Adventure in Soundland

All amps at the mo’. Read up a little on the TDA2003 and realised the one I’d made was sorted to amplify at 10x but others were using them at 100x so I changed a resistor, divided by ten, and it’s doing everything as it should. But this small interval between having it not really [...]

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Yesterdays little play with the TDA2003 amp had me trying different speakers on the end of it simply because at such low wattage output the sensitivity of the speaker is all important. Being the enclosure was quite limiting I couldn’t use the 12″ which actually sounded the best and had to make do with a [...]

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I’ve always found that at this time of year I’m affected by the general malaise that seems to be part of the christmas season. I kinda figured it out years ago after wondering why I would suddenly lose interest as the holidays started and by watching for effects I eventually put it down to the [...]

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Last night we had the end of year bash for vitamin S and it was kinda equal amounts frustration and fun, not at all because I took along an old friends sixteen year old son who aspires to be a drummer, but thats beside the point because at the end Ivan told me there was [...]

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This is what I think I’ll be working with for a while or untill some cash comes on-line and I can get to a bunch of unfinished projects can be finished. The instrument has two bass strings and two piezo’s with preamps and tends to be sensitive enough to be able to play just about [...]

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I went along last night and eventually set up the equipment I’d taken up the back of Handmade. I had waited till 8.30 in the hope that some others or elses would turn up but nobody with stuff musical ended up in the vicinity. I was so worried about that but should be over it [...]

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I found a site the other day and it’s a wonderful mixture of circuit bending and stand alone DIY electronc stuff. Named after the friendly ghost I was led to it by a drone box link I found somewheres and when I found the schematic I was intially perturbed by the apparent complexity but upon [...]

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Here we go… I set a date, the 9th of December 2209, as the starting and then had to do the drawing… so here it is. My idea is to just have people arrive, with instruments and various noise makers, and then make it up as we go along. Simple as that. I’m kinda thinking [...]

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