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A photo taken from a low angle of the side of a small scruffy blonde dog who's looking off-camera to the right, with me — a white man with a short red beard and a rapidly-receding hairline — sitting on the ground behind him with my legs stretched out.

There's a very angry patch of thunderstorm rapidly approaching so Beanie is insisting I sit on the floor with him.

beanie our house selfie dog me darkroom

Posted on 24 September 2022, 11:07

The setup is complete! ...at least until my new guitar arrives, and also until I inevitably decide I want more guitar pedals and thus need to build a longer pedalboard. 😅

Man, that delay pedal is such fun. If you set one single repeat and set the delay before the repeat occurs to the right timing, you can get it to essentially play notes in between what you're playing, so it sounds like you're playing more. Or you can set a really long delay with lots of repeats and lower the intensity, and it sounds like you're in a vast hall. Or you can go in between those and just get a much fatter-sounding tone.

our house music darkroom guitar guitar amp pedalboard

Posted on 21 September 2022, 21:52

A photo of a Boss DM-2W analogue delay guitar pedal. It's a shiny sort-of-magenta colour, with three dials on the top for repeat rate, intensity, and echo.

Yesssss, very excited to play around with this tonight!

our house music darkroom new toys guitar pedalboard

Posted on 21 September 2022, 15:29

A photo looking down the middle of a Sydney Metro train. It's a single-deck subway-style train with seats on either side facing the middle.

No photo of the food because I forgot, and no photo of the nice night skyline because the train was at the station when we got there, but we were at Mamak to meet up with a friend we hadn't seen for ages and their as-yet-unmet significant other and it was excellent. So have this photo of the inside of the train instead. 😅

chatswood darkroom train mamak

Posted on 20 September 2022, 21:00

A photo of my Morningstar relay switching interface. It's a small blue metallic box with two TRS jacks and a DC in jack on the front, and three LEDs on the top marked "RING", "TIP", and "POWER".

Huzzah, the relay interface finally arrived!

Next step, figuring out how best to configure the MIDI controller to activate the interface in terms of ease of usage...

our house music darkroom new toys guitar pedalboard

Posted on 19 September 2022, 15:51

A photo of a red guitar stomp pedal with three dials at the top of it and a little switch in the middle.

Okay, so after a TON of reading and watching videos on YouTube (shout-out to That Pedal Show in particular), I've decided the last (for the moment 😏) piece of my guitar pedal board is going to be a Boss DM-2W analogue delay pedal. Delay pedals basically take the note you play and repeat it back after a given interval and for a certain number of repeats, and there's all SORTS of interesting effects you can get depending on how big the interval is, how much of the original note you get back, and how many repeats you've set. Analogue pedals in particular have a specific sound that's really warm and dark, as opposed to digital pedals which tend to be basically exact replicas of your sound. The original DM-2 pedal stopped being produced in the mid-80s and this DM-2W is the "Waza Craft" reissue of that original one, so it's got the same sound but also a little switch at the top that goes between "Standard" DM-2 and the new "Custom" mode that boosts the maximum repeat rate from 300ms to 800ms and brightens up the sound a little bit.

I did some playing around in Logic Pro with the built-in delays in there, none of which sound nearly as good as the DM-2W, but damn, playing without any sort of delay at all sounds so flat and boring now, haha. I was considering the Boss DD-200 which is VERY swish, but it's a digital one instead of analogue and while it's got a ton of features, it seems kind of overwhelming for just dipping my toes into the world of delay.

music guitar

Posted on 18 September 2022, 22:36

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on a green blanket, which is sitting directly in front of a doorway.

Beanie's new favourite thing is to very carefully manoeuvre his blanket to be exactly in the doorway and then plonk himself down on it.

beanie our house dog darkroom beanie lying on or under things

Posted on 18 September 2022, 20:13

A photo looking down a slight hill, it's covered in grass and has people scattered around, there's trees in the distance and some thin clouds.

We took advantage of the GLORIOUS weather today and went for a walk around Fagan Park. You seriously couldn't have asked for a nicer day.

clouds darkroom trees fagan park

Posted on 18 September 2022, 16:07

A photo of a little garden in front of a bay window. The whole "garden" maybe 1.5 metres wide and covered in red mulch, and at the front are two very lavender plants busily blooming with flowers.

I don't think you can tell from the photo, but there's a good three or four bees buzzing around our lavender at the moment!

Now, hopefully these lavenders don't randomly up and die like the last two lots did (granted the previous ones were in the ground and the soil is CRAZY thick with clay here, so I think that significantly contributed to their demise).

our house gardening darkroom flowers bees

Posted on 18 September 2022, 9:51

A photo of all of the assembled grey plastic terrain from Kill Team: Into The Dark. It consists of a heap of interconnecting walls, all extremely detailed and steam punk-looking, with pipes and gothic-looking features and skulls. There's also extra bits like ammo boxes and little generators. The whole lot takes up almost the entire width of my painting table, which is 90cm wide.

IT IS DONE. (Miniature at the front for scale.)

::collapses in a heap::

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting into the dark

Posted on 17 September 2022, 21:20