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Definitely can't go wrong with the Blues Driver if you want a nice full range overdrive with no mid hump like a screamer-style pedal. I also really love the Nobels ODR-1 for a nice, full range natural overdrive pedal. I stack a Boss SD-1 (which is basically a cousin to the tube screamer but a bit more aggressive) into the front of the ODR-1 to use as my main lead/solo tone. Really like the mid hump for leads. I basically use the ODR-1 always on for breakup and play with the guitar volume knob to clean it up more if I need to. Sounds like you've got a decent amount of headroom on that amp if you have to crank it to get any breakup, so stacking some ODs could be fun.
But yeah a screamer-style pedal generally doesn't sound good at all into a totally clean amp. It works well with an edge of breakup amp or stacked in front of other ODs. My Boss SD-1 actually also sounds great in front of a totally dirty amp set with the pedal at low gain and higher volume as a dirty boost of sorts. Tightens up the bass and gives it a more aggressive edge.
Yeah Vox tones are really sweet. To me they're perfect if you like that really chime-like top end and clarity of American clean tones like Fender but also the warm gain and midrange when you crank them a little bit that you get from the British amps (Marshall, Vox). I play a lot of Country/Americana type stuff the last few years and I have been experimenting with Vox sounds for country instead of the traditional Fender clean. Brad Paisley I think is a big proponent of Vox-style amps and his chicken pickin' tones sound phenomenal.
I also have dabbled into the world of modeling a bit more this year and picked up a Tonex One for $180. Have to say it has been phenomenal and sounds almost indistinguishable to me from the real deal, especially since it has speaker simulation and impulse response built in, so sounds like a mic'ed up amp and can blend different speakers/cabs/mics to your preference. Has been fun playing around with so many different amp tones right at my fingertips. Have also been dabbling big time with Dumble-style amp models with fantastic tones.
She's in 10th grade and has a variety of unrelated areas she is interested in.
Biology, particularly genetics.
Theater, but she is interested in stage crew and not acting. We've already told her, if you want to work stage crew, you don't spend $40,000 a year X 4 years to study theater. You get a job or apprentice after high school. We're not paying massive amounts for her to study what I recently saw as the second lowest paying major after graduation. She needs to go somewhere inexpensive if she studies this.
Graphic design and/or videography. But her interest in this has really faded.
She has not expressed an interest in this, but we want her to look at Marketing. Both of us think she could like that and be pretty good at it given her art and creativity interest. She likes straight-up Art as well, but she does not want to do that as a career. She wants to do it as something she enjoys and not something that has to be work.
Because she does not have a clear front-runner (at least not yet) my wife really wants her to go to a fairly big or at least medium-sized school that offers many different majors. That we she can change tracks if needed.
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oh, the Fall Out Boy album?
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LOL, rest easy I'm definitely not. I'll say hi if I see a couple on the islands wearing VT gear too
Yeah... I'm running out of names of males from Jersey. I ruled out Andrew and John. I'm down to Erik and maybe Brent. But, my memory isn't making me confident they were from Jersey.
If your brother lives in Europe now, that makes the answer really easy.
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I think he was the same class as you, too if your profile is right
Go snorkeling. We took a cat to Molokini. It was pretty awesome, other than goggles and beards don't mix.
I still haven't figured out who your architecture brother is.
We all did, I thought my 20 year old friend was going to have a heart attack when Eli manning came in that game.
Get a surfboard lesson on the North Shore of Oahu. Best thing we did when we stayed there. And the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie is pretty neat, too.
Edit: I also enjoyed the tour of the Dole Plantation.
Seconding BMW Welt and Bayern game. Absolutely do the BMW factory tour and be sure to book well in advance!
Lenbachaus was a really cool art museum if you're into that.
General food recommendation: eat a bunch of doner kebab. Whichever shops look good to you when passing by, they're all over.
Also, Dachau is something everybody should see. Very close to Munich.
Also strong recommendation to go to Costco on your way out from the airport if you have kids. Not surprisingly, food on Kaua'i is very expensive. In Kauai and Maui, food trucks are great. Also if you go down south by poipu, a hole in the wall Mexican place name "Da Crack" also really good
Swimming with the manta rays was the best thing we did on the big island. Volcanoes fun too.
Also sourcing Hawaii recs for late April into early May.
We'll do a kind of roundabout trip. Fly into Kona, drive to Hilo and stay 4 nights, then fly Hilo to Honolulu and stay in Waikiki for 5 nights. A few of the Oahu days will be reserved for a wedding and associated events, but we'll have a solid 2.5 days to fill in Oahu before flying home.
Big Island/Hilo will be coincident with my brother, who will fly in with us and join us for the 4 nights in Hilo and then head to Oahu for 3 nights mostly on his own and fly home.
For Big Island we are definitely gonna do Volcanoes NP but open to more suggestions
On Oahu we are planning to do Diamond Head and the USS Arizona
Just booked a trip to Munich for the spring. I'm looking forward to it. I used to work for a Munich-based company, so I've been there a lot, and for a few Oktoberfests. My one recommendation would be to try and catch the opening parade. It's a lot of fun in a somewhat cheesy way.
The Deutsches Museum is very neat, in addition to the BMW Museum already mentioned. An easy train ride away is Salzburg, though maybe you've already been there if you go to Europe a lot?
To get away from the insanity of Oktoberfest but still have a few beers, go check out Hofbraukeller, a really great beer garden in Haidhausen, which itself is a very neat part of Munich. Kind of a laidback hipster community.
New staff meet and greet before heading out to the coaches convention.
It still blows my mind that ND took the consecutive bowl loss record away from WVU. I sat through a LOT of WVU bowl losses in my childhood, teens, and early 20s.
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