Depending on how fast you drink it, there will be more or less cherry taste in it 🙂
Gardening
New year, new seedlings
Tomatoes, hot peppers, tomatillos
Guitars
Round guitar picks
Made myself some round picks for no other reason than curiosity 🙂 To be fair, also because I wanted to find a cure against the picks that are rotating between my fingers. Starting from a normal “teardrop” shaped pick, removing extra material with big scissors, than refining the shape on…
Audio
Bad Screamer: adding a mid-boost
All articles from the Bad Screamer series Thinking about this a little bit, there’s a way to act on the frequency response using a little more complex emitter negative feedback circuit. Did a bit of play with the sim and various values, I can create a mid bump this way…
Audio
Bad Screamer: soft clipping overdrive (with transistors)
All articles from the Bad Screamer series Working on a new circuit at this moment, it’s inspired by some existing guitar overdrive pedals. The main gain and overdrive stage is basically one slightly enhanced Proco RAT gain stage but with more potential gain and volume (instead of the RAT’s multiple…
Guitars
Green T
Another “partscaster”, this time a “thinline” (a semi-hollow body with an f-hole, very lightweight). The body is from the same ebay seller who sold me the Gold-o-Caster’s body. The neck is from G&L – some years ago they’ve been selling parts with huge discount that weren’t considered good enough for…
Guitars
New Guitar Day – Ibanez JSM-20
Just bragging this time, I obviously didn’t make it myself. My first hollowbody, also probably my most expensive guitar so far 🙂
Guitars
Gold-o-Caster
Gold-o-Caster series Nothing too complicated, this is what people call a “parts-caster” – an assembly of parts made by someone else. No real “lutherie” present here at all 🙂 The body first: got it from ebay. Good quality, double cream binding, and most importantly it’s sparkly GOLD. The sizes are…
Guitars
Harley Benton DC Jr – modifications
What do you do if you don’t like the color of a guitar you have? I don’t know about you (maybe you don’t buy it in the first place), but I refinish it just because I can 🙂 This is the guitar I’ve got with a big discount, it was…
Audio
Servicing Sony Walkman TCS-30D
I’ve got this one for cheap, sold as “working” but we all know how much does in mean when you buy from ebay 😂 It wasn’t working very well, couldn’t fast forward and played only some cassettes, others it couldn’t advance at right speed. As always, this is its rubber…
Audio
4. Dead Kings bass effects pedal – EQ finalized
Happy New Year everybody! I wish everyone lots of good things and happiness! After many tests and modifications, I should admit that I wasn’t happy with the 3 band EQ results – it either sounded wrong or was unstable at some EQ settings. Turned out making a single Baxandal EQ…
Guitars
Gretch Jim Dandy + pickup
Added a soundhole pickup into this guitar! It won’t be an “acoustic” anymore, but an “acoustic electric”! First two additional holes: one for a volume potentiometer (6 mm) and another for the endpin jack (12 mm): The pickup is a Gretch Deltoluxe – a very nice magnetic single coil designed…
Guitars
Gretch Jim Dandy
Just got this parlor-size guitar (smaller body and shorter scale than usual), and already liking it 🙂 The sound isn’t big but still very pleasant, great for practicing at home. I’ll be installing a Gretch Deltoluxe magnetic pickup in it soon!
New Hosting
Moved this blog to another hosting – from OVH “Webhosting” VPS to Amazon LightSail with a Bitnami WordPress image. The reason is too many outages on OVH (I have Jetpack availability monitoring enabled and it sends me alerts way too often for my taste). Let’s see how this one works…
Hardware
Universal Radio Tester
This simple device is a basic signal generator that can be used to debug audio and AM radio frequency circuits. It produces a (roughly) 1 kHz periodic wave output that has enough harmonic frequency content to go into high MHz range – this will make the signal audible even when…
Audio
3. Dead Kings bass effects pedal – EQ
This is the 3rd post in the Dead Kings preamp series. Now to design the EQ module! My initial idea was to create a circuit inspired from the classic tube bass amplifiers, like Ampeg Portaflex or SVT. I did some research and got somewhat carried away, so the circuit I…
Audio
2. Dead Kings bass effects pedal – clean boost
Continuing the Dead Kings preamp series The tests in real hardware have shown very close characteristics to what LTSpice have simulated, this means the models of the transistors I’ve been using are pretty accurate, that’s good news! i’ll be testing some slight modifications – reducing maximum gain and maximizing undistorted…
Audio
1. Dead Kings bass effects pedal – buffer, boost
I’m starting this new project on Github, heavily inspided by my recent discovery of the band Royal Blood https://www.royalbloodband.com/ This is the first post in the Dead Kings preamp series. This preamp / effects pedal isn’t supposed to emulate the sound of Mike Kerr, I’ve just got some ideas I…