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I recently plugged in this Mythical Overdrive, one of my favorite pedals, and heard nothing but a sharp hiss. These Mythical Overdrives are all made by hand and built by their creator, he currently doesnāt offer a repair service. From what I understand these Klon style circuits are pretty simple but I opened the pedal and found an impressive array of transistors, resistors, and parts I canāt begin to understand. I want to become competent enough to repair these kinds of circuits that I rely on so heavily so Iām beginning a soldering and pedal repair journey. Beyond music, I think itās important to understand the tools you use well enough to repair them. Iāll document it here, cheers PI.
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The joy! of discovery! Often you can get something sounding good pretty easily, and then you can make it sound bad, and then you can figure out how to make that sound good, and then you're cooking with gas.
I had a lot of fun making the linked video.
Jan 26, 2024
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Building them is so much fun, and you have an incredible sounding handwired amp when you're done.
Sep 10, 2024
Who needs to pay actual money for a real board when you can just make a worse one yourself?!
After years of being laughed at for caring a tote full of loose pedals to gigs, I finally decided to just make one using a Ouija board, some heavy duty velcro and lots of electrical tape. Now I can be laughed at for this instead!
Feb 16, 2024
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I thought Iād delve a little into the behind the scenes of a personal film Iām working on. Iāve been a type one diabetic for about fifteen years and have become recently obsessed with creating a film about the American medical system. I aim to capture the feeling that the medication that provides you with the ability to exist may one day be taken away, or not covered, or not delivered in time. I deal with the insulin saga every month, and while it may be an extreme example, I think many Americans live in similar situations.
Thatās the context. What I really want to delve into is the process of creating 16mm imagery, from shooting to developing, to editing. This is what our rig looked like when I decided to shoot a few months worth of the disposable needles I use to inject. I wanted to create an in camera āsplit screenā effect. To do that, I covered three quarters of the image plain and shot through my film. Then, Iād rewind and adjust my matte to expose one of the remaining quarters, doing so until I had a complete image. Iāll go a little more into the film stock when I talk about hand development :)
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Jul 17, 2024
Composing a short film about childhood at the moment and Iāve been leaning heavily on this Casio PT-1 keyboard I picked up at a flea market in Barcelona. They were manufactured starting in 1985 as a simpler alternative to Casioās LV-1, hailed to be the first commercially available synth. Anyway love this sound itās so tactile without feeling too boxy, Iāve really enjoyed playing it through my Tascam 414 as a preamp.
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