The Tuning Fork: Roll Your Own Tunings
The tuning presets in the TU101 Strobe Tuner are stored as plain JSON, a few lines of text listing the target notes string by string.…
Still Phreaking Out! with Frank Zappa
In our last post, AmpStamp + CameraStamp = Phreak Out!, we chased both the sound and the look of Frank Zappa’s 1966 debut, Freak Out!…
Five Tips for Getting Started with CameraStamp
While you’re getting familiar with the film stocks, the broadcast tube models, and the effects, here are a few things to help you take the…
Audio Issues in GarageBand with SynthStamp
If you want to try SynthStamp in a DAW and you aren’t a Logic Pro user, GarageBand is a great, free alternative. But free doesn’t…
CameraStamp + AmpStamp = Phreak Out!
Frank Zappa’s Freak Out! turns 60. We recreated the pink glow of Ray Leong’s cover in CameraStamp and the Switchmaster-into-Deluxe tone in AmpStamp.
Welcome to CameraStamp
While building a skillset modeling tube amplifiers, we found ourselves watching old Beatles footage, the Ed Sullivan broadcasts from February 1964, and we kept noticing…
Real Iron: Transformer Saturation Comes to AmpStamp
Everyone says the Variac was for turning a cranked amp down. We don’t think so—meet Transformer Saturation, the real reason players reached for one.
Blonde Sound™ II: Over the Edge
Was Eddie Van Halen’s blonde Bandmaster behind Van Halen II? We test the VG204D with Celestion blackbacks and Kurt Müller cones, plus new Blonde Sound…
Music Made by Metal Machines
Nobody has ever agreed on why Lou Reed made Metal Machine Music—a purge, a contractual middle finger, or, as he insisted to the end, an…
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