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Ah, the joys of having to take medicine as a kid. I remember fleeing into a toilet stall in a French rest stop to avoid having to swallow the road sickness pill I had to take. Nasty taste if memory serves me right. Kids have it easy today, in the 70's they didn't do pills for kids with sugary tastes. Well, at least where I lived.

One of my favourite Hendrix recordings, Johnny Be Goode (Live), the first minute is him re-tuning and asking the audience what he should play.

Yeah, back then people had patience then. They were willing to wait things out to let them play out. Now if you take things slowly they'll just move on, swipe left, change channels or start shouting that things are taking too long. I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule, but I don't think we're going to get another Pink Floyd who could do 24 minute songs and enjoyed commercial success with them. If anything songs are getting quicker to the point then ever. Pop songs basically start with the hook (the chorus) these days.

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I believe the only thing you would need a tuner for is to get the 1st string high E tuned to pitch. Everything else is then done by ear, listening for unison (no beats). It actually doesn't take very long to use this method, and the results are outstanding. My guitar has never sounded this good/accurate. I guess it's because it takes into account how your specific fretboard is laid out, rather than just trying to conform it to a specific frequency on the open strings (which would be great if all you ever did was play open strings). I always hated the sound of my guitars when I would try to use tuners. It never sounded right.

This method seems daunting at first, but once you do it a few times it's no more or less complicated than the 5th fret harmonic tuning method that most of us probably use.

Maybe back in the stone age, but as soon as I got a tuner I ditched 5th fret harmonic tuning faster then the proverbial plague.

Remember the first time somebody showed you that method? It seemed just as complicated.

Because it is complicated. It's something you only ever still use if you're a dinosaur who refuses to use anything else or are stuck somewhere without a tuner. Or tuner app on your phone.

Ultimately everything is a trade off though. I agree that on a loud stage with everybody testing their instruments, it's pretty much impossible to hear beats. You pretty much have to look at the LEDs or the needle to be in the center.

Not to mention that for an audience its highly annoying to hear musicians tune their instruments between songs. It breaks up the flow of a show. That's why we have silent tuning nowadays. So we can tune in silence while the vocalists distracts the audience with banter.

I reckon if you're a guitar tech, or have one, this method could be of interest. For a musician on stage I don't see the point. Benefits, probably, practical use, no.

The most interesting part of this tuning method is that it automatically tunes your B string a few cents flat to what we're used to. There is a great YouTube video where the benefits of this is broken down way better than I could ever explain:

Alas, I can't see the vid, I'm currently in Iran and they have youtube blocked behind the Great Iranian Firewall.

 Sounds like a lot of work, so....., no. 

Seriously, first time ever I heard of this method. Is this something you do by ear only or with a tuner as well?

 Rej, da f*** dude?  No way, man! Get well soon, best wishes from the Netherlands!

That feeling when a guitar build starts coming together and fires up. Just like with pedals, that feeling of exhilaration, only ten times greater. And so addictive as well.

Ask if you can ride the bulldozer.

Who thought that for the best crunchy tones on a Gibson you'd need a bulldozer?

The quality of the body is better than the strat one I built a couple of years ago. The neck is solid, I'm really surprised at how well it's made and how good it feels.

That's the power of CNC routing. Consistency is a quality of its own, and if you can program well, why shouldn't that deliver good bodies and necks. If building my own has taught me anything its that there are so many ways you can screw your build up with a router. The slightest wobble and oops, you've just 'volunteered' again for endless and endless sanding. Still, its fun building your own bodies and necks. There's so much more you can do when you're not limited to assembling prebuilt parts.

So, are you anything like me? That when you've not even finished with the last guitar you're already planning the next builds? And the next ones thereafter?

Organization for the win!

If it wasn't for the expense and cost, I wouldn't mind learning car mechanics. Plus there's nothing sexy or interesting, for me, in boring daily driver type cars.

There are of course more cars then just daily driver type cars. There's classic cars? All modern cars look like the same aerodynamic piece of shite, but classic cars still have that individuality and quirkiness that makes them actually interesting. Or go motorcycles. Or restore an old WW2 Willys Jeep?

Warren Beatty and Mel Gibson have won more Oscars for best director than Stanley Kubrick.

Of course they lived and worked in Hollywood, so it was easy for them to be part of the Hollywood incrowd that decides who gets the Oscars. Kubrick on the other hand lived and worked in the UK, was a social recluse and I'm not sure he ever left the UK. Even Full Metal Jacket, a friggin' Vietnam war movie, was shot entirely in the UK. When you're not part of the incrowd you're less likely to get the awards of the incrowd.

I reckon that building pedals satisfies an innate need to build things and do things with our hands. Having just worked for a whole week at a local festival there's something inherently satisfying in working with your hands and body, rather then sitting by your desk, pushing ones and zero's all day.

Coming back to the topic.  I've got a couple of large orders coming in from tayda et al in order to finish off a bunch of pcb and vero I have lying around.  After that, I think I'm finishing up.  It still won't be for a while because there's so much to complete and decide on what's getting boxed, but I just don't see myself building much more.

At some point you have to say to yourself I got more then enough pedals, time to do something else.

I just saw this and figured it was getting notice here.  While the feature set is spartan, the main idea and the layout is a straight rip off.  Kind of sad.  On the other hand, it's a great idea and now it'll reach a more mainstream audience.  I guess that's a bit of a silver lining.

EHX should make a donation to Peter's teaching charity/teaching endeavor, if that's still going on.  Not going to hold my breath on that, though.

If we get to clone their circuits, shouldn't they get to clone ours as well? It seems like basically every EHX pedal which does not involve DSP has been cloned by pretty much everyone by now. And some of them here have even started out on EHX stuff, Lectric-FX comes to mind. And as I say everytime somebody mentions illegal downloading, in this case not every EHX sale means one less Klein Bottle will be sold. It still has many features the EHX version doesn't have (yet?). And a lot of guitar players avoid anything DIY related like the proverbial plague, as soldering literally seems to scare them to death. So you wouldn't have sold any PCB's to them anyway.

I totally disagree that "more popular people" get more ohs and ahs. It all comes down to skill and a touch of OCD. These same people tend to design their own projects.

But how would you know if there was skill levels and OCD to be admired? You'd have to click on that thread to see it. And the point that I'm trying to make is that the popular people will get more clicks then the lesser gods, by virtue of their fame. Would a build report by jimilee get the same number of views and responses of a built report by Muad'zin, supposing our build qualities and OCD were the same? I think not.