so much for my roll of frequent updates, it’s been almost a month since I last posted. A lot has happened – the annual Wadaiko Rindo concert for one. This was my fourth, and previous experience told me they never go as well as you would like, no matter how well rehearsed you are. Unfortunately read more
What’s this? 2 posts in a week? What the hell is going on? Well as it happens, for once I have found myself with a few hours to spare on Sunday morning. Its AFL Grand Final day here in Melbourne, which I couldn’t care less about really, except that it means I should be weary read more
As usual it has been months since my last update (over a year actually). It’s also been months since I really did any digital production, I just haven’t had the time. I have made some small progress with the x0x – sawtooth wave is working. I picked up an old (like older than me) oscilloscope read more
Seems like every bit of progress I make with the x0x i run into a hurdle. I made my first mistake this weekend, soldered one of the transistor packages in the wrong spot. Not a big deal you might think, just desolder put it where it goes. Not as simple as it sounds though… the read more
Progress is slow but steady. After a couple of multi hour solder sessions over the last few weekends, I have completed the power supply. And it works. Output voltages are within acceptable ranges. Here is what the IO board look like now : And here’s a photo of my work space, just because….
Today I soldered the DIP sockets onto the main and IO PCBs. It was a little scary at first, the pins are all very close together, but once I got used to the fact that the wet solder wouldnt run off the metal pads on the PCB it became easier. My hand is still not read more
Once again I have left this site to rot for far too long. To be honest I haven’t done much music related work since I finished producing So Cold, although I do have a finished but unreleased track just waiting on mix down which I should get to soon. I have taken on a new read more
