Well, this weekend saw another epic road trip to Eugene. Amelia was quite the trooper, considering we didn’t make it back home until about 1:30 in the morning. A thirteen hour long road trip is a bit rough on a two year old, but she handled it beautifully. She didn’t even sleep on the way home. We just sang children’s songs the entire way. It was pretty fun.

I wasn’t able to find a light fixture or a 4×12 cabinet (the two things I was looking for), but we had fun nonetheless.

The sad news came once we arrived home and I jacked into my guitar rig only to find out that my Peavey Rockmaster preamp has somehow died. I get no output on any of the outs, or for that matter, any of the sends. It’s not the tubes, as I tried swapping those out to no avail. I also tried jumpering the fx loops and swapping out cables. No dice there either.

*sigh*

Oh well … I guess I’ll take my chances with the local repair shop, though they haven’t been able to fix the last three items I’ve taken to them.

I whipped this up in Blender last night.

Boom Goes the Dynamite! from Chris M. Wilson on Vimeo.

So … I got the idea to do a graphical representation of my guitar rig. There is a website called www.guitargeek.com that does this for famous guitarists, and I always thought it was cool. Even though I’m not famous, I thought I’d give it a go for my own gear.

Here it is (click the thumbnail for a larger version):