hard, hard candy

I made a thing! It’s called a focus knob. It’s quite simple and normally you’d built it into an electric guitar as a guitar mod, but since I don’t have an electric guitar, I built it as a pluggable external box.

Basically a mild high-pass filter that serves to pull out ‘boominess’ from instruments, it puts a bit more of an edge on an instrument’s sound – the more you turn it up, the greater the change. As effects go – on my zouk, anyway – it’s pretty subtle. But it’s also the kind of shift that is multiplied by later effects added in, and changes how later-in-chain boxes like distortion pedals work.

As you can see from the instructions here, the wiring takes all of about 20 minutes’ time. But it’s good warmup for making a bunch of component upgrades to my Oktava 012s, and I already had all the parts from the Great Radio Shack Lootfest of 2014. Plus, hey, cool hard candy tin!

So I have a a HARD CANDY knob now. It goes from Hard to Candy. Yum. 😀

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finally reading marx's capital

Finally reading Marx's Capital in order (instead of various excerpted sections, which is what I'd read until now), and I'm only 64 pages in but so far I'm mostly thinking, 'jfc this guy takes a long time to say the same damn thing over and over again.'

John Galt's terrible speech brick in Atlas Shrugged, though, makes a little more sense if you think of it as a failed parody of Capital's chapter 1.

Oh good, Jack Chick is dead.

Jack Chick is dead. One would've hoped he'd have been sacrificed to the Pope by a group of lesbian witches using rituals learned from Dungeons and Dragons, but no, he died asleep in his bed at home. One can't have everything, I suppose.