kerble wrote:recommend a Lawnmower. Even the cheapest, crappy electric rotary will perform really quite well so long as you keep the blades sharp. For me that was usually every other mow, whip the blade off, vice, angle grinder and good to go in two minutes. The other part of keeping the blades shar...

Ugh and eww. As a student I worked in the kitchen of one of Pizza Express' posher restaurants, listed building, art & jazz e.t.c. The work was pretty easy, mainly just loading the washer but eventually the whole night pivoted around the moment the anchovy bowl would be sent down from the top kitchen...

Yep, I think you are right, although I rarely seem to use middle as I have an unexplained aversion to anything slightly humbuckerish. Swapped two guitar nuts for Graphtech Tusq nuts, one Takeharu 80s acoustic and one recent Tokai Hummingbird, definitely an improvement if only because the strings wer...

After breaking my the 3-way pickup selector on a Danelectro 56 pro, I came to fit a replacement and found that Dano wire these up in a way I may never understand. Some of the factory wirings I tested for continuity and no electrons were flowing in any permutation. Desoldered all the pickup wires and...

Probably sounds fantastic. Just out of curiosity, are there any other branches of technology that demonstrate such bizarre U-turns/renaissance periods as studio kit does with tubes ? Are there any other manufacturing industries as deperate to pick up where they left off fifty years ago ?

When the plate in a microwave oven starts spinning, how come it seems to randomly alternate the direction ?

Amazing. Its a remarkably nice reverb considering its a random industrial shape, I became quite convinced it was real after I got some construction work sounds on the tail end! But after two processed files, now I keep getting file not found on server when it returns the file...

Respect for the silo setup. Did you use it as a regular send and return for mixes ? The little experimenting I've done with this has left me thinking its only worth using large spaces, and obviously that depends on location. A friend of mine used to park in a huge underground carpark, so when I met ...

Agreed, the AV angle is simply one that will buy you time to stay warm and fed while learning something else. Gotta say though, simply securing a full time engineering position is hardly the holy grail. I had some good times engineering, but chances are that at least half of the sessions will be som...

I say forget studio work and get into audio and AV installs. Seriously, get fully acquainted with every type of protocol these use because there is a serious wage to be had, even occasional freelance work, and its technically and emotionally far less demanding than studio work, with way more chance ...