Adventure in Soundland

So my regular haunt is DIY stomboxes but it gets kinda uninteresting trolling through pages of distortions that don’t work, they will but the noob’s are there asking why not yet, but occasinally something like this comes up and makes it all fun. Made me laugh Projects coming up (once the lot on the table [...]

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I had a go with the Philstick last night after putting the electrics, one electret mic preamp and piezo preamp, from the celljo into it yesterday. It took a few hours to get the stuff in and when trialing it I realised that having a .040 string and such a small drum area added up [...]

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Stuffs abit up in the air at the moment and I’m off into town to drop off some furniture to my fence. I say that ’cause I went to an opening there tuesday night, and though a harmless lot, the buyers of art can be a pretentious lot and I don’t feel unlike a stealer [...]

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One of my favourite things in music making is turning up the feedback on my DIY delay and then twisting the speed knob which turns things into a tunable instrument of sorts. Upping the speed, or delay time, raises the pitch in the feedback loop and lowering it… lowers the pitch. Trouble is that it [...]

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I’m going to call it the Philstick simply ’cause I drew inspiration from the instrument most often used by Mr Phil Dadson. It’s not a direct copy but the essentials are the same. I started out with a drum head and got a cast aluminium dish, that I cut the bottom off of, that fitted [...]

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Years ago there was a range of telephone answer machine chips that the FX hot rodders started turning into lo bit rate loopers, or samplers for short. I’ve had a few goes at this but gotten nothing to work and this is kinda normal in the FX making business. We don’t spend loads of time [...]

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