Over on Livejournal, where this post is echoed, lj:blues_kun asked:
Would you mind posting a recording of that funky thing? Also what the hell is it called?

…I actually have no idea what it’s called. It’s called Seven Dollar Bin. Or “that shaker with the seed pods.”


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Our water heater is leaking. Anyone replaced one lately? We have natural gas, and I'd like to go tankless, but I'd like it to work during blackouts like our current thermocouple-driven one does now.

Also posted to ソ-ラ-バ-ド-のおん;
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Let’s play everybody’s favourite new game, “what the hell is this noise?”!

It’s captured on a live mic in a quiet recording studio; the sound is not audible in the room itself. I’m really curious if it sounds familiar to anyone, and reminds them of anything other than ground loop:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/bxrisd4be9kk70y/what-is-it-noise ( Read more... )

Over on the Dreamwidth echo - and you can comment there with your LJ or Facebook or Twitter accounts - a reader from Georgia has asked were she might be able to get an Icelandic langspil. It's a folk instrument.

Me? I have no idea. Do you, or know someone who might? Go help her out.

Over the last few days, I’ve realised there’s a studio toy I really want, but can’t quite find. If I can’t find it, maybe I can build it - or maybe that should be the other way ’round, eh? Regardless, maybe some of you guys can help.

One of the many cool things about midi is how you can have arbitrary controllers in variety of functionalities. You ( Read more... )

I’ve been learning to play melody parts on zouk and mandolin - you might notice the lack of zouk or mandolin solos in the studio album? there’s a reason for that - and I started playing this tune, which I’ve known for forever, and which, in my headcanon, everybody in the world knows.

I’m wondering what it’s called. None of the tune recognition ( Read more... )

What's the correct word for the metal edge reinforcement used on trunks, anyway? (And why do all the photos I find in google only have metal on the corners? Or are the edges just darker metal?) My old trunk - now used to hold the Hugo award exhibit trophies between Worldcons - had metal all along the edges, and that's what I'm planning for the ( Read more... )

So Shure themselves say that the ONLY differnce between the SM57 and the SM58 is the windscreen, and that the tests on the mics aren't even affected below 13kHz by that, and that the difference people hear is mostly due to people not being able to get as close to the diaphram on the 58 as on the 57.

Taking all that is read: is there any reason I ( Read more... )

I need a window glazier who can replace the glass in a single-pane 1908 wooden window in Seattle, after someone kicked in both panes last night at murksouth, apparently for fun. I was trying to fix it myself but I can't get the tacking strips up without doing damage to the outer frame, so I want a professional. Does anyone know someone appropriate ( Read more... )

This is my last year of doing the daily 'zine at Norwescon. Last year was going to be my last year, but I relented when I hadn't managed to find anyone to train, but this year I srsly mean it - I am so burnt out on this it's not even funny. But fortunately I have someone to train this year! And I'm treating it a lot like her first year more than my ( Read more... )