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Made a IWO badge for a friend's wife's retirement. Maple machines SO much better than walnut. Going to be doing some NFO wings this weekend in Cherry. Still have another 50 Army ones to do. 🤦‍♂️

Making my Dad's Texas chili recipe. 1 med. onion diced. 1 Red bell pepper diced 1 Anaheim pepper diced 2 jalapeños diced 2 lbs. beef stew meat 1 lb. pork stew meat 1 lb. good quality chorizo 16 oz. tomato sauce 14 oz. diced tomato, fire roasted 3 cups water Spices (secret) A little masa slurry Top with crumbled queso fresca

Some pics of the motor housing restoration / upgrade, as everything got back from the polisher today (excuse the fingerprints). My previous DIY motor housings have just had a top plate with the motor attached. This one actually clamps the motor against a piece of sorbothane sheeting which resulted in a lot less noise at the platter. Now I need to work on the motor controller

Decided to use the new air fryer as God intended - donuts. Liberal extra glaze applied, hence messiness. The first few looked pretty standard but were consumed quickly.

St. Vincent – These Days

VPI TNT and Tri-Planar arm from 1994. Shelter 901 cartridge.

Hah, no worries. Only one more for tonite - 8-pin to TRS (tachometer) and 5-pin (motor pod). Been a long while since I soldered a TRS plug.. really like these Switchcraft EN3 plugs - use them on all my umbilical cables now.

Kinda hate to interrupt Marc's cool series but,.. https://phonocut.com/

That happened entirely too fast!

Thanks Alan. I'll give that a read. Interesting that it's from back in the day Here's a rendering of what the amp will look like. It will be about 70 x 150 x 24 mm. We're looking at using USB-C PD so we'll be able to run off of most chargers (at least 20W). Power input will have a boost/buck converter so it could run off of 5/9/15/20V chargers. Still some work ahead, but we think we'll be able to fit a DAC in as well.

I stayed up waaay to late last night and watched season 1 of Shetland. (It's only two episodes.) Shetland is a fascinating part of the world for me. It's halfway between Scotland and the Nordic countries geographically and culturally. The accents are as thick as a pony's mane, so all praise to subtitles. The end of season 1 kind of fell apart (as many made for TV tales have a tendency to do) but I quite liked everything leading up to it.

As far as the Native Instruments crossgrade trick goes, I don't know why I shouldn't just post it here since it isn't like some kinda big secret. It has changed a bit since I took advantage of it a long time ago. The idea is to get a free or cheap Kontakt instrument that comes with the full version of Kontakt (there is a Player version which is always free). When I did it, I used the free Senheisser Drum Mic A instrument but I guess that no longer works. Anyway, once you have a full version of Kontakt, you can crossgrade that to a Komplete bundle during a half off sale which is usually a month long during the summer (or something like that). Here's a thread from 2020 from the Reaper Forum (best computer music forum ever IMHO) where they are talking about it. https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=238076&highlight=drummica Like I said, it's been a long, long time since I did this and IIRC I had to do a crossgrade for about $200 and an upgrade for about $200 and in the end I had Komplete Ultimate which was twice that much retail. This can only be done during the summer upgrade/crossgrade sale. It's possible that they may have sales on Komplete bundles that are close to this these days.

Didn't know exactly where to post this... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-12/hollywood-drone-video-minnesota-bowling-alley/13241718?fbclid=IwAR26zvLu1SM0Hn0zsCuGlDjWEtZU-QmigKyp8_X475rpHgNykEpDkA3sKSE

Try adding a little coffee to the recipe and let me know what you think.

Yeah, all great advice and I really appreciate hearing it again, as I’m one of those people who needs to hear things multiple times and needs constant reinforcement of lessons. I’ve been pretty good so far, only have Trash, Arturia Collection, and a basic orchestral collection from VSL. But yeah, I need to learn those 50% or less tricks, will DM you this weekend.

Here is part of the controller - a battery charger circuit named after Zeus’ favorite projectile. Apparently I can’t center the white box on the side where the circuit notes go, but otherwise looks pretty slick - about the size of a matchbox. Won’t be solar powered, as the LT3652 datasheet might suggest though the stacked TH and SMD connectors are from JST.

^ A beautiful record. A nice album to put my TT rig through its paces as well. It did quite well. I think this is my new reference album. Thanks Marc!

A new record that Marc sent to me...

One of my favorite New Order (Joy Division) songs. Covered nicely by Radiohead as well.....now by original JD bassist Peter Hook, his son, and Smashing Pumpkin guitarist.

Reverse seared Wagyu coulotte steak and taters. Salad not pictured.

I love sherbet! Especially the Orange and Lime swirl!

I have been waiting on a watch I ordered a long while. Knew it would be a test of patience. That’s all fine and good but I broke down and bought myself a little something in the meantime.... HS