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Fortunately this seems to be quite focused on talking gear and that sort of thing, not talking about music opinions or current events. To me it makes it a bette
by 6stringmerc 10y ago
Fortunately this seems to be quite focused on talking gear and that sort of thing, not talking about music opinions or current events. To me it makes it a better article:
>So a lot of it came out of solving problems?
“Yeah, a lot of it was through necessity and just mistakes. A lot of accidents. Like the one-pickup thing wasn’t intentional. I just didn’t know how to wire it back up to the five-position toggle switch, it was just too complicated!
& this one:
>“Then I went ‘Ding! I wonder what’ll happen if I hook my main amp up to the light dimmer in the house?!’ Of course, I blew out all the fuses in the house because I wired it backwards, but once I figured it out, I went down to an electronics store and asked ‘Do you guys sell an industrial type of variable voltage regulator?’ and they go ‘Yeah, here you go!’ It was called a Variac.
Gems like that really seem to align with the hacker ethos of diving in sometimes and still being ignorant enough to have room to learn over time.