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A therevox is a recently-invented musical instrument I was first introduced to by my friend Ross Collier. I needed something for a song that would function sort of like a pedal steel but was also definitely not a pedal steel. They’re apparently quite rare and seem hard to play but unparalleled in creating swoopy, floaty textures that sound unplaceable but yet not alien.
Jan 11, 2024
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Auto-Tune gets all the attention, but this other program from Antares is very charming, with the eldritch sounds you can produce by reshaping different points of a digital throat to alter your voice. You can also play the harmonica or any other noisemaker through it. And how can you beat a program that's just called 'Throat'!!
Jan 24, 2024
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it has a wizard on it and it does insane heavy reverby washes and drags. i got it originally to make ambient music with but now i use it to make shoegaze and it rules so much. plus it's at a price point that isn't as insane as youd think for the amount of stuff it can do
Feb 12, 2024
My buddy Ross makes modular synth gear mostly, but every now and then he’ll make a guitar pedal.
This one is a pretty Wide range distortion/sustainer with a weird squelchy noise button, and a knob starve the power and make it simulate a dying 9v battery.
Highly recommend his gear and his weird and hilarious online persona.
Feb 23, 2024
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Knowing I can simply waltz into a dry cleaner’s with alteration services near me and get some pants taken in at the waist emboldens me to make all sorts of questionable thrift purchases. But yet, it pays off every time. I think most people under 40 find it oddly intimidating to just go do this because they’re not sure how much it might cost? Or because it’s weirdly intimate to talk to a stranger about how you want your clothes fit on your body? But verily I tell you–it is usually costs less than $20-30, and anyone doing that job professionally has seen all sorts of weird vanity in action and absolutely doesn’t care.
Jan 11, 2024
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I had a particularly rough Thanksgiving Day this year and processed some of that stress by making a cranberry sauce with actual fresh cranberries, a thing that is incredibly easy to make and my fave holiday food by a significant margin. I was only making it for myself so I used slightly less than half of the sugar called for in whatever recipe I found online (I wanna say it was a variation on the NYT “red wine cranberry sauce” but I only used a tiny bit of wine and no cinnamon?) THEN at the end of the day I just put a bit of it on top of some pistachio ben and jerry’s I had leftover. It is so so good and I’ve made it twice again since then. I would also suggest fucking around with a bit of cardamom or maybe black sesame seeds?
Jan 11, 2024
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I did this with a bunch of lyrics at some point when writing my last record and it was actually super productive and also very fun. I would especially recommend it as an aid in learning or creating something, as a therapy pre-game activity, or of course proving a point/crafting a theory. Anything you wanna wrap your head around can be effectively tackled with a very cheap set of color coded push pins.
Jan 11, 2024