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I recently plugged in this Mythical Overdrive, one of my favorite pedals, and heard nothing but a sharp hiss. These Mythical Overdrives are all made by hand and built by their creator, he currently doesnāt offer a repair service. From what I understand these Klon style circuits are pretty simple but I opened the pedal and found an impressive array of transistors, resistors, and parts I canāt begin to understand. I want to become competent enough to repair these kinds of circuits that I rely on so heavily so Iām beginning a soldering and pedal repair journey. Beyond music, I think itās important to understand the tools you use well enough to repair them. Iāll document it here, cheers PI.
Mar 11, 2025
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i like looking at guitar pedals more than i like actually spending $300 on them
Apr 3, 2025
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The joy! of discovery! Often you can get something sounding good pretty easily, and then you can make it sound bad, and then you can figure out how to make that sound good, and then you're cooking with gas.
I had a lot of fun making the linked video.
Jan 26, 2024
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Building them is so much fun, and you have an incredible sounding handwired amp when you're done.
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Really adds texture and personality, iāve been inspired a lot by twee and mod culture recently and i find these posters really fun and exciting.
Apr 8, 2025
Alright hereās a quick look at hand processing 16mm motion picture film. The stock I shot for this film is called Kodak 3378, itās a high contrast black and white reversal film stock, which basically means it doesnāt develop as a negative but as the actual viewable image. The process of āhand developmentā is an interesting one. First 100 ft of film are loaded into a light proof tank. The chemical process I used is called E6 and it consists of a few steps that can be performed at room temperature: first developer, second developer, rinse, bleach, fixer, photoflow. Exposing the film to these chemicals four particular times results in the final image. This step is the rinse, the 3378 stock is the slightly purple film.
Hand processing creates strange patterns and aberrations, disturbances created by a process that is inherently imperfect. It allows the artist to play with the parameters of 16mm image making but maybe more importantly, its results are a direct effect of the artistās hand on their work. This is why we shoot film in a digital world: itās something we can physically affect as true human beings.
Mar 19, 2025
Composing a short film about childhood at the moment and Iāve been leaning heavily on this Casio PT-1 keyboard I picked up at a flea market in Barcelona. They were manufactured starting in 1985 as a simpler alternative to Casioās LV-1, hailed to be the first commercially available synth. Anyway love this sound itās so tactile without feeling too boxy, Iāve really enjoyed playing it through my Tascam 414 as a preamp.
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