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Music Thing Modular 4 Jun 2012 | 05:56 am
I'm now documenting a few DIY modular synth projects over at musicthing.co.uk/modular/ including this random sequencer, inspired by vintage and modern random sequencers like the Triadex Muse, Don Buch...
Music Kits #1: DIY guitar effect pedal kits 1 Dec 2010 | 07:18 am
Over the last couple of years, I’ve spent a few evenings building DIY guitar effects. It's fun to build things that you can use. If you want to get started, one of the hardest things is buying compone...
Slight return 1 Dec 2010 | 07:17 am
A few posts on Music Thing should appear over the next week or two, dumps of research and notes that I thought it would be fun to share. Normal service will not, I'm afraid, be resumed... BONUS: Get ...
The end of Music Thing, for now. 7 Jan 2009 | 06:05 pm
Four years ago, I had a job editing laddish lifestyle magazines funded by the National Health Service. It was a great job, great people, and not very time-consuming. So, at work and at home I started ...
Ten awesome homemade guitars 16 Dec 2008 | 05:18 pm
J chot writes: HEY GUESS WHAT!!! I spent the entire day at work searching the words "made guitar" and "built guitar"! Here are the most interesting ones I found: Dude built a guitar from legshield o...
25 Awesome things I've failed to post on Music Thing over the last couple of months 8 Dec 2008 | 03:59 am
My new favourite Wikipedia page is Unusual types of gramophone records. (Thanks, Steve) Bleep Labs BitBlob is the only thing to buy this Christmas. A patchable synth encased in a pyrex glass jar comp...
Banned: The Dettol ad encouraging mums to spray disinfectant into pianos 18 Nov 2008 | 06:11 pm
If you're a MT reader who has watched UK television in the last week, you've probably already been traumatised by a certain disinfectant advertisement: "The advertisement depicted two children seated ...
Tom Bugs teaches DIY synth building in four hours 10 Nov 2008 | 06:16 pm
Had a great time yesterday at a synth building workshop in East London hosted by Tom Bugs. We built little one board synths with ten knobs, three oscillators, overdrive, line out, onboard speakers, to...
Review: Arturia Origin. It's big, it's expensive, it's sexy. Why don't I want one? 4 Nov 2008 | 06:26 am
This is a difficult review to write. The point of Music Thing over the last few years has been to celebrate hardware when all around were defecting to the sensible, practical world of software synths ...
Johnny Marr in "The Story of the Guitar" 28 Oct 2008 | 07:41 pm
Alan Yentob's 3 hour series The Story of The Guitar has been simultaneously fascinating and irritating. Fascinating because there are plenty of great stories and interviews along the way, and irritati...
