Face the Music

I've recently got back into making music again, going hog wild with acquisitions. I suppose with all the compact guitar effects pedals now, one might assume the boy can't play a note. This isn't far from the truth. I showed Chris a few chords, a scale, & a few techniques about a year or so ago & he out-licks me! I need to get over the hump so I've commissioned a local cat to show me some ropes. I'd just like to be able to feel comfortable in improvisation enough to have fun. I read over some old songs in college i wrote.. patheticism. A couple weeks ago however, I finally conjured a dandy. Deep, dark, almost Alice In Chains. Truthfully, I've always been interested in audio engineering so I see a http://www.mackie.com/products/cfx12mkii/index.html in my future.