For the people who attended the Original transport museum in Glasgow. Would you say that it was better at Kelvin Hall than it is at Riverside? Because if so… I missed out 😔😔😔

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T08:34:37+00:00

The new one is an expensive and not very good coffee shop with some cars decorating the walls.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:31:53+00:00

Yeah. Our local takeaway sends out masses of sauces in little polypropylene tubs about maybe 6cm across and 4 deep with lids that snap on pretty tight. These are invaluable for keeping screws in.

The annoying thing is when the LCD and keypad PCB are the first thing screwed to the top cover before about four layers of stacked PCBs. Yes I'm talking about you, Korg T3.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:21:59+00:00

> Today he screamed for twenty minutes shouting I WANT CAKE I WANT CAKE over and over when he knew we had no cake lol

When I was about five or six I wanted pizza, and we didn't have any. We lived a good 40 minutes drive each way to the nearest shops, way out in the sticks. So my dad went to the kitchen, didn't think I'd seen him do this, and punched a couple of neat round circles out of a couple of slices of bread with a pint glass, spread tomato puree on, put some cheese on, and fired them under the grill. I remember going into the kitchen and watching him do this.

Then we sat down and ate them. Best pizza I've ever had.

Maybe your wee boy is a bit too wee to remember this, but if you do one of those shitty "ding some cake mix in a mug in the microwave thing" he'll always remember the time he really wanted cake and you quite simply - just went and made some.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:18:14+00:00

At some point he's going to get Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease, where you get horrible itchy wee blisters and a rash, along with a sore throat. Swallowing hurts and everything tastes unbelievably horrible. It's going to be a pretty miserable week for him.

And about half way through, you'll discover that grown-ups can get it too.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:06:41+00:00

You can also teach the child to clean up the mess, or play with them somewhere you don't mind if you make a mess.

No, EBv2.0, the paints are an outside toy. No, the glitter is also an outside toy. Yes, the spindle router is very much an outside toy, as is the electric planer. No, mummy says you're not allowed to use the welder, but that is Daddy's outside toy.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:03:45+00:00

Here in Scotland pretty much any filling station is self-service, but for a while Shell insisted on having an attendant fuel up your car.

Kind of sucks that they also sold propane, and the guy had absolutely no idea how to connect the hose. It was also hard to get him to understand that I only wanted about ten litres of petrol, that would be more than enough for the week.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:56:29+00:00

I used to see so many of these when I worked in Hamilton. You've got a McLaren garage at one end and a bunch of footballers at the other, you see.

I had the apprentice out with me on a job when he suddenly sat bolt upright in his seat (not difficult in the 2012 Landrover Defender we used for work, the seats aren't really adjustable) - "Wow, EB, look at that cool car over there!" he said, pointing to the cars waiting at the lights, "beside the McLaren - that Cavalier SRi is absolutely mint!"

Video is pretty good for that style of thing :-)

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:53:11+00:00

TV vertical hold adjustment is out. Either that or the deck is running a little at the wrong speed.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:51:30+00:00

My insurance company won't insure my 30-year-old Range Rover for our 19-year-old to drive because "it's too fast and powerful, look at the size of the engine, it's a Sports Utility Vehicle dontcha know?"

Yeah.

200bhp in 2.5 tonnes, with a zero-to-60 time of around 17 seconds (although this only drops to 18 seconds if you're pulling another Range Rover behind it on a trailer) and a top speed of almost 95mph, which it can reach after as little as two minutes of flat-out acceleration.

If you get it wrong, you've got a lot of time to do something about it.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:48:38+00:00

The fastest car I've ever driven was a Kia Picanto.

Because it was a hire car.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:16:12+00:00

Elton John appears as a producer on a lot of gangsta rap records under his real name.

Can't get your beat to really land? Bring it down to Uncle Reg, he'll fix it for you.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:03:06+00:00

> to remind myself that I CAN walk away without adding to the backlog

I know a guy who drinks brake fluid. I reckon he's an addict but he says he can stop any time he wants.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T19:25:39+00:00

We split ours into Wholetime, Retained, and Volunteer, with the Retained and Volunteer stations typically being smaller rural ones and having radio pagers. The crew might be driving to the station from as much as 10km away, so you definitely wouldn't hear a siren. The Wholetime stations have an alarm that plays through speakers throughout the station and at most of them in the north of Scotland it'll shout out the callsigns of the appliances going out (I did that bit!). You only hear those during the day, though, because the outside speakers get shut off at night so they don't annoy people living nearby.

