Everyone please meet Callie, taking a break next to two of her instrument siblings.. She is helping me complete my first album ever, and we have two songs out of six done! 🖤✔️ Callie is a Taylor 512ce in urban red ironbark. She’s unreal. A shorter scale length ebony fretboard is very comfortable and adds mellowness to the slightly smaller body’s tone. :blobcat: #GearSquad#guitar#music#gear#studio#musician#acoustic#taylor
Shout out to Templo Devices for the lovely packaging with this Pocket Comp! Happy to support a small Canadian company and excited to see how this little unit helps integrate vocals into my setup
My dry suit recently sprung a small leak in the wrist seal. I decided to do my own wrist seal replacement, so I wrote up a blog post about it. This isn't a full tutorial of how to do it - I'll leave that to the pros. This is more meant as a tips and tricks/overview of the process to help others decide if they want to do it themselves.
I've put 2 cold water dives on the new seal and it works great!
If anyone is curious about how I made my latest EP entirely on the Novation Circuit Rhythm, here's a deep dive on that unit and some of the my favourite features (along with a few gripes)
Godsdamn it, Pittsburgh Modular, if you could stop making badass synths that I feel like I can't live without for a while, that'd be great!
(This is in reference to the new Voltage Lab 2, as well as last year's Taiga, to a lesser degree.)
Especially since they're not cheap 😅
(No shade intended, I KNOW they're actually very cheap for what all they can do, but the raw cost is eye-watering to a indie artist who doesn't make $10's of thousands a year from music making.)
Anyone else following along with the latest Deluge community firmware improvements? Just found out the latest nightly firmware can load DX7 patches, which will be fun to play with!
Oh shit, Sam Ash music stores are all closing. Literally the end of an era; they've been around for 100 years!
Most of us who've been doing this music thing for years have bought something from a Sam Ash store in person or online at some point. Pore one out, I guess...
Studio Update: A few weeks ago I was soliciting opinions about whether or not to get a Mac Mini to replace my ailing, nearly decade-old PC.
Opinions differed, leaning toward "yes but get more RAM than base model" and I had just about decided not to do it when I stumbled on a good video from a music tech vlogger I really like (video here: https://youtu.be/obkCMxaIIFM) who did exactly what I was thinking and had great results.
My collection of mostly crappy pedals! Nothing too exciting here, mostly stuff I bought because it was cheap. A few classics (Boss DS1 distortion, original Korg KAOSS Pad), some home studio workhorses (Alesis NanoCompressor, Zoom MS-70CDR), one boutique pedal (Catalinbread Echorec), and a couple weird old junky pedals from the dawn of the digital age (Zoom 505 Guitar, Yamaha GW-10).
Sunday #Spliff Day! After you enjoy your cannabis, consider enjoying these spacey #drones, wild sounds and esoteric compositions made with tape machines, modular synths, and other weird #gear
Spent 8+ hours today putting my studio together (haven't had time to work on it for weeks) and I've got it like 85% of the way finished. The only substantial task that's left is figuring out the MIDI routing; apart from that is just a little cleanup and organization, which will probably be an ongoing task for a while.
Today was all about hooking up my patchbays, which was A LOT. 5 synthesizers, 1 drum machine, the modular, 4 vintage FX units, and 5 tape machines are now all wired up.
There's still a fair bit that isn't wired in, including the 0-Coast, Strega and Terra. Those are all either small enough or weird enough or both that, in my mind, it makes more sense to just plug them into the front of the patch bay as needed. I have enough slots left that I could hook them into the back but it just doesn't feel worth the effort. If I change my mind, I'll have some hours of crawling around on the floor and cursing in my future 😅
I've also got 2 more drum machines, a half dozen effects pedals, a 4-track cassette recorder, an 8-track recorder (which may not even work but it sure looks cool in any case 😅) and a bunch of other weird shit but again, it's easy enough to just grab those things and plug them into the front of the patchbays as needed. Otherwise I'd need at least one more patchbay and another $200 worth of cables and a lot more patience...
MIDI routing should be relatively simple. I'll probably just plug everything in via USB (via a hub) and call it good, but I might end up hooking up at least some via traditional 5 pin MIDI if any of them act up while hooked up via USB MIDI. Guess we'll see.
If I wasn't a dirtbag who was inhumanly comfortable living amid utter chaos, I'd spend a day doing cable management. But doing that would be worse for my sanity than just ignoring it, so no.
@elejia Before/after is an interesting conundrum in this case. I had the same #gear setup in a different location a few months ago, and then I set it up here but it wasn't really plugged in/hooked up. I posted pictures of the latter here already, and there's even a video of the former (although it doesn't cover everything, but I think you can see everything at least briefly...). So which is the "before" in this case 🤔
But I'll definitely post some pictures and probably a video of some sort.
I suppose I'm lucky that I don't get many #gear deal no-shows, but looks like two today! So many lowball offers too. I expect a certain amount of haggling, but I can't imagine offering less than half of what someone is asking
Does anyone know how to correctly clean the neck and fretboard on the Charvel dk24s? I read there’s a slight satin finish that could be damaged by steel wool. :blobcatcoffee: Thanks! #GearSquad#guitar#fretboard#cleaning#gear#musician