This is hard than it looks. I used to mess around with tape recirders and cassette alot when I was a kid and there is fun to be had. Get sometips with this niffty instructable.
Retro Thing is a great blog. I found this nice little piece on the Silvertone guitars that once came right out the Sears catalog. A cool piece of vintage kit that had a humble start as a not so cool basic consumer axe. Many artist got their start with a Silvertone guitar. And not mentioned is Jack White who use that rare silver tone amps. There are some good links to other Silvertone links at the end of the Retro Thing article if you wish to learn more. The Silvertone amps sound great and the guitars look wonderful.
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Critter and Guitar sell this little kit to make any box into an amp. It is $30 which is more that the say a Cracker box Amp that you can piece together for next to nothing but kit are easy.
Some how I don’t find this cheesy.
From Dean.
This is a cool little scope for DIY’ers form Seed Studio. It may not be mad scientist grade but for under fifty buck it is pretty cool. It has been sold out for a while but hopefully there will be more. There is a lot of other Arduino and Monome related stuff on the site also.
Audio Jungle complied a nice list of 29 Linux Music making Apps. The better known ones like Ardour, Audacity, and Rosegarden. Many other are included also that look worth a try. Glancing over the list most of Open Source or at least free with at least one exception the commerial trakcer Renoise.
Dark Night of the Soul is a collaboration with some two the most interesting and strange music maker of today. Then throw in visuals from surrealist indie film maker David Lynch and the fact you can but the album in the old school physical copy way sans the music and you have quite a fascination. The music album is great and I can imagine adding the book of photos from Lynch that act as a visual accompaniment create quite an effect. The package only comes included with a blank CD-R due to legal issues with Danger Mouse and EMI. More copyright hell in this modern world.
You can however hear the whole wonderful album at NPR and read the article about it. It is worth a listen. It includes guest spots by James Mercer of The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch, and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Gerbils. And if you think NPR is just a lot of talk you are sadly mistaken. All Songs Considered is one of the best sources for great music you may not hear elsewhere just like Dark Night of the Soul. Even the during the news programs you’ll hear the best damn bumper music ever.
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain -’Teenage Kicks’
My last post was of cigar box guitars so why not ukuleles now. I am a sucker for ukulele and mandolin cover songs that don’t seem to fit them the instruments until you here them. Like John Peel’s all time favorite Teenage Kicks. The are more videos of the The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain on YouTube. Like:
The Kaiser Chiefs with The Ukulele Orchestra - Ruby
You also may want to check out their website.
