Mike Hoodenpyle

Here's a couple of practice session recordings. Recorded on my iPhone, then added a little reverb and adjusted the EQ in Garage Band. Merry Christmas to all!

I have both a Fender Super Champ XD (the model before the X2), and a Boss Katana 50. Both are great amps. The Super Champ is pretty versatile, but I mainly use it for clean tones, which are really good. It has an acoustic setting, designed to make an electric guitar sound like an acoustic. That feature isn't great, but I guess it would be serviceable if you're into that. The Boss is even more versatile. It has an acoustic setting that's actually designed for acoustic-electric guitars, not for an electric to simulate an acoustic. I bought the Boss to leave at church so I wouldn't have to take an amp twice a week for rehearsal and performance. I have an A/B switch into the input jack so I can go back and forth between an electric and an acoustic, and a foot switch into the back panel to change channels accordingly. Very handy, and it sounds great.

Laurence Juber plays in DADGAD probably around 75% of the time. He's done a lot of covers, primarily Beatles tunes (he was Paul McCartney's guitarist in the band Wings), but he also has a lot of original material. One of my favorites is "The White Pass Trail." I've been working on it for a while now, and hope to record it soon. Here's his original recorded version:

Very well done, sounds great.

I've got a Loudbox Artist as well. I used to use it in church, but I recently bought a Boss Katana 50 for that. I wanted something inexpensive I can just leave there, and stumbled across info on the Boss here on the forum from posts by Ice9 and Blue Dog. It's a hybrid, so I can play either electric or acoustic, or both, without having to carry amps back and forth. It's a great little amp and serves its purpose, but the Fishman sounds quite a bit better to my ear. I think you're going to like it.

I played a C5 a couple of years ago at a Sam Ash store that was very impressive. I'm sure they're hit or miss at that price point, but if you found a winner, I'd grab it.

Thanks for bringing him to our attention. I've never heard of him until today. Great playing on those videos. I just checked Amazon, and his 2017 CD and some singles are available there. I'll be downloading those tonight!

Very nice. Love your sound. It's hard to beat a simple acoustic guitar and vocal when it's that well done.

Trisha

Got a great deal on this beauty from a locally-owned store, same discount as the big box guys. These pics are from the store's website, except the last one.

Congrats, looking forward to hearing it.

I was a Roy Rogers fan when I was a boy. I named my first pony "Trigger," and here he is.

Very good videos, Blue Dog. Thanks for sharing.

Dave, If I understand correctly, you're asking about the theory behind two chords with the same root in a song, one major and one minor, and sometimes one following the other. An example would be if you were playing a song in the key of G, and you had both a C major chord and a C minor chord. An example of this is the Randy Travis version of "Were You There." You can listen here: From about :37 to about :49, the chord progression is G - Em - C - Cm - G. The Cm obviously isn't from the key of G. It's a borrowed chord from the parallel key of G minor. You see lots of songs with chords borrowed from other keys, usually closely related keys. A closely related key is one where the number of accidentals vary by one (or two, depending on who you ask). For example, the key of A has three sharps. The key of D has two sharps, a difference of one. The key of E has four sharps, also a difference of one, so both keys D and E would be considered closely related to A. Chords borrowed from parallel keys aren't as common in my experience, but they do occur. Hope that helps.

Click on "Share" on the menu bar, then click on "Export Song to Disk." Then you should have an option to compress the file. Click in the box to compress and two new drop downs should appear. Open the "Compress Using" dropdown and select "MP3 Encoder." For the audio settings option, I use higher quality. At least that's how it works with my version, 6.0.5. If you have a different version and you don't see the options I described, you might check your Garage Band preferences and see if you can change it there. Failing that, try Google. You can find just about anything on the web. Good luck!

I used it in church for the first time yesterday, and I'm pretty happy with it. I played two songs on acoustic, then switched to electric for the next two. Pretty easy operation and it worked out well. I dialed in my settings and saved channel 1 for my acoustic, and channel two for my electric. Got an A/B switch, so no cable switching to do. I have a volume pedal for my electric, and a pre-amp with a boost switch for my acoustic, so I adjusted volume as needed with those and left the settings on the amp the same for both guitars. The only thing I questioned was the settings saved for each channel. The manual says when you save your settings in a channel, all controls on the panel are saved except for the master volume. That seemed to be the case, except you also have to switch the "Amp Type" knob to select Acoustic, Clean etc., as well as turn up the master volume. No big deal, I just wasn't aware I had to do that at first based on what the manual says, but figured it out before Sunday. The effects I dialed in and saved to each channel worked as advertised. The clean electric tone I set up sounded really good. Very fat, sweet tone. The acoustic was very good, too. Not as warm as I'd like, but I can probably make some adjustments and improve it. It's a great amp in my opinion, and when you consider the price, it's phenomenal. On another note, I never would have had this amp on my radar if not for this forum, and you two guys singing its praises. Thank you both very much, and thanks to Steve for the forum!

I'm very impressed. I doubt I'll download any presets, at least not for a while. For my purposes, this thing has plenty of options built in. I dialed in a nice, slightly boosted clean tone with a little reverb and saved it to channel 1, and saved settings I like for an acoustic tone to channel 2. That's probably all I'll ever need playing in church. I can't believe how good this thing sounds, especially for the price. Very pleased.

I took a leap of faith and made a quick trip to Guitar Center over lunch and picked up one of these. Very anxious to try it out, but I probably won't get to until Saturday.

Right, I was thinking of writing the settings on an index card and taping it to the top of the amp.

I'm looking for an inexpensive amp I can use in church and just leave there rather than carrying it to/from home. This looks like it may be a really good option, especially since it's for both electric and acoustic.

Thanks, Greg. I'll work on the nut some more when I get a chance and see how it goes. This guitar has a two-screw bridge.

I didn't get to watch it until this afternoon. Great lesson! And the icing on the cake, one of my favorite hymns at the end. @Steve Krenz, that was a beautiful arrangement of "It Is Well."

TE is my all-time favorite player. Saw him live last year and he puts on an amazing show. Gabriella is phenomenal. I've been following her for a few years now. Thanks for sharing.

Sweet looking guitar. Enjoy it!

Very nice. Congrats, and enjoy!