@Socio Wow, James, that sure is a neat bit of kit. Does seem worth looking at for people who make recordings with a phone or tablet but want to upgrade from using the phone mic as a room mic and don’t want to worry about interfaces and figuring out routing and working with audio inputs on the phone. Impressed to see it has phantom power on an XLR input so will work with condensor mics.
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@DavidP here is a demo video of the much older model given you a comparison of recording directly from iPhone and via the mixer playing over a backing track. In the older model you had to play the backing track via another device but looking at this video you can play over a track being played on the recording phone on the newer model. For some reason I get the impression that Gordon would prefer a simplistic option where he can just plug, play and record particularly improvising over a backing track on his electric.
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Gosh, If I hadn’t asked Santa for a better webcam and usb mic for Christmas, I would seriously look into going down this route. The simplicity and compactness of it is soooo appealing to me 
Now, can anyone tell me why I’m wasting time looking at improved recording methods for Gordon, when I should be practicing my song for tonight’s OM? 
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Maybe you’ve got one eye on the next OM as you can stream to zoom with it… or maybe you’re thinking of its use for touring with Gordon… just think of all the connection you could mix into your performances.
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To be honest Gordon, you don’t need to. I always find your recordings great from a quality and balance perspective, If you are happy doing what doing stick with it, as it work just fine.
But that Roland Go Mixer looks pretty trick for a phone interface…just saying. 
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You’ve got your system down why change it. I love your videos for their honest approach. You don’t need effects or gadgets to sound good. Once you crawl down that rabbit hole there is no end to the next piece of kit to make it better.
You can grab your guitar and sit down anywhere and put out a great videos. Not many here can do that. They rely on to much tech to be creative.
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Thank you all for your advice, suggestions and opinions.
The more I think about all this the less inclined I am to go down the hole. I’d rather spend my time practising guitar. 
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and Gordon pulls off that most difficult of all manouvers-
To utilise the gravitational pull of the black hole, but only for the ‘slingshot effect’…
To infinity and beyond! 
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Hi Gordon,
Nice song list! You are really nailing this guitar thing.
Have you completed all of Justin’s lessons?
thx
Leigh
A discussion on another thread about LL or AVoYP made me realise I haven’t been on my LL for quite some time. (Oct ‘23 to be exact).
OK, I might be (am 
) setting myself up for a fall here but at any rate it’ll force me to concentrate on something.
My wife and I are currently in France on holiday with the caravan. What would be fun to try and learn during that time….and beyond?
How about giving this go, in which case my LL is the place to put it.
https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/steady-thumb-blues-sbr-003
I’ve made a start on it but am finding the independent thumb thing a real challenge. I’ll try to learn one bar at a time and see how it goes.
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Another way to look at it is to isolate the parts. So think of it like playing the guitar and singing at the same time. So effectively you work on the thumb until its automatic and you don’t have to think about it and then you can just focus on playing any licks with your fingers while your thumb is on autopilot mode. So you could basically improvise playing licks that you have in your tool bag. Good luck learning it and enjoy the rest of your holidays mate.
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Plus one from me with this approach. Separate the melody and bass, get both under your fingers before merging. Then build one bar at a time.
Assume you’re down South again, enjoy the holiday 
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Hey, I didn’t even tag you! (or the other guy…)
Sigh… The Blues seems to be the ‘Black Hole’ of the guitar world 
It seems sooner or later, everyone who picks up a six-string is sucked in whether they like it or not…
I even find myself trying to figure out the easiest way to play a 1, 4, 5 and what kind of lyrics & melodies would fit over it… (for the Copenhagen project of course, not my own pleasure )
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Hey, what are you doing to me 
… I thought that by clicking on that link I would find you in the open air and see the first signs of the thumb blues… now I am sad…
I approach it a little differently than James, I play the parts barr by barr and really incredibly slowly, so slowly that it is unrecognizable and I don’t worry about the rhythm as long as it is not in my memory … but every time I pick up the guitar again I play Justin’s song and sometimes in between so that the right thing comes to mind and if I play a wrong note or miss one, I do it even slower until I know the notes … and then the correct time comes in and the tempo increases…barr by barr and very important for me…every time after a barr I play the first note of the next…
Greetings
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Nice to see your log updated! I’m already missing your one takes, so I’m pretty curious how the Steady Thumb piece will turn out! Keep us informed and most important, have fun!
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Haha yes Andrea. My last AVoYP was just before last Christmas! I’ve not exactly been prolific recently. 
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Sorry Rogier. I put in that link to the lesson so others would know what I’m talking about.
Unfortunately my internet connection here is so bad I can’t stream the lesson. I’ve had to take a screen-shot of the tab and work from that so I’m not even all that sure what the thing should sound like! As for the matchmysound thing…forget it. 
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Rogier (hope I remember correctly that it was him) and me, we liked to play along to the slowed down intro play-through (you can slow down the speed in youtube) - maybe have a long drink at some not too crowded place with free wifi… 
And try both methods and see what works? (sperate bass and melody versus one bar at t a time), I’m sure it’ll slowly come together with time…
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Hi Dom. Yes that’s my plan although unfortunately you can’t download and save Justin’s lessons. The WiFi here is so slow (0.70 Mbps) that I can’t even view his lessons. I’ve also used up all my 5G data allowance for the month!
Funny how in the last few years we’ve all become so reliant on the internet.
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Hi Brian. I enjoy a bit of Blues both to listen to and to try to play, however I’ve decided I don’t like it enough to pay to immerse myself in it for 6 months. Hence the reason I’ve not become a ‘Blimmer’.
Hope all good with you and I hope your ‘family Copenhagen’ project is progressing well.
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