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so we already know it sounds amazing with an electric guitar plugged in, but may I suggest that it sounds just as amazing with an acoustic. Recorded directly into the iPhone 15, volume normalized in TwistedWave. This is so dope that it is so easy to record guitar into a phone! I absolutely love this thing, more and more each day.

listen below, and find more at

http://www.guitarflatter.com

We’re living in the future I tell you. Guitar players! Have you seen the Fender Mustang Micro? Thinking back to my first effects processer, the Digitech RP10, it was almost as long as my guitar case. It was just as heavy as my guitar. and It for sure didn’t sound as good as the Mustang Micro.

What do you get? A device that fits in the palm of your hand, sporting a quarter inch plug that fits into your electric guitar. On the front of the device is a large volume knob. On the sides of the device are buttons. Amp select plus minus, EQ plus minus, effects plus minus. Effects parameter plus minus. On the other side is the on/off switch, which also slides to put the device in Bluetooth paring mode. Yes, that’s right, you can BT into the device, and play along with backing tracks, and that’s not all. On the end of the device, you have an eighth inch headphone jack, and, USB C for charging and record out. Yep, you can plug it into your IPhone 15, and record straight into any app or Stream over the Social Media universe. A hidden secret, is that if you are streaming into from one IPhone, and recording into another, the recording will also include the Bluetooth audio.

Audio quality? Pretty dang good. You can’t tweek the presets to much but they all sound good, no filler. Recordings come out very cleanas well, just what you hear through headphones.

Use cases. I can think of a lot. If you’ve got an Ion Block rocker and want to do a small show, you can run this guy into the line in eighth inch, and have guitar and backing track. Then plug your mic into the other jack. Playing through headphones is an obvious. Recording quick ideas on the fly couldn’t be easier. We can think of more things too I’m sure.

Click below for audio.

Scrolling through tones.

Bluetooth audio and guitar. Backing track.

Audio Demo

Daily planner Scripts V1.0
Written by Drew Weber
January 2024.

These scripts focus on creating notes for a day in question, vs, focusing on a time and appointment as a calendar provides.
None of you’re planner information is stored in these scripts but rather in settings files that are not included as they will be created/managed when scripts are used.
The settings files will be stored in the Personalized settings folder, and named as, for example,
DailyPlannerJanuary.JSI
Note. You may not use the Grave accent key within your notes. This is the key directly below the escape key as it is being used as a delimiter within programming.

Usage:
keystrokes.
Toggle on/off with control+alt+p.
When active, you will hear a chime every 2 minutes to remind you that Daily planner is active.
Control+alt+left: move back day
Control+alt+right: move forward day
Control+alt+up: move back month.
Control+alt+down: move forward month
Control+alt+rightShift: create new note.
Edit mode:
Control+Alt+shift+right move forward, select, and read individual note on a day.
Control+Alt+shift+Left: move backward, Select, and read individual note on a day.
Control+Alt+E: Edit currently selected note. Pops up in the same style dialogue that you originally composed the note in.
Control+Alt+D: Delete currently selected note.
Control+alt+end, above arrow keys: review notes for day.
Note review pops up in virtual viewer so may select/copy.
Control+alt+M: review entire month in viewer.
You first musth select a month.
Month review pops up in virtual viewer so may select/copy.
To export a month to clipboard: First select a month, and then press Control+Shift+Alt+M.
Launch Notepad and paste. Notes are organized in order month/day.

Installation

Coppy the ToggleDailyPlanner script from the DefaultDotJSS file to the end of your Default script file. Opening the Script manager with Insert+0, then control+shift+D to navigate to your Default file. If you are in the Shared default, you will need to press Control+end and then, Control+e to create a new script. You may call it test, and type comments in the comments fields, then press ok. Press control+end again. You may then paste the script from the DefaultDotJSS.txt text file. If you are in the User Default file, press control+end, paste the script. In either case, press control+s to save. You should hear, compile complete. open the default.jkm key map file in the Script manager, and in the common keys section, paste the key mapping from the DefaultDotJKM.TXT file. Press control+s to save.
Next copy the
DailyPlanner.JKM
DailyPlanner.jsb
files from the zip file into your JAWS Settings folder. To get there:
Navigate to the JAWS main window.
Press alt+u to launch the utilities menu.
Press x, to launch the Utilities folder.
Press E until you reach, Explore My settings. Press enter.
Now, using Insert+t, JAWS should announce, ENU. If so, you are in the correct folder.
Paste the above files here. Restart JAWS. You may now use your new scripts! Download is below.

