Haha, man, Aldi selling guitar pedals. I was so tempted to buy the lot and make some noise. They even had little practice amps. Sadly not in stock at my local. 

Picked this home made bad boy up from the swap-meet for about $20.

Terrible mixer, great EQ. Use it as a saturating preamp on drums. Yum.

Weird Cat from exeterdown on Vimeo.

Very weird cat that lives on my street. He sometimes comes and hangs out in our yard and gets under the house. Strange meow.

One day I’ll look this cool.

This is a great meal.

Chick peas, spinach leaves, capsicum, cherry tomatoes and spring onion. I made a dressing with lemon juice, olive oil, pepper, paprika and a little maple syrup.

Interesting read. Not every day you see Autechre talked about this way. 

I love this kind of thing.

Really stylish. Every moment needed to make this happen was obviously taken with little regard for interruption. It’s tags like these that make you wonder why anyone would want this stuff painted over. 

Much more like a bad signature than a tag. I also have no idea what’s going on with this keyhole design. Very formal placement too. Mostly featured because of how strange it is. 

I think the one on top is much more interesting but they have similarities which make it’s better features stand out. They even sort of begin and end in the same way, tight and doubling back on themselves, then extending into a loose strike. 

The top ends on this fantastic minimal almost Arabic beam. A few carefully placed asterisks or apostrophes could have taken this to the next level. 

Considering how thin the lines are these letters carry considerable weight. Very uniform broadening of the spray along the top of each letter too. There must have been some speed to the paint but the simplicity implies a calm approach. 

Polyphonic Moog from exeterdown on Vimeo.

Polyphonic Moog Voyager.

This is really quite fancy. It was on the floor of a tram between seats so I hope I have it up the right way (I’m pretty sure I do).

One of the smoothest flows I’ve seen. This is on par with some calligraphy and sign writing. This really stands out and demonstrates the confidence of good tagging. That “I can’t rub a bit out and try again” willingness to leave a mark in public view.

I really like the bottom left’s old world class balanced diagonally by the more garish and fierce top right.

Here are the two possible layouts I’m considering.

All the windows will have curtains hanging in front which will help a little but not all that much.

 I have read it’s best to have the monitors facing down the longest dimension of the room. But this leaves little symmetry for acoustic treatments and could throw out a nice stereo image.

The short layout on the other hand allows for the best symmetry but leaves the listener in a possible “dead-zone” in the center of the room.

The yellow triangles in the corners are bass traps I’m looking into making from fiberglass or heavy acoustic insulation. The red panels are absorber/diffusers. In the short layout there’s a perfect wall for a nice big diffuser but in the long layout the back wall is broken by a window.

 Really stuck on this one.

The new studio space. Still very rough, needs sanding, varnishing, painting… 

Making plans for acoustics and ergonomics before I move all the gear in.