I went and got all the recording stuff outta the dusty corners where it’s been sitting un-used for the past few years, waiting for me to build a room for it, so I can get some of these instruments recorded. I haven’t tried it yet but no longer is it a matter of just plugging in the little bookshelf speakers. Now I have to turn on the mixer and then the amp and fiddle with settings on the soundcard.
Last time I used it I couldn’t play and record at the same time, which I know seems stupid, but thats what happened so hopefully this time I’ll be able to have it do what I want. I know it seems weird but the thing is that my mixer is designed to be used with the previous generation of this soundcard which means that the in’s and out’s for playing don’t mix with the in’s and outs for monitoring. I think people had problems with normal mixers which don’t have almost two mixers in one, one for sending to the PC and the other for return from the PC so they had feedback while mixing the send and return on the mixer bus. I solved it by designing my own mixer but it seems the soundcards changed to suit normal mixers… I’ll try and figure it out.
PC in a box to be sealed off from the world, with a fan and an air duct to another room, with a rack of stuff I don’t think I need anymore.
As for the insiders guide to happiness featured in the last post. I got another shock off the earths and finally realised it was the power supply I built and didn’t check. There was solder from the neutral to 0V on one of the transformers so when it was all plugged in it was safe but as soon as I pulled a lead out I’d get zapped from the voltage sitting on the neutral wire and then being on the earth. Stupid me huh! So I’ve replaced one PS cap that was round the wrong way, on the insiders guide to happiness, taken out a 6V max IC that was being fed 9V and replaced it with something that’ll work at 9V and turned another IC around that was in backwards and also changed out 4 transistors with some that are supposed to be in the particular circuit as opposed to ones I put in which won’t supposedly work… oh and corrected a circuit blunder on the same circuit. Bang, no wonder I got shocked making so many silly lazy mistakes.