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Category Archives: music
luthier school
Roberto-Venn School Of Luthiery
Neat, but kind of on the other side of the country.
garage band archives
Talking to jay, I decided to put up the archives of my limited garageband work. So they
are up at archives.
freesound
“The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. “
guitar hacking
So, with the fretless conversion pretty successful, now I’m thinking about other guitar hacks to try. I might try converting another cheap guitar into a slide guitar. Thats a pretty standard conversion, so shouldn’t be too bad.
It would be cool to have some sort of sustainer[1] on the fretless (or the regular guitars as well). There is a mostly[2] interesting thread at Project Guitar about building DIY sustainers. So that would make an interesting project. Maybe a slide guitar with a sustainer.
Or perhaps go the Sonic Youth/Glen Branca route and tune one so all the strings are the same note. For a while I’ve been thinking about getting a electric 12 string and putting a high tuning on it (aka, more or less a 12 string Nashville Tuning). Just for chimy shimmering chordal stuff.
[1] A sustainer is just a device that causes guitar strings to continue vibrating. An E-bow is an example of a sustainer.
[2] The thread has 600+ posts in it, so a lot of noise comes with a lot of signal.
more fretless guitar pics
Some slightly higher quality pics, showing the finished neck in more detail.
Fretboard after wood filler and sanding, with strings on (a set of .12 flat wounds)
Looking down the [un?]fretboard.
fretless guitar
I got bored today. So I bought a cheap guitar and made it fretless. Which mainly consists of yanking out the existing the frets. A little wood filler, some sanding, and some setup work, and it seems to work.
Sample of my not so impressive
fretless playing
Filling in the fret slots with wood filler. And yes, my work table does always look that messy.
A side shot trying to show lack of frets.
As good of a use for an old Peavey “Receptor” as anything. It could use a bit more setup work. Setting the truss rod and action on a fretless is a little odd. But I’ll figure it out.
How To Tell Good Music From Bad Music
How To Tell Good Music From Bad Music by Neil Slade
Interesting, if somewhat pretentious, article about popular music. Though it looks like the writer might be a bit of a kook.
Subscape Annex+1 pics
Pictures of Subscape Annex at The Underground
Subscape Annex at the underground, the show I was a guest at. Thats
me on the far right.
ideas
This is the start of an experiment. The goal being to start recording all those various ideas I have and never bother to write down and soon forget. We’ll see how it works. Alot of these will probably only make sense to me.
Todays ideas:
- add “loop windowing” support that can be controled via midi CC controllers. You could control the index of which cycle to loop, and how many cycles to index. Doing this via the already existing “cycles” shouldn’t be too difficult.
- But, the more interesting idea would be to the same thing across any subsection of a loop. Position and length of the section to loop would be deteremined by CC as above, but could be any part of the loop, not just “cycles”. Sort of a granular approach. Something like Grainstates in Reaktor
- ping-pong or scanner mode of loop playback. At the moment, sooperlooper supports playing a loop forwards or backwards. The idea would be to add support for playing forwards, then backwards, then forwards, etc. It already crossfades loops, so this could be interesting when doing “granular” type looping and ambient/noise type stuff.
And I seem to have already forgotten the other ideas I was going to include in this entry. How about that.