Kingtone

I added a new sonic item to my experimental palate - a 4ms NoiseSwash. It is a crazy pedal that is a show unto itself. I saw George Cremaschi use one last year and he pointed me to the right place. It is a rather unpredictable super feedback distortion pedal with many controls and an LFO and if you are interested in composing with it, you let it lead…

I did not have my beloved Princeton Reverb amp with me , so it was ‘amp du jour.’ Always fun. In Portland, Oregon it was ‘no amp’ - I went direct to the PA, which actually wasn’t so bad. In Seattle, it was a Fender Blues Jr that was very nice. In Boise, I played through a Roland Micro Cube, which I think is the most versatile little amp to come out in years. I dragged one to Europe last fall and performed with it in many capacities, from the streets (battery powered), to using it as a pre-amp into a PA.

Pedals for the ‘User Error Tour‘ (right to left): Noise Swash, Zvex Fuzz factory, Blackstone overdrive, Boss OC-3 octave (set to poly), Boss Trem, 2 Line 6 DL4s. I usually use one, but found a used one cheap and dragged it along for this tour. One was for capturing noise beds and the other for setting up rhythmic loops if I felt like soloing. I sometimes used one for delay and one for sampling.