Just got this parlor-size guitar (smaller body and shorter scale than usual), and already liking it 🙂 The sound isn’t big but still very pleasant, great for practicing at home. I’ll be installing a Gretch Deltoluxe magnetic pickup in it soon!
New Hosting
Moved this blog to another hosting – from OVH “Webhosting” VPS to Amazon LightSail with a Bitnami WordPress image. The reason is too many outages on OVH (I have Jetpack availability monitoring enabled and it sends me alerts way too often for my taste). Let’s see how this one works…
Hardware
Universal Radio Tester
This simple device is a basic signal generator that can be used to debug audio and AM radio frequency circuits. It produces a (roughly) 1 kHz periodic wave output that has enough harmonic frequency content to go into high MHz range – this will make the signal audible even when…
Audio
3. Dead Kings bass effects pedal – EQ
This is the 3rd post in the Dead Kings preamp series. Now to design the EQ module! My initial idea was to create a circuit inspired from the classic tube bass amplifiers, like Ampeg Portaflex or SVT. I did some research and got somewhat carried away, so the circuit I…
Audio
2. Dead Kings bass effects pedal – clean boost
Continuing the Dead Kings preamp series The tests in real hardware have shown very close characteristics to what LTSpice have simulated, this means the models of the transistors I’ve been using are pretty accurate, that’s good news! i’ll be testing some slight modifications – reducing maximum gain and maximizing undistorted…
Audio
1. Dead Kings bass effects pedal – buffer, boost
I’m starting this new project on Github, heavily inspided by my recent discovery of the band Royal Blood https://www.royalbloodband.com/ This is the first post in the Dead Kings preamp series. This preamp / effects pedal isn’t supposed to emulate the sound of Mike Kerr, I’ve just got some ideas I…
I’m back
Well, the pandemic wasn’t easy on me but I survived. Hopefully this blog thing will continue – I’m working on several projects in parallel right now, audio electronics, vintage computers and some weird software. Will start by documenting what I’ve done during my 2020/21 “absence”, this will fill some void…
Blog Reveal
OK, this thing seems to work. As a software engineer, I am too tempted to write a blog software to write my own blog in. “Drink your own champagne” so to speak. Using the newest and the bestest framework, augmenting my CV (hey – this is important!) and having fun…