scratchy currently. Gotta buy lubricant!
• HBE Germania OC44: Oh yeah baby! This is the sound. Treble boosters is my shit. This is what an electric guitar sounds like. It has a switch for more bass (if you play through tweeters idk. No bass! We want the mids!) and a kinda useless pre-rangemaster LPB-1 that sounds fuzzy. I recently put an used carbon-zink battery in it and I feel it made the pedal. Sadly my multimeter is dead so i can't take readings. Fuck tubescreamers! This is what you should get. Use your dang guitar knobs!
• Coron Distortion: It is a Japanese MXR copy and it sounds like distortion. Bob Mould; Randy Rhoads: it's the sound, pair it with some chorus and/or detune for massive walls of shitgaze. Doesn't need much amp cooking to sound sweet either, I thought it was like a boost your Marshall or tiny Fender thing but you could drive a power amp with it (tonally speaking, it's not very loud). Gotta get like a 250 too, nice simple circuit
• Expresso fuzz: It is a Fuzz Face. I like Fuzz Faces, my weird guitar peers don't like them but I think it's a blank canvas for weird playing. I like weird fuzzes too but this just fuzzes and lets you use the all-mighty volume knob. Pair with a floated 6-point strat vibrato for Psyckhedelick madness!
• Dr. Scientist The Elements: Ryan is the man! You could put three of these in a rack and you would have the best amp in the world. It does it all. Just get one, duude!
• Empress Phaser: Great phaser for old school sounds. Does alot of swooshy and wobbly sounds but no craziness (which is good, I can justify more hoarding). I have a "Magnavox" setting for it I like. Also really dig the envelope sounds, been using it a lot cause my QTron hasn't left NYC yet. It is awesome but it reminds me that my guitar sounds are mostly rooted in traditionalism.
• Moog Mini Chorus: Hah! Trodde du ja! Yeah this chorus is not traditional! Well you can get you shitty Gilmour and Police sounds but to me this is Snakefinger in a box. It can get so weird you can just use the modulation for flavour instead of the big effect. A regeneration circuit was an ingenious addition. It says "chorus" but it should say "modulated comb-filtering aparatus"
• Dr. Scientist BitQuest: I skipped this for comedic pacing, sorry. It does many things. I like the ring modulator the most. I got it for the bit crusher but I hate bit crushers on guitar now. I'm not in NIN, what a dated sound. The reverb is amazing (won't hear that from me often) and distorts itself for your corny post-rock moments. The delay is super original too. Way underutilized by me but I always keep it at hand. Should get a second one for my backpack!
  
• KO Amps Power Booster: The Colorsound Power Booster is a grail pedal to me. It assaults you amp. It is a classic booster pedal but it doesn't sound like that. It can wear out tubes 15 minutes if they are shitty. A-MAZING! Too much bass, too much treble; What more could you ask for? Mids? C'mon!
• Eventide Timefactor: I think these are considered outdated? I've had 2. My favourite delaying device. People often don't like presets but I think delay pedals like this are great and would work for most players. You just gotta get in the 2290 mindset and use it for chorus and LFO:d filters and everything! I used the vintage setting for a bit crusher in an old song before I got a "dedicated" device. Insanity! It has really resonant filters too!

I have two more pedals out of the drawer, I'll rate those too!