by willyMac416 | May 2, 2021 | Audio & Instruments, Entertainment, Graphic Design & Animation, Music, Photography
This is my baby, cleverly named Martin. A Martin Dreadnought, DXM Natural 2003. It’s not top of the line, but it’s everything I need in an acoustic guitar. Bought June 9th 2017 for $395 used. I played this every day on my lunch break in the parking lot...
by willyMac416 | May 2, 2021 | Audio & Instruments, Engineering, Featured, Music, Odd Projects
Okay this one is a little different. I once asked myself; “Has anyone out there made a fretless bass/ electric guitar hybrid?” I couldn’t find one like the design I had in my head. So I decided to challenge myself to build one. Unfortunately I...
by willyMac416 | May 2, 2021 | Audio & Instruments, Engineering, Music
This is one of my electric guitars. The tuning pegs and machines on the EAD strings tune in reverse as the set was from a different guitar. The pickups are custom single coil and a humbucker at the bridge The pick-guard is custom painted
by willyMac416 | Jun 14, 2020 | All Posts, Audio & Instruments, Engineering, Featured, Music, Odd Projects
The assignment was to create a weighing scale. Some used springs, some used rubber bands, I used guitar strings. Using the equations above, I built a scale that used tension on a guitar string as an indicator for the mass of a load. There are 3 variables that...
by willyMac416 | Jun 8, 2020 | All Posts, Audio & Instruments, Audio Resources, Engineering, Entertainment, Music, Resources
At the beginning of my time at WWU, I started independently studying music theory to get better at guitar. Everything I know about music theory and sound engineering is written in this blue moleskine notebook. I’ll continue to post pages from it that have...
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