Thank you. 
Nice playing Toby and a sweet tone. Sounded like an epic but I’m glad you managed to get a recording down. I thought tech was supposed to make things easier? 
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Nice playing Toby. And what an epic journey to get there. Curse that RBS…
Tech issues aside, if I can’t get a good recording in the first few takes I abandon ship for the session as it just goes downhill from there. Not sure why practicing something over and over again is ok but recording over and over again never seems to work.
Nice tone btw, and also great work on that thumb. Looks tricky!
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Yer doin’ me head in, mate-
A bit of waffle over wine or headcam biking footage would have sufficed, but no- read my memoirs… 
Nice steady thumb there, Boss 
And sweet acoustic tone, verb an’ all. Feel free to message me a screenshot of your settings when you get a spare moment. I need to start twiddling my knobs a bit.
Non-tag-tagging is terrible étiquette. Keep it up and I’ll tell the teacher on you 
I see AI still has difficulty counting fingers. That’s so weird.
(You might want to add H.R. Giger to your description, as that seems to be the direction it’s going in)
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Kinell Toby. It took me longer to read all that than it did to listen to your piece! Fortunately I’m currently on holiday in Spain sitting on a hotel roof terrace drinking wine so I have nothing else to do but try to follow all your tech speak. Sounding good though. Super guitar tone on that recording too. Well done in the end.
Also have to add. Despite changing the topic titles these multi add posts are very difficult to keep track of.
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@SgtColon thanks for listening Stefan. Yeah the POD surprised me with what it could do for acoustic tone. And yes the tech side is suposed to make it easier.
Still none the wiser why asio4all had a thromby. But at least all is stable now.
@jkahn thanks for the feedback at the end. The RBS seems as bad as it was when I first started recording in 2015. Go figure. Still can’t work out why I can run through these tracks with no problem until that damn light is on. I think of it as the negativity spiral, as the recording count goes up the errors seem to get worse. Definitely an issue to resolve with more recording, hopefully.
@brianlarsen hey it is a diary after all, you had the chapter now the verse. On the non tagging see that as a typo. On the AI front both Giger and Luis Royo are in the frame. That aside glad you like the recording. Will send you some settings for sure.
@sairfingers Gordon I’m with you on the multi recording monthly post issues. Glad you liked the tone, took a while to find that, thank you. Now if it hadn’t been chilly these last few days, a bottle of red and a courtyard video diary would’ve had that story banged out in a few minutes. Anyway all part of the service. Thanks for listening and enjoy the holiday.
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Well played Toby
When I played in a band what we found was once everyone knew a song and we where practicing it to get everything tight if we couldn’t get it in three tries move on to something else and come back to it later. It seems the more we’d try to get a song up to performance level the more you fail. Usually in the same spot of the song
Your probably suffering the same problem. So I’d suggest on your next video if you don’t nail it on the first or second take go for a ride on your Harley then come back and try again.
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As soon as I saw the boy scout had posted Piece #12 I’ve been looking forward to getting some time to give it a proper listen. Firstly, well done on overcoming the tech issues and getting this one recorded. I thought you played the piece really well. You showcased good technique 
played in time played with feel and played with a sweet acoustic tone Well done, Toby 
move onto some of that JD fingerstyle to loosen up a bit 
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Appreciate that Rick. Hardest thing about this one was hammering into a melody note on the beat and playing the bass note. Took me a long time not to automatically pinch the two notes. One of the earlier recordings had a slide rather than a HO and was equally tricky. Always something new to learn.
I need to strategize my recording but 3 strikes makes sense. If I rotate the 4 things I am working on chances are one will turn out ok. That or grab one of the electrics and one of those 10 minute BT and noodle away the negative mindset ! Weather is turning here, so Dyna time is going to be rare but I get your drift.
Thanks for listening.
@Socio James good of you to drop by Thank you for all the positives comments on this one. It actually sounds much better at a faster tempo but I then trip up on the section before the final walkdown 
But the plan once all 20 have been learnt will to push them all to a faster tempo. Maybe some Wild Turkey 
blooze would work as well ?
For now taking it a day at a time.
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Your playing is sure getting interesting, Toby! It’s nice to see you working on both acoustic blues and electric soloing in these pieces. I especially loved your playing on Guitar George 
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That was great, Toby. You are making steady progress. Soudned excellent as well, natural tone plus the reverb.
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@Mari63 Thanks for listening Marie, interesting is putting it mildly but it good to be learning old and “new” skool Blues, you can certainly see the origins of some the common licks and phrases when learning the more Delta style pieces. Appreciate the comments on the GG solo, boy that took some time to get up to speed but a real confidence booster, as I never thought I’d play at that kind of tempo.
@DavidP That natural tone took a wee bit of dialling on the POD but a worthwhile experiment. For reasons I mentioned earlier #12 has been a right pita to get down and has been a true example of the “learn it slow” approach. Have made good progress on the next three this week but may save them for a Diary Chapter next month. Watch this space.
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Hi Toby,
Great
I’m trying to catch up on the last remnants of my holiday after a wile …but is it possible to catch up on everything??? I don’t know pfff, but I’m glad I heard this one once this style gets going, it just pops out, right? 
Greetings
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Noooo 
and I don’t take holidays ! Thanks for listening Roger. yes its a nice sub culture of the Blues and great fun to play - learning is the hard bit. When I saw your post I was just running through the first 10 tracks again and for sure it pops when you get in the groove. More to come sometime soon !
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You have come a long long way on youre acoustic blues journey Toby.
That sound and style suits you!!
Nice playing there mate!! 
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Thank you for your kind words Trond ! Glad you liked it. But be sure there is still a long way to go on this journey. I need to revisit Justin’s Solo Blues as these foundation skills, should help me make better progress there ! Once I finish the Hamburger …
Sorry Toby! I totally missed this AWESOME reply! Don’t know how that happened, but thanks for all the detail! Love the new image, quite impressive what AI can come up with now. Also, cracked up when seeing the “band” still working on figuring out who’s who
Thanks also for the link to the jam tracks, I’ll be checking those out for sure! 
Super cool! Really enjoyed the tone on that one and the vibe it created. Great stuff!
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Thanks for the comments on the latest addition Jeff. That’s likely to be it for a while, until the pc is sorted or replaced. Despite the laptop being back up its void of recording or video software but may be a backstop if I can be bothered to load it all up.
If I’m looking at a new pc, don’t really want to do that twice. 
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Lol - cracked me up. 
The piece did sound good though.
Thanks Digger appreciate that. One of these days I’ll crack these out with one takes and wonder what to do with all the spare time.
Sounded good Toby. Really nice tone as well through the PodGO