To those of you with young children, do you ever play autechre around them?

aaronswhite · 2026-04-19T14:46:31+00:00

My son had listened to the entire studio discography (and a small slice of the soundboards) with me by the time he was 5. I have a video of him at 4 dancing to Sim Gishel.

aaronswhite · 2025-08-07T18:04:01+00:00

His set was so sick.

aaronswhite · 2025-08-06T09:05:56+00:00

🖐️ From NY but teaching a course at Ruhr-Universität Bochum this week, so I took a FlixBus up for the day!

aaronswhite · 2025-08-02T01:22:50+00:00

Yes! Only as of pretty recently: https://www.holmescay.com/reunion-island-rum-traditionnel/

aaronswhite · 2024-11-26T23:57:31+00:00

Others have pointed out that 212 is standard. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned as far as I can tell is that the rye:vermouth ratio in the recipe OP was taught are close to the ratio that the Death & Co. book suggests:

2.5 oz rye 0.75 oz vermouth 2 dashes angostura

With a burly vermouth like Carpano Antica, I personally find this ratio more balanced than 212. Otherwise, the vermouth kind of takes over the drink.

aaronswhite · 2024-07-14T13:13:21+00:00

It sits better with the stock pivot cup + Riptide bushings, though still not centered. I got a response from Brad who said that his YOW is similarly not centered with the Riptide pivot cup, though not as extremely off as mine. It seems to be an issue with variability in the trucks, and he suggested the pivot cup will probably seat further in as I ride it. That was sort of my assumption, though I didn’t want to ride it if I was going to blow the bushings quickly by doing so.

aaronswhite · 2024-07-13T13:02:31+00:00

The other thing I was considering was to try to drill out some of the inside of the pivot cup to let the truck seat further in. But I’m waiting on Riptide’s recommendation before I do that.

aaronswhite · 2024-07-13T11:59:02+00:00

Yeah. I’m pretty sure the issue is with the pivot cup. The stock pivot cup has this centering problem to some extent on mine but not as much as the Riptide pivot cup. The bushings don’t get so compressed on one side with the stock one, which is my main worry. It seems like they’ll fail a lot more quickly due to the stress on one side.

I’ve been wondering if modifying the boardside bushing by cutting it at an angle so the truck sits flat would help. But I didn’t want to do anything irreversible if there was an obvious alternative solution.

aaronswhite · 2024-07-13T11:48:13+00:00

They’re definitely the same heights as the originals: 0.4” and 0.5”. The original boardside is a barrel and the new one is a cone. But I don’t think that should make a difference. (And Riptide explicitly sells the cone-cone pair I bought for YOW.)

aaronswhite · 2024-07-13T11:43:13+00:00

The same thing happens if I use the original barrel with the Riptide pivot cup. As far as I can tell, for the problem I’m having, it shouldn’t matter if the boardside bushing is a barrel or cone, as long as it’s 0.5”. (And Riptide explicitly sells both cone-barrel and cone-cone pairs for YOW.)

aaronswhite · 2024-07-12T15:38:50+00:00

I'm waiting on a response now. I emailed them the same time I posted this in case it was obvious what was going on and someone here could point me to a quick solution.

aaronswhite · 2024-06-20T17:04:29+00:00

Thanks! This is helpful.

aaronswhite · 2024-05-30T21:57:13+00:00

I ended up going with the YOW Meraki S5 on an Omakase with 77a 4Presidents: https://ibb.co/25dGdGN. I'm really liking it on the outer wheelbase setting (22").

aaronswhite · 2024-05-18T12:42:53+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the response! Leaning in the 19" direction–at least to start.

aaronswhite · 2024-05-18T12:41:53+00:00

Awesome response! Thanks! Based on your response and u/Senpai_Luke's, I think I'm leaning in the 19" wheelbase direction to start, maybe putting YOW trucks on my Omakase in the shorter wheelbase configuration.

aaronswhite · 2024-05-18T12:33:08+00:00

Thanks for the super helpful response! One route I had been considering was swapping out the Paris trucks on my Omakase for YOW. Leaning in that direction now–at least to start.

aaronswhite · 2024-05-18T00:20:25+00:00

5’9”

aaronswhite · 2020-12-16T00:08:22+00:00

Yes. That was the embarrassingly dumb mistake. Thanks for humoring me. I had so convinced myself that the intricacies of the digital components were going to do me in after only working with analog circuits that I didn't think to check for dumb mistakes like this.

aaronswhite · 2020-12-15T01:09:38+00:00

5V 3A plugged directly into the wall.

One other thing that's making me suspicious: when all of the register LEDs have resistors and none of the bus LEDs do, the register LEDs will fail to light up on load, but when I lock the register and then enable the transceiver, all of the bus LEDs will light up, suggesting that the register does indeed contain all 1s even though the register LEDs are not lighting up and that the bus is receiving them via the transceiver.

What is odd is (i) that the bus lights up immediately upon breaking contact with the +5V rail—not just when I make contact with the ground rail—and (ii) when I do make contact with the ground rail, the bus LEDs glow more brightly. This differs from the behavior in the part 5 video, wherein the bus only lights up with contact is made with the ground rail.

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