{"id":9840,"date":"2016-10-24T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9840"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:45:11","slug":"hard-hard-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/hard-hard-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"hard, hard candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a thing! It&#8217;s called a focus knob. It&#8217;s quite simple and normally you&#8217;d built it into an electric guitar as a guitar mod, but since I don&#8217;t have an electric guitar, I built it as a pluggable external box.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-10\/organic-hard-candy.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Basically a mild high-pass filter that serves to pull out &#8216;boominess&#8217; from instruments, it puts a bit more of an edge on an instrument&#8217;s sound &#8211; the more you turn it up, the greater the change. As effects go &#8211; on my zouk, anyway &#8211; it&#8217;s pretty subtle. But it&#8217;s also the kind of shift that is multiplied by later effects added in, and changes how later-in-chain boxes like distortion pedals work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.premierguitar.com\/articles\/24592-the-recording-guitarist-the-fabulous-focus-knob\">As you can see from the instructions here, the wiring takes all of about 20 minutes&#8217; time<\/a>. But it&#8217;s good warmup for making a bunch of component upgrades to my Oktava 012s, and I already had all the parts from the Great Radio Shack Lootfest of 2014. Plus, hey, cool hard candy tin!<\/p>\n<p>So I have a a HARD CANDY knob now. It goes from Hard to Candy. Yum. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a thing! It&#8217;s called a focus knob. It&#8217;s quite simple and normally you&#8217;d built it into an electric guitar as a guitar mod, but since I don&#8217;t have an electric guitar, I built it as a pluggable external box. Basically a mild high-pass filter that serves to pull out &#8216;boominess&#8217; from instruments, it [&#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":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-recording-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840","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=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9845,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions\/9845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}