the awesomest guitar pedalboard ever

So, in my "free" time I designed my "ultimate" pedalboard for guitar that I will slowly start to build:

Compressor:

1. Barber Tone Press
   

Overdrives:

1. Hermida Zendrive Overdrive
2. Fulltone Fulldrive 2 MOSFET Overdrive
3. Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive (Keeley Modified)
4. Ibanez Tubescreamer TS9 (Keeley Modified)
   

Delay:

1. Eventide TimeFactor
2. T.C. Electronics Nova Delay
3. Boss RE-20

Modulation/Reverb:

1. Eventide ModFactor
2. Line6 ToneCore Verbzilla
   
3. Boss RV-5
   

Misc Pedals:

1. Electro-Harmonix POG (Polyphonic Octave Generator)
2. Eventide PitchFactor
3. BBE Sonic Stomp
   

Expression Pedals (not sure about brand, but definitely 2, one for volume, one for exp control):

1. Boss FV-500H
2. Boss FV-500H
   

Tuner:

1. Boss TU-2

These are based on looking at Nigel Hendroff's pedalboard (Hillsong), Daniel Carson's pedalboard (Chris Tomlin) and Matt Adkin's pedalboard (Steve Fee).

Currently Listening... 02/08/09

I know its late, but here's my current top 5:

1. Kelly Clarkson - "My Life Would Suck Without You"
2. Angels and Airwaves - "Everything's Magic"
   
3. John Mayer - "Free Fallin"
4. Creed - "One Last Breath"
5. Gavin DeGraw - "In Love With A Girl"
   

tests

the first half of this week is/will be rough. i just took my first ECE2030 test which wasn't too bad. unfortunately i still have honors calculus 3 and cs1372 (basically a class where we make gameboy games in a language called "c"). honors calc 3 has been fun and ive enjoyed it since there's no mandatory homework (yes ive done really well on the little quizzes so far) and hes a really funny asian. however, his practice test was nothing like what we've seen, which scared me. thankfully it wasnt as hard as it looked, but we'll know after tomorrow...

Feeband and OhioCon

This is too funny:



Its most of steve fee's band walking around interviewing people at a huge anime convention

Currently listening...

Currently Listening:

Top 5 (in no order):

1. Kelly Clarkson - "My Life Would Suck Without You"
2. Phil Wickham - "Cannons"
3. The Fray - "You Found Me"
4. Newsboys - "I am Free" (love the intro)
5. Skillet - "Whispers in the Dark" (yea its kinda screamo, but theyre good + christian)
   

Faith and Perseverence

This monday was gonna be really cool for my freshman city group. we were supposed to get together and come up with discussion/conversation starters about faith and perseverance. unfortunately i didnt try... i put the entire email off until tonight, and now its too late to group up. so im gonna come up with stuff on my own (and hopefully bring something to the table) Ive decided to focus on people who are considered "great" christians, but have some sort of huge failure in your life. so now im gonna make a list:


People who are (preferable in the hall of faith Hebrews 11) great Christians:

1. Paul - persecuted Christians (acts 9)
2. Abraham - had Ishmael with Hagar (genesis 16) but had faith with Isaac (genesis 22)
   
3. Jacob - stole the birthright from Esau (genesis 25)
4. Moses - struck the rock without giving credit to God (numbers 20) but had faith to lead the Israelites out (Hebrews 11:24-29)
5. David - slept with Bathesheba and killed her husband (2 samuel 11) but was "a man after God's own heart" (acts 13:22)
6. Samson - let lust and pride destroy him (judges 16) but destroyed the philistines (judges 14-16)
7. Peter - denied Christ (luke 22) but is the rock of the church (matthew 16)

(sevens a good number...)

great in the fact that they made a difference but others remembered them for what they did for the kindom and not for their sins

Phil Wickham and today

Today I had the incredible experience of seeing Phil Wickham live, at Buckhead Church. I'm not normally a huge fan of acoustic only worship (yea everybody thinks its "better," but I enjoy a "wall" of sound where I can pick out sweet melodies). But today was awesome... i've been a fan since before his album "Cannons" (2007) but never thought of seeing him live. it was awesome... he played cannons, true love and desire (?). I sang as much as I could, but a long session of rockband 2 last night did not help any (and the fact that his vocals are naturally high). He sat everyone down which I thought was weird, but I guess it was to make people who didnt know his songs more comfortable. He started singing and I really felt like standing up except I'd block the view of people behind me (i honestly hate the guy who stands up when worshipping and he blocks my view, i guess i should just go ahead and stand up). fortunately we all stood up at the end when he started singing hymns. it was one of the best worship experiences ive had at buckhead, and thats saying alot (i still love steve fee, casey darnell, seth condrey, carlos whittaker, etc...)

this performance and listining to Jarrett play acoustic songs really makes me want to get an acoustic (i only have electric) The plan right now is to use a portion of my money i'll (hopefully) earn working C3 to get a nice taylor guitar (theyre soo pretty sounding). next year when i have a car on campus im gonna hopefully take guitar lessons again (i want and need them)