Recent content by boze

Y'all are more legit than me with your dialed-in gigging pedal boards/rigs - and again I'm a guitarist. Still feel it's worth adding: I shopped my way up from budget offerings like the NUX Amp Academy and Ampero Stomp. It was really apparent how much less impressive their DSP was. The HX Stomp...

I'm a singer who plays jazz and gypsy guitar and I have/use/love the HX Stomp. It taught me that I never spent enough money on amps. It's true that you can go down a tone sculpting rabbit hole and spend more time designing your patches than you do playing. For me even that falls into the...

Got my first bass guitar on Friday and took all the stickers off when I got home. It's fun to play and as a guitarist I'm looking forward to learning a new instrument and eventually working it into home recording.

Thanks, Chi! Yeah, I'm already looping tracks in DAW software, and I'm familiar with my options as far as that goes. And yeah, if my gypsy swing combo had a drummer I'd for sure just ask him to play by himself for four minutes and record it. But alas, the drummer in gypsy jazz is just two more...

I'm a big fan of backing tracks or "play-alongs". I record my own gypsy rhythm guitar tracks and solo to them with headphones on. Now that I'm learning DB, I'm fond of these Gypsy Jazz Play-Along clips on YouTube. However, I can't find anybody just playing straight ahead drums or brushes...

I appear to only be able to find folks out in the Maryland or Virginia suburbs, but I would like to find a teacher who actually lives in the District. I'm a gypsy jazz guitarist and singer looking to learn jazz. I have a Kay and a modest cf bow. I'm having fun with both arco and pizz at home...

When I found my Kay bass this spring I was looking at YouTube clips and found this guy: I really like his clip and sometimes go back and watch it again while I'm getting ready for work in the morning or something. My favorite parts are the "m'aha" at 1:00 and the "unh!" at 2:43.

Thanks for the high fives and the extra info. I'm super excited about this whole thing. I like the spirit of the word "rescue". Including the replacement parts my bassist and I fiddled with before I took it to Tom the total cost is probably near $1500, but instead of the repairs and setup costs...

Back in the Spring of this year I was at Action Music, my favorite guitar store in northern Virginia, when Matt, the owner, told me he had seen what looked like an old Kay bass at a consignment furniture store down the street. He knew I played guitar in a gypsy swing band and figuring he didn't...