Here’s a low budget, DIY speaker project that stays true to the simple, uncomplicated design of the iPod. You can create these speakers for the iPod or your MP3 player using a recipe of 4 paper cups, 2 toothpicks, and your regular old earbuds. I haven’t actually tried these mod paper cup speakers but the [...]
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DIY iPod Speakers
Posted by NA Admin in June 26th 2009
The world’s largest piano.
Posted by NA Admin in April 6th 2009
Sometime bigger really is better. Adrian Mann of New Zealand is only 16 years old and has built a piano with absolutely no formal training. Not just any piano, mind you - the world’s largest piano.
He took 4 years to build the piano, completely by scratch in his back yard. Enjoy.
Name your band, create cover art and name your first album…randomly!
Posted by NA Admin in March 24th 2009
I’ve seen a ton of band name generators on the net, but here’s something that is a LOT more fun. With a little bit of randomness, Wikipedia, Flickr and Quotationspage can name your band and come up with a name and cover art for your new album!
Here’s how it works:
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How to build a speaker for way less than a dollar
Posted by NA Admin in March 13th 2009
I have to admit that I’m a fan of good-sounding audio equipment. Through the right amplifier and speakers, I can almost see the music (pharmaceuticals not needed). That being said, When I see things like the following videos describing how to make a speaker on the cheap it really makes me smile.
As long [...]
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Releasing (and selling) your own records on vinyl
Posted by NA Admin in February 17th 2009
Vinyl is booming. There was one year about 10 years ago that I heard that one model of turntable (Technics 1200’s) outsold all models of electric guitars combined. The industry died down a bit after that, but recently vinyl has seen a resurgence and has been setting sales records (no pun intended).
I’ve released [...]
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Music from sand?
Posted by NA Admin in February 15th 2009
Diego Stocco is a composer, sound designer, composer for video games, and all-round creative guy. Not only are his compositions very interesting to listen to, but he’s got a knack for making his music out of the least likely of sources.
Diego was born in Italy and discovered music at the age of 6 when [...]
A story about a man and his records
Posted by NA Admin in September 11th 2008
Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to advancing age, financial issues, health issues and a struggling record industry Paul has been forced to sell his collection…. AGAIN.
The sounds of (almost) silence - hearing the heartbeat of a snail
Posted by NA Admin in July 28th 2008
Thomas Edison (or his students, one really never knows with him) worked on the carbon microphone in 1876. Since then, microphone technology has come a heck of a long way, from liquid microphones that rendered speech so you could actually understand it (early mics couldn’t render speech intelligibly), to condenser mics used for studio [...]
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