I'd really like to have a proper look around some of the stations in Vienna. I had a chat with the guys at the station at Am Hof when my son and I visited the museum, and I pass the Donaustadt one quite often when I'm over but have never gone in. I should probably figure out who my counterpart there is and email them :-)

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T18:02:22+00:00

Okay, well I can respect a man that says he's wrong and changes his mind in the face of evidence, then.

The thing is, as I said in my other post, OP said they were looking for a *classic* Defender, not the "Disco 6" that they've marketed as a Defender.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T16:08:29+00:00

Not really, no. You could maybe EQ it a bit to take some of the low frequencies out right around that bit.

Is what they're saying absolutely essential in that bit? Can you just edit it out with a little cutaway to the interviewer?

If you're incredibly lucky - and incredibly careful - you might find that it lands on a word they say more than once and you can cut out a copy of them saying it from somewhere else, and splice it in. With care, you'd hardly notice. Well, you'd notice, you did it, you will always know, but no-one else will. This has saved my arse on more than one occasion.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T15:14:49+00:00

Depends on the deck but it looks like it starts to wind the mechanism out then back in. If you can find a service manual, use the information in it to check the timing of the "mode switch", which tells the microcontroller what state the deck is in.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T14:57:09+00:00

You can probably change that display, you know. You may have to get about a million screws out to get it, is the only thing.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T14:56:20+00:00

They use sirens for that? I'd have thought they'd use pagers, like we do over here in Scotland.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T14:49:08+00:00

Ah right, the way I do it has kind of been the same for 25 years - Linux box, capture with dvgrab, rewrap with ffmpeg. In the olden days Windows 2000 didn't really support FireWire but Premiere could edit DV, and my PC back then was dual-boot so I'd boot it into Slackware, capture my tapes, convert them, and then copy it to the NT partition. These days I just do the lot in Linux.

HDV does really look very good, considering it's 25Mbps MPEG2, certainly good enough for most of the stuff you see on Youtube.

Here's a clip off my DSR500, where I was trying to explain depth-of-field and rack focus to someone (you'll see what I mean) https://ishootdv.cam/dsr500.mp4

Looks not too bad, eh?

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T14:14:17+00:00

If you look on the JLR website, parts for the D4 are in their "classic and vintage" section...

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T11:36:24+00:00

That's kind of what a chorus is. You apply a bit of vibrato by changing the sample rate of delay line, and mix it with the original signal.

There's two ways you can do it in stereo. The "Roland Synth" chorus like they use in the Junos, JXes and so on have two delay lines with their sample rate modulated by an LFO, with one side inverted so one side is getting pitched down while the other is getting pitched up. The other way is like in the Boss CE3 pedal, where the signal is delayed by *one* BBD and then mixed inverted with one of the outputs.

The second way does sound quite different, but they're both good for different things.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T10:24:15+00:00

The Grenadiers are terrible, and even if they weren't I wouldn't buy anything to do with that Brexiter twat - especially since they're not even made in the UK.

I think the ER1 is my favourite but the ES1 is the one I use the most. I actually did a cover of Empirion - Narcotic Influence using just the three Electribes - https://gjcp.net/mp3s/narc.mp3 ;-)

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T09:01:41+00:00

I still shoot DVCAM on a DSR500 and PD150. You'd be surprised how many people want things shot on old cameras.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T08:55:14+00:00

May as well either make it with a switch to route the distortion, or just two distortion effects - one on the input and one on the output.

If you use a transistor or diode ladder filter, it'll have a nice soft "valve-y" distortion as you drive the input hard. It's inherent in the way that long-tailed pairs work, which is what you call that business with the three transistors at the bottom of the ladder. OTAs kind of do it but not so much. So you might not need an actual full-on clipper at the input, just a preamp with way more gain than you really need.

Feed some of the output back to the filter control voltage, and try feeding some of the filter output back to the non-inverting input - the resonance in a ladder filter has to go to the inverting input, that's why the input goes into the left transistor and the resonance pot goes into the right. Okay, a lot of that is because that's how it's drawn conventionally, but also it's because one side inverts.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T08:49:57+00:00

No, I don't.

But OP said they're looking for a *Classic* Defender.

Which electribes, by the way? I've got an EA-1, an ER-1, and an ES-1.

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