Hey y’all,,, so i received a terse email from GOOGLE informing me that this website was not ‘mobile friendly’ and thus would not show up in mobile search results unless I made it so. Anyhow, that’s how we got here. Hopefully all the prior functionality of the site is intact. Future!
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In case you’ve been wondering, “but what does he DO with that sound equipment,” earlier this year I had the chance to work along with composer Nathan Halpern on director Ivy Meeropol’s documentary feature “Indian Point.” We are pleased to announce that the film will make its world premiere in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. Our extensive score features a wealth of vintage analog and digital synths and the film is a must-see for anyone interested in our energy future.
Today’s article scan, again via reader Bill W., was written by one John S. Carroll and originally appeared in RADIO & TELEVISION news in 1954. It describes a four-into-one mixer based on a design spec’d by UTC.
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There’s nothing terribly interesting about this particular circuit other than the output stage, which is push-pull and and is driven by a 3:1 interstage transformer which functions as both a phase inverter and provides a bit of additional voltage gain.
I’ve never made a mic pre with a transformer phase inverter, but it could be very cool. At Gold Coast Recorders one of the engineers’ favorite mic pre’s is a custom unit that I built based around an RCA 9362 cinema line amp (see earlier article here). The 9362 is a push-pull output module, and it’s definitely a different sound – almost every tube mic pre made is single-ended. Anyhow, at some point I will def build the circuit above into a mic pre. Probably as soon as I find a pair of appropriate hi-fidelity (and shielded!) transformers for a buck.
Above: a picture of a picture of a picture (via internet): take that Baudrillard
How y’all doing on this fine day,,, before I head off to the sad+moldy basements of lower Fairfield county to hunt for more piles of ancient electronic arcana for the 1000th consecutive Friday morning, I wanted to LYK about next weekend’s OPEN STUDIO event.
Located in the former American Fabrics building in Bridgeport’s far East side, Preservation Sound will open our doors to the public for this once-yearly event along with all the wonderful artists and craftspeople who occupy this circa 1900 factory.
It is free and open to all.
See all the details, get directions, etc, here.
The AmFab building, home to the studios of 30-40 artists, is only one of several large art-spaces in Bridgeport that is taking part in this event. You can also visit The Nest and 305 Knowlton and a host of other venues on this weekend. It’s fun and family-friendly and always a lively good-time.
I will be working in the shop(pe) through the weekend, probably on some sort of tube mic preamp that I am late in delivering to a customer, and also… SELLING… reams of stuff.
Because we’re moving.
And this is probably our last open-studio event for some time.
I’ve had two shops for a few years now and that’s just one-too-many. So I’ve decided to consolidate and shut down this location.
I’ll be selling loads of LP records, musical gear, guitars, sound equipment, drums, and tubes tubes tubes tubes. Tools, transformers, parts, you name it.
And no, I don’t have a list so pls don’t ask. If I was that organized of a person I would sell the stuff on eBay at much higher prices.
Come on down, chat, and enjoy a complimentary beverage and/or rectangular piece of cheese.
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This Thursday Oct 23 2014 will be my first-ever solo performance. I’ve created a system of pulse-synchronized analog synths and four-track cassette machine that I will manipulate live with a quadraphonic sound system. I will be improvising on the disparate themes of: the creation of the world, the death of a loved one, and the Twentieth Century. The performance is part of the University of Bridgeport/ Housatonic CC “One Plus One” show of art and design-school faculty. Here’s the details from the press release:
University of Bridgeport’s Shintaro Askatsu School of Design & Housatonic Community College Co-Host Faculty Art and Design Exhibition
“One Plus One” Show Opens with Oct. 23rd Reception, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Schelfhaudt Gallery
Faculty members from Housatonic Community College and Shintaro Akatsu School of Design will show their own work in a collaborative exhibit named “One Plus One”. The show features graphic design, painting, photos, sculpture, video art, drawing, digital arts, typography, installation, and illustrations created by 27 faculty members from both schools.
The opening reception on Oct. 23rd from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. is free and open to the public.
Shintaro Akatsu School of Design (SASD) on the University of Bridgeport campus is located in the Arnold Bernhard Center (ABC), 84 Iranistan Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604.
For more information about this and other upcoming exhibitions, contact Gallery Director Peter Konsterlie at 203.576.4034, or schelfhaudtgallery@gmail.com.
I’ll be doing the 22 minute piece between 6 and 7. It is free and open to all.
Years ago I ‘lunchboxed’ one of those above-depicted RCA BE100 equalizer modules. The RCA 100 series of the early 70s was the end-of-the-line for RCA’s pro audio gear. The series consisted of the MI-141651 op amp, the BMM-100 Mixer (channel strip, aka MI-141550), BE-100 EQ (aka MI0141560), BA-101 and BA-103 preamps (also designated as MI-141501, MI-141503), BMM-110 Submaster module (aka MI-141570), and BIM-100 Isomix amplifier (aka MI-141520).
Since I seem to be one of the few fools who has publicly admitted to spending time messing around with these things, I’ve gotten several requests over the years for the accompanying data and schematics. Well guess what. TIME HAS COME TODAY. Download all of the tech date for all of these modules.
DOWNLOAD:RCA_Bx100_series
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From the laffs dep’t
These helpful bros want to solve your excess-cable-length problems.
so much talk online
everybody an expert
who can I believe
Earlier this year I had the chance to work with composer Nathan Halpern on director Jeff Dupre’s documentary “Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace.” Wiley is one of the most significant contemporary painters; his work manages to accomplish many of the traditional functions of portraiture while intensely exploring issues of race, class, and hegemony.
You can view the entire program for free at this link (PBS dot org).
The 44-minute documentary won the short-form doc category at SXSW earlier this year, and had its broadcast television debut 9/5/14 on PBS. You can get all the details here, and view the trailer at Vimeo.
The score was made primarily using the minimal setup you see above here: an Arturia mini-brute and a Korg MS20 with the oft-maligned but oh-so-versatile Line 6 POD Pro XT effects processor; my el-cheapo Alesis midi controller was also on-hand to operate various soft-synths since it can’t all be monophonic, all the time,,,,. Drums were primarily recorded at the big room at Gold Coast Recorders. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while and have ever wondered, ‘but what does he DOOOOOO with all that stuff?’, well, here’s your chance to find out. I write a lot of music for television, but rarely is a project so near+dear to my heart, both musically and thematically.
If you like early synth-pop and electro, you might wanna check out the live DJ set that I put together for Steve di Costanzo’s Radio Base Camp show on WPKN this week:
Click here to see the tracklist and stream the entire show in HQ
Tomorrow morning: 7AM-9AM EST (that’s NYC time, buddy) I will be doing a guest DJ set on-air at WPKN, 89.5 FM.
If yr in the NYC metro area, you can tune in as you sit in traffic on I-95/the LIE/the Merritt/ etc.
Or just visit the WPKN website and click the ‘Listen Now’ button.
I ‘ve put together a set of electro and electro-pop from my LP stacks. All vinyl, folks. No cheating.
‘PKN is a wonderful listener-supported radio station that has been a big part of my musical life since I was a kid. Just some artists that I discovered via this venerable institution: