Adventure in Soundland

The reverb and sustain thing has so many possibilities and this is a good one that may enjoy a certain revival. Hints at the old speaking tubes of Zeppelins and an age before even the carbon microphone. Also I kinda forgotten about the whole DIY thing around tape op and I wish we could get [...]

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I had a chance to do a bit of a cleanup before christmas but since then I’ve been making stuff all over the place so I’ve just made everything just one big mess and have ended up working outside on the pathway. So before I go and tidy everything up and maybe even make some [...]

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I’ve approached the Vit S guys about working with fraulien Karen and doing “Stilled life with intercontinental remote controlled mail dirigables” but have yet to recieve a reply but thats not stopping me going forward and building an instrument for her… if we end up doing something. Might be a case of the curators running [...]

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I’ve been hooking anything and everything up to the amp and seeing if it works as a microphone and mostly they do. This thing below confused me because I couldn’t get anything from it, but I had two so I took one apart. And after pulling it apart I realised it was a dynamic mic. [...]

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Kinda started on something yesterday which is kinda simple but quite involved at the same time. I was on the net yesterday morning and found an interesting thread at experimentalist anonymous about a guy using a speaker with the cone removed to drive strings somewhat like a sustainer but closer to the ebow. That got [...]

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So I’ve basically nutted out the schematic for the tube amp and I’ve done all the mechanical stuff so it’s full steam ahead wiring it all up. All the power supply stuff, filaments, grounds and most of the output pentode wiring is point to point and sits under the preamp board. Just a little more [...]

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Okay, suddenly I need to get my shit together and learn my chops. Well not really but at the least I have to look as if I have. Actually the answer might be that being such an avid firestarter it’s time to learn the firemans ropes if only to create bigger and better fires. On [...]

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Yesterday I spent almost the whole day doing a little fitting of my lastest amp chassis to its box and this necessitated one or two changes to things so they fit better. One of them was changing the old fashioned 50uf + 50uf cap from hanging off the botton, next to the output tube, to [...]

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Shit, I am so cash strapped at the moment and when I say that it means I have none and owe heaps… bugger! Mean while stuff like this goes on in the world But life goes on. Had a bit of a chore cutting out the bottom of an old pot to use as a [...]

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I decided to add a tube reverb I made years ago to my arsenal to take to the radio show and trialed it just before I chucked all the stuff into the car for the trip into town. I wanted it just after the first booster and before the phaser and subsequent digital delay so [...]

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