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Entries Tagged as 'Musical Instruments'

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

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

How to Protect Your Sound Mixer From Dust

March 6th, 2014 · No Comments

I wanted a solution to dust going in my sound mixer plug holes. I could have used a towel or a cover but I wanted something that would not hide the mixer and still give me dust protection. So, I just plugged ear-plugs in the holes. For the RC plugs you can use RC plug […]

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Tags: Electronics · Musical Instruments

HTC Desire HD – Low speaker volume fix

February 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments

I’ve been noticing my new HD been relatively quiet than I remembered. After a while I got to a conclusion that the installed radio app causes speaker and ring volume to drop drastically. Anyway, to fix the problem and get the volume back to normal, RESTART phone, that fixes the problem on android 2.2 phones. […]

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Tags: Musical Instruments · Smart phones

DIY – Build a homemade Guitar Hanger for wall

August 11th, 2010 · No Comments

If you’re the DIY person, here are simple steps to building a guitar hanger yourself. There are lots of ready to use ones, which are good and relatively cheap (I have one in my living room that holds the acoustic guitar), but this time I wanted to make one of my own for my studio. […]

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Tags: Crafts · DIY (do it yourself) · Music · Musical Instruments