Was a fun night, but poorly attended (town was dead!). Wojtek was awesome, Vespertines very good too. We played a very relaxed set which was nice, more like a practice than a gig!
Link to more photos in the post (thanks Chloe!)
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Mompou plays Mompou
Wicked gig tonihgt - wodjek godzisz (or however it's spelt) was ace
now I'm about to go to bed but listening to the relaxing tones of federico mompou
Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Live version of 3over4
We finally got our hands on the recording made of our Louisinana gig in December. I've done a rough mix of 3over4 and it is now uploaded to our myspace page. You can download it from there if you'd like to.
We'll get more mixed and uploaded soon.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Pedal Fix
You may recall that I bought a lovely new Dan Electro echo pedal last year. Tonally and effect-wise, it was great, but it kept cutting out on me in the middle of practices. I did a bit of background reading and discoveed that Dan Electro pedals have a bad reputation for the quality of jacks used in their otherwise brilliant pedals - the build quality of the unit is sturdy and reliable, the jacks are made of plastic and prone to failing.
Danelectro Dan-Echo
I couldn't return my pedal because I got it cheap and unboxed, so Simon and I set to work repairing it. My plan was to hard-wire some make your own George L patch leads directly onto the circuit board and lead them out of the jack holes in the pedal housing, then fasten replaceable George L jacks at the other end, so the pedal could be plugged directly into other pedals/units. Simon has the electronics skills so I let him figure out how to do it.
Inside the pedal the jacks are conveniently located on a small easily removable circuit board. A ombination of solder, four hands, and elbow grease saw the end of the retched plastic jacks.
Simon solders the joints of the plastic jacks
One down
After successful removal of the Jacks we then had to figure out which part of the George L lead was the signal and which was the ground - we guessed. After soldering the right bits to the output part of the circuit we discovered our guess was good.
Fixing George L to the circuit board
Fixed
The second lead was much harder to replace - trial and error saw us solder the signal and lead to various permutations of points. I think the complication was in the fact that jack triggered a power switch when a a connection was made - I'm sure Simon can explain better. We got there in the end though.
Impotent evil - the second jack pwned
Possibly the winning connection - I can't remember
Next we put it back together and shoved the exposed wire ends through the jack holes before screwing on the George L jacks.
The coolest looking pedal I own
I've now filled in the holes with blutack to stop the leads getting wrenched off the board. The good thing with George L is that if the connection goes at the male end of the lead you can snip off some wire and re-make the connection.
Danelectro Dan-Echo
I couldn't return my pedal because I got it cheap and unboxed, so Simon and I set to work repairing it. My plan was to hard-wire some make your own George L patch leads directly onto the circuit board and lead them out of the jack holes in the pedal housing, then fasten replaceable George L jacks at the other end, so the pedal could be plugged directly into other pedals/units. Simon has the electronics skills so I let him figure out how to do it.
Inside the pedal the jacks are conveniently located on a small easily removable circuit board. A ombination of solder, four hands, and elbow grease saw the end of the retched plastic jacks.
Simon solders the joints of the plastic jacks
One down
After successful removal of the Jacks we then had to figure out which part of the George L lead was the signal and which was the ground - we guessed. After soldering the right bits to the output part of the circuit we discovered our guess was good.
Fixing George L to the circuit board
Fixed
The second lead was much harder to replace - trial and error saw us solder the signal and lead to various permutations of points. I think the complication was in the fact that jack triggered a power switch when a a connection was made - I'm sure Simon can explain better. We got there in the end though.
Impotent evil - the second jack pwned
Possibly the winning connection - I can't remember
Next we put it back together and shoved the exposed wire ends through the jack holes before screwing on the George L jacks.
The coolest looking pedal I own
I've now filled in the holes with blutack to stop the leads getting wrenched off the board. The good thing with George L is that if the connection goes at the male end of the lead you can snip off some wire and re-make the connection.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
More kit
Just had a shit day at work so cheered myself up by ordering this in the mail:
It's an all valve Fender Blues Junior combo amp with a modest, but punch-packing, 15Watts of output.
It should arrive in time for the next Yanu practice session and definitely in time for the May gig.
It's an all valve Fender Blues Junior combo amp with a modest, but punch-packing, 15Watts of output.
It should arrive in time for the next Yanu practice session and definitely in time for the May gig.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Gig news
Two gigs coming up. Full details soon, but here's the main bits:
Thurs 22nd May @ Louisiana
Friday 11th July somewhere in Bath
Looking forward to going back to the Louie - enjoyed it enormously last time.
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