Orion Rosas
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Several years in direct marketing and former Regional Manager over California, Nevada, and Utah for a marketing company contracted by AT&T and Verizon. Currently gigging guitar player and musician of 15 years. Own effects manufacturing company.Motto
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The Male's Guide to Long HairYou're a guy thinking about whether or not you should grow out your hair. Will women find it attractive? How long does it take? What products should I use? Will anything speed up the process? Will I be persecuted? -
What Do Boys Want for Christmas?Answering one of the most difficult questions of the year: What do my kids want? Here we take an all-sides approach to looking at what different types of kids from k-12 really want for Christmas. -
Guitar Tricks: Landing with FeelingLanding with feeling is an effective way I enjoy ending fast runs. What's landing with feeling? It's a little technique I frequently use that's very dramatic and hence dubbed "Landing With Feeling."
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Guitar Equipment: FretboardsThe fretboard is a vital part of a guitar's tone and playability. In my opinion it's more important than the neck in terms of tone importance and will have a large impact in how the neck feels.
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Guitar Tricks: Pinch HarmonicsOh, the coolness and raunchiness of a pinch harmonic. Pinch harmonics, also known as "squealies" or "that thing that Zakk Wylde does all the time", are harmonics made by your thumb immediately touching a harmonic above your pickup upon picking a note.
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Guitar Equipment: TunersTuners are very under-looked, yet important tools on your guitar. What do they do and how do they affect your guitar?
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Guitar Tricks: Sweep Picking Made EasySweep picking is one of the more complex and rare guitar techniques implemented by guitar players. It can be used as a primary lick or a brief emphasis/transition into a phrase or note.
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Ideas to Figure Out What You Want in LifeFiguring out what you want in life, while important to do at a younger age to become competitive in today's world, has become a crisis that goes unsolved for many until it's too late.
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Effects Pedals: Clyde ClonesMany wah "aficionados" search for the tone of the Clyde McCoy as their starting point. The earliest rendition of the Vox Clyde McCoy "picture" wah is held as the holy grail of all wah pedals manufactured.
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5 Different Ideas for When You're BoredBoredom is the unfortunate state of mind that strikes a person that doesn't have anything to do, or doesn't want to do anything that they could do.
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Ego vs ArroganceFor happiness, achieving life goals, relationships, and a general sense of well being, ego is extremely important.
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Sales Tips: Assuming the SaleAssuming the sale is one of the most commonly known closing techniques, but do you really know how to implement it?
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Guitar Techniques: Alternate PickingAlternate picking is one of the most basic, yet undefined techniques there is. After learning how to hold your guitar and pick, this should be number 2.
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Improving the Sound of Your Guitar for Free (Or Cheap)Here I'll share a few cheap, free and easy modifications that you can do to your guitar to improve its sound quality.
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Effects Pedals: Wah Inductor ReviewsMany find this to be the key prime magical mojo ingredient to an amazing wah pedal. It's definitely important, but is all the hype surrounding certain inductors really what it's made out to be?
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Guitar Effects: Vox Clyde McCoy ClonesVirtually all boutique and mainstream wah manufacturers have an outright stated clone of the Clyde McCoy, or at least a circuit based upon the original Clyde McCoy. So where does the circuit lie?
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How to Make Money Throwing PartiesLove to party? Don't mind that everybody's going to ruin your place? Know what kind of music's going to get people excited and feel good at your place? Why not make some money off of it?
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How to Enjoy Yourself and Be Happy in a Down EconomyIf you're like me, the economy has taken a toll on you. Here's a unique, but true idea on how to enjoy yourself in a downed economy.
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Guitar Equipment: NecksGuitar necks are so cool. For those that don't know, they're the long thing on the guitar that you always see a guitar player's hand wrapped around. They're also a very key point in the guitar in regards to tone.
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Guitar Equipment: High Output vs Low Output PickupsThere has been a long debate on whether or not one should use high output or low output pickups for several applications. Metal heads and raunchy blues men generally love high output pickups (or for the blues guys I'll call them "over-wound").
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Guitar Equipment: Body WoodsBody woods are the most influential part of the guitar. They will heavily influence how your pickups reproduce, your sustain and your overall ability to produce certain effects with the guitar.
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Guitar Equipment: Tone Capacitors or "Tone Caps"This is a general description of the tonal qualities given by certain capacitors in a guitar circuit.
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Converting the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC or Studio Preamp Into a Mark IIC+This is an easy to read step by step article explaining the process of converting the preamp of a Mesa Boogie Mark IIC or a Studio Preamp into a Mark IIC+. -
The Free "Non-Touristy" Guide to San DiegoMy approach to this guide is to provide some "non-touristy" as well as "touristy" things to do in San Diego.