On 04/04/2011 14:45, IVP wrote:
> A big favourite of British blues players of the 60s and 70s (Alice
> Cooper's original guitarist Glen Buxton was pretty damn good
> too - Killer, Billion Dollar Babies album). Beautiful open sound

Me too - I love the early Cream/Peter Green/Stones/Floyd sounds. Also=20
much US stuff such as Hendrix, Lynard Skynard (used to enjoy covering=20
Voodoo Chile and Freebird :-)  ) and Neil Young. Early Blues influences=20
for me were Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, BB King, JL Hooker - plenty of=20
great stuff to learn there.
I remember picking my favourite valve amp - I tried every one in the=20
shop and pretty much hated them all, then I plugged into an Orange AD30=20
and never looked back, wonderful amp. If you want that crunchy, thick,=20
bluesy tone, then you would be hard pushed to find a better amp. Not=20
very forgiving though, you can make it sound bad very easily.. :-)

Getting back to electronics, I dug my little 16F690 dev board out and=20
wrote a little loop to test the strobe tuner out (thinking of maybe=20
making a little kit for our website)
It works well - as predicted, firing the LEDs 180 degrees apart makes it=20
easier to see relative movement between the "two strings". I intend to=20
try to improve it a bit, and test out things like firing one at an=20
overtone frequency, or maybe using more LEDs (4 at 90 degrees?)
I noticed "standard" red LEDs are not optimum, so I will try some ultra=20
bright white ones, with a tighter focus angle.


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