Photography — Guitar Effects — Other DIY
Happened to see this Praying Mantis out back at work. He was nice enough to model for me. Shot with a Sony A7III and Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8. Details: f/9 @ 1/800, ISO 400, 75mm focal length. This is a 100% crop of an un-edited JPEG … Continue readingA Moment with Praying Mantis
Just goofing around in my back yard the other day with my Phantom 3 Standard and decided to snap some pics of the drone mid-flight with bokeh in the background. I shot this with my Sony A7III and Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8. Exposure details: f/2.8 | … Continue readingDrone Mid-Flight with Bokeh
Using my old pal C3PO as a model during my initial testing of the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 lens for Sony FE Mount. This is a 1977 C3PO figure I got on ebay to keep my kid from playing with my original figure that I’ve had … Continue readingC3PO bokeh test with Sony A7II + Tamron 28-75mm
Managed to catch this carpenter bee chilling out on a big bloom on my lilac tree in the back yard. Shot with iPhone 7 using the Manual app for RAW capture. I got really lucky as the second bee in the shot just randomly flew … Continue readingBee Just Chillin
Shot this out behind Stonewood Tavern in Byram Township, New Jersey. Something about the light in the late afternoon falling on this winter woods brush caught my eye. Shot with a Sony A7ii and Samyang 35mm f/2.8 (which is a pretty decent autofocus lens at … Continue readingWinter Woods Brush
Several people have asked me to repost my older layouts for the often copied (and frequently sold for big bucks) Electra Distortion circuit. This is a surprisingly good-sounding circuit for so few components. No fancy parts needed; just a fun little circuit that swings way … Continue readingElectra Distortion DIY Layouts
I have spent countless hours pouring over the circuits and notes that used to be hosted on a strange little website called Folk Urban (used to folkurban.com but it’s gone now). These so-called “circuit snippets” from a guy name Tim Escobedo (RIP) inspired so many … Continue readingTim Escobedo’s “Folk Urban” DIY Circuits
Just a fun still life shot late at night with what was laying on the counter: a fork and plate. Shot with Fujifilm X-T2 APS-C mirrorless camera body and Fujinon 27mm f/2.8 lens. Check out my photo great review site: Tightcamera.com
The Inline 8 is, in a nutshell, a stripped-down DIY Marshall Guv’nor * distortion pedal that was a hot item in the 1980s. The main difference is that instead of the three-band tonestack in the Guv’nor*, the Inline 8 has been reduced to a very … Continue readingInline 8 – Modified DIY Marshall Guv’nor
The Neptune Delay is a PT2399-based digital delay with footswitch-controlled modulation. The base/core circuit was derived from the Sea Urchin circuit drawn up by madbeanpedals.com (no longer in production). The Neptune differs from its predecessor in a few key ways, however: the delay line filtering … Continue readingNeptune Delay – DIY PT2399 Echo with Modulation