TubesAndCode.studio

screenshot showing a UI for connecting an instrument to the tubesandcode.studio website's NAM player. This shows a Scarlett 2i2 is connected

Screenshot of the TubesAndCode.studio website showing the site's customized version of the TONE3000 web player, letting users listen to guitar amp captures with pre-recorded DIs, plus a new "Play" tab.

You can play guitar (and bass) through my website now! Using a (lightly) custom version of T3K's open-source NAM player!

Rigged it up so I can do "playable articles" where there will be associated amp models and/or IRs to connect it to your own playing instantly

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Happy Birthday to @davidgilmour.com
Like so many musicians of my generation, the music of Pink Floyd touched my life in a profound way and helped shape the way I hear and feel music.

Tubes and Code .studio | Record out of Your Amp's FX Loop with an Interface Learn about using the FX loop of an amp to record guitar without a microphone, giving you the flexibility to try out different impulse responses.

And for this article about recording a DI tone from an amp's FX loop, I added some playable captures of just my preamp to give a live/playable demo of that

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Tubes and Code .studio | Archetype John Mayer X Review: can Neural DSP Deliver Superior Tone and Playability? A hands-on review of Archetype: John Mayer X by Neural DSP, focusing on playability, presets, mix performance, and whether it’s worth $200.

I updated a couple of my existing articles to show kind of what I mean by "playable articles."

For example, one of the amps in John Mayer's Archetype plugin is a Dumble. Now you can load in a free Dumble capture at the end for comparison/baseline purposes.

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Guitar of the Day

screenshot showing a UI for connecting an instrument to the tubesandcode.studio website's NAM player. This shows a Scarlett 2i2 is connected

Screenshot of the TubesAndCode.studio website showing the site's customized version of the TONE3000 web player, letting users listen to guitar amp captures with pre-recorded DIs, plus a new "Play" tab.

You can play guitar (and bass) through my website now! Using a (lightly) custom version of T3K's open-source NAM player!

Rigged it up so I can do "playable articles" where there will be associated amp models and/or IRs to connect it to your own playing instantly

tubesandcode.studio/play-guitar-...

Noise-Only Challenge: Lost + Found Creates a Horror Soundtrack YouTube video by Bay Mud

Had fun seeing what I could make with nothing but white noise fed into the Chase Bliss Lost + Found pedal. A new series, maybe?
youtu.be/521F55l0-zc

if you ever needed proof this fucker is batshit crazy try imagining a Kennedy telling Massholes they gotta give up iced Dunkin's

Introducing Live Input on TONE3000 Plug in your guitar or bass and play through 275K tones directly in your browser. Now in beta.

speak of the devil, they actually just introduced live input on the T3K website, letting you play guitar to any of their captures in your browser! Pretty amazing actually

www.tone3000.com/blog/introdu...

I put the pedals in the alt text but forgot my second overdrive: Warm Audio Tube Squealer

I like that the pedal has a switch to toggle between buffered bypass and true bypass... it actually came in handy here (running buffered now b/c I don't have a buffer after it).

A pedalboard: Tuner > DigiTech Drop > Donner noise gate > Xotic SP Compressor > Deciduous Devices Wisteria Overdrive > Sonicake Rude Mouse. Fx loop: Boss EQ-200 > MXR Phase 100 > Boss CH-1 > Boss DD-8

Boss DD-8 I ordered finally came in today! I definitely like it a lot already! Got the board rearranged for that and a mini rat clone

#guitarEffects #pedalboard

Tubes and Code .studio | WebAssembly Brings Real Music Software to Web Browsers Explore how WebAssembly (Wasm) is revolutionizing music tech by bringing industry-standard DSP and amp modeling directly to the browser any installation process

Wasm is a cool technology that lets you compile programs for browsers. I'm noticing examples of it for music! You can run DSP in the browser, and I think it opens new kinds of interactive music/educational content

Wrote an article about the opportunities I see!

tubesandcode.studio/posts/webass...

Had a tip for web/graphic design that I was going to share, but waking up to war crimes kind of made me not feel like it, of course

Still gotta do some blogging today though!

Agreed! Seems like it will almost certainly be a racist and ableist system in practice

An Epiphone Explorer guitar with black finish in a case.

Taking a "quick" "midday" break

#guitars #epiphone #explorer

From the guitarpedals community on Reddit: Getting the Boss DD8 Digital Delay to self-oscillate like a ring-modulated synth Explore this post and more from the guitarpedals community

Now I'm counting on it self-oscillating!

Too bad self-delivery isn't a thing

www.reddit.com/r/guitarpeda...

Maybe I should've expected a delay with my delay pedal order. Stuck in Philly. Classic.

cops tasered and beat a blind man and then charged him with possession of a weapon because he had a walking stick. then border patrol eventually dumped him on the other side of town and now he’s dead

gimp is another (free) option, but it solves a different problem than Sketch (raster vs. vector editor)

Adobe has done a good job driving me out of their stuff totally over the past decade. And they even had a partnership with my uni to offer free CC to students! Still never got me fully hooked

Sketch · Design, prototype, collaborate and handoff Sketch puts the focus back on you and your work. Made by designers, for designers.

If anyone is looking for a good app on Mac for graphic design that you can buy w/o a subscription plan, I recommend checking out Sketch. Broadly useful

Used it to make some stuff for Instagram today, and I set up color variables and fonts to make things consistent with my website

www.sketch.com

SP is dope!

The book that got me into computers all those years ago. Complete with things like state-variable filters written in BASIC and PDP-11 assembly code.

Nothing To Say YouTube video by Slash - Topic

I didn't know that Slash did a song featuring M. Shadows on his 2010 solo album until yesterday!

And I was definitely a big A7X fan back then too (still am 🤘)

I don't think this is what most of us hear in our heads when we imagine Slash's playing!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrL...

#musicsky

Guitar pick of the day #359.

Daily posts of my guitar pick collection.

It's Weir Wednesday!

GRATEFUL DEAD
Bob Weir
Wave That Flag tour
2004

Yeah, that's a great example. I think it's semi-common knowledge to some extent that "recorded tapping" != "live tapping", but there's room to be dishonest. And I'm not going to pretend to be skilled enough to tell, especially with the pace that platforms shove short videos at people

Good points! Last part is key for sure

If it is wrong, how is it different from classic music videos? We don't complain about the "fake guitar" in those old videos

I think a lot of the debate about "fake guitar playing on Instagram" is interesting.

Seems like Instagram rewards cinematic guitar playing along with musicianship. Whole world got pushed to video. Is it wrong to mime something for insta separately from and after recording in a daw? Hypothetically 🤔

Tubes and Code .studio | With NAM A2 around the Corner, is it a Good Time to Buy NAM Hardware? It’s a great time to buy NAM hardware but a bad time to overcommit. Here’s how A2, conversion pipelines, and vendor firmware history should shape your decision.

Curious about NAM hardware but also if the A2 upgrade in March makes it a good/bad time to buy?

There's a < $100 tier of pedals and amps that I enjoy but will run a shrunken model with/without A2. Dimehead is working on A2 support too!

wrote an article

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#guitar

Really cool finish! Almost like some kind of optical illusion. This will have to be on my radar if I'm looking at getting an ESP someday. In general I feel like I need some kind of "Tiger" finish lol