It’s been a while since my last post I admit. I was working for the last two years producing/co-writing/engineering/mixing/programming and mastering for the following album: http://leesafar.bandcamp.com/album/laundry-after-midnight. This album consumed almost every night over that two year period, but, just after I finished it, I got back into some long-awaited DIY audio! I was contacted by a friend of a friend ...
So far, I have used this blog to focus on my own electronics projects. Admittedly, this is somewhat selfish, and self-serving, but, after all, it IS my website I feel that it’s time I started also posting more about relevant topics that still relate to the original content, but expand upon it more, and let you all know more about ...
OK, so I added the rest of the parts to the discrete opamps, and then did a couple of promising tests that indicate, at least to a very basic degree, that they are working properly. This is awesome news! Time to share the photos of the build. The first two are of the “bug-style” they start out as. Then I ...
Since I needed to gather some more funds to finish the API Compressor project, I’ve decided to go into customized audio design for friends and also a studio I’ve just teamed up with. The idea is that I take a bunch of information into account, then design (or more commonly re-purpose existing designs to save time), test, produce, improve, and ...
After a rather long delay, it’s time for a BIG update! First of all, the 2520 did work, perfectly, and here is what it looked like after I soldered it together: Next up I did some testing. Here I am using the Xprotolab miniature DSO for all of my testing (since it also incorporates an extremely useful function generator). ...
This is the second post along the road to DIY compressor bliss…. Picking up where I left off last time, I am starting by creating my own, super cheap, DIY version of the API 2520 Operational Amplifier. It will be used for the input and output stages of my take on an API 225L/2500 Frankenstein compressor. Initially I also planned ...
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since my last post. I took a holiday and went to Italy for 5 weeks. It was completely awesome and gave me a lot of time to think about a lot of different things. Whilst I was away a had quite a few crazy ideas, and this was one of them…. a custom compressor ...
Hi there! To finally round off a good solid month or two of building audio electronics studio stuff for the album ( in this case some gorgeous pre-amplifiers for recording vocals ), I decided, just before handing over the final product to Lee Safar, to try my hand at DIY Anodizing…. So it was off to the wonderful Sydney Hackerspace ...
Well, what a project! For those who haven’t been following my progress lately, I built ClassicAPI VP26 and Sound Skulptor MP73 microphone pre-amplifiers ( pre-amps ) to use on the album I am currently producing for Lee Safar. Whilst the pre-amps themselves were fully self-contained kits, the processing of putting them into a 1u rack case, along with some of ...
I’d like to tell you all a little story about a recent experience I had with Synthesizer legend Tom Oberheim. As you’d know from this website, I purchased an Oberheim SEM Pro synthesizer from him a while back. I had issues with it interfacing with my modern MIDI gear ( namely an RME Fireface 800 sound card ), which it ...