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GEARBASS·April 24, 2026Apr 24, 2026·17 min read

How You Touch the String Is Everything

A complete guide to bass guitar technique - history, physics, five approaches, and why the floating thumb is the most natural choice

Five approaches to right-hand bass technique - history, physics, pros and cons, and why the floating thumb is the most ergonomically natural choice of all.

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GEARTECH·April 22, 2026Apr 22, 2026·8 min read

What Your Cable Actually Does to Your Tone

The LC resonance hiding inside every guitar cable - and why going wireless means putting it back with DSP

What does a guitar cable actually do to your tone? An LC resonant circuit - the same physics as AM radio - and why wireless systems have to simulate the thing they replaced.

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GEARGUITAR·April 18, 2026Apr 18, 2026·12 min read

The Guitar That Kept Earning Its Place

Two decades with the Cort M520 - pickup surgery, string physics, and a sprawling search for something better that ended exactly where it started

Two decades with the Cort M520: pickup surgery, a year-long string search through jazz physics, a twenty-year-neglected truss rod, and a hunt for something better that ended exactly where it started.

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GEARBASS·March 29, 2026Mar 29, 2026·9 min read

The Bass That Arrived From Another Era

A Fender American Original '60s Jazz Bass, Thomastik-Infeld flatwounds, and the physics behind a tone that was always there - waiting

A Fender American Original '60s Jazz Bass, three-colour sunburst, Pure Vintage '64 pickups. The factory strings lasted twenty minutes. The Thomastik-Infeld JF344 flatwounds went on instead, and something clicked.

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REALRESONANCE·March 7, 2026Mar 7, 2026·7 min read

The Engagement Pool: Where Music Finds Its Audience

A deep look at how RealResonance connects musicians through a genre-aware, intelligently filtered discovery system

How the RealResonance Engagement Pool uses a hierarchical genre tree, smart filtering, and multiple sort dimensions to connect musicians with the right listeners at any scale.

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REALRESONANCE·February 25, 2026Feb 25, 2026·7 min read

The Echo: Music Creates Music

A deep dive into RealResonance's core feature - how short musical responses are changing the way musicians connect

Echoes are the heart of RealResonance - short musical responses that let musicians speak to each other in the language they know best. Here's everything about how they work.

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UPFUSION·February 20, 2026Feb 20, 2026·5 min read

Axiom (Ocean Edit): Submerged in Sound

Reimagining a jazz composition through the ethereal voice of the vibraphone - and a brief history of mallet percussion

The story behind the Ocean Edit of Axiom - a submerged ambient rearrangement that trades guitar for vibraphone-like textures, and a love letter to mallet percussion instruments.

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UPFUSION·February 7, 2026Feb 7, 2026·11 min read

AEON on Vinyl: From Digital to Physical

The joy of pressing your own music into something real - a journey through tape players, CDs, iPods, and the beautiful craft of lathe-cut records

Releasing AEON on vinyl and sharing those records with my closest friends. A nostalgic journey through the formats that shaped us - and the craft behind modern lathe-cut records.

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REALRESONANCE·December 25, 2025Dec 25, 2025·8 min read

Security, Privacy, and Trust at RealResonance

Built to the highest standards of security and software engineering - because your music and your data deserve nothing less

A deep look at how RealResonance approaches security, privacy, and legal compliance. From TLS encryption to full GDPR compliance - transparency is everything.

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REALRESONANCE·December 7, 2025Dec 7, 2025·10 min read

RealResonance Essentials: Understanding the Platform

A friendly guide to Vibes, the Engagement Pool, Feedback Requests, Echoes, and everything that makes RealResonance tick

New to RealResonance? Here's everything you need to know - from Vibes and the Engagement Pool to the different types of Feedback Requests and Echoes.

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UPFUSION·December 5, 2025Dec 5, 2025·6 min read

AEON: A Jazzy Adventure Through Truth and Illusion

Celebrating the release of my eighth album - ten compositions on presence, clarity, and the spaces in between

AEON is here. Ten tracks that contemplate the paradox of presence - how we dwell simultaneously in clarity and illusion, in measured ages and fleeting perfections.

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REALRESONANCE·November 25, 2025Nov 25, 2025·8 min read

Building RealResonance

How a simple question became a platform where feedback is music

The story of creating the world's first musical response platform - built by a musician, for musicians, driven by the community itself.

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