Jamming with Garageband 2013

My son plugged in to an iPad and using the Garageband app. We have the Jam guitar interface that hooks your guitar up to the iPad. Jack is playing my Fernandes guitar and let me say that it is a very heavy guitar! He doesn't seem to mind. It is fun to play your guitar through Garageband's handfull of amp modeling and effects pedal choices. If you have a quick song idea or riff you want to file away for later, it is very easy anywhere within the Garagband app to quickly record your idea. Nice program that is very addictive!

ART MR-1 Personal Reverb Processor!!!

A very cool reverb effect pedal that I misguidedly sold away. I go through periods of intense interest in music creation and then I have long dry spells of no interest in making music whatsoever. During one of the latter phases, I decided to conduct a massive eBay sell off of my effects boxes and instruments. The MR-1 was a cool pedal with multiple preset reverb effects. The reverb type could be selected by turning a dial to its particular number and then the amount of reverb processing increased or decreased in relation to the instrument signal input into the MR-1 ("wet/dry"). The "cathedral" selection yielded massive, spatial results. The "large hall" setting was also a personal favorite. A lot of these reverb effects can be introduced into DAW's with software plug-ins but this pedal sounded really great.