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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.

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 a square white ceramic baking dish with delicious-looking chocolate brownie in it.

I made gluten-free brownies for Kristina's birthday! It's a new recipe we haven't tried before so it's possible it'll be awful, but we'll find out this afternoon when we have it.

our house darkroom food portrait mode brownies

Posted on 18 August 2022, 10:46

The load box arrived! It's very cool being able to have my sweet tube amp sounds but also being able to record them straight to the computer without fucking around with a microphone setup.

our house music darkroom new toys guitar

Posted on 15 August 2022, 13:02

A photo of a kind of dog kennel, except it's soft and made of stripy fabric and is sitting indoors. A small scruffy blonde dog is lying inside it on top of a pink blanket, giving a funny look because he's not quite sure what I'm doing.

This little house really was such a great purchase, Beanie loves just snoozing in it.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 13 August 2022, 21:43

A photo of the box of a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Gen 3 audio interface. The top and sides of the interface are a rich deep red metallic colour, and on the front is shiny black with all sorts of dials and sockets on it.

Huzzah, the audio interface arrived! Now to wait for the load box so I can actually, y'know, make full use of said audio interface.

our house music darkroom new toys guitar

Posted on 10 August 2022, 13:43

A photo of a bright orange guitar amp with a wheat-coloured front grill sitting on the floor next to a shiny black electric guitar.

The same orange guitar amp but this time sitting on a little elevated wooden platform in the corner of a room under a standing desk.

It's here! 🤘🏻 And it fits PERFECTLY on the little stand I made!

our house diy music darkroom new toys guitar guitar amp

Posted on 2 August 2022, 14:43

A photo of a tan three-seater lounge with a small ramp going up to the left-most seat. The ramp has two additional vertical pieces of wood attached to either side of it top prevent Beanie jumping down part-way down the ramp, and there's an L-shaped bit of wood sitting in the gap between the left and middle seats to stop him being able to both jump down beside the ramp and also wander over to the other seats and jump down from them too.

Beanie loves sitting up on the arm of the lounge (for example https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1809) but he also happily just jumps straight down from it to the ground even though we got him a dog ramp (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1944). So this weekend Kristina made a little barricade on the lounge and sides for the ramp so he's only got one way to get up and down. 😁

beanie our house diy darkroom dog ramp

Posted on 31 July 2022, 15:50

Got some more bits and bobs for my new guitar setup. The tuner is going to be immediately useful — saves me having to get the iPad out and plug it in in order to use the tuner in BIAS FX Mobile — but the cables are useless until the load box and audio interface arrive in a few weeks (the guitar amp itself was in stock, but neither of the other items were).

our house music darkroom guitar

Posted on 31 July 2022, 14:48

A photo of the corner of a room underneath a standing desk, with a little pine wooden platform on four legs that sits over the top of a power board. The platform itself is about 40cm wide and 23cm deep, and is raised up 13cm off the floor.

I don't really have a decent place to keep the new guitar amp I'm getting because it's about 2cm too deep to fit sideways beside my desk so I did some DIY today and built a little platform for it to sit above the power board in the corner!

our house diy music darkroom guitar

Posted on 30 July 2022, 14:54