Zed A. Shaw, Painter

You think you can Shave a Yak? Let me school you on how a pro does it: I've actually been building a whole new Bass VI guitar and new effect pedal configuration for the last three months just so I can record the theme music to a course on painting. A total of 2 min of music.

First I had the idea of making ambient sounding music to put people to sleep on my travel painting videos. Well obviously the sleepiest most ambient instrument ever is the Bass VI. That required all new pedals though.

Then the original pickups I had in this Bass VI needed an upgrade because, honestly, they sounded like weak sauce country twang. Of course that meant I had to order some beasts from Bare Knuckle Pickups, and a new pickguard, and wiring, and then reassemble it.

But then I figured out that the wiring on the neck pickup was backwards so of course I had to order a new switch and then reverse engineering the wiring for that pickup and rewire it correctly. Oh you think that's not Yak Shaved enough? Hold my coffee.

Now of course I'm going to use this new guitar on my painting videos, but well I mean the video quality is really tough to do because gopros and many other cameras can't work close up and/or are too big. So I just had to buy a DJI Osmo Pocket. Oh but wait.

The OSMO Pocket is good but it's an 80mm lens with a 16:9 aspect ratio so it can't get enough of the onscreen palette to really show people how I mix colors so, clearly the only solution is to get another OSMO pocket for the palette. You think I'm done?! HA!