My wife got me an Ernie Ball Music Man JP6 with the DiMarzio Liquifire and Crunchlab pickups, and I'm in love with it! In this video, I answer the question if a guitar that's so geared towards metal can play praise & worship.
The Sessionists
Esther Subra (vocals), Serena Chew (keys), Justin (guitars), Alphonsus (drums and percussion)
Setting Up Disaster Area DPC-8EZ and DMC-8D MIDI Controllers
An easy-to-follow video tutorial to get those patches programmed!
An Overview of My YouTube Channel
Feel free to browse some of the playlists on my channel. Hopefully this leads to you liking and subscribing!
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Can an Ernie Ball Music Man JP6 Play P&W?
My wife got me an Ernie Ball Music Man JP6 with the DiMarzio Liquifire and Crunchlab pickups, and I'm in love with it! In this video, I answer the question if a guitar that's so geared towards metal can play praise & worship.
FREE Line 6 Helix Patches for Praise & Worship!
Even though I've spent the last year with the Line 6 Helix, and more recently the HX Stomp, I've always felt that my ears were bad and my tweaking abilities were mediocre. Recent feedback from fellow Helix musicians have been encouraging, so I'm taking the leap of faith to release patches for your download and usage!
Get my patches for absolutely free!
I'll continually be updating the page with uploads as and when I come up with something that I feel will be absolutely useful.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Dinner at FrapasBar by Saveur
The Good
- Wife and I enjoyed the variety!
- If you'd like one appetizer, one mains and dessert, consider the set which will save you some cash. However, wife and I wanted more apps than mains.
The Gripes
- The only gripe I have with this place is that the staff were quite inattentive. I had to leave my table and walk up to the wait staff in order to get things going (getting a knife, getting sauce, getting the bill).
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Adding Labels to the Line 6 Helix
I've been fumbling about wiring things up on my Helix as I usually play this on a dark stage. I usually need to lean over and peek at where I need to connect cables, and I've had enough of it! Fortunately, I have a label maker, and it doesn't look too bad from afar.
Friday, March 15, 2019
The Clue-less Goat and Craftsmen Specialty Coffee (Novena, March 2019)
If you can spare to park at Goldhill Plaza, there are cafes in the vicinity of United Square that we found to be really good. First up, The Clue-less Goat:
Next up, Craftsmen Specialty Coffee. We hopped in here after discovering that Clue-less Goat doesn't open for dinner, and we were pleasantly surprised at the availability of brunch food for dinner.
Their savory waffles don't come with maple syrup, but instead, a heavy cream-based sauce which can be overpowering. We found that it masked the taste of their scrambled eggs, which wasn't too bad. The point goes to Clue-less Goat for scrambled eggs.
However, their avocado muffin was really good, with the muffin toasted to perfection. Trust me, it's really hard to find a place that toasts muffins well!
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| Savory waffles with scrambled eggs and bacon. |
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| Avocado toast with poached eggs and chorizo sausage |
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| Brunch done right |
I left my gear at home, so the phone will have to do. We have considered this the place with the 2nd best scrambled eggs, after Symmetry. Wife also really loved the avocado toast here. The only problem (as we found out the hard way) was that this place is not open for dinner!
Next up, Craftsmen Specialty Coffee. We hopped in here after discovering that Clue-less Goat doesn't open for dinner, and we were pleasantly surprised at the availability of brunch food for dinner.
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| Our evening caffeine: Jasmine green tea with rose for her and a cortado for me |
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| Friday cortado |
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| Avocado on toasted muffin with poached eggs with bratwurst |
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| Savory waffles with scrambled eggs and bacon (view of eggs) |
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| Aerial view of the waffles |
Their savory waffles don't come with maple syrup, but instead, a heavy cream-based sauce which can be overpowering. We found that it masked the taste of their scrambled eggs, which wasn't too bad. The point goes to Clue-less Goat for scrambled eggs.
However, their avocado muffin was really good, with the muffin toasted to perfection. Trust me, it's really hard to find a place that toasts muffins well!
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Going Amp-less: A Step-by-Step Process
If you're looking to have a convincing amp tone through the front-of-house without using a physical amp, a preamp pedal by itself isn't going to be sufficient. In this latest video, I outline the process of going ampless with the Joyo British Sound, augmented by an EP Booster and an EQ section with the Line 6 M5.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Managing Wrist Injuries as a Guitarist
- Get a wrist guard (1:41)
- Play with less gear (4:19)
- Modify your technique (5:33)
- Play an ergonomic guitar (7:35)
- Pray for healing! (9:05)
As some of you are aware, I have scapholunate dissociation in both my wrists. It's been a tumultuous journey, with its many days and nights of pain, with a constant cry to God for healing. There have been miracles and the tangible power of God in healing me. There have been moments where I believed God must not love me because of my constant pain.
But through it all, God is good. He has always been good. I may wear a guard now, but in time to come, I will not need it in the new heaven and new earth. But for now, for those fellow guitarists who suffer from wrist injuries, you are not alone, and your pain is not permanent!
Tone Pursuit: Analog vs. Digital
I did a series of two videos to present the pros and cons of the Line 6 Helix versus an analog pedalboard. I love all gear, and believe that there can be a time and place for their use. I hope these bless you!
Friday, February 22, 2019
Jew Kit Hainanese Chicken Rice
Tucked in a corner of Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, this place serves really good chicken rice, priced beneath the benchmark Boon Tong Kee. All our chicken meat was juicy, and nothing was dry.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Dinner at Saveur (Purvis Street)
These were taken with my new Canon EFS 10-18mm STM on my 600D. Apparently, ISO on a digital camera is not a "real thing", in that the brightness setting on a photo is post-processed. Taking a picture at ISO100 is apparently the same as taking it at ISO1000, just that at the higher ISO setting, the camera bumps up the brightness for you.
The limitation of shooting at a low ISO should be fairly obvious--your unprocessed images on the camera will be really dark, and you won't be able to tell very clearly if you botched the shot. But seeing as to how my lowly 600D has terrible ISO tolerance (anything higher than 800 and the grain is intolerable), I took a gamble. All these shots were taken at ISO800, 1/50s, and at f stops f/4.5 to 5.6, and on my camera, they were really dark.
All I did was raise the exposure of the photos in post, some with 0.5 stops of light, to 2 stops of light. Not too bad looking. But this still cannot beat my 5D Mark II.
