Podcast of Earthkiller

Earthkiller the podcast.

The things I just deal with this week.

Podbeans. This link won't work for you.
Weather.
Hootsuite.

Wix. This link won't work for you either.
Samplitude English language users group.
Music and the Moving Image Journal.

This Crocodile Speaks to Me

Girl in Space podcast.

How to clean rosewood fretboards.

PVC bass flute.

Wiggle

Cantabile is a VST host for live performance.

Olympic Musical Instruments makes hurdy gurdys.

Terry Britton on MIDI controlling Samplitude.

The traditional sequence of symbols is *, †, ‡, §, ‖, and ¶

Okay. Do it again.

Sustaniac.
Rich's recommended strings for Stratocasters.

Inspiration 

Stew Mac on cutting inlays.
Squire Classic Vibe Telecaster with Alnico III's is $400.

The Banana Bass

The Art of Story YouTube classes.
Mike Verta Master Classes.
David Denyer Music.
Footnotes -- outside punctuation.
Thomastik Infeld guitar strings.
If you are insane you can try to find the measurements for fanned frets with this online fretfind tool.

specs

I do so love these kinds of body shapes.

Thoughts: 9-string guitar. Fanned frets. Scale lengths... I dunno. 33 1/4 inches to 24.75" maybe?
Top six are tuned like a guitar: E-A-D-G-B-E. Bottom three are like a 5-string bass: B-E-A.

Specs for 4001 Rickenbacker


Body Type Solid
No. Frets 20
Scale Length 84.5 cm (33 1/4'')
[b]Neck Width at Nut 41.3 mm (1 5/8'')
Neck Width at 12th Fret 52.4 mm (2 1/16'')[/b]
Crown Radius 25.4 cm (10'')
Body Wood Maple
Neck Wood Maple
Fingerboard Wood Rosewood
Weight 4.5 kg (10.0 lbs.)
Overall Length 114.5 cm (45 1/16'')

Overall Width 33.7 cm (13 1/4'')
Overall Depth 31.8 mm (1 1/4'')
Neck Binding No
Fret Marker Style Dot




Martin acoustics:

Standard Series 1 11/16", Low Profile since the early 90's, 2012 and later D-18 is an exception

Vintage Series 1 11/16", Mod V shape always, HD-28LSV was an exception at 1 3/4"

GE/Marquis Series 1 3/4", Mod V shape always, no exceptions that I can recall right now

Authentic Series 1 7/8", 1 3/4", or 1 11/16" depending on which year the guitar is based, mostly larger profiles with subtle or no V-shape


Also remember that bridge spacing typically changes along with the nut size. Normal pairings are 1 11/16" with 2 1/8", 1 3/4" with 2 5/16", and 1 7/8" with 2 3/8". There are some exceptions.

Most seven- and eight-string guitars also have a larger, flatter radius than a standard six-string guitar. While a vintage Tele’s 7.25-inch radius may seem perfectly fine (especially if you just play open cowboy chords on the lower frets), on a wider seven- or eight-string neck it will seem absurdly rounded. On a wider neck, even a 12-inch radius will have noticeable curvature.

Fret position calculator.

Shoenberg meets Thalberg.

Sprechtsimme.

Superscripts go outside of punctuation.

Choose your two scales (get the fret placement from a fret calculator like the one at http://www.stewmac.com/FretCalculator, or you can calculate it yourself too.), and decide which fret will be your perpendicular fret. I like fret seven most of the time but it depends on the scales you use.

Then lay out your frets from your perpendicular fret, but be sure to lay them out along the string center lines for the high and low E (not the edges of the fingerboard). Remember to factor in your bridge offset too when placing it and you are done. Then it’s a matter of very patiently and accurately sawing each fret by hand.

More on Shoenberg meets Thalberg.

Neo-Reimannian theory is more complicated than I'd hoped.

Really clearing my browser this time.

Monoprice M160 headphones are amusing. I don't know if they're worthwhile. Some mods exist. 

New Birdline skins for Samplitude.

Green wood dye is more expensive than I'd wanted.

The Folia is a European musical theme.

I want to build my own Strat. But I keep wanting guitars which have tuners on both sides. And maybe I keep wanting them to be LP scale length. Honestly, it's probably time for me to just make an instrument with my own neck for real for once.

One of my Blue Sky drivers isn't working. It could be the crossover I suppose. But I think it's the driver.

There are still ways to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. And I have two computers I have to do that on.

Fixaudio is really interesting. I do want to check out how it works. You upload audio to the site and it betterizes it.

The Open Music Library.

More MIDI, less Joy

Mad Katz Street Fighter joystick. It's not really what I want, but I do just want a ball on the end of a stick as an X/Y controller. Replacements sticks do exist for it.

Fergo Joystick MIDI seems like a practicable software solution to getting X/Y data into a DAW.

Some people have used game pads.

Musikalisches Würfelspiel -- even Mozart wrote music by chance.

Details for DIY joystick implementation. 

GIZMO is an open-source MIDI device thingy.

PACMOD MIDI DJ Controller is pretty much the thing, but it's entirely DIY Arduino. 

ControllerMate is Mac OS only. 

MultiControl is... something.

MIDI Joy

I kind of fantasize about a joystick controller for controlling panoramas in surround. It's not quite as easy as one would think.

The MJoy is a joystick-to-MIDI application. It's in alpha, and is designed for DJ's. But it does seem interesting.

Touchpad-2-MIDI is a VST plugin to give X/Y control over stuff with your touchpad.

Recording New Classical Music

Recording Nikolai Kachanov Singers. Kind of brilliant piece by Podgaits.

Chorus, cello, and flute. I was gonna do a tree with Schoeps on left and right and an AEA ribbon 84 in the center. Then I was gonna put a Blue ribbon on the cello and an Oktava 012 on the flute.

The Blue, although an active ribbon, picked up a world of electro-magnetic nonsense and was very buzzy. I think that's from the lights inducting some sort of blerg into the signal. So I swapped it out with a Rode NT-1A.

The room the performers were in is small. Nikolai pushed for the bloom position -- which was technically in the next room over. About 10 feet apart and looking through the sort of portico into the room with the singers.

But the AEA started picking up EMI. And that far away, it wasn't doing that much anyway (meaning: it was doing nothing.) And the whole tree wasn't doing a "tree" thing. So I took it off.

The floors at the museum are mightily creaky. And the actual "performance" version had the flautist walking from the upstairs down to our level (which involved a videographer clearing out of her way.)

So I put some de-crackling on the main left and right microphone tracks. And, as always, pulled out a bit of 500-ish Hz (I think it was in the 460's somewhere frequency-wise.) I also put some dynamic EQ on the thing in life which bothers me so much -- the grinding sound of 2.6kHz coming off of parallel walls.*

* Whether this sound is just in my head or actually exists may be open to debate, but it's nice to get rid of it.

Wireless Antlion microphone.

Squigglewhumpity

The Lisp plugin is a free VST de-esser. So far I like it muchwise.

I've never seen any evidence this thing was ever actually manufactured. This may have been a teaser ad to see if they could get enough interest or orders in order to produce them.

Experimenting with the trigger gate plugin.
Paulxstretch is a time-stretching application for sound design.

Windows 10 download tool. Apparently it's still free for Windows 7 and 8 owners.

Coggle -- for making mind maps.

Cross-cultural emotional recognition.