I’ve had the echo Frames third generation from Amazon for a couple weeks now, and I can confidently say they have changed the way I go about my day to day life. When you haven’t yet lived with something, it’s hard to understand living with it. If you were to tell me, well, you have Alexa wherever you are. I wouldn’t really grasp that, as generally speaking I haven’t lived with Alexa in a wareable. As I have now done so, I don’t think before asking Alexa something. It’s become, automatic. The cake though, for me really, is having all audio from my IPhone going through the glasses. No longer do I have to worry that I’m anoying others with my screen reader, worry that they understand what it is saying, or having the volume low, hold the phone incorrectly up to my ear, and then fear that I am drawing even more attention to myself as someone who is already blind. I had purchased a pare of AFtershocks bone conduction headphones about 6 months ago. I didn’t feel them truly comfortable, and they did mess with my spacial awareness just a little, but enough to realize. I was though faithful in waring them, whenever I was outside my house. The trade off, was being able to hear my phone as mentioned above. I could tell though, that unfortunately they did draw unnessasary attention to me. I was asked several times if they were hearing aids? It gave me an opportunity to explain them, which was cool, but again, unnessasary if I wasn’t in the mood. I feel waring the glasses take this question out of the equation. Also, I have all spacial awareness back, and they are very comfortable. In saying all of that, are these glasses perfect, or as good as the next generation? Probably not, but I truly can’t find many flaws in them. Now that we have the prologue out of the way, lets get to the review.

Packaging:

In Amazon style, this is done very nicely. You don’t have to build the frames or anything. Just take the packing paper off of the temples, or, sides. They also come with a leather case which comes folded up. The case works such as, when it is folded you can travel with it as you ware the glasses. The case folds flat. You open the case and pull out the corners, and this opens the case up in which you may store the glasses. The case has a flap which is magnetic, store the glasses inside, and snap the case closed with a satisfying snap. They ship with a charger, and USB A to C charging cable.

The charger is interesting, and I feel the process could be more accessible. For example, if the glasses stayed connected via Bluetooth to let you know they were charging, or, if the charging unit connected via Bluetooth, or beeped, this would have helped my initial trust in the process. Also, how the glasses fit into the charger was a mystery to me until it was explained. Heres how I now think about it. The charger is a small unit which I think of, as similar to a wireless charging pad. The reason for this is, that the charger doesn’t have any metal points, plates, etc. The glasses don’t have any ports, or anything that you may feel that you would say, yes, this is used for charging. In saying this, the charging unit is not flat. Moving from back to front, so as the back of the charger is away from you. There is a USB C port on the back bottom. Moving up from this, I’ll call it slanted wall. Which slants towards you. When you get to the top of the wall, and you allow your fingers to drop over the side, your fingers fall into a small horizontal well. As you pull your fingers out of this well on the peace of the device most towards you, you find that it feels like a nose. This makes sense as we are talking about glasses. This is the front of the charger, most towards you.

How do the glasses fit into the charger?

Lets start by opening the glasses up, so that the sides are in either hand, the lenses are in front of you. Lets now close the glasses, left arm first. The lenses are still in front of you, and the glasses are folded up. Now, tilt the glasses so the arms are on the bottom, lenses are facing the sealing.Now, turn them around, so that the nose peace is towards you. This, is how they drop into the charger. The nose peace fits around the nose peace on the front of the charger. The rest of the glasses in front of the back wall, inside the charger. So, how do you know they are charging? You don’t, really. The sides do get a bit warm and it may be a good indicator. I feel it is now appropriate to say, that it is normal that the glasses don’t fold up as tight as conventionary glasses do. Does this mean they are big and bulky because they house electronics? No, it doesn’t.

What do the glasses look like? I believe they come in different colors, shapes etc. I have black ones, and they have been compared to look like Ray Bans. I truly think they look normal, not, like they house electronics. They feel? Comfortable. Light weight. On the right arm, you have two small buttons which allow you to control the features of the glasses. On the left arm you have a small rocker switch which controls volume. How do they fit? Pretty good. They do slide down the nose just a bit, and if I am looking down at all, I do need to push them back up on my face, but, I do not, feel like they are going to fall off my face.

