My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
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Is it real, or is it ElectroStrad?
Very few violinists ever get to play a Stradivarius, but maybe they can still get the sound:
Researchers at Manchester University claim to have a solution for all those string players who wish their cheap violins could sound like a Strad.
According to an article in the London Guardian, the researchers have developed an electronic device that takes the violin sound picked up by a microphone and changes it electronically to provide the famous “Strad” tone.
Apparently the “Sound Wizard” can also remove background noise from recordings, scratches from LP sound, and improve the output from loudspeakers.improve the output from loudspeakers.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2007/04/is-it-real-or-is-it-electrostrad/
