Re: Phenomenon

["Michael P. Hughes, Ph.D." <pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk>]

>     Just a reality check though. How many times have you spent an entire 
>     evening tweaking dsp's or even just tone and distortion settings, 
>only 
>     to have a bad case of studio sweat n' jitters as well as ear 
>fatigue, 
>     and not really *played* anything? (Well, I did move my fingers! And 
>     that counts! 8->) With a day job, sometimes it's really easy to be 
>     lazy and actually just play your instrument! (snip) At the end of 
>the 
>     evening I was grooving to a new patch which requires no foot pedals 
>     for input... Then send the loop off to Vortexland and we're really 
>     swimmin'!

I try to keep clear of programmable FX - though I'm often tempted by the
functionality, I get option anxiety and go back to my pedals.  Besides, I'm
always worried about the programmable stuff losing its memory just before a
gig....  Right now I'm playing the guitar into the JM with no FX and
listening off on headphones.  Sounds great.

Michael