by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, May 28, 2022 | music, tech
Update: 18 December 2022. I decided to make a whole separate website on this topic. Click here to visit Broke-ass Guitars. Introduction (tl;dr – For years I didn’t know how to do my own setups, now I kinda do, and here’s how I do it. Now you can skip...
by Scott Feldstein | Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | music, tech
I got a new bag to hold all my music-related tools. This meant going through all that stuff item by item before putting them in their new home. That is when I rediscovered a cheap wireless system I bought two years ago and never really used. I say cheap because I...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, June 5, 2021 | music
Two years ago I bought a used Fender FA-135CE acoustic for $105 and $20 shipping. So not a big investment. I just wanted something to bang out some chords when I felt like it. I didn’t play it much. And between the Wisconsin winter and the very dry heat in my...
by Scott Feldstein | Sunday, May 30, 2021 | music
I’ve been trying to pay regular attention to every instrument in my apartment lately, even if it’s just to tune and play them. I don’t get to all six of them every single day, but pretty close. They have all received recent truss rod tweaks. I did some string height...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, January 23, 2021 | music, tech
I love my AirPods. I use them just about every day, mainly at work for phone calls. I don’t hear so well after playing bass in rock bands for most of the last 35 years and having the sound source directly in my ear is a huge help to me. Plus, it’s cool to...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, September 5, 2020 | music
I have a new tuner on order. It’s a genuine Peterson strobe tuner in pedal form with a big display. It’s called the StroboStomp HD and I think it’s going to be epic. Or at least as epic as a tuner can get. For one thing, it think I’m going to...
