by willyMac416 | Dec 20, 2023 | All Posts, Audio Resources, Entertainment, Featured, Music, Resources
This is a percussion MIDI collection consolidated by MIDI_MAN on reddit. It’s absolutely massive. From the README file: Percussion Kit 1.0 ======================================== a collection of 800,000 MIDI Files Encompassing a large selection of publicly...
by willyMac416 | Dec 20, 2023 | All Posts, Audio Resources, Entertainment, Featured, Music, Resources
Ultimate Guitar used to have accessible Guitar Pro files that you could download and open up in the Guitar Pro program. The amount you could learn from unwrapping the compositions of your favorite songs was absolutely pivotal in my learning journey. They have since...
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...
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