Projects I've Cooked Up
Seaboard RISE 25: The USB Jack Is Fine, the Traces Aren't
The jack was fine. The traces under it snapped. Four wires, a pin map measured through the cable, and a keyboard that no longer switches on when you plug it in. It works anyway.
The Q-Filter: A Passive Bark Dial That Turned Out to Be a Switch
A Jazz Bass tone slot with no tone pot: a no-load 50K dial and one 1nF cap that relocate the pickup's resonant peak. What it measured, why the dial is really a two-position switch, and what goes back in its place.
Jazz Bass Master Harness: Volume · Q · Blend + Series/Parallel + Phantom Buffer
A Jazz Bass harness with series/parallel switching, a passive Q-filter in place of the tone control, and a phantom-powered ring-hot buffer. Three knobs, no tone pot, cable-immune. Built for Fralin Split Jazz. Every solder joint numbered.
Four Pickups, One Sound: Which Jazz Bass Pickup Gets You There?
Four hum-cancelling Jazz Bass pickups mapped across three circuit stages, with the charts to show which one gets closest to your target — and what two months of playing the winner said about how much the pickup was ever the question.
I Simulated 29 Jazz Bass Pickups So I Wouldn't Have to Buy Them All
A Python pickup simulator ranks 29 Jazz Bass pickups by brightness through three circuits. DC resistance is the wrong number; inductance predicts tone. Then a bench A/B of three sets through the same harness put the pickup differences at about 2dB — and the harness at 12.
Fretboard Clarity
Triads unlock the fretboard. Two videos showed me what that looks like. A spreadsheet turned into a tool.
Building a MIDI Footswitch for Mobius Looper
A USB-MIDI foot controller for Mobius looper. Six switches, three gestures each, 18 functions. Nobody makes one. So I did.
