April 17, 2018

Five steps to better aviation with Hologram’s Infinite Jets Pedal.

This amazing granular “resynthesizer” doesn’t get all the love it deserves. I think much of that is the result of players not setting the pedal up for best performance and not completely understanding how it works. Follow these five steps for happier skies with Infinite Jets:

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February 25, 2018

Red Panda Lab Tensor Recipes.

As with Red Panda’s Particle effect pedal, there’s a learning curve to the Tensor. None of the knobs on the Tensor use the standard, left-is-less-right-is-more configurations. They also do different things depending on where other knobs are set. You get a QuickStart guide with the Red Panda Labs Tensor. That’s kinda like buying a surplus space shuttle and getting a single sheet of instructions on how to fly it.

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December 11, 2017

Pedalurgy: All the Ditto X4 looper pedal tricks.

To keep things practical, these tricks cover all the things you can do with your TC Electronic Ditto X4 looper without having to connect it to a computer or a MIDI output.

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November 4, 2017

How to create tinted black and white photos in the iPhone Photos app.

Since the early days of photography, tinting was a way to add the emotion that color brings to visceral black and white images. Images tinted in a warm sepia or cool blue can be more striking than full color images. It’s easy to turn your color images into tinted back and white in the iOS 11 Photos app. Here’s how:

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September 30, 2017

The almost painfully-long glossary of iPhone photo terms.

This glossary originally appeared in my book The Crap-Free Guide to iPhone Photography.

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