This is from Christmas dinner. Don’t worry, we didn’t make my grandma eat that whole piece of prime rib.
I’ve been meaning to take a picture of these public transit cards for months. I am so lucky to travel around like I have the past few years. And even more than that, I am so blessed to have amazing friends and family that welcome me into these cities when I go.
From left to right: New York City, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta.
I leave on Monday to spend Christmas and New Years in Florida. If only they had a train system in Vero Beach.
Tomato, mushroom and white wine sauce on pasta. Crispy roasted chickpeas. Roasted cabbage. Thanks to Peter for the picture.
Nice purchase by Peter. Now we can crank a Matamp for recording and not peel the paint off the walls.
Running sound for a corporate gig, I just had to take a picture of the 8 wireless handheld mics (in addition to the 4 wireless lapel mics). Also, a shout out to The Mercury Program for being corporate sound gig friendly.
I haven’t messed with electronics on my own in a long time. I do the occasional minor repair at work or solder cables for my studio, but I haven’t prototyped and built a circuit for too long.
I decided to get back in slowly. I found an extremely simple boost circuit online and decided to actually turn it into a usable prototype rather than testing it on a breadboard and letting it sit there for months before taking it apart.
I had a lot of the electrical components on hand already and found the rest easily online.
The case is a junction box normally used for electrical wiring in homes. I didn’t feel like drilling multiple holes in the box, so I didn’t include a switch to turn the effect on and off. After drilling a single hole in the top for the potentiometer, I popped out one of the pre-punched circles to feed the input, output and power supply wires through. The input and output cables were harvested from the ends of an old guitar cable that was being thrown out at work. I had the power supply connector on hand already, so I soldered it in place, then heat shrink wrapped the connector and wires around a section of the same old guitar cable for sturdiness.
Overall, this was a fun project and it didn’t even take very long.
Oh, and it sounds pretty good.
