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elctrobert

elctrobert has written 34 posts for MyProjectStudio

Ignore Everybody

I already wrote a post about gapingvoid. I just love the cartoons and I also love the “How to be creative” book that Hugh McLeod wrote made freely available to download here in pdf format. Now he has released a “dead tree” and kindle format book named Ignore Everybody and 39 other keys to creativity. [...]

I’m blogging this from my ipod touch

I’m writing this post from my new iPod touch using the wordpress application. Lately I’ve been reading a few reviews of cool apps to make music with and with all the other stuff it comes with it seems to me a bargain for the price now that it’s only around $200 for the 8GB [...]

How to replace the tone and volume pots in your guitar

The problem
My recently purchased second hand dirty cheap Yamaha guitar had a noise problem and after some testing I narrowed it down to the volume and tone pots. They wouldn’t turn smoothly and the noise changed as I turned them being the less annoying when both pots where at their maximum.
To illustrate what I [...]

MinimogueVA, a must have Minimoog soft synth emulation

On my research for the perfect budget studio I’ve come across many free plugins that I am currently testing but one that definitely is a must have in any home recording studio is the MinimogueVA. A bit of history first. The minimoog is legendary synthesizer and one of the first ones that were portable. Moog [...]

Spotify!

Finally I’ve managed to get my Spotify account up and running! I signed up for an invitation around april when a friend recommended it to me and I remembered having read about it in some internet related blog. Months later all the hype about it started to spread everywhere and finally, in June 28th I [...]

Why I love P2P, BitTorrents and music sharing

I download and share music. And I make music. And yes, I want people to download my music for free. That would make me very happy.
I have been downloading music since Napster came out. I kept buying many of my favourite records and I went to loads of gigs of artists that I might have [...]