This is basically how I would want my hifi to look (and behave) like, all under my 50-year-old motto Less is More, Simple is Better.
The stereo amplifier has the following controls (left to right):
- Headphones output jack.
- Mute button.
- Micro-stepped volume button. Push to power on/off; also switches off all connected peripherals.
- Four source select […]
First, pick up a guitar.
Then you will need a guitar amplifier…
This one - the all new Metasonix G1000 - is apparently all good, all tubes, and all evil. ←NSWF!
For more tubular fun, go to Eric Barbour’s Metasonix site.
Another sweet baby arrived on my doorstep today.
Seven (7) DVD’s to install, twothousandandthree (2003!) manual pages to wade through.
Gimme another five years or so, and I’ll be making music…
Click the image above to check out Apple’s site on Logic Studio.
There’s an interesting discussion going on in the Analog Heaven mailing list [all things analogue synthesis] about which way is best to get your audio signals (mics, instruments, synths) into your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation, like Logic, Cubase, Sonar, etc).
Basically it boils down to two-and-half choices:
- either use a multi-port AD converter (Apogee Ensemble {my […]
I remember seeing The Human League live in some smallish town in Belgium (Mechelen), right before they got erm, rather famous. They couldn’t afford decent equipment, clean clothes or fancy make-up, but I thought they were just wonderful. Cocky, disdained, out-of-tune and fiercely arrogant, but bloody good, they were… That really captivated me, that gig. […]
…of things to come.
And then there’s this Blofeld.
For such a small machine, it sounds amazing though.
And it’s not even that expensive, so I put it on my X-Mas wishlist, in case any of you nice people wants to make friends with me.
Well, fuck that.
Another hero gone.
Fond memories about a trip to Berlin with my best friend and another fella to Berlin, late seventies, early eighties perhaps… We just wanted to buy avant-garde records which weren’t available in Belgium at that time.
At least one Stockhausen record was one of the goals. And we succeeded. Gloriously.
Damn. Sad to see […]
(Photo by Kevin Scanlon)
A really nice 8-pager on Mark Mothersbaugh[Devo], Mutato, Raymond Scott’s Electronium and other related tidbits in LA Weekly. A must-read (*).
(*) Well, if you like that kind of things. If not, may I suggest reading up on parthenogenesis instead ?