Sore Fingers

I've played my guitar more this morning than I have the past several weeks. IMy fingertips are killing me...that's how long it's been I've been practicing, but I am also auditioning presets on my guitar software. I got a Line 6 TonePort GX several weeks ago. It's one of those amp/stomp box modelers. I have to say I'm pretty impressed. As inexpensive as it is, it gives a really good sound...much better than the multi-effects pedal I was using before. I went through all of the "clean" presets this morning. Jazz, surf and country guitar stuff mostly. I'm taking a break now. I'm going to actually try and do some multitrack recording this evening/afternoon, so I don't think I'll get to the "crunch" presets until tomorrow. Always fun...nothing like a little distortion to make the worst guitar player sound good (actually, it works for vocals too). I'll have to remember to revisit the performance of the TonePort later in this blog, it will be interesting to see how well it will work when it actually gets used for recording.