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Treble Bleed Circuit
Introduction Recently, I’ve been experimenting with treble bleed circuits on my Fender custom shop strat that has 3 single coils. Everything you will find here is based on this website and I want to document my personal learnings/findings. What is a treble bleed? Usually, whenever you dial down the volume pot on your single coil…
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Quad Cortex Tips & Tricks
Introduction It’s summer of 2021 and after waiting for about six months, my Quad Cortex finally arrived. I wanna share some tips and tricks with y’all, things that took me more than half an hour or so to figure out. Power Supply The power supply that comes with the unit rates 3A at 12V. However,…
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Wiring Diagrams For Electric Guitar
Introduction I often found myself searching the web for wiring diagrams and ending up in some weird forum. Because it always bugs me, I decided to start this page and add a wiring diagram, whenever it is something out of the ordinary. However, if you’re reading this, please take a look at the wiring diagrams…
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Boss GT-1000CORE Bluetooth
Introduction When I first got my hands on the Boss GT-1000CORE, I was really disappointed. A friend of mine owns the GT-1000, the CORE’s big brother. He’s been using multi-effects units for many many years, so he was used to the big format factor. Me, on the other hand, I already had a pedal board…
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Covid: Hypocritical Vaccine Donations
Intro It’s currently June 13, 2021 as I’m writing this. As an engineer, it is usually in my nature to be mostly non-political and to solely argument with facts and science. But the way we act as humanity in this tough Covid situation really makes me angry and I need to express my anger with…
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Raspberry Pi & Light Sensors
Introduction There’s this light in my neighbour’s back yard, which randomly toggles all through the night. It really had an influence on my sleep. At first I thought it’s probably simply a cat or something, triggering a motion sensor. But then I realized that it toggles periodically. The social and open person I am as…
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Tube Screamer Bright LED Mod
Introduction Every guitarist playing electric guitar will at some point encounter the legendary Tube Screamer by Ibanez. Probably the most copied pedal on the planet. Everybody who tried or regularly uses an original TS will also know, that the LED of the pedal is really weak. So weak that you often can’t really tell, whether…
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Sound Like Adam Jones Using The Strymon Iridium
Introduction Tool has a very faithful fan base and I count myself to them. As a hobby guitarist, I’m constantly looking to get as close to Adam Jones’ tone as possible. There are many resources on how to sound like Adam Jones and this article aims to fill a tiny gap. We know what gear…
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Self-Hosted Bitwarden On Raspberry Pi
Install Docker # curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh Add user(s) to the docker group. The default user would be pi. However, I highly recommend deactivating the default user. # usermod -aG docker pi Reboot and then test docker $ docker run hello-world Install more dependencies # apt-get install -y libffi-dev libssl-dev # apt-get install -y…
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Howto Build a Heptagram
Theory The Heptagram in Numbers The following sketch shows a heptagram with all the edges and angles we’ll need. Below the actual heptagram, the sketch also shows one of the seven edges from all sides. The important angles within the heptagram are: The edges shown in the sketch are as follows. The edge…
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