This is an update to my original post titled Making a guitar pick from a cracked cymbal. I learned a few things since making that first pick. Here’s what I did differently. First, I decided to trace an outline of the pick using an awl. This works better since the red Sharpie kept getting rubbed off […]
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Update: I created a follow-up post with a few things I did differently. You can find that here. I started with the remnant from a cut-down cymbal. I chose a cut-off from a Zildjian A Custom 10″ Splash because of how thin it was and how it didn’t have much of a bow to it.
My wife is a lot like me in that she likes to make stuff. She wants a workbench for her studio. The design we are thinking of consists of a one-inch thick top and a metal pipe framework for the legs. I’m going to worry about the legs later, but for now (since we had
Over the weekend I auditioned for a band. It was a situation where I was brought in to replace an existing drummer so the songs were already structured and written out. I knew pretty quickly into the audition that it wasn’t going to work out. Stylistically, I wasn’t a good fit. But there was something
I was asked by a friend of mine to cut down her pair of 12″ Wuhan China (or “Lion” cymbals, as they call them) into a smaller set to use as hand cymbals. There was one slight problem. Years ago when I first got into repairing cymbals I took my own version of the
Back in 2002 I created an app for the board game Heroquest by Milton Bradley, which allows you to create your own cards for use in the game. It proved to be rather popular, even with fairly limited functionality. I haven’t played Heroquest in over a decade and I’m not really looking to get
Many years ago I created a Windows program that would play random sound effects. I packed it full of public domain sounds that I found online, along with a few that I made myself. The way that it worked is that it plays through a list of sounds randomly, using predefined volume and panning settings
Last night I attended a concert by Terry Bozzio, the former drummer for Frank Zappa. It would normally take a lot for me to go to a 2-hour concert featuring only a drummer, but Terry is different. His tunes are creative and detailed and he has excellent showmanship. I really admire his playing but the
I recorded the drum tracks for Every Time I Fall, a song I’m working on with Jongwon Kim. I have a somewhat peculiar way of recording. I actually record the drum tracks a total of eight times, one after the other without any breaks in between. Typically, the first two tracks are throw-aways. I use them
This is just a test of the over-the-head GoPro setup. The audio was recorded in Ableton and edited into the video. This was when we were auditioning a new keyboard player so it’s a pretty low-key performance. I was also just getting over the flu so I didn’t have a lot of energy. To top it
