{"id":25182,"date":"2025-05-11T11:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=25182"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:59:27","slug":"circa-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=25182","title":{"rendered":"Circa Build."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sunday experiment using the \u202a@AudioDamageInc\u202c Circa to build texture.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EricBeam1313\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvf-6Js4cD4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday experiment using the \u202a@AudioDamageInc\u202c Circa to build texture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/circa-build.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25179,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=25179","url_meta":{"origin":25182,"position":0},"title":"Circa Sunday one take.","author":"Eric","date":"April 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Handing over drum duty to \u202a@AudioDamageInc\u202c #Circa for this Sunday's one take. https:\/\/youtu.be\/bHYl7yKuILk?si=-3y6YqIx6quF9IlD","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Everything Else&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/circa-sunday-one-take.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/circa-sunday-one-take.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/circa-sunday-one-take.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/circa-sunday-one-take.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/circa-sunday-one-take.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24454,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24454","url_meta":{"origin":25182,"position":1},"title":"Phono 2 DI\/Instrument Preamp Cable Build","author":"Eric","date":"January 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Need to listen\/capture from vinyl? 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