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What have you been listening to on Spotify?

August 9th, 2025 · No Comments

Stats for Spotify is a free site that shows you detailed insights into your Spotify listening habits, including your most played bands, songs, and genres over different time periods (last 4 weeks, 6 months, or all time). It uses Spotify’s official login system, so your password stays secure and private. Once you log in, it […]

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Guitar Pedal Board: A Dive into My Setup

July 14th, 2025 · No Comments

In this post I’ll introduce my guitar pedal board setup. It is basically unchanged for years. I mostly play a Fender Stratocaster 1986 (Made in Japan) which connects to a BOSS Compression Sustainer CS-3 which does colors the sound a bit, makes it a bit Twangy/round, but not so much to further modulate it. It […]

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Tags: Music · Musical Instruments

Progressive Rock Genre Influence Map

July 1st, 2025 · No Comments

Here is a Progressive rock genre influence map that I drawn, it is based on my personal taste, no new bands, but mostly 70s. There were some bands that I was very sure about, especially the ones that are close to the corners, like Soft Machine which is clearly more jazzy, Gong which are psychedelic, […]

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Tags: Music · Progressive Rock

Famous Songs That Were Almost Abandoned

June 25th, 2025 · No Comments

Some of the most famous rock tracks, were a step away from seating in the drawer forever. I’m not in love 10cc‘s iconic song “I’m not in love”, started as a bossa nova-style song, with a traditional rhythm section, but the band felt something is missing, and the group decided to scrap it. Days later, […]

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Taming The Volume Beast: Using Attenuation With The Hot Rod Deluxe (volume fix)

June 23rd, 2025 · No Comments

The Fender Hotrod Deluxe is a fine tube amplifier, but is very loud for home use with a volume potentiometer that is either very low or very high, in the 1-3 range, here is a nice and easy way to tame the beast and lower its volume so you can play at home. The fix […]

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Tags: Electronics · Music · Musical Instruments