The musical group had a knock-about session last night, playing anything that came into our collective head (eg 'Hotel California', 'Forever young' (Alphaville) and some Israeli songs - almost nothing that I have played before). Before we started, I checked out my pedal board and the fx pedal. I wrote 1 two months ago that the 'fx pedal to end all pedals'2 issues a fair amount of noise so in order to combat this, I set the noise gate to a level that let loud guitar through but not hiss. This caused the guitar to sound rather 'chunky' and lacking dynamics. Thinking about this on the way home, I realised that all the presets that I defined start with compression; maybe it would be better to create some presets with no compression and see what these sound like.
Before setting off for the rehearsal, I connected my phone to the pedal via bluetooth (and no small amount of bother) and attempted to remove the compression from all the settings. I think that I was partially successful in this. Despite my efforts, once I started playing, the sound from the amplifier was very weak. Exasperated, I disconnected the fx pedal from the system and suddenly my guitar volume increased ten-fold. I'll have to remove the pedal from the board and restore those that I previously removed.
On a completely different topic: yesterday was quite warm but this morning, when I was taking the dog for her morning walk, it started raining. Now that's not such an unusual event, but what makes it stand out is that the barometer in my head didn't give me a migraine. I did have an odd stomach ache in the evening, so this could be my body's new way of reacting, but it could also be due to the odd stomach rumblings from which I suffer now and then. So it looks like the new prophylactic pills3 that I have (that are meant for epileptics) are working.
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