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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Surprise NPD. Counts as 'another' early birthday present. Yippee. Technically its a Wampler Ego compressor with a flat/midhump boost... and I didn't have a realworld compressor sooooo. Looks cool and sounds VERY good on my input pedalboard. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Impending NPD. Picking up tomorrow. Counts as an early birthday present. Yippee. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Modern life. Watch Adam Savage handling cool props on YooToob.... Call up the film and see them...... Then try and remember what it looked like in the cinema. In the early 80s on scratchy prints.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fun shall be had. Potentially ambient fun. But fun nonetheless. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Impending NPD. MXR Textures pedal en route. It may not djent. So excited. #guitareffects

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Cuaron was asked when he made this (2006) how he created such a convincing, organic-looking future Britain. He said he looked at what was happening at the time and then just assumed for the movie that everything would keep going on much the same trajectory as it was then, for twenty years or so.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rack is never finished. Starting work on making new drawers and rejigging the FX. A delay reverb drawer, a modulation drawer, and a freqout/pitch/drive drawer. #guitareffects

Many guitar FX pedals and cables arranged out on a bench

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Impending NPD. I have a (used) Speculus Tempus in the post. Makes a change from buying endless chorus pedals. So excited. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I note with great interest that I'll be at the front of the King of Tone waiting list in plenty of time for my 60th birthday #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dear Toshiba. If I've disabled the unwanted adverts on my TV menu screen, re enabling them yourself isn't going to win you any favours.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

NPD. Free The Tone Tri Avatar Multidimensional chorus. I'm 'never' going to have the rack unit this is based on. And its reported to sound very good. Another chorus for the collection. #guitareffects

A guitar chorus pedal made by Free The Tone

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In other news, yesterday's job interview went well. I start in 2 weeks or so.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This week's sound experiments. 14 string acoustic wah pitch shifting. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Youngest daughter has been made a Cambridge Scholar. Initiate Victory lap.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Dear Toshiba. Putting adverts behind the TV menu is an utterly dick move. Not having a setting to remove them means never buying Toshiba again.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

When I said it was 'finished'. What I meant was "there are a number of wiring loom errors to find and put right". But its nearing its final form. #guitareffects

A medium sized rack of guitar effects. Rack is made of brown wood,

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Finally finished. Cabling this was initially easy, but as the patch bays filled up........ No room for fat fingers. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm making a new rack. This means disassembling the old one, lying to myself that I'm sorting and organising cables.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The coin battery in my Yamaha SPX 900 rack unit has died. Its soldered to the pcb. FML. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Super enjoying King Sorrow audiobook by Joe Hill. Pet dragons seem problematic.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Not an effect per se. But I'm super excited about my first 'grown up' microphone. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Beginning to profile my drive pedal collection. #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Birthday pedal ahoy. Ambient reverb from Digitech, Lexicon based algorithms in a discontinued pedal. #effectspedals #guitarfx #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Current state of play. I either make the rack 1u taller to fit in the Roland 3030 or live with it being the dedicated reverb for whichever amp is on top of the rack.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

There is a cure for buffetphobia, but first you’ve got to want to help yourself.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Sit rep. In Greece, drinking gin and tonic.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Just had a freebie restring at Richtone Music. Had a great half hour chatting with the D'Addario rep and playing a FANTASTIC Taylor 12 string acoustic. Which I could never afford.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I note with great interest that my new phone has an actual headphone socket. And an FM radio. The IR TV remote is cool too. Old phone retired after 10 years and 'took one for the team' one last time.

My old phone with a very broken glass rear panel...

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

As a new DayZ player. Just surviving the weekend seems like an achievement. [wait, was that a wolf howling ?]

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This though that, and then that. All the gain. #guitarpedals #guitareffects NB. THE MT15 makes all kinds of good sounds. the clean is excellent, the medium to high gain are [chef's kiss], and a very good 'hot clean to light OD' is there if you can find it.

A Friedman Dirty Shirley overdrive guitar pedal

A PRS MT15 guitar amplifier sitting on top of a Roland SRV3030 reverb processor.

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Todd Keisling @toddkeisling.com · 01/05/2025

It's May Day, so go celebrate by tricking a virgin police officer into following your ancient rites and, later, burning him alive inside a giant wicker effigy. Bonus points if he's a fascist incel. Look, I don't make the rules. I just follow the old ways.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm approaching the perfect schmoo tone to match the sound of the 80s guitar in my head. (heavily featuring Eventide micropitch, Dimension C, and positions 2 and 4). YMMV. #guitarpedals #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

NPD. So. You're living in the mid 80's listening to alot of Dokken (and similar). This pedal makes that angry wasps in a can sound. Its a DS-1 style distortion with 2x digital delay lines for short doubling to chorus. Spandex and hairspray optional. #guitarpedals #guitareffects #guitar

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

So. Heimaomao (Catcat) is spending the day at the vets for some exploratory dental work. Curious about how many teeth will come home with her.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

And so ends exactly 25 years at University of Sheffield.

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

NPD. When you can't decide between an Eventide MicroPitch or Tricerachorus....... an H9 ! #guitarpedals #guitareffects

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Dr Anthony J. Bullock @ajbsmirnoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So. This month we've been adding RF/hum filters to the IEC power sockets on as many devices as possible - all to cope with the noise from one Roland SRV 300 with a really noisy transformer. Still looking for a replacment. #GuitarEffects

A tall rack of guitar effects and preamps next to a wall of modestly priced guitars

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

😂 Thats me.

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