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No More Fret Buzz or a Simple Tool

I had a problem a while back with a buzzing fret. I can be surprising hard to tell which fret is the problem. This simple tool could be helpful. Seems easy enough.

8bit Guitar and Gameboy Nanoloop Beats Pedal Controled or SWEET NINTENDO

Most 8bit loveRs should find this pretty cool. Its a live gameboy jam.

Les Paul or The God Father of Modern Music

Legendary guitarist and musical inventor Les Paul died yesterday at 94. Paul’s contribution to the world it much greater than just a Jazz guitarist with a famous model named after him. He is more than just inventor. He is perhaps the most important figure in the history of 20 century music making. He was the [...]

DIY Cassette Tape Loop or I Remember Those Things

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.

Tape Deck DJ or Coolest thing Ever

Card Board Box Amplifier Kit or Another Use for a Shoe Box

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.

Digital Storage Oscilloscope with Panels or not Bad for $49

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 [...]

Cigar Box or a Nation Built From Sticks and Boxes

Cigar Box Nation is a site dedicated to cigar box guitars. Maybe a more fitting picture would be of a cigar box guitar But i find that amp beautiful. He is an idea of a cigar box guitar featured on the site:

There is something pure about cigar box guitars no matter if they conjures thoughts [...]

DIY Tube Toms or Build Your Own Drums

Roger Arrick has a great guiding to building your own tuned tom’s to add to a drum kit or I am sure they will be fun to bang on there own. It seems like a cool project that shouldn’t be to hard unless you have to cut the tubes yourself which will require careful patience.

Building Custom Effects Pedals Video or More Revison3

I am getting addicted to Revision3. Here is video covering modding guitar pedal kits. You can easily find the whole seris from Christopher Willitis at his site including a video looking at Ableton Live 8.