Current Pedal Obsession: J Rockett Boing Reverb.

The “I just want reverb dammit” reverb.

Boing is not so special. And that’s why players seem to like what it does: No drowning your signal in reverb soup. No ambience that wears out its welcome. No artificial shimmer. Just sweet, amp-like spring reverb as Leo Fender intended it.

Current obsession: Discomfort Designs Phantom Limb pedal.

The long-awaited return of deja vu.

What’s Phantom Limb? The tl;dr: version: An always-recording, 15-60 second memory loop that feeds a menagerie of randomly-triggered, harmoniously-pitched, forward-and-reverse microloopers that then feeds into a long delay. The result? You play a riff and incidental cinematic music back at you.

Chapter 16: What the heck is Lightroom for iPad doing?

The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.

A big problem is that software gets updated, but the Internet doesn’t. There’s a lot of content out there about older versions of software that’s no longer correct and near impossible to weed through. And while the intent of Google AI is to eliminate this, at times it just makes it worse: Often there is no trusted source to go to.

Information about Lightroom for iPad is one such victim. How does it handle images imported from Photos or directly from your camera roll? Why is Lightroom auto-enhancing DNG files? And why do images look different than those imported to iPad Photos? After some experimentation, I think I have some actual answers.

Let’s do the time, warped. Again.

Universal Time through Discomfort Designs Phantom Limb looper.

Shortwave radio is full of fascinating oddities: pirate radio, propaganda broadcasts, numbers stations, etc. Recent my friend Dan showed me a site that creates a simulation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology WWV Universal Time broadcast from Fort Collins, Colorado. After some digging, I found that the real thing was available by telephone.

Chapter 15: Simplify your editing with curves in Lightroom for iPad.

The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.

If you’ve tried editing color images with curves in the past—you may have given up. But it turns out editing true monochrome images in curves is much simpler than editing color. Instead of those five confusing curves, you’re usually only dealing with one: the Point curve. This article will show you how simple it it to control what you’re currently using the Exposure, Contrast, Brightness, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks sliders for in Lightroom. I’ve decide not to show images and the effects the Curves have. I think it will make more sense to focus on the grid and curves themselves.