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A photo of an Orange Rocker 15 guitar amplifier which is clad in bright orange vinyl and looks like it came directly from the 1960s, plus three guitar pedals sitting on the floor in front of it (an overdrive, a noise suppressor, and a looper).

Ahhhhh, this is so much fun! Creating a chord loop and turning the drum kit on (which is matched perfectly to the rhythm of the loop you recorded), then playing over the top of it. Definitely excellent practice for getting my timing up to snuff. And that overdrive pedal is so good, I get fantastic distortion now without having to crank the amp volume too high.

Posted on 2 September 2022, 21:42

A photo of the slightly-off-white Boss "NS-2" noise suppressor guitar pedal. It's an austere-looking unit with three black dials with white faces on the top of it.

Last pedal arrived! Now the interminable wait until the end of next month for the guitar itself. Lots of fun to have with my current one and the new pedals in the meantime though!

our house music darkroom new toys guitar

Posted on 1 September 2022, 14:48

I also bought a spring-loaded coffee tamper for the espresso machine which arrived today. Fits the portafilter like a GLOVE, and first impressions of the improvement are very positive. I'm keen to see how it goes with my single-origin straight espresso tomorrow morning.

our house darkroom coffee

Posted on 31 August 2022, 14:30

YESSSS.

our house music darkroom new toys guitar

Posted on 31 August 2022, 13:01

A photo of a grassy backyard with a wooden fence, and directly behind the fence is a two-storey house. In the upper window of the house a grey and white cat is sitting in front of the blinds looking down at the ground, where a small scruffy blonde dog is up on his hind legs looking up at the cat and barking.

The neighbours behind us have cats that love sitting in the upstairs window, and if Beanie happens to see them he get gets VERY fussed and has to bark about it.

beanie our house dog darkroom cat updog

Posted on 31 August 2022, 11:25

A photo of a two litre tub of Bulla vanilla ice cream and a bottle of Ice Magic chocolate ice cream topping (which Wikipedia helpfully informs me is called "Bird's Ice Magic" in the UK and "Magic Shell" in the US).

I have no idea why but I've been uncomfortable in bed for the last week-ish and not sleeping very well, and today I'm feeling generally all-over achy. Decided to make myself feel better by going trashy and hitting up the shops to buy some vanilla ice cream and Ice Magic and let me tell you, it's pretty excellent.

our house darkroom food ice cream ice magic

Posted on 28 August 2022, 20:17

A photo of a set of wooden drumsticks, and the boxes of an Ernie Ball "Volt" power supply and a drum practice pad.

Why yes, it IS more music-related things!

I got a teeny little power supply for my yet-to-exist pedal board because I don't want to have to deal with 9V batteries, and a practice drum pad because I've seen multiple (extremely good) drummers mention that every aspiring drummer should have and use one.

our house music darkroom new toys guitar drums

Posted on 23 August 2022, 13:09

A photo of a shiny black electric guitar sitting on a guitar stand.

There we go, one fully restrung and intonated guitar! (I haven't chopped the overhang fully off the top of the strings yet because I'm not convinced I wound them around the tuning pegs enough. Going to give it a couple of days and make sure it's not slipping out of tune.)

I can definitely tell how much brighter the sound is with the new strings, even without having plugged it into the amp yet.

our house music darkroom guitar

Posted on 19 August 2022, 17:13

A photo of a set of guitar strings, two guitar wall mounts, two straps, some patch cables for connecting guitar pedals together, some string cleaner/lubricant, some 1-metre instrument cables, and a set of heavy-duty velcro for fastening guitar pedals to a pedal board.

Also my next batch of guitar-related bits and bobs arrived. Looking forward to getting the new strings onto my guitar, I realised it's sounding pretty muddy at this point given I haven't changed them since I bought it two years ago. 😬

our house music darkroom new toys guitar

Posted on 18 August 2022, 15:59

A photo of three brown goats in a section of a barn. One of them is standing on top of a short tree stump.

A photo of a grey kangaroo lying on its side, with its torso propped up on its front arms.

A photo of three quokkas, two are huddled together eating seeds and grass off the ground, the other is holding the bottom of one of those very cheap ice cream cones and going to town on it.

Then we went to Featherdale and saw animals! We brought the DSLR and took lots of photos, I'll link them once I've processed and uploaded them.

darkroom goats quokka featherdale wildlife park kangaroo

Posted on 18 August 2022, 15:39