Worship Seminar & Damage Control is The Best
Well, always one for being on top of things, I’m giving no less than 24 hours notice of a worship seminar in the Temecula Valley area that I’ll be speaking at. 
It’s the next three days, and it’s put on by Chorus Church and one of my mentors, Eric Beeman. Everything you need to know is here at School of Worship. This isn’t to promote myself, it’s just because some of you have asked about gear and worship seminars (I’ll be teaching on both), and I got too hit in the face by life this spring to put one on. hehe I think it’s a small fee, and if you don’t include me, there are some amazing people speaking and playing at it. hehe
Oh, and I broke a knob off of one of my Timeline’s smashing it into my car (because I am so awesome), and Damage Control/Strymon fixed it for a great price and with a turnaround time of 2 days. Because they are, simply put, the best.
Splendid.
Karl.
P.S. I’ve posted this before, but I will do my absolute best to do my effects demonstration at this hallowed level of awesome:
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#2 written by Brian 2 years ago
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Kenrick–what?! With all that prior notice I gave you?! lol
Brian–I think it’s most of the same guys doing Strymon, and I know they’ve shifted focus to Strymon in the recent months. But as far as I know, they’re also working on some top secret new Damage Control pedals!!
Rhoy–lol Wang bar. If someone asked you to think of what is the worst possible name you could give the tremolo arm…… haha
Sam–haha Ah, another video that will live in immortality!
Mark H–lol I used to have some pants like that!! Of course it was 1989 and I was 5. hehehe Long live the sweat pants!!
KennyG–haha I know! At some point, how did a little bell not go off in his head, ‘Um, maybe that’s not the right word for that.’ lol But boy, I’m sure glad it didn’t!!
Andrew–hehehe Did they ever reinstate that video on Gear Page? Honestly, I didn’t mind Tag so much. I thought his tone was very good, although maybe not as good as he thought. But I always just kind of got the feeling that his prideful persona was a bit of an act, just to mess with everybody. Which, if that was the case, worked beautifully! haha
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Sam–lol I’m so jealous! You got to miss the sweatpants era!!
Mark–haha Ah, comment of the day right there.
Sal–I totally agree. The whole time you’re thinking, ‘Okay wait. He’s gotta be hearing this, right?’ And then Alexander Dumble playing next to him, just sounds fantastic with just those simple, effects-less blues riffs.
Hinterspelunk–lol I know, they’re like roadkill. And I don’t know what genres he was trying to mix! He mentions ‘metal music’, but I’ve never heard any metal like that. hehe And yes, ‘wang bar’ is the best ever.
Nater2–ah, you got to miss the sweatpants era AND the gangsta rap era. So jealous right now! haha
Don–hehehe Seriously. It’s the cure for a bad day.
Mark–is that a good or bad speechless?
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#22 written by Hippie Killer 2 years ago
1. Karl, if anyone on the internet has earned the right to promote himself, it would be you.
2. That youtube clip — man oh man. Thanks for introducing me to that. It’s something I can post whenever some idiot starts in on how The Edge “hides behind effects.” It never occurs to those people that there are both useful and non-useful ways to use effects, and that it’s up to the musician to figure that out.
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#23 written by markcolvin 2 years ago
I may have nightmares tonight that on Sunday when I step on my pedals that this sound will come out instead. Argh!!!
My favorite part is when he says that he erases them all every few months. I think he should definitly keep doing that, he may actually stumble on something that sounds good. I used to think that it was actually pretty hard to get bad sounds out of those eventide harmonizers, but it just goes to show if you try hard enough, you can come up with some real clangers.
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#25 written by zach 2 years ago
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#27 written by David 2 years ago
5% of what Henry Kaiser plays is crazy awesome, 95% is total nonsense! And no, it’s not a matter of opinion. It sounds like total crap and makes you want to bash your head into the wall.
I’m not even sure the guy really knows how to play guitar. He pretty much only plays the pentatonic (not very well) and he has ZERO rhythm.
I would like to steal some of his effect ideas every once in a trillion years, though.
And yes, Strymon is awesome. I want to buy the capistan, but I’m going to wait till the new one comes out. Who knows, it could even be better.
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Karl, I think you can now add ‘Wang Bar’ to your list of controversial words you sometimes just throw on the end of a post.
I’m pretty freakin’ excited to see what comes of the finalized melding of DC and Strymon. I don’t own any DC but have acquired a blueSky reverb and most recently a Brigadier. Really fabulous pedals. I foresee myself possibly owning the whole Strymon line eventually.
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#32 written by Colton 2 years ago
That video astounds me…Like, I’d say it was fake if I didn’t know better.
Also, you’ve rubbed off on me and I’m becoming even more of a gear junkie than I used to be. I’m working on a tube tape delay, a ridiculous spring reverb unit and am now drawing up plans for a pedal board with a built-in reverb tank. All that, plus I’m really wanting to learn how to build effects pedals.
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#34 written by Ben G 2 years ago
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#35 written by Cam 2 years ago
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lol These Henry Kaiser comments are awesome. To be fair, he does have some newer youtube clips that are…well…at least a little better. I hope that even he looks back on these and goes, ‘What was I thinking.’ Like when I played had 7 delays on my board. Seriously. Anything more than 4 is just overkill.
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#44 written by Mark Colvin 2 years ago
in case you thought Kaiser was bad…..someone actually posted this on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnL8Q9WCbY&feature=related
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#48 written by JayDub 2 years ago
Output signal strength began decreasing gradually over about 3 hours use. Didn’t matter if unit was active or bypassed. Letting it cool, swapping tubes one at a time made zero difference. The left tube is very slow to glow when first plugged in, but eventually matches the right. Problem present on both L and R channels. Then tonight I remembered I have a Liquid Blues stashed somewhere. Tried that external power supply–problem solved!! So I try the original power supply–problem still solved. Shoot, now it works, but I don’t trust it. I think I’ll leave it on for a few hours and see if anything overheats or dies. Sigh. I just put a Weber Blue Dog in my Lonestar Special, and I really like it. I think I’m just going to plug straight in for a while. I can still visit this blog if I don’t use delay, right?
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