Nady RSM-1 Ribbon Mic
So, Santa Claus brought me one of these Nady RSM-1 ribbon mics for Christmas. I was, like, "well, how bad can a $129 ribbon mic be?" The answer is "not bad at all." I've been fooling with this thing all day, and my…
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The 4/4/4 Rule
No, it doesn't have anything to do with time signatures. Wilson inquired the following in the Sound Lab Mini Synth comments: "...how do \[you\] find time for such projects? I know you have a job, a wife, make and record…
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A reader question...
D'Macinnon writes: I'm looking for a 24/96 or better capable USB recording interface/mic pre combo that's under a grand and has good ad converters and a good sound. I need it to be somewhat portable because I'm going to…
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Novachord Restoration...
In case you haven't been following this on Analog Heaven, or one of the many other mailing lists and forums it's appeared in, Paul Cirocco of CMS just finished his complete restoration of a Novachord, and has fully…
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Sound Lab Mini Synth, Pt. 2
Quite a bit of progress on my Music From Outer Space Sound Lab Mini Synth today. I started stuffing the PCB, and after a couple hours I have all the resistors and most of the capacitors in, as well as all the sockets…
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SEMtex XL
You kids know about this thing? From Anyware Instruments of Germany, this is a 2-VCO patchable analog, in the same neck of the woods as an Oberheim SEM module (hence the name, I suppose.) It has a whole slew of MIDI- CV…
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Scanalyzer...
Sorry I haven't been in my normal posting frenzy lately, but we have a new album coming out on Positron!, and it is sucking some of my time up. On The One And The Zero is the debut full-length from Scanalyzer, which…
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New Intel based iBook for January?
Think Secret seems to think so. And there's a bigger article as well. Normally, I would never buy brand new technology from a company with a proven track-record for fucking early adopters. However, needs must when the…
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Alternate OS stuff for the MPC1000
I don't have one of these boxes so I shouldn't really care that much, but I'm always tickled when someone takes the time to make an alternate OS for something. Machinesound informs us of this site, which seems to have a…
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Phase Two Update...
Yes, it's time for a progress report on Phase Two, the next product from Audio Damage. Yesterday we hit a rather important milestone, as we froze the DSP code. It took a little longer than we had anticipated to get to…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
I don't know whether to thank Dave Copeland for sending me such an obvious Hard Core Gear Porn link, or chastise him for looking at such a travesty in the first place. This studio, which belongs to contemporary…
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Hey, look!
It's the Apocalypse!
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Parker acoustic...
I've always been a big fan of Parker guitars, and have played them since the company started. I've owned a total of 7 different Parkers of all stripes, and currently have two. One thing I've always wanted was one of the…
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Crazy new oscillator from Cyndustries...
I've never paid too much attention to the Cyndustries stuff, because it's all Modcan format, and most of it is just other people's designs, reformatted for the Modcan system. But today Cynthia announced something really…
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An odd thing...
I have a question for you: do you think that people that learned how to engineer in a "real" studio (and by that I mean an API and a Studer A80) that have now migrated to digital are still mentally bound to the limits…