Get Offset: a Music and Guitar Podcast

This week on Get Offset, Andrew and Emily talk about guitars, amps, and how they met their spouses. And probably some other stuff, too. This episode is sponsored by  Surfy Industries .  Check out our demo of the SurfyBear Compact here .  https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/   https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd   https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/ https://www.joincampaignzero.org/   https://www.b...

This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by Shaun Crawford, a guitarist from Texas and based out of Seattle, WA. Some of you might know Shaun for his work with Sinasoid Pro Audio. We talk to Shaun about moving to a new city, making connections, and about current events.  This episode is sponsored by Surfy Industries . Check out our demo of the SurfyBear Compact here .  https://blacklivesmatters.carr...

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This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by Blake from The Tone Mob! They talk about things they have in the works and buying gear used vs. new.  Sponsored by Walrus Audio . Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet perks ! We have merch, including additions to our For Fuzz Sake lineup! Get some, get SOME. Outro song is  “Little Pink Room” by Michelle Sullivan and the All Night Boys  (...

This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by the absolutely legendary Kathy Valentine. Probably best known for her work with The Go-Gos, she just released a her fantastic memoir, All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir . It chronicles the first 30-ish years of her life, starting with her childhood and moving through her discovery of guitar and her time with The Go-Gos, and ending with the early day...

This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by Sean Pierce Johnson, who you might know from his YouTube show Stomp Box Saturday . In it, we talk about the Gig Worker Bill, which recently passed in California, and the potential repercussions that it might have on the music industry.  Sponsored by Old Blood Noise Endeavors and Lollar Pickups . Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet perks...

This week, Emily and Andrew talk about their non-ironic love of modeling amps. From Line 6 to the Fender Mustang GTX and the Strymon Iridium, we talk about all the modeling options available to guitarists.  Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet perks ! We have merch, including additions to our For Fuzz Sake lineup! Get some, get SOME. Outro song is  “Little Pink Room” by Michelle...

This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by Julia of the band Ratboys! Ratboys had just released a new album to great reviews and a tour in the works. But then, the weekend of their album release shows, COVID-19 hit the news. Pretty soon, the band's entire tour had been scrapped. But they decided to pivot rather than dwell, and have been using live streaming to keep up promotion around their excelle...

This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by Jessica and Peter from Deep Sea Diver to talk about their project the #StayHomeStems. The four also talk about whether or not you need to be confident or vulnerable to create art, the Seattle rain, and so much more.  Sponsored by  Teisco  and  Auralex Acoustics .  Save 10% on your order at auralex.com when you use the code GETOFFSET (all caps, no spaces) a...

This week, Emily and Andrew sip scotch whisky and talk about Spotify. More specifically, how artists are asking Spotify to increase royalties paid by 3X. If you agree that artists should be paid a whole PENNY per stream, consider signing the petition .  Sponsored by Teisco . And, apparently scotch. Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet perks ! We have merch, including additions t...

This week, Emily and Andrew talk about collaboration in the time of COVID-19. We chat about Emily's remote recording gig, discuss reamping, and gush over the Lauren Strange / Mike Adams collaboration .  Sponsored by  Chase Bliss Audio  and  Old Blood Noise Endeavors .  Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet perks ! We have merch, including additions to our For Fuzz Sake lineup! Ge...

This week sees Emily and Andrew recording from isolation in Seattle, WA. We're doing our part to flatten the curve, and in the meantime, we're working on our own different projects. But productivity isn't always possible during times as uncertain as these, so we also talk about being kind to yourself if you're not getting all the things done. But Andrew is building his board and Emily is, ya know,...

This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by Louise Woletz-Hinz of Dwarfcraft Devices and Philippe Herndon of Caroline Guitar Company . We chat about how we're spending our social/physical distancing days, how COVID-19 is impacting them as pedal builders, and the potential future of creative endeavors. It's more uplifting than it sounds.  Sponsored by Sinasoid Pro Audio Couture .  Like the podcast? ...

