Current pedal obsession: Pladask Elektrisk Baklengs.
Granular delay, etc. etc, etc.
The Pladask Baklengs is categorized as a granular synthesizer. It breaks a delayed signal into snippets of sound called grains and plays them back forward, reversed, randomly ordered, timestretched, pitched up or down an octave and fed back into themselves for minutes-long morphs. As the third in the BakXXX trilogy of pedals from Pladask, following Bakvendt and Backfram, it adds the ability to microloop the 2700ms of memory. This article is an instant-immersion recipe book for Baklengs that can turn it from quirky anomaly to a vital pedal on your board.
Chapter 20: How to color tone a monochrome DNG in Lightroom.
The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.
The Leica Q2M produces a true monochrome DNG file. That means that the black-and-white sensor produces no color information, so the DNG file has no color profile. When you open the file in Lightroom the color tools not only don’t do anything but are grayed-out. So you can’t tone your monochrome DNG files in Lightroom.
But what you can do is create a final TIF or JPG of the image and edit that in Lightroom. Since they both have built-in provisions for color, you can tone these monochrome images with conventional control controls in Lightroom.
Current Pedal Obsession: Old Blood BL-44 Reverse pedal.
Get ready to be taken aback.
I’m itching to explain the concept of a reverse pedal. But Einstein and the Bootstrap Paradox are involved, so let’s forget all that. Instead this article will just help you get along with the BL-44 pedal as part of your musical workflow without too much time-space continuum talk.
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.
The complete guide to this microlooper-in-disguise.
If you’da asked, I’da told you this would happen. When The King of Gear released the Mini Glitch as Jonny-Greenwood-in-a-pedal, it was easy to see beyond this device’s superb glitching to its microlooping possibilities. Originally designed for Radiohead fans, this pedal’s usefulness has put it on the pedalboards of ambient, jazz, acoustic and non-guitar players.
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