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Tom's Music Thing - Ten awesome homemade guitars

J chot writes: HEY GUESS WHAT!!! I spent the entire day at work searching the words "made guitar" and "built guitar"! Here are the most interesting...

Tom's Music Thing - 7 things I learned building my first DIY stompbox

I just finished s very crude and not entirely DIY analog delay pedal. I didn't do any of the difficult circuit-building bits, I just re-housed ...

Tom's Music Thing - Insane Japanese/Finnish anime mashup

OK, this takes a little bit of explaining. Vocaloid is a bit of Yamaha patented software which can sing - input the notes and the lyrics and off it...

Tom's Music Thing - Behringer's ever-expanding pedal range

I feel slightly mucky to admit that one of the few things that really caught my eye in all the Messe coverage was Behringer's fast growing r...

Tom's Music Thing - Johnny Marr in "The Story of the Guitar"

Alan Yentob's 3 hour series The Story of The Guitar has been simultaneously fascinating and irritating. Fascinating because there are plenty of...

Tom's Music Thing - Tom Bugs teaches DIY synth building in four hours

Had a great time yesterday at a synth building workshop in East London hosted by Tom Bugs. We built little one board synths with ten knobs, three o...

Tom's Music Thing - Review: Arturia Origin

This is a difficult review to write. The point of Music Thing over the last few years has been to celebrate hardware when all arou...

Tom's Music Thing - SH Stompin' Bass: a real wooden stompbox

Tom writes to let me know about the Shadow Electronics SH Stompin' Bass, a miked up bit of wood for those times when tapping your foot isn'...

Tom's Music Thing - Gijs Gieskes beautiful spinning photoelectronic acid machine

The first few minutes of this great clip are a bit warble-warble blah-blah, but about 2 minutes in it kicks off into crazy acid noise. Full details...

Tom's Music Thing - Behold the mighty Phantastron tube synth kit

I'm indebted to Deviant Synth for news of the Phantastmatron tube synth kit. It's a relatively simple $195 build-it-yourself kit to build a...

Tom's Music Thing - TV On The Radio's awesome vectorscope video

Nick writes: "TV on the Radio has a great video posted to their MySpace page. It sounds like a song composed of one synth track and looks to be run...

Tom's Music Thing - Building a Bleep Labs Thingamakit

Dr Bleep was kind enough to send me a Thingamakit - his build-it-yourself light cell powered noise synth (it's the big brother of the Thingamag...

Tom's Music Thing - The unplugged, acoustic Tenori On

Kentaro writes with exciting DIY news from Japan: "TENORI-ON is one of the coolest electric musical device: it is portable, easy to play and good f...

Tom's Music Thing - Alan Parson's 10 best bits of music gear ever

MT reader Adam lives in California, near Alan Parsons, who engineered 'Dark Side of The Moon' and lots more. Adam kindly picked Alan's ...

Tom's Music Thing - Mono Valve preamp/eq has retro lab chic

Thanks to cheap Chinese manufacturing and our endless faith in 'warmth', the world is full of really cheap tube preamps (the Art Tube MP is...

Tom's Music Thing - Jorg made an excellent 'Speaking Object'

Love this: "During my 11 days at STEIM I did a working prototype of the second incarnation of the "speakingObject" (no better title still). It'...

Tom's Music Thing - Cute hardware upgrade for BC16 synth

Here's a tiny patchable inverter accessory for the Chimera BC16 mini synth "a little PCB (postage stamp) with four wires hanging out of it (the...

Tom's Music Thing - KB Covers Logic keyboard shortcuts overlay

Logic Studio is a huge, complicated beast of an application. It has 389 preset keyboard commands/shortcuts, with another 587 commands waiting to be...

Tom's Music Thing - Audio Damage Automaton: 'Game of Life' vs glitch

This video makes me smile whenever I watch it. It's so clever, and so bonkers, and so much more fun than almost any other plugin I've seen....

Tom's Music Thing - Orion Galaxy Omega 8

Wow. This is the Orion Galaxy Omega 8, a new all-analog 8-voice poly synth from Studio Electronics. Well, the synth isn't completely new, it...

Tom's Music Thing - Isn't this the sweetest cassette tape you've ever seen?

It's like one of these Teac Cobalt 52's, but with a teeny tiny Roland logo on it. It's also the data cassette from an MC202 for sale in...

Tom's Music Thing - Billy Alexander, the organ player with no fingers

Billy Alexander was born with a birth defect on both hands and feet. Many surgeries, 8 years of professional organ lessons..." and here he is, rock...

Tom's Music Thing - How did Radiohead make 'Everything in its Right Place'?

Mike from LA writes to tell me about his multimedia thesis (kids these days...) "I chose to look at the history of music technology through Radiohe...

Tom's Music Thing - Awesome experimental sequencers

Last year's most covetable boutique synth was probably the Flame Talking Synth - a little tweakable Midi speech synthesizer. For 2008/9,

Tom's Music Thing - Amazing collection of old Fairlight demo tapes

Fairlight inventor Peter Vogel (who owns the domain name anerd.com) has posted a huge archive of audio clips - demo tapes, interviews and strange t...

Tom's Music Thing - Dude wires his own muscles into an analog synth circuit

Cameron writes: "I've been working on a bit of DIY I think you'll find interesting; I built a little analog amp/feedback system and I'm...

Tom's Music Thing - Chimera BC-16

Here's the first clip of the Chimera BC-16 mini synth in action (covered previously). The synth messageboards have been all over the BC-16, sta...

Tom's Music Thing - Fine boutique gear you can actually buy

I'm always talking about my name and citysake Tom Bugs, but his cool stuff always sells out within hours of being announced. Meanwhile, Squarew...

Tom's Music Thing - $50 gadget claims to clean the sound waves of MP3

Clari-Fi is a little passive $50 gadget which goes between your iPod and your headphones, and makes some huge claims about digital music: "This tec...

Tom's Music Thing - The amazing website that can understand music

Here's a technology in search of a killer app: Echo Nest is a web service. Send it an MP3, and it will send back a 800k XML file containing det...

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