2019-11-09
I went to see the Grateful Dead in college and was hooked. In 1991 I helped start at Grateful Dead cover band in Lexington, KY called Born Cross Eyed. For years we just played the songs without paying much attention to the gear the real band used. Somewhere around 2011, I met Dino English of the national GD tribute band, Dark Star Orchestra. He began playing with Born Cross Eyed whenever he was off the road from Dark Star Orchestra. Dark Star Orchestra had made quite a name for themselves by copying setlists and by using the same gear as the Dead. This gave them an authentic feel that other GD tribute bands didn't have. Dino began to educate me as to what some of the details to Jerry Garica's tone were.
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2019-12-19
I've built another Jerry Garcia styled guitar. This time I've made some modern adaptations. The standard pieces of the JG puzzle are Dimarzio Super 2 pickups switched to the middle position with a coil cut so it's in single coil mode. A unity gain buffer to change the standard high impedance signal to low impedance. This allows the extra cabling for the third piece which is an FX insert in the guitar. The signal would flow from pickups, to buffer out a 1/4 TRS jack to the FX, then return to the TRS, to the volume and tone pots and then out another 1/4" TS connector to the amp. By having the TRS insert cable, you've effectively placed the FX loop inside the guitar between the buffer and the volume knob. This is a great feature for several reasons.
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2019-11-08
I’m running a program called Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi to automate my home. This serves as a centralized backbone running MQTT.
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2019-11-02
I bought a Carvin AE185 years ago. After decades of not playing it, I decided I wanted to do some work on it to get it going again. It was a gift from my father and once he passed away, I guess I got sentimental about it.
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