Putting Dire Straits On

2 cats, 3 dogs, 5 children, and 13 guitars.
Brian and Kalimar are old elementary school buddies who have come back to start Grade 43. Listen in on what they are learning about guitar gear, practice habits, and family life. In today's episode Brian and Kalimar get into a discussion about recording, audio interfaces, and try to come up with tone that jangles. Also in this episode: everyone loves impedence. And again: Strings, as ever...strings...

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• On Trajectory Financial Planning — Thanks to On Trajectory for being our sponsor! Figure out how much ramen you have to eat so you can afford your next guitar. All kidding aside, On trajectory is an easy to use, high fidelity financial planning tool that maps your income, investments and expenses in a friendly graphical display. OT captures dozens of data points so that you understand how your decisions affect your finances - now, two months from now, when your kid starts applying to college in another decade or so?
• Phill Mcknight - Know Your Gear - 4 ways to Restring your guitar — Amazing YouTube Channel for understanding guitar gear. This link goes directly to the "tech method" for re-stringing a guitar
• GFS "Metal Foil" Dual Coil Ferrite Humbucker Shell, Chrome-G — Used by Kalimar on his Ibanez Gio for the jangle tone in this episode
• Garage Band for Mac — Garage Band is a fantastic recording tool with a ton of options. We haven't found anything for free that comes even close. The cost of entry is a mac, which these days can be under a $1000.00 and makes everything significantly easier for recording.
• Ibanez GAX75 mid-2000s — Kalimar's budget guitar used for learning about modding. Don't tell anyone but it's an outstanding guitar. The neck is silky smooth.
• PRS Custom 24 — Brian's main axe, the Custom 24 08 has S2 Custom 24-08's upgraded 85/15 "S" humbuckers, made even more versatile with a pair of mini toggles for independent coil-splitting at the flick of a switch.
• Ugly Delicious on Netflix — Kalimar and Brian talked about "tweezer" food vs "greasy spoon" and how PRS tends to be very pretty and elegant and Kalimar's new Godin is "ugly in all the right ways". Ugly Delicious is a show on Netflix with David Chang, famous chef who prefers "ugly food".
• HX Stomp — An amazing amp and effect modeler. The center of Kalimar's rig.
• Postive Grid Bias FX 2 — Brian uses Bias FX when he wants to produce guitar sounds directly in a digital audio workstation (DAW).
• Jack Ruch TrueFire Course — Jack Ruch is an amazing teacher with such a soulful smooth sound. We highly recommend his course on TrueFire