The stolen amp was my cue from the universe that it was time to move onto another project. The Marshall got stolen from a rehearsal space in Allston while I was trying to resurrect mach 2 of the Committee. I want to say there was some kind of cheap delay in there as well (maybe an Arion), and from what I remember that was it. The committee lead tone was the TC preamp before the Marshall distortion channel – and it was a creamy tone. I had a channel switcher for the amp, a volume pedal and a TC Distortion/Boost pedal. I had a Marshall JCM800 50 watt combo amp with a single 12 (this was run through a 4×12 Marshall 1960A cab). When I was playing in the Committee of Public Safety (my avant-garde core French Revolution fixated band with voice, guitar, bass, cello and drums) – my signal chain was really small. Then every dollar I could put together was going for other effects: wahs…chorus….delays… anything I could get my hand on to try to replicate those sounds. Given my influences at the time (Hendrix, Sabbath, Ozzy, etc.), it’s no surprise that almost immediately I started looking for distortion.
When I first started playing guitar, the amp I had was a no frills, no name combo amp with a 12” speaker. The obligatory history lesson to stave off initial pointed questions of, “Do you even know what that stuff is supposed to sound like?”Īs with many of the things I do, my entry into laptop guitar was completely unplanned, but in retrospect not that surprising. The reason I was trying this in advance was because at the next gig I have, I don’t want the laptop to shut down mid song and leave me stranded.Īll of this got me rethinking the laptop vs hardware debate that I partially discussed here but is worth a broader examination. But it was an important reminder about the precarious nature of laptops as signal processors. I’ll have to go to staples now and get one of those self cooling USB fan jobs and hope it doesn’t mess with the audio signal. I think it was the combination of the poor airflow and table lamps I have to increase the lighting.
I set the laptop on its side to cool it down and once the back was cool to the touch – maybe a couple of minutes later – started it up and it’s been working fine ever since. This time however, when I turned off the laptop, I felt underneath it – I had the laptop elevated to get it some air to help cool it down, but even so – it was still hot enough that you could fry an egg on it. I got it home and was streaming a video while I was working out and sure enough about an hour in the laptop screen did a big wipe down and I got an error message of death – you need to shut off your laptop, which I did. I ran it all day and there were no issues. I installed it in my laptop and everything was fine. I contacted OWC – they had me try a few things, and then sent me an RMA so I could send it back for free. I took out the memory and added the old memory back and everything worked fine. It powered back up and 10 minutes later did the same thing. I turned on the laptop and seeing the memory say 6GB – was thrilled for about a ½ hour.Īt that point, the laptop screen did a big wipe down and I got an error message of death – you need to shut off your laptop, which I did. It came very quickly and installation was a snap. I surmised that had to improve performance overall.Īfter saving up some cash – I ordered the chip from OWC. This would allow me to max out my elder laptop at 6 gigs instead of the current 4. Before I drag this article kicking and screaming down the bloody cobblestones of memory lane, I’ll mention that the kick off for this post was a recent effort to stabilize my laptop rig.Ī couple of months ago I found out that the 4 gig chip that my laptop would support had come down in price.
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