I am shocked at how well it works, in fact. The reviews were like “the lights don’t work in anything but ableton”, and I suspected Bespoke would be the exception and I was right! If the buttons are hooked up to control, they’ll light up appropriately to indicate if it’s on or off.
And I was even able to figure out how to map Bank Left and Bank Right to use the “pages” feature in the MIDI instrument in Bespoke. So it’s basically totally functional in every way I want.
and I’m now using it as a very basic stream deck for OBS:
So that’s a nice bonus - I’m using the buttons to turn on and off green screen overlays, or to go to my BRB scene.
This is probably the most Functional device I’ve gotten in a long time.
i put elixir strings on my sheraton but now that i know they’re fucking fluoropolymer (teflon-esque) im for sure taking them off. that shit kills birds!! canary in the guitar shop situation
it’s a shame i liked the slickness but im just not risking giving myself cancer in 30 years by picking my nose or whatever lol
i tuned my strat down to Eb, the hendrix tuning. having one Eb guitar and one E is sort of interesting… when i switch guitars every few days it makes me focus more on intervals than getting stuck in single positions. you can play the ‘same’ stuff but you have to listen more to ensure you’re in the right place on the neck, which is maybe helpful. the timbre is definitely a little different, a little lower-end and richer, i like the way it sounds
to play the same E on both guitars you end up slightly higher on the neck on the Eb strat than the epiphone. there’s more string slackness in that higher position, on top of the natural slackness from detuning, and the fact i’m using lighter gauge strings on it. it’s interesting
Dumb rotary speaker project stuff, no pics just boring words. no one to benefit but myself (maybe)
So I tested my leslie a long time ago with a really cheap lamp footswitch that doesn’t even have those holes in the plug… extremely spooky to have it underfoot so I finally “learned basic electronics” and I’ve yet to build but successfully tested using a little power supply to get a low volt DC footswitch (latching on/off, momentary switch opposite of current status, going over TRS, switches on the box too in case I don’t wanna use it) controlling a relay that actually gives the motor the juice. I have a good bit of plywood and now I’m struggling with making it look good vs just finishing it. Putting a crappy practice amp onboard but w/a power amp in defeat. Overbuilt. Or not. Idk.
I saw some folks on yt who did some gut-a-zero-dollar-organ hacks like me (and unfortunately it’s like 20" across just to house an 8" speaker) and some others who made a bespoke version with little dc motors instead. It’s extremely sensible and makes me wanna do that for the hell of it even though I cannot actually imagine myself playing through a rotary speaker much. I’d love to do a mini cylindrical one (PVC? cardboard concrete forms hardened with glue?) that does the original Leslie 2-speaker deal with little 5" speakers or so. Make it a little tower, 18" tall maybe, lil metal kickstand style feet, little arduino speed and direction control in a pedal, maybe even magnetic brakes that face the little foam spinner things forward when u engage it… damn! Again though, too bad I don’t play guitar lol
I’ve got an old Warmoth bass neck that I might like to use. Problem is it has a heel adjust truss rod in the fender style (screwdriver adjust not alan wrench adjust) and I was wondering if there was a way to change it over to a spoke wheel or something because having to take the neck off to adjust means it’s pretty much useless, and having to remove a pickguard means removing the strings to adjust the truss rod which is again useless.
carve a hole in pickguard for access to the bolt
fashion a wrench from a bent piece of metal thick enough to slot in the bolt screw (or just buy a stewmac version Truss Rod Crank for Tele - StewMac)
i got a very, very cheap guitar for christmas and i’m enjoying playing the one chord i learned in 5 minutes (Em) and looking wistful. want to learn enough to impress my wife and to go with various looks (wistful, joyful, lustful etc.)
i learned the one chord from that guy actually! i got the app at random, then checked this thread to see what people suggested and yours was the first i saw haha
Worked two years at the Chicago Micro Center as a repair tech after the pandemic made my stage tech career disappear. Moved on recently to another repair job with less hours required and weekends off and been getting offers to mix on the weekend for a while now. Sooo, last employee purchase was an SM57 for $72 to save like $18 (woohoo). Wanted to buy two but this was the last one and according to the deck coding won’t be stocked again for a while, or maybe EVER.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I used one of these as over time I’ve just found more specialized options for everything. Nice to have one for the mic case though to maybe drive in a loose nail and it will sound the same after if I actually have to use it.
Today I found myself dispatched right next to the actual Guitar Center in the Arlington Heights, IL where my dad bought me my first guitar. There weren’t any more calls so I stopped in with the intention of getting a MIDI interface so I could use my DX7 as a controller. They did not have one so instead…
I should probably get a real tape player instead of these bottom of the barrel early 00’s era tape players. The one on the left is a radioshack unit, which retailed for $15 but I got for like $18 at the local “Antique Mall” which means that it appreciated in value. The Emerson unit on the right I found in a thrift store in Anchorage and it’s in decent shape despite the speed being all over the place, and I have to constantly adjust the speed potentiometer with a small screwdriver (conveniently, there’s a hole in the back where one can adjust it on the fly, perhaps they anticipated how shitty this would be) they probably need new belts.
I can’t explain why I’m into, objectively, the worst quality music playback one can get in 2022. I feel like that guy in the Mr Show sketch who brings an edison player into the coffee shop and goes “It’s so pure it hurts”.
i bought an ehx superego off reverb. currently the signal chain goes fuzzface > dunlop q wah > superego (with an EQ in the fx loop) > tuner > ditto+ looper
it’s mostly a practicing pedalboard hence the loopers… hoping this will help me develop ideas over chord changes
anyone have good advice for using looper to practice with
