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Looks perfect, I'll give it a try

I have an Axon guitar-to-midi thing, and I love it, but one thing that bugs that crap out of me is that I have 2 choices: all the midi events on one channel or each on it's own channel. This is problematic when using it with something like Native Instruments B4 because they use one channel for the f...

Not all car stereos have this option but a lot do. Crutchfield can help you figure out if your stock car radion supports it. My F-150 does it through the CD-changer input.

I built 2 isolation cabinets. One many many years ago in an apartment, and one fairly recently. The old one was too small. I used a 10" speaker with it, and it was basically a rectangle about 15"x15"x40". I lined the inside with the kind of foam used for sound treatment in a studio (this was the mos...

The sound sample is quite nice. That stereo panner thing they have with a billion knobs looks pretty sweet too. I've been reading Craig Anderton's book "Electronics Projects for Musicians" and it's given me some neat ideas I want to try. All of a sudden I want to replace all the pots on everything I...

Yep. But they chose the digital sampling rate based on the bandwidth cutoff that was pre-existing.

However, I learned it digital first and analog later. So, when I think about it, I think about 64 Kb/s and thus 8KB/s.

Neither high, nor fi, but it works for Bob Log III.

Bob Law's Law Blog? Man I miss Arrested Development.

You're right, 3khz is the cutoff. I was thinking of the rate for digital voice sampling, which is 64 Kbits (8 KB/s). The Nyquist sampling theorem means that they could theoretically cram up to 4Khz without aliasing into that but they cut it off at 3Khz.

But does the typical "telephone sound" come from the actual handset itself, or the fact that telephone signals are bandwidth-limited to 8Khz?

The Ramones "I wanna be sedated"

I have a 5w epiphone valve junior (tube head). It's too loud to play at full volume in my house. I'm building a 1/2w tube amp at the moment. Remember that apparent volume doubling happens in 10x wattage increments. a 5w amp is only 1/2 the volume of a 50w amp, not 1/10th the volume. A 5w amp and a m...

I have sort of "virtual kits" for some of the GGG stuff. Basically a one-click-add-all-parts-to-mouser kind of thing. http://www.rustybrooks.com/electronics/mouser/kits That's very handy, thanks! My only caveat is that mouser changes their stock kinda often so unless I've built one of my virtual ki...

The BYOC stuff seems expensive to me. Granted, I am usually scrounging cases, IO jacks, switches, and other parts from other sources, so I don't usually want to buy those from them. I often use www.generalguitargadgets.com. You can buy the boards from there and get the parts yourself, or even make t...

I mostly gave up on trying to quiet my computer (it's a desktop, probably a lot louder than most laptops). I finally gave up. My mixer is near the door, so I just moved the whole computer outside the room, on the other side of a door and out of the way. I ran long cables for keyboard/mouse/video. Vi...

I used some "stikki-wax" and that seemed to do the trick nicely. I also switched to a slightly smaller piezo element, and that seems to have helped with the excessive mids. There is still definitely sort of a resonant frequency or something going on, right around 900hz or so I think. A little EQ see...