Gear Organisation 1

Today we attempted to have a practice at my studio in Shandon with the drummer, one of the guitarists, and myself. However the drummer, on account of an unexpected 7 hour long scheduling issue was unable to make it. 

The guitarist and I instead spent 2 hours together and discussed song structures and his role within those songs. Adam will be playing rhythm guitar, and Ben, the other guitarist, will play all leads (with the exception of Where is My Mind.)

We have also figured out gear, and Adam will be bringing a pedal board with a overdrive, chorus, delay (which will be used on high feedback as a synth,) and a reverb pedal. He will also borrow my compressor pedal for cleans. 

Ben will be given my own pedal board for the night, with a gate, high gain distortion, chorus, delay (used like normal.)

As we will have a PA system, both amps will be 20Watt heads. Adam will be using Ben's Orange Micro Terror as it has a nice mid-clean tone at 10 O'clock gain, and can be juiced up a bit with his overdrive pedal, without the amp crunching up the reverb. (The Micro Terror has no FX loop.) 

Ben will use my Joyo Zombie on high gain with a delay pedal in the FX loop. As he is almost exclusively playing leads or high gain harmonies and "chuggy bits." 

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