{"id":8593,"date":"2016-01-27T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:33:06","slug":"to-vancouver-also-a-build-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/to-vancouver-also-a-build-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"to vancouver! also, a build follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off to Vancouver for a show! Not one of mine tho&#8217;, we&#8217;re seeing Le Vent du Nord tonight at the Rogue.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned that <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/21\/build-report-zeppelin-labs-cortado\/\">the instrument pickup I built last week<\/a> sounded really good if I used my finger, but terrible using their standard attachment methods. I tried attaching it using a plastic clamp, but at first, that didn&#8217;t seem to help, so I rebuilt the piezo portion of the device, without the double-sided tape which had confused me the first time around.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s had an interesting effect. Held on by hand, the sound is definitely different &#8211; lots more low-end &#8211; but I think I like it <em>less<\/em>. But at the same time, using the clamp now works &#8211; it sounds the same with the plastic clamp as it does held on with finger, which is a <em>huge<\/em> improvement, and makes it usable on stage.<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely something which requires more tinkering, but I&#8217;ve got it far enough along to try using during Friday&#8217;s show. Because SURE UNTESTED GEAR WHY NOT right? Well, you have to test it <em>sometime<\/em>. XD<\/p>\n<p>Time to fly. See you at the Rogue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off to Vancouver for a show! Not one of mine tho&#8217;, we&#8217;re seeing Le Vent du Nord tonight at the Rogue. I mentioned that the instrument pickup I built last week sounded really good if I used my finger, but terrible using their standard attachment methods. I tried attaching it using a plastic clamp, but [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-other-peoples-art","category-touring-equipment-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8595,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions\/8595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}