Lead Guitar Players - "Baffle" Your Audience
If you play electric lead guitar with an amp, it's only a matter of time before you get the "turn it down" signal from someone. Whether it's the "hands over the ears" indicator, the downward hand gesture from a patron, or a note on a napkin from the club manager.
Of course, we guitar players are always innocent. If the drummer wasn't so heavy handed, we could play at a lower volume. Or, "I have to compete with the PA system". Or, "the bass player has his amp up my butt". It's always something.
Unfortunately, if a band is considered "too loud" it's typically the lead guitar player that catches the heat. Sometimes it's justifiable. Other times, an overly loud PA cabinet can be the culprit, but we of course, get the blame.
The reason is, that guitar amps can, and do, get loud! If you want to prove it, next time you are playing a gig, have someone play your guitar, and sit out in the audience at amp level and hear what they hear.
The Ups & Downs of Multi-Effects Guitar Pedals
Have you ever seen those guys on stage with a million or so effects pedals laid out at their feet? Patch cables slithering like a bed of snakes through a maze of distortions, delays, choruses, flanges, wah's, envelope filters, octave dividers, EQ's, tuners, and the list goes on.
How do they make sense of all those stomp boxes? How long does it take just to plug them in before a gig? Can you really use all of them in the course of a night? Heck, they even make large, football field size, pedal boards so you can attach a cornucopia of pedals with Velcro, and power them all from one source. Do you really need all those sounds?
Okay, I have to confess, there was a time, years ago, that I was a "stomp box" junkie and bought every new fangled pedal that came out. Yes, I had a pedal board. And yes, the rest of the band was set up and ready for sound check before I had all those pedals hooked up and tweaked!
Then came the digital age and everything changed. Legions of engineers designed pedals with a plethora of effects built into a compact package. Suddenly the need to acquire a multitude of various stomp boxes was eliminated.
Read more: The Ups & Downs of Multi-Effects Guitar Pedals
Today's Google Guitar Player
Try this. Google "God". Just for laughs, go to Google and type in G-O-D. Now, pay attention to the drop down menu below. This is where Google's intuitive machine suggests the most popular sites that are most likely to match the search term you have entered.
When you enter a search for God, what is the number one recommended match for your search?....GoDaddy!
Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of GoDaddy, and a customer as well - but if I'm looking for God, I don't expect to find him at GoDaddy.
And, yes, I know what the first three letters in GoDaddy are, but doesn't it strike you odd that this site comes up in the number one slot before any God related sites?
This is a telling commentary on life in today's ultra technical age. If a search for God can lead us directly to a domain registration site, how can we be sure that any information we are searching for will lead us to the "right" information.