No more people touching people that they don't even know, yo.  This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by Steve Selvidge of The Hold Steady to talk about how COVID-19 is impacting artists and performers with cancelled shows.  You've gotta stay positive.  Sponsored by Chase Bliss Audio ,  Old Blood Noise Endeavors,  and Auralex Acoustics .  Save 10% on your order at auralex.com when you use the code...

This week, Emily and Andrew talk about two major current events in music -- the Nashville tornado and COVID-19, with a focus on how the pandemic is affecting the live music industry.  Do615 put together an excellent list of ways to help victims of the Nashville tornados . Major props to Gibson for giving guitars to players who lost theirs .  Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet...

This week, Emily and Andrew talk about flying with gear. They also chat all about Billboard Magazine and some interesting moments from recent Billboard charts. Also, an add for someone who apparently gets 33 million Spotify streams a year. Don't mine on native land . What native land are you on ? Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet perks ! We have merch, including additions to...

This week, Andrew talks about his trip to Bellingham and Emily chats about her upcoming mini-tour of Texas. A few of our listeners asked us to talk about Black History Month, so Emily wanted to talk about the importance of representation (and how black women are more likely to die in childbirth and how black children are perceived as being older ) and Andrew wants to talk about cultural appropriat...

This week, Emily and Andrew take questions from their Patreon supporters, including:  How do you deal with establishing boundaries with bandmates? How do you decide when to bail on a gig? How do you get non-standard gigs? How do you deal with bandmembers' egos? This episode was sponsored by BOSS. Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet perks ! We have merch, including additions to...

This week, Emily and Andrew get into an issue that's not uncommon for the musicians and self-employed folk in the music and gear industry -- the absolute mess that is our current healthcare system.  With that in mind, please consider helping  Juan Alderete and Native Audio's Mike Trombly . They were both in two separate accidents involving car and are still recovering.  We have merch, including ad...

This week, Emily and Andrew are joined by Big Ear Pedals to talk poo, pedals, and parallel parking.  Grant and Karen are truly the best, and we love them dearly. In case you missed it, they recently released the super fun SHAKE and are releasing the ALBIE multi-effect soon.  We have merch, including additions to our For Fuzz Sake lineup! Get some, get SOME. Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon...

This week is the first "normal" episode of Get Offset in a few weeks, and as a result Emily and Andrew have a LOT of catching up to do.  Andrew talks about new stuff for him, including his new Jennings Guitar, a bass pedal he got in a steal on a local swap, and the newest trade in his trade up series.  Emily chats on recent gigs, hot sauce, and cracking up while performing to midi drum tracks.  Th...

On this week's episode, Andrew takes a field recorder to the NAMM floor and gets to speak with Robert Keeley, Yvette Young, and many more.  Our NAMM trip was sponsored by Covenant Cables .  Subscribe to our YouTube channel . We have merch, including additions to our For Fuzz Sake lineup! Get some, get SOME. Like the podcast?  Support us on Patreon for some sweet perks ! Outro song is  "Little Pink...

This week, Emily speaks with one of her favorite bands of the past few years: Charly Bliss! Eva, Sam, Spencer, and Dan talk about their new album Young Enough, studying music business in college, the songwriting process, guitar pedals, Josie & the Pussycats, high school reunions, dogs, and making a living as a musician.  Sponsored by  Dwarfcraft Devices ! Check out our YouTube for the chance to wi...

It's true, touring with your band is NOT good for the environment. That's why Emily wrote a recent article for Reverb.com about how to make touring with your band environmentally sustainable , because there ARE things you can do to make your touring more green.  This week, Emily talks about her NYE show, Andrew talks about FoxChiRho, and the two discuss Emily's article.  Sponsored by  Dwarfcraft D...

It's the last episode of 2019! That means Emily and Andrew are going to talk about their resolutions for 2020, both things they personally want to do in the new year and things they'd like to see from the industry in the new year.  Sponsored by  Dwarfcraft Devices  and Teisco . Save 10% on anything at the OBNE website through the end of 2019 with the code GETOFFSET at checkout ! Subscribe to our Y...