To get the fingertips hardened up a bit more quickly, try soaking in surgical spirit / rubbing alcohol. Put a little in a saucer and leave fingertips in there for 15 min or so. Do that for a week and play a lot of course. The tips get hardened and that helps with the sound and the pain of hardening ...

Just as an interlude I think its that slight 'out of tuneness' up the fretboard that in part gives a guitar its own unique voice, beauty and character. No two are ever exactly alike.

This is interesting https://thinkns.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/NS-Design-Fretted-Violin-Intonation-Instructions.pdf if you have one of these... https://i.redd.it/ymaj3dh6zyg51.jpg But even on a standard violin, violinists adgust their bridges for intonation. Its part of the art of the violinist.

I always use the old 12th fret harmonic / 12th fret fretted method, never had much trouble with that and I play mostly 12-String acoustics with 12 to 54s.

Must have made a dozen 12-string bridge saddles for those guitars. Always a pita intonating a bone saddle but they all play well.

I have much thanks to Mr White for his 'piezo drum trigger' article from many years ago, it allowed us to make an electronic kit for my drumming mate. Changed our lives. So brilliant! Allowed us to record drums at home. I knew how good it was when he (with his eyes shut) reached out to grab the ...

Loctite 243? Bit more info here for starters.

Though lots of music that we might love was made for instance by the 'wrecking crew', with a pretty or cool or dangerous or serious face on the sleeve. The music industry is/will be grabbing this technology with both hands.

I heard Nick Park (Wallace & Gromit) interviewed on the radio and he was asked if he was concerned about AI and the implications for his work. He said that AI could copy him, but he went on to say that if you look closely you can see the fingerprints in the clay, the accidental errors that give the ...

Sam Spoons wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:24 am Is there a reliable way to tell AI generated music from human generated?

Yep, play it yourself or watch someone else playing it.

Too many knobs for me. How about one of these https://www.thomann.co.uk/duebreq_stylo ... eremin.htm hours of fun!

Have to add The Persuaders theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vafSPUXMXXU as a love. But then anything by John Barry really is the dogs.

Its about the experience of children so how about something childish? I always think recorders are a childish instrument, and perhaps the sound of children somewhere... Its quite cinematic so how about some foley?.... And a bigger brass band at the end, building. But keeping the space, its a cool ...

This seems relevant, from the 'in our time' series ... Maurice Merleau-Ponty

One of the only AI Music companies out there that can vet 100% copyright and royalty free music is Aimi.fm Unlike other ai music companies, their content is NOT trained on existing material. Instead, they trained the AI to make music the way a producer would, so it understands the rules and ...

When we had a working tablet/touch screen here I used it flat on the table as I would a book or magazine. Maybe think about a flat horizontal surface?

Ah, I see Drew has gone flat too.

Solenoid?

Yep..

So, to be clear: the same source recorded on the same day with the same mic and preamp in the same room and afterward played back through the same monitors will sound virtually the same whether I use a Presonus Studio 2/6 or an RME Babyface? Depends on the elements. If you're at Abbey Road then no ...

60dB of gain and phantom power... very handy.

And a very well written advert.

As in does it go to the AI developer or the AI artist? I don't know - might take a few court cases to figure that out. Assuming this consultation doesn't result in the UK legislating closer to the States: the artist I would say. The developer creates the tools, the artist creates the art. I mean ...

Its an open consultation so you can also email any views or possible solutions to go into the pot.