Well well well.... Its been a very long time since i have updated this what has become a very dead blog. Mainly due to myself frankly not giving a toss anymore, but also i have a few hardware problems and unable to log into the blogger dashboard... Anywho
Recently i have been finding myself very frustrated and generally uninspired/motivated to do any uni work. I hate to admit it and i don't really know what has happened to me over the past month or so, but i am constantly finding myself hating graphic design more and more as the days pass by. Maybe its the fact i feel like i put so so so much effort into my work and i dont get rewarded? After all, that is the sheer basis of design ethics isn't it? To feel a sense of achievement from what we design, otherwise what is the point?
I know what your thinking, this is just making me sound pretentious and arrogant, and you would be correct to think so. But i feel this is what the course is turning me into, i am becoming something i despise. I am becoming an awful person who must thrive on my ego being fed otherwise i will not be satisfied.
This is not what i want to be :(
I just hate the fact that i am feeling this way right now. I really want to turn this around, and i know i can.... But honestly.... I just need a long break from the "wonderful world" of graphic design.
MOVING ON...
More onto the point of why i decided to post this little blog.
Those of you who know me, probably know how much of a love and passion i have for making music (i admit i am not that great at doing it, but i still love to do so). And how excited i can get when i get a new piece of musical hardware.... I am just a nerd when it comes to these things.
Recently i purchased a swankey new digital effects pedal for my bass guitar. As you may or may not know, there isn't that many digital effects out there that are designed purely around the bass as it is pretty much a solid sounding instrument that shouldn't really be tampered with. But they make effects for pretty much EVERYTHING these days, and the bass guitar is no exception in this case.
Behold my new
BOSS ODB-3 Digital Bass Distortion Effects pedal:
I managed to snap this baby up 2nd hand (as you can tell) for only £25! Which i feel is a HUGE bargin, as these pedals retail at around £75 a pop brand new. Some of you may disagree with me on this one, but personally i love the fact that it's scuffed, scratched and battered to hell, it gives it a sense of character....... Just look at how beautiful it looks!
I seriously can not wait to get back home and have a play around with it and see what crazy ass, dirty sounds i can make. If any of you are curious to what it sounds like
click here and you will see an awful metal demonstration of what kind of overdrive tones you can get out of the ODB-3. For me though, i want to try and get a really nice "dry" bass tone out of it, similar to tone of bass guitar used in such bands as Tokyo Police Club etc.
