Love Mornings – how to guarantee yourself a good day

As life gets busier and more diverse, it can be tricky to find time to do something that used to be so straight-forward and enjoyable, like listening to music. So I just wanted to share some tips on what I’m doing at the moment, in the hope it gives you some ideas for your time. 

Korg 01/WFd Restoration

About 2 years ago a friend of mine gave me his old keyboard. He is a fantastic player and had long left this guy behind. This was his first real instrument which he bought new back in the early nineties; a Korg 01/WFd. 

Amp Build – Part 3

So in the previous installment of building my amp kit – Amp Build – Part 2 – we had the turret board populated with components and wires soldered, ready to bolt into the chassis which had the switches, jacks and potentiometers and what-not bolted on from part 1.

The work to do now is connect the wires from the turret board to the volume, tone, power switches, transformers, valves etc… 

Bass Bausatz

For my birthday my wife bought me a bass! The cool thing is that it comes in a DIY kit, not ready built. The hardest things are done for you already like the routing of the body, the neck is already built, the holes are drilled, even the tone controls are soldered together on the scratch plate… The things left to do are to cut the headstock to shape, drill holes for the small screws for the tuners, sand and finish the body, solder the pickups and the ground wire to the tone controls, then screw everything together.

./make awesome -nolicensing -KXStudio

I have always been a FOSS/Linux/Community Dev fan but never got into anything much in the creative space using Linux as a platform until recently.

Amp Build – Part 2

Next up is the circuit board, something I had been looking forward to for a long time: Soldering all those cool components onto a real turret board (hand-made style) and setting them out in optimal position.

Amp Build – Part 1

Problem: I cant afford any of the amps I want to buy (except for this guy, looks quite interesting).

Opportunity: Build my own.

Solder On

Tonight I made my first move into the DIY electronics space. I fixed a broken amp.

Floor POD Plus+ Demo

The other night I set up 2 Floor PODs for use at church. The idea was to set up 4 amp models and cater for really clean to a really overdriven tones. I used a nice set of Sennheiser headphones, my SG and a mates Strat.

Use Whats Available

Hi all!

Sometimes I am so focused on the gear I don’t have that I can overlook the gear I do, and what the point of even having gear is – to make music. I was reminded again of this when listening to a demo I made with my old band Corban Ablaze. We had a few originals that we were really happy with and wanted to make some basic recordings of them.