My Bee Photo Made the Local Paper
Bumble Bees – June 2022
Don’t let PayPal translate your foreign purchases

Despite their name, PayPal isn’t always your pal. If you’ve ever purchased something from a foreign online store, you may have found the converted price ended up being a little higher than you expected. Not a whole lot higher, but for me, PayPal seemed to increase the price by around 2%+. The reason is PayPal’s …
Devious Machines Duck Tip for EDM Pumping Effect

A while ago, I switched from Cableguys’ ShaperBox to Devious Machines’ Duck for handling side-chain pumping in my EDM songs. They both basically could do the job, but I just liked Duck’s UI better. So in my current song, I noticed that the kick and snare just didn’t hit right, even though I had everything …
Origins of left and right-side driving
Great article on the origins of left and right-side driving. It’s roots involve horses, swords, and…camels 🤔 However, probably the “driving” force of a country’s convention is who’s in charge. https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/
The Ultimate Sylenth Preset Manager
Ableton Sampler-Simpler-Drum Rack-Audio Sound Difference

I was playing around with a kick sample using the different playback methods in Ableton and thought I heard a subtle difference. Sampler sounded more like the actual audio clip and Simpler/Drum Rack sounded slightly thinner. So loaded them all in a project and used Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi to see if there actually was …
HBO Max Roku app – Signing off and changing account

I, like many, had a hard time figuring out how to sign off and then sign into a different HBO Max account on the new Roku HBO Max app. The app monkeys…errr designers…did an excellent job of hiding the sign off option, but the following tutorial should make it crystal clear. Before you start, please …
Live Enhancement Suite: Using OCR and Macro to Speed Up Menu Entries

I’ve been an Ableton Live user for about six months and have viewed countless videos and tutorials. I’ve been using the colored Collections feature in Live to organize my plug-ins, but with a maximum of just seven groups, it’s too darn limited to be truly useful. I’ve seen various tutorials on physically moving VST DLL …