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• Post #4356493

  So for reasons of poor judgment and stubbornness I own five headphone modelling amps - Mustang Micro 1 and 2, ToneX Plug, Katana Go, and the Mighty Plug. The ToneX is best but it has some buzz/whine on higher gain that bothers me. I might be about to buy ANOTHER one, the Blackstar Beam Solo. Send help! However - this one now runs NAM A2 captures which is very cool. https://blackstaramps.com/beamsolo/ #guitar #GearSquad

• Post #3192787

  I discovered Tailscale recently (late to the party). It’s solved a bunch of security and remote access issues for me. Combined with Nginx Proxy Manager, PiHole (dhcp and local dns) and LetsEncrypt I have a good setup to expose Home Assistant, Next Cloud and various internal administration tools. I bought a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and an Ethernet adapter and stuck it on the back of my router (powered via its USB port), just running Tailscale as a cheap and hopefully reliable entry point into my ho...

• Post #3192786

  Welp. I have ordered a hang board and plan to hang it above a door frame like some sort of obsessive. #climbing

• Post #3192785

  So I got it into my head that I want a telecaster deluxe with Lollar Deluxe Foil (basically gold foil humbuckers in a wide-range humbucker form factor) and then I was like, why not a Bigsby, and now I’ve spent hours trying to work out what bridge to use for this purpose. I think the Deluxe has strat string spacing and neck and takes a strat Hardtail six saddle bridge normally, and a Bigsby B5 needs a low rear bridge. #Guitar #GearSquad

• Post #3192784

  For some reason I instinctively open apps on my Home Screen with blue icons. I used to open Facebook all the time and it’s so inane these days I eventually deleted the app. For some reason I now open LinkedIn all the time instead, which is just as inane most of the time (it’s miraculous that so many people are AI experts just as the AI bubble reaches peak frothiness, isn’t it?). Someone make a good and honourable app with a blue icon please.

• Post #1161046

  Does anyone have an above-average understanding of music theory, (ideally jazz) harmony, and guitar practice, that would be willing to review and give me some feedback on an app I’ve built? I’ve created an open source app that includes a music theory reference for guitar, chord scales, chord substitutions, harmonic analysis of simple progressions and a system to manage practice routines. I think it’s starting to be pretty good but I would like some help validating what the content is sound and...

• Post #689903

  A man owned a lake and wanted to skate on it when frozen over in the winter. Unfortunately it was covered in snow and twigs and bird droppings. He didn’t want to pay someone to sweep it. So he invented CURLING and got people to pay to play a game of stone and brooms on his lake instead. #WinterOlympics

• Post #689902

  There is a lot of AI scepticism in my timeline in general, and around software engineering in particular. Much more than there is AI chest-beating (good!) And the concerns are real and valid. But I also think there are things to be excited about. I have been able to build products (digital guitar effects in this case) that previously would have been well beyond my grasp. And they turn out to be really good. And it is enormously fun. Yes you can generate slop with no care for quality. But the c...

• Post #689901

  RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116235613299250435 I really like Simon’s writings on AI in software engineering. He is always grounded and balanced and he writes well. This introduction (and the set of practices underneath) is well worth bookmarking.

• Post #689838

  I have been working on a DIY reactive load box with IR speaker simulation for playing a tube amp silently - akin to a UA Ox Box or Two Notes Captor X. I think it’s finally done! It was a lot of fun to make. All the hardware and software are open source and there are extensive build instructions. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQHTY69k00g Docs: https://github.com/optilude/MuleBox #GearSquad #Guitar #electronics

• Post #668330

  I have learned to capture Impulse Responses from speaker cabs. Well, using my Ox Box as a speaker for now. Wave Arts IR Capture does a great job and is free. Previous attempt using Reaper and ReaVerb ends in a UI WTF. Needed a clean amp for the sweep signal and got a tiny TDA2030A based solid state amp from Amazon and soldered some sockets to it. No enclosure so I put it in a cardboard box. Actually sounds decent! Signal chain is USB audio out -> mini amp -> Ox speaker input -...