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Klangschmiede Wildhaus, Toggenburg

Toggenburg in Switzerland has a long history of dealing in sound. Host to many concert events and smaller-scale highly refined choral and orchestral compositions, and of course Swiss traditional music with Yodling and Accordeon and One-String Bass.
Best enjoyed with a nice Cheese Fondue or a Bratwurst with Onion Sauce and Fries at the Sternen, a visit to the Klangschmiede in Wildhaus is a journey through the creation of sound, from the water-powered bell foundry to the cymatics and various instruments upstairs.

Wilde Möhre Diddley Bow Workshop

Living Note Studio's Electronics Wing was proud to be the co-host of the Wilde Möhre Diddley Bow workshop. Nothing that is in any way tremendously spectacular until you hear Caffeinated Rock N' Roll and the like, the Diddley Bow is a one string guitar that makes use of all 6 pickup coil magnets to make a - if you build it right - not to be underestimated Electric One-String Guitar.

Paulo Costa - Berimbau

Paulo Costa made a demo recording for his song "Berimbau" at Living Note Studio the other day... still haven't gotten around to install the drums and run it through the master process bus - but it certainly makes a good video!

Lukas' Fave Dreamstate Logic Mix

Or one of them, at least :-) This one has a good stock of continuous floaty-spacey, it's got everything from Dimension Zero to Edge Of Eternity.
Certainly the kind of thing you'd find at the Chill-Out at Ozora, coming in alongside a bunch of others like Carbon Based Lifeforms, Tripswitch and Koan.

Bashar's take on Passion and Following the Flow

Here's the one Bashar video that lets you know the core stuff. Sums up basically everything that was explained in all the other workshops. For those who don't know him, Bashar is a multidimensional channeled ET entity from a civilization called the Sassani. They hail from what we would understand to be several light years away in the direction of the Orion constellation, and about 300 years into our future.

The Herman Munsters' Particularly Bizarre 1964 Album

Now here's a cool way to get that Halloween spirit - celebrate with the Munsters! The proto-Addams Family that gave birth to a whole genre apparently also got their scratchy claws on vinyl, and what came out there you can read all about over on Mental Floss.

The Day I had Coffee with MacGyver

Really cool article about the day one bright-eyed fan had coffee with MacGyver.

In there among "favorite shows" of the 80s and 90s were MacGyver, Mission:Impossible before they made Jim do a 180° in the first feature film for which no amount of Tom Cruise will ever make up - and BUGS!

Dweezil Zappa Unveils Hikari Studio

As you can probably imagine Frank Zappa's kid, after Moon Unit went to the movies, Dweezil, who among other things designed an amplifier with RPM and MPH for "Gain" and "Volume", he hasn't done too bad on the Fuck You I'm a go Vintage side of things as well.

Apparently, he has gone the way of the Deadmau5, too - with a complete Dolby Atmos monitoring system.

MIT 6.002 - Circuits / Systems

The Legend, in horrible 240p from DV, Anant Agarwal will teach you electronics basics without fail.

If you can't get it from him, chances are you won't get it from anyone else - his explanations are to the point and lacking any esoterics, and the best part is, this is probably -don't tell anyone- the most hilarious class you'll see in a long time, whether you're at MIT or not.

MeterMan LM3915/6

This was an experiment to get the LM3915 and 3916 to cascade and do Dot and Bar mode in Multiplex.

Starting with an Astable Multivibrator, Logic Circuits are used to generate square waves that modulate the Dot and Bargraph drivers between the respective modes and multiplex their inputs between Peak and Average.

A tad highly elaborate, too much for most applications, they are fun to build and have that certain "slip" that only analog meters do.

How to NOT Mill a PCB

Great Scott! In this video, the YouTube content creator of the same name goes on to tackle the subject of PCB milling. Most of the industry is based, for good reasons, around photochemical processes, but for prototypes or PCBs that require special isolation, milling has its place.

And considering there's enough to screw up when milling something 35µM thick, it's good when you have some info before you fire up the CNC.

10 Hidden Fatures in RX Pro

Ah! Egad... RX is a great tool for restoration anyway, and anything that in-depths it helps.

Tape Machine

At-Length description of Tape Machines and their use in the modern digitally-based studio. What to expect and to get out of it in the framework, and possibly also what not to use it for.

How to Actually Use Saturation

Saturation. "This is not thick enough", or as Sauciers call it, the Beurre Maniée or Maizena Express of the studio. Various different devices have been made to create, and simulate, saturation, their basic foundations being in tube, tape and transformer saturation and then various discrete and not-so-discrete transistorized saturation circuits.

Voltage Processor!

Relax and have ye draft while Ralph Baumgartl flips you one on what a voltage processor is, what it does and how it incorporates into larger modular synthesizers.

This was a guitar that was the product of the first Lockdown, summer and a balcony. Being ultra-neurotic about building a guitar for the first time, there's a lot of cool design features that ended up being overengineered from the get-go, which is always a good idea in things that are supposed to last. At this stage, I would keep all the original "this had better work" design freakouts and incorporate them into any electric guitar design you start.

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