I meant that more as a self-commentary, that that was a phase I went through that I should revisit to keep in touch with such things and to keep things fresh.
Actually, I was just thinking of you this weekend, George, when I found a new way cool TV show - or at least an episode of it - that you would have loved, and now that I think of it, is probably appopro here, even though it's not directly about recording.
Check out the show's website at
www.makezine.tv and check out episode 6 for a guy that uses just about anything to make music. There's also some stuff about using PCs to make music in episode 9, but I have not yet seen that myself. Elsewhere in there, there's the people who built their own hand-held versions of Theremins that somehow look like over-sized bobbleheads and play them as a mini-orchestra, the guy who makes musical instruments out of vegetables, the guy who controls his musical instruments by using his hands to bounce laser beams around, etc. etc. etc.
Also some cool stuff there that is quite OT to this thread, but might be of interest to readers here. Check out the "Steampunk" piece for a guy that makes modern technology look like it was built in the steam age, some way cool stuff there including one of the neatest-looking custom made Strat pick guards I've seen (acid-etched brass.) And then there's the guy that took a gorgeous old 1940s radio console, discretely built a turntable, a Sansui receiver a Mac computer and an iPod port into it, and turned it in to an automatic iPod ripper and player that you control from the original 1940's radio buttons and dials.
G.
