I got a text from a friend asking about designing a game show system that triggers sounds…
he caught me JUST as I was walking out of a digital systems class… lucky for him I’m getting better at learning about FPGAs
In the 70’s and into the 90’s WBS used a Schadow switch in almost every product they built. Different buttons required different offsets so “GOLDEN RULES” of design were made up so each engineer was on the same page. I found two of those pages the other day and was fascinated. These drawings are both done by hand and are admirable.
I thought this was very interesting
Quickly Uploaded some pictures of the fabrication of Wilma
Here is the start of wiring up the channel buckets
NPN: Not Pointing in
PNP: Pointing In
Check out Jörg Wuttke, Understanding Microphones
Jörg Wuttke was born in Berlin in 1942. He studied electronics and telecommunications at Karlsruhe University, specializing in acoustics, and was teaching assistant to professor Günther Kurtze, the inventor of the shotgun microphone. He joined Schoeps GmbH as a research engineer in 1970, became its chief engineer in 1972, and is now its technical director.
Mr. Wuttke has been an active member of the Audio Engineering Society for many years, including publishing in the AES Journal and presenting papers and chairing workshops at conventions. In1993 he was awarded an AES Fellowship. Since 1972, he has been a member of the DIN standards committee on microphones and headphones. He maintains an avid interest in listening to music and recording live concerts.
I’m almost done week 2 of semester two… by themselves they are intimidating, but as a stack they are frightening.
A very interesting item.
http://www.norsonic.com/en/products/acoustic_camera/Acoustic+Camera+Nor848A.b7C_wtnQYO.ips
I’ve been working with a mastering engineer on the replacement of the face plate for a monitor I think it turned out well!
Big KNOB… I assure you it’s no mackie in there… 
Before (V1) with no section devision lines
Working on the mobile patching system.
I was talking with one of my teachers today about gold in ICs. All the gold is in the wires of big chips…
so I looked around and found another video about the PCB plating
THEN, blessings to youtube, there is a guy smelting it
The day Google unplugs, is the day the worlds knowledge disappear
a few years back I designed my own cable comb while doing a console build. I asked around if something excisted for my application to no avail…
BEHOLD someone came up with an amazing product that does what I needed (but for much larger cables)
check it out in action:
Drawing charts: Improve the Data to ink ratio
Check out the hints from http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/
As a part of my school program, I’ve decided to take a shot at re-designing 2 WBS components.
First the 4-110 mic pre-amp for the M460 – M461. In the 90s WBS redesigned the card using 5534 but I’m looking at something even more modern.
Second the 109 cards. While at Revolution Recording, Joe D redesigned his version of the 109 card and it was a HUGE improvement. He described it as “taking the cheese cloth off the audio” and he was right.
The idea is to have a plug and play module available for users with a few new features not incorporated in past designs.
Once they’re done I hope to have them for sale on www.AudioAholics.com
I wanted to add some components to my home listening system, so a switcher was needed. I’ve decided to use a POD 2 switcher…
the POD-2 is a (6) Stereo input – stereo switcher that has the ability to sum all inputs. The output of the switcher feeds a Stereo Penny and Giles fader then directly to the Mackie HR824 speakers.
I’ve got to find a panel… but as far as home friendly user interface goes this is as simple as it gets.
1 Turn Table
2 Radio
3 Mac Mini
4 Cassette
5
6 Airport Express out
