AFTER breakfast I hit the office to get the guitar pins and pendants sanded. The ‘regular guitars need filled with coloured epoxy – the resonator guitars just need polished.

While the epoxy is curing I print out some dye sub sheets to heat press onto tote bags for merch. The dye sub printer is playing up, though, and keeps losing its wifi connection. I among to find a suitable cable to hardwire it to the computer and get the printouts I need.

At the same time I start printing a batch of postcards with upcoming gig dates for distribution at this weekend’s shows.

I took a punt and ordered a Roland SPD::ONE stomp pad from Amazon. The ‘kick’ version isn’t available anywhere so I had to settle for the ‘electro’ model. The sounds aren’t really what I’m after but there’s a user preset that allows the user to loads in a.wav file of their own.. Also, if it’s shit, it’s easier to return to Amazon.

Anyway, it arrived with the post earlier and after a few minutes setting up and loading in my own sound I give it a whirl. Seems to work pretty good. Is it a keeper? Dunno yet…we’ll see how it does on this weekend’s shows.

Margaret needs to get familiar with the third party mixer app on the iPad…Behringer’s own hasn’t been updated and doesn’t work anymore. I have a bit of a hassle getting the iPad speaking to the mixer…then the mixer view is all fucked up.

I need to get the next stage of the merch production out the way and put on the pork belly for dinner. While things are cooking I get one of the guitars re-strung and watch mixing station video tutorial…