You can easily ware headphones over the glasses. Depending on the headphones, this may cause the ends of the ear peaces to dig into your head a little. Why would you want to ware headphones with them? If, for example you are working and using JAWS on headphones, and want to be connected to Alexa, and your smartphone. When you are waring headphones, you can turn down the volume of the glasses, which, will save battery.

So, how is battery life? I would have to say, exceptional. I can get a day plus, out of them before charging. This is perfect for using with Voiceover. To check the battery status, ask Alexa, “what’s my battery status?” Also, you can check in the batteries widget on your IPhone.

Sound quality? I feel it may be wrong to have an expectation here before we use them. Knowing that the battery is as great as it is, and they are as lightweight as they are, the audio isn’t going to be big, but it is nice. I can compare them to the Aftershocks. They are clearer, and no out of faze audio as you get with the Aftershocks. The glasses don’t use bone conduction, the speakers are just close to your ears. No bass, good mids and treble. Audio at times sounds like it’s coming from above you which can be just a bit trippy depending on what you are listening to. If you are in a quiet room, the volume does get loud, without it being compressed/limited as you increase levels. which is really nice. There isn’t a noise floor between when Voiceover speaks. When the glasses cycle off/on to save battery life, you can’t at all hear it. This is impressive. When the microphones are active you do hear a slight buzzing almost sounds like USB Bus noise, but I’ll take it over something present all the time, or pops when they cycle off/on. It’s a very nice listening experience.

The only other downfall for me besides the charging, is Audio leakage, and that when you are in loud environments the glasses audio gets pretty unuseable pretty quickly. You can have them at 100% and not hear the audio. Loud restaurants with sports playing make this happen quick, so, if you are going to be in a louder spot, bring Airpods or another way to listen.

All and all, I love these frames. If your phone has a good network connection, Alexa is pretty quick to respond. They are comfortable. The audio is good. I have only had them for two weeks, and being without them, I feel a bit lost like I’m lacking. I don’t think I could ask for a lot more, than an accessible charging experience. Please find a couple audio clips below, recording in Binaural stereo, so you can hear how they actually sound.

Recorded while waring the glasses. From the warers prospective:

Recorded from Annabells prospective, Binaural dummy hed. She was in a corder, though not in trouble, don’t be frusterated at the lack of binaural, focus on what the glasses sound like to those close by.

I can’t believe it’s almostChristmas. 2023 has almost passed. This year We have brought a lot to Drews sound. As always thank you so much for reading, downloading and listening!!!

With big gagits this year!

I would say Notey takes the spot at 1! Find more about Notey at! Www.notey-project.com

At 2 it’s Annabell, the Binaural recording dummy head! https://drewsound.com/2023/01/18/if-you-are-at-all-interested-in-binaural-recording-asmr-click-this-meet-annabell-the-annabell-project-a-diy-binaural-dummy-head/

3 on the gagits list, will be the Bad Ass Media player. This is another device that runs Win 11, but fits in your pocket! Find more at! https://drewsound.com/2023/12/05/stationplaylist-mobile-arguably-the-most-bad-ass-media-player/

Want to learn? About Radio Imaging!! Drew’s sound has a course for that!!

#NumberOneImager radio production course, now available!

Software and websites? We covered that!!

A-i was the big buzz this year, and we covered 11 labs,

The coolest tech since the IPhone? Have you heard of #ElevenLabs ?

And Suno!

AI is going to take over the world. Suno.ai ?? Music generated by AI. 😱

Their is more software including JAWS scripting! Make sure to visit http://www.drewsound.com for those posts!! Lets jump to the audio!

Check out these great clips!!

#NASCAR #Championship race 2023! Radio broadcast, compared to a Binaural recording of being their!

Argo goldmines and mill audio

Contact microphones, Eating, audio from within my body

Picasso guitar bow demo

Tankless hot water heater: instant Keurig style, running hot water

That’s just a few of the many posts this year at http://www.drewsound.com . I look forward to bringing you more! In 2024!!

Ow. My tree! I mean, my face! Way too much fun with an Uber scooter. Binaural recording. Riding down a sidewalk, running into a tree or a bush. That sounds amazing in binaural! Also break torking against a mailbox. Too much electric fun 🙂

Two audio clips below.

Running into a tree on Uber scooter

Brake Torking electric Uber scooter against mailbox. Back tire bouncing.