Grundermerous

Stepcraft Q.404

This might be a very cool CNC router. Did I remind you that we have to move the Hoboken MakerBar? We do.

Motionleap is a pretty cool app for making some motion graphics out of stills and suchwise. 

Tayda is where a lot of DIY pedal builders like to buy stuff from.

MBR color-corrector is very cool. I haven't actually gotten it to work yet. But it's cool. 

Did you know Farfisa made amplifiers? Ethan told me.

I'm trying to understand what postmodernism is. The McMansion site has the best explanation so far. 

https://38jacksonfire.com/ is the site for the tenants of the building the MakerBar is/was in. 

Gif Gaffe

 Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness

We need to shoot a movie here. You have no idea how much I want to do this. 

Wanna see every .gif on my desktop? You do not. But here they all are. 

Now I can delete all of them. Except maybe the squirrel from Green Wing because that whole squirrel bit is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. 

It's your own fault you know

This was one I actually made.

 

So many tabs, so little time

And also

ProCo Rat stuff.

Notes on components for pedals.

I finally got this to work. It's the circuit of an EHX Linear Power Booster. 

It's anything but linear with that 5088 chip in it. But fun.

Pedal building?

 Because I am not particularly smart, here are some of my notes.

Blep.

"Vcc is your +9V power supply

Vref is a voltage reference, R2 and R3 from a voltage divider so that output is roughly at 4.5 volts. This is used in pedals where you have opamps and other components that need to be biased to a voltage above 0V so AC signal can pass through."

(From Seljer.)

That's a thing I need to keep in mind.

A big ol list of stompbox schematics. 

Linear Power Boosters from http://www.montagar.com/~patj/gindex.htm

I'm way too dumb to use opamps. I'm still too dumb to understand transistors. 

Tadek the compressor. 

Note Performer is a sample library specifically for music scoring apps. It can be used with Dorico. But what can also be used with Dorico is the Spitfire BBC library, which I already have. 

Glimpbotrach

The Klon does some interesting things power-wise. 

Making movies about Nazis means I have to look at a lot of Nazi art.

A good comparison of caps and such. This is the takeaway:

And a breadboarding of an EHX LPB. I made one with a PN2222 NPN which isn't what you're supposed to build one with. 

Various

Compressor builds.

The Really Cheap Compressor uses a couple LED's and an LDR. 

Hoboken Library gets a new director.

Passive EQ design.

Beavis Audio Research makes pedals and has a lot of groovy pedal designs.

The DIY Layout Creator. Actually, I'm not entirely sure what that's about. 

Most popular IC's for pedals. 

Wingspan is a game. 

IN: marshall bluesbreaker without diodes
IN parallel: bright and clean boost : compressor

OpAmps for guitar pedals.

An optical compressor circuit in pdf. The vactrols stopped production and then someone started making knockoffs. 

Market share (not factual just a theoretical) from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuTMJoweL7Y

40% Sweetwater
30% Guitar Center/Musicians Friend
30% Sam Ash, CME, Mom&Pops

Ambisblorp Patruvium

 So the deal is that what I'm thinking is that what I'm thinking is.

A transformer input. Matsumin tube preamp. (Maybe the "clean" part of a germanium fuzz?) Optical compressor. PEQ with boost and attenuate. Maybe a middle EQ. Then a kind of clean-ish makeup like, well, actually like a Marshall/KOT overdrive? 

Millennium Crisis never actually had a theatrical run. 

I have to do a lot of editing before the tenth. And composing. And commentary on composing. 

Things Were Different Back Then... Right?

Ride Captain Ride chords and words

A $2000 geared head. 

Retrofit guitar luthiers.

Livespice for pedal design.

Give Me Away. A podcast writ by the brilliant Mac Rogers.

Berlin, 1945

Annalisa Loeffler is The Drowned Girl

 

Rumpf building

Did my first at-home Covid test. Came back negatory. Gotta do 'nuther tomorry.

Pig lassitude (that link goes nowhere.)

Meteor is a rumpf builder.

Heavyocity Evolve is another rumpf builder. 

Rise & Hit is a Kontakt instrument. And is also a rumpf builder.

This stuff

 I really like King Tone's knobs. Take that any way you like.

I'm supposed to call Unemployment back on the 28th. Of December. 

Mimmotronics.

The Graphics Fairy.

I forget what this links to.

LiveSPICE.

The Orion Geared Head might be better than my cheaper Orion geared head.

Lovepedal.

Mercury Production Report. I forgot this was a thing.

Harmonic tremolo kit.

http://www.archive81.com/ -- a sci-fi podcast.

Words and chords to White Flag.

Valvecaster. I basically want a valvecaster to an optical compressor to a solid-state passive EQ. Actually, I guess the Valvecaster can go at the beginning or end of this thing. 

Some images

 I'm shooting a movie called "The Drowned Girl." 

Geneology

My cousin Daniel A. Bellware on Bellwares.

...our common ancestor [is] Louis Hébert, the first farmer, pharmacist and settler in Canada and his link to the holiday...

After Louis Hébert died, his widow, Marie Rollet married Guillaume Hubou in 1629. On the advice of Samuel de Champlain, she remained in Quebec with her children and new husband during Quebec’s occupation by the English. They were among the twenty French colonists to stay. After the French regained control of Quebec in 1632, she took in Native American (First Nations) girls being taught by the Jesuits. One of them was an Algonquin girl, baptized as Marie Olivier Sylvestre. It was around this time that Champlain told a group of First Nations leaders “Our sons will marry your daughters and we will become one people.” It came to pass in November 1644 with the first recorded marriage in the church of a First Nations woman, Marie Olivier Sylvestre and a French settler, Martin Prevost. They were the great-great-great-grandparents of Sophie Giroux, the mother of Francois Xavier Belouin and grandmother of John Henry and Louis Napoleon Bellware.

[We are related to Louis Hébert directly via another ancestor.]