Music Thing

You can't buy talent. But you can try. This blog is about music, technology, guitars, synths, keyboard, amps, recording, computers, cubase, logic, sonar, steinberg, roland, korg, fender, gibson, boss.

8/31/2014

Music-making advice from musicians that non-musicians might find useful

This blog started 10 years ago in August 2004 , and died just five years later . Back in 2008, I asked you all for your tips about making m...

6/03/2012

Music Thing Modular

I'm now documenting a few DIY modular synth projects over at musicthing.co.uk/modular/ including this random sequencer, inspired by vi...

11/30/2010

Music Kits #1: DIY guitar effect pedal kits

Over the last couple of years, I’ve spent a few evenings building DIY guitar effects . It's fun to build things that you can use. If y...

Slight return

A few posts on Music Thing should appear over the next week or two, dumps of research and notes that I thought it would be fun to share. Nor...

1/07/2009

The end of Music Thing, for now.

Four years ago, I had a job editing laddish lifestyle magazines funded by the National Health Service. It was a great job, great people, a...

12/16/2008

Ten awesome homemade guitars

J chot writes: HEY GUESS WHAT!!! I spent the entire day at work searching the words "made guitar" and "built guitar"! ...

12/07/2008

25 Awesome things I've failed to post on Music Thing over the last couple of months

My new favourite Wikipedia page is Unusual types of gramophone records . (Thanks, Steve) Bleep Labs BitBlob is the only thing to buy this...

11/18/2008

Banned: The Dettol ad encouraging mums to spray disinfectant into pianos

If you're a MT reader who has watched UK television in the last week, you've probably already been traumatised by a certain disinfec...

11/10/2008

Tom Bugs teaches DIY synth building in four hours

Had a great time yesterday at a synth building workshop in East London hosted by Tom Bugs . We built little one board synths with ten knob...

11/03/2008

Review: Arturia Origin. It's big, it's expensive, it's sexy. Why don't I want one?

This is a difficult review to write . The point of Music Thing over the last few years has been to celebrate hardware when all around were ...

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