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. 

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. 

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.

DIY Headphone Amp Again or I Miss TechTV

This is great video on building the Chu Moy headphone amp. It is super cool and fun and one of the first projects I did. If you have wanted to do something like this it is a great project. The video even includes a soldering tutorial. Cool.

KONONO N°1 or DIY Necessity

They created a electric band in a place with no electric instruments. Microphones made from alternator batteries, 40 year old loud speaker horns and homemade instruments is what use to make music. You have to admire their ingenuity. An of course it is original. It is lo-fi world beat Kraftwerk meat the Congo.

End of Week Links or Steaming Summer Pile of the Interent

HACK A DAY Has a cool tutorial on how to make a really simple digital synthesizer.

Looperman has some free acapella and vocal samples.

If you like crazy musical gadgets you should check out Found Electronics.

IG Blog has a post about a soon to be launch vintage guitar hedge found. Thats right a vintage Guitar Hedge [...]

End of Week Links or A Bunch or Unrelated Stuff

Julien Bayle can instruct you how to make a monome clones which is good because the monome always have a waiting list.

Music might have stopped me from being a misanthropic criminal so maybe this will change some that are ready are. Jail Guitar Doors is Billy Bragg’s initiative to provide inmates with musical instrument. [...]

End of Week Links or Lot of Wires In Boxes

You can find this strange delay effect and other DIY audio goodness at WRONGROOM.

Along the same lines is this great video I found.  Analog sequencer in a cigar box is cool enough but controlling other circuit bent gadget is just beautiful noise.

From Kendall Scott is a Basic Guide to Understanding EQ.  [...]