Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

it's 2019, the IRW is a no-export as well Perhaps for not much longer. According to Madinter's latest newsletter 'finished musical instruments, finished musical instrument parts and finished musical instrument accessories' made from Dalbergia/Bubinga will be exempted from CITES Appendix II. See htt...

I've not really found any advantage using either high-angle or low-angle planes. If there is need of a different angle it's just as easy to just put a back bevel on a standard angle blade. The wood doesn't really care what the angle of the frog is. What I do find useful is using a home made toothed ...

I've only ever used an external audio interface or a USB mic. Or simply the built in microphone. New machines are so quiet that I honestly can't see any difference in tap-plots using the internal mic or a $1200 Sennheiser MD441 and pro audio interface ... But yes, Apple can be a bit infuriating at t...

kiwigeo wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:53 pm

moving the data files around is an absolute pain in the proverbial.

Yes, which is why using VA (or other Windows apps) under Wine is rather more pleasant as you can save files directly in the Mac filesystem.

Ian

Trevor Gore wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:27 am

VA should work on a PC, but doesn't work on Macs, which is why Mac users tend to use Audacity.

Perhaps a bit off topic, but VA actually works fine under Wine on a Mac. Easily installed with Homebrew.

BTW I'm new around here so hi everyone!

Cheers
Ian