Not much to talk about today. So I’ll just throw out some random things from the last few weeks.
- First, how come I had to google how to make this a bulleted list. It should be obvious and up front. I have plenty of complaints about how MS does stuff, but at least they do this right.
- I recently replaced the pickups in my Tele with a couple from Bootstrap Pickups. Telecasters are one of those guitars that I really feel like I should like. After all, it’s an iconic guitar. But they’ve just never done much for me. I, honestly don’t remember which pickups I got. I think it was a Pretzel in the neck and Palo Duro in the bridge. They sound really nice to my ear. I had originally replaced the stock pickups in it with a couple of GFS pickups. I moved those GFS pickups into the Squier Tele that I use as a beater. The Bootstraps sound good enough that I have kept that Tele out since I replaced them. It sounds just like I expect a Tele to sound. And that’s kind of weird. I’ve never really been a Tele fan, so I’ve surprised myself that this one has stayed out for more than a day or two at this point.
- My pepper plant has fallen over. Not sure why. It’s still growing and producing peppers and everything. It’s just growing sideways. Kind of weird.
- Picked up one of the new Nux Vox pedals. I couldn’t remember the name so I had to look it up. They call it the 63 Diamond. It’s a pretty good sounding pedal. Sounds like it’s advertised, kind of Vox-y. I’ve gotten several of their pedals, and I have been impressed by most of them. In fact, their Steel Singer (D-type) pedal stays on one of my boards. And their Morning Star (BB-type) is one of my fave of that kind. For that Morning Star, kick on the Shine feature, and it just sings. The only Nux I haven’t really liked was their Klone. I forget what it was called, but it was just kind of an average pedal. Didn’t do much for me. I guess their TS-type has also been kind of meh for me, too. But overall, I like that brand.
- Bought that ODR-1 that I talked about in the last post. Because of it, I was going to swap out the TS-type on my board with the Visual Sound Open Road. Still haven’t gotten that done. Not that I’ve changed my mind and don’t want to do it now. More that I keep getting distracted and not doing it. Eventually it’ll happen.
- Planning a trip out to the desert southwest before too long. I need to get my hiking backpack locked and loaded and ready for that trip. I noticed recently that Teton (formerly Teton Sports) no longer sells the backpack that I use. I sometimes think I was the only one that liked that model. And I really like it. I think I had a post about it on my old blog. I might have to do a backpack post on this new site too.