I figure if I’m going to be on the T-shirt, I should do this. Hi

, I’m loopcat. Ya’ll can call me Tyler, if you wish.
I’ve been playing guitar for over 6 years (yikes! You’d think I’d be better by now!), and I’ve recently fallen madly in love with analog effects. I’m trying my best to really think out gear purchases now rather than my old method of walking into Guitar Center and picking up whatever’s cheap, yuck.
I’ve always loved noise. Even when I was a kid, I would sit in the living room with my Casio writing songs with all the non-musical sound effect presets. When I picked up the guitar (well, bass came first, but I soon discovered I was too big of an egomaniac to not shred) I was obsessed with Kurt Cobain, so I bought tons of bad digital distortions to go along with my flanger and chorus pedals, and tried to perfect the anti-solo. I still love my Small Clone and those distortions have a nice place situated in a makeshift feedback loop, but I like to think my tastes in gear and music have evolved for the better since then.
Currently, I’m more into the ambient side of noise, and from time to time downright traditional jazz playing. I’m leaving out a ton but some of my favorite things to listen to are: Sonic Youth, Talking Heads

, The Velvet Underground, Do Make Say Think, GY!BE and damn near everything John Zorn has ever spewed out of that brilliant little head of his.
I totally love the forum. It’s smaller than say, guitar geek, but that size gives it a nice environment, and a hell of a lot less elitism. You guys rule, and so do Devi’s beautiful effects!