Here are some recent projects I’ve been working on. After receiving a Big Muff guitar pedal from my cousin Jamie (from The Press Delete), I started thinking more about building up a pedalboard again for my guitar playing. I’ve been quite happy with the Line 6 PodXT Live, but there’s something special about guitar pedals: [...]
Archive for the ‘gear’ Category
recent DIY/repair projects: guitar pedals, Bliptronic 5000
34/52: DIY bottleneck slides
This week’s project was a fun one. I’ve been playing lap-slide guitar for a long time. After college, I put it down for a while, and then picked it back up again 10 years ago or so when I was strictly making electronic music, as a way to make some music that was much more [...]
32/52: new studio setup, new music
This week, I spent some time moving my music studio into a new space in our house. I know it seems like I just reorganized my studio, but this time it was different – my family has a renter coming to stay with us for a few months, so I’ve temporarily relocated. Along with moving [...]
30/52: DIY servo-powered pan/tilt camera mount
This project is one that has been in my “to do” list for well over a year: a servo-powered pan/tilt camera mount! My intention in making this is to have something that I can use for several purposes. First, it seems like it would work great on my DIY Camera Crane (although I haven’t tried [...]
26/52: studio cleanup, and some reflections
52 things is now at its official halfway point. Not coincidentally, here’s what my studio looked like at the beginning of this week: After 26 weeks of weekly projects, my creative space has been in pretty active use! For reference, take a look at what it looked like after a similar cleanup in May 2009. [...]
24/52: Church Music Rig
This week’s post is a look inside my music rig for my church. I spent some time this week getting things set up the way I want in order to expand my musical capabilities, so I thought I’d document and share it here for this week’s project. Here’s the overall rig, once it’s assembled: My [...]
19/52: Gibson SG Junior photos
This week’s post is late, for several reasons. I did the majority of the work on Wednesday night, shooting photos for this week’s project, but fell asleep while trying to edit them on Thursday and Friday nights. After finishing up the edits Saturday morning, our house’s power went out due to a storm! However, this [...]
17/52: DIY Vivitar to 2.5mm Sync Cable for CTR-301p
This week’s post is both late (I usually post on Friday) and less complete than I’d hoped. However, here it is: a DIY Vivitar to 2.5mm sync cable for the CTR-301p flash triggers. I bought a new set of flash triggers several months ago, the Yongnuo CTR-301p. They are a cheap set of triggers, and [...]
16/52: DIY Camera Jib/Crane
I was recently inspired by several things: Chase Jarvis’s “Cameras at Risk” blog entry, and a cheap DIY camera jib/crane at colvins.ca. This week’s project was building my own DIY camera jib/crane for getting interesting shots when shooting video. I basically followed the same idea as the colvins.ca version mentioned above. This is very much [...]
11/52: DIY USB foot controller, part 1
For this week’s project, I decided to turn an old wireless USB number pad into a foot controller for Ableton Live. Here’s what I started with: I was partially inspired to take on this project after seeing this thread on Create Digital Music last year: Sexy DIY Footswitch for Music, Using the Brain of a [...]