How Do You Decide Which Effects Pedals To Use?

Posted on March 17, 2016March 23, 2016 by Bernie Landry

Whether I am recording, practicing or performing live, I always use the same effects set up

Playing the Chapman Stick requires 2 sets of effects pedals. As the stick has no acoustic sound of its own, I find I like to enhance its sound.

On the bass side I use a compressor to smooth out the sound and a line6 modulator to give a fatter sound on certain songs.

On the guitar side I use just a digitech multi fx pedal to get reverb, Chorus and some other effects depending on the song. When I want to kick into a solo or single line sections I use a TC Electronics MojoMojo pedal to give a tube amplifier overdrive.

If you use effects pedals, which ones do you use and why?

Strange Combinations

Posted on March 2, 2016March 31, 2016 by Bernie Landry

Unusual friends, unlikely possibility and how unlikely = “No one saw that one coming”

Some things just don’t seem to make sense, but when they are used in some form of sync… magic!

Think of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” opera meets rock. Or Bob Dylan preforming folk with an electric guitar. The Bee Gees signature voices sweeping the world, using disco grooves. (Surprise in the early 70’s).

So to use this idea, here are a couple of old pieces I recorded back in the mid 80’s for a variety of corporate and broadcast videos.

And I added some Chapman Stick and mixed it together… What do you think?