Minimalist Guitar Gear: Pt 1, the pedals or How to clean off the pedal shelf

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This is part 1 of my series on Minimalist Guitar Gear, the pedals. I have been feeling like I'd get further in my search for tone if I had less gear, fewer choices, if I trimmed down to the gear that more specifically serves the ideas I have about guitar tone in my head. I'll do future videos about trimming down my amp and guitar collection as well.

I need to say right here that I owe a debt of gratitude to "Minimalism" documentary by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, directed by Matt D'Avella. It's available for viewing over on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/2qn8HI1

I've also been enjoying Matt's channel here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/blackboxfilmcompany

He's a filmmaker but he has lots of great content on creativity and freelancing, two things musicians should know a little about.

I say it in the video but it bears repeating here, I like all the pedals shown in the video. They are all great pedals or I wouldn't have owned them in the first place. They've served me well as tools for music making in the past, but I'm trying to pare things down to the essentials for the kind of music I'm playing now.

I started with the pedals because I have so many and to be brutally honest, I think the amp and guitar episodes will be tougher as I built many of the amps I have and the guitars took years to find versions that fit me (and there was a time when I owned three times this number so I've already pared down some already. See, I'm already making excuses.) Oh, well. If things weren't hard, everyone would do them.

Remember the old saw, "Happiness isn't in having what you want, it's in wanting what you have."? I'm trying to trim down to only having the things that add value to my musical life, and don't simply check some box on the list of gear the marketers of the world are telling us we need.

BTW, all original music was written and recorded by me (about 15 years ago actually), both in the background and the intro/outro music.

Hope you dig the video. There's more to come.

Keith

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