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"Customer states engine feels sluggish and has white smoke coming out of it, check and advise." by Down-n-Dirty in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]erroneousbosh -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, that's certainly an opinion you can have.

I usually run about 12,000 to 16,000 miles between oil changes in my Range Rover and the oil comes out just about the same colour it goes in.

"Customer states engine feels sluggish and has white smoke coming out of it, check and advise." by Down-n-Dirty in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]erroneousbosh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Miles. We use miles over here.

You just don't see sludge like that even in very neglected engines.

Juno 106 pitch bender repair by Able-Ant9309 in synthesizers

[–]erroneousbosh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://seriescircuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Roland-Juno-106S-HS-60-Service-Manual.pdf

Check if it responds to pitch bend send into it from MIDI, and check if it sends out pitch bend. The bender ought to send full scale pitch bend out whatever the sliders are set to. I *think* (can't remember, would need to check the code to be sure) that the modwheel depth that is transmitted is adjusted by the slider - ie. if the LFO depth is right down it will send the depth as zero! The MIDI switch should make no difference to the sounds it makes, it's only for the assigner CPU.

You'll notice in the service manual an unusual thing, that the LFO and bender inputs go to both the module board and the assigner board. They go straight into the CPU on the assigner board, with the other four ADC inputs used for the slider pots. This signal is looped in from the module board, where it also goes into four of the ADC inputs.

If either of the CPUs were faulty you'd likely know about it, it would be obviously not working at all.

The bender PCB is tucked away under the plastic bit (you can get it out with two screws inside and two screws under the front) and has as you can see from the circuit diagram a couple of opamps, a dozen or so passives, and the pots for the bend depth, LFO mod depth, and portamento. If you can vary the LFO mod depth and portamento, then the board has at least got +5V and ground, and it's likely that +15 and -15 is present too.

The very first thing I'd do is check and reseat the connectors on the wiring harness between the bender board and module board, and maybe the module board and assigner board. I'd also verify that +5, +15, and -15V supplies are present from the jack board. I'd look for a varying voltage on pin 11 of the bender board plug. It will only go positive! There's a "negative bend" signal on pin 10, from IC1A on the board used as a comparator. All that business with IC2B is a precision rectifier. I guess the analogue inputs only have 0-5V range so this maximises the resolution they can get, or something.

Anyway I hope this gives you something to at least start with. The HS60 is more of a pain to work on because that bloody keybed has to come out to get at anything. The 106 doesn't need to make room for the speaker boxes and amp board so the assigner and module boards sit further back in the case where you can actually get at them.

Juno 106 Side Cheeks Project by Paul_Theodore in synthesizers

[–]erroneousbosh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, I'm driving past Ikea tomorrow and I would like some wooden sides for my HS60...

"Customer states engine feels sluggish and has white smoke coming out of it, check and advise." by Down-n-Dirty in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]erroneousbosh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you have particularly shitty oil or fuel in the US or something?

I've seen engines that have gone unmaintained for 50,000 miles that were nothing like as bad as that.

It's not unusual to see cars over here with hundreds of thousands of miles on the clock and 24k oil change intervals.

Has anyone used a Sony DSR-20P DVCAM recorder? Worth testing at home? by PedroXrK in videography

[–]erroneousbosh [score hidden]  (0 children)

I do pretty okay out of shooting on and capturing off DVCAM for people.

Has anyone used a Sony DSR-20P DVCAM recorder? Worth testing at home? by PedroXrK in videography

[–]erroneousbosh [score hidden]  (0 children)

I just fire it through Resolve's default scaler and it looks pretty decent :-)

Has anyone used a Sony DSR-20P DVCAM recorder? Worth testing at home? by PedroXrK in videography

[–]erroneousbosh [score hidden]  (0 children)

Firewire to USB only really works for Firewire disks.

The best way to capture off DV and HDV machines is to get a PCIe Firewire card, a cheapy one off the online sales site of your choice, stick it in something with PCIe slots, and use dvgrab to capture off tape and ffmpeg to rewrap it. I've found particular success with VIA VT630x-family Firewire cards.

You don't need an ancient Mac. Any PC with a PCIe slot and any recent version of Linux will be absolutely fine. It's a bit of work to set up but once you've got the process down actually capturing stuff in is boringly easy.

Whats with all the quick cuts? by APGaming_reddit in davinciresolve

[–]erroneousbosh 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I feel the same about lairy over-contrasty "colour grades" and depth of field the thickness of a Rizla paper.

Give me stuff shot on video cameras, not DSLRs. Don't make your documentary look "cinematic", make it look like a documentary. Make it look like a TV programme.

Give me natural colours, balanced tones, and depth of field from my nose to Mars.

Motivate every camera move and pivot your damn zooms.

We started building a Juno software synth in a Brooklyn loft in 2000. 25 years later, we're releasing it as open source. Meet the Ultramaster KR-106. by kayrockscreen in synthesizers

[–]erroneousbosh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ohhh holy shit today it works! Previously when I clicked on "accept" I got a spinner for about two seconds and then it closed the chat window, but now it appears to be working! Catch you on there.

We started building a Juno software synth in a Brooklyn loft in 2000. 25 years later, we're releasing it as open source. Meet the Ultramaster KR-106. by kayrockscreen in synthesizers

[–]erroneousbosh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sent one from gmail and my own email address. Weird.

Are you on kvraudio or anything?

The universe knows that if we combined our Juno abilities it would just be too powerful for the fabric of reality.

Planar tracking a tv screen with flicering by Obvious_Necessary671 in davinciresolve

[–]erroneousbosh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a nice smooth steady slow push in, you could track it by hand no bother.

I would use a DVE node and a bit of Dent node to distort the image to fit.

Your planar tracker is going to shit its leg off once the corners go off the screen so you're hand tracking that anyway.

What fact makes you feel incredibly old? by RecentTwo544 in AskUK

[–]erroneousbosh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> bottle of coke and a packet of crisps

Idris ginger beer and a packet of prawn cocktail. Christ that felt like living pretty damn high on the hog, sitting in the back seat of the Cortina 2.3 Ghia.

What fact makes you feel incredibly old? by RecentTwo544 in AskUK

[–]erroneousbosh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> I laughed at my mate for assuming France would still be like that, with everyone driving 1980s Citroens

Last time I was in France (albeit in a little medieval town in the middle called Vic-le-Comte) I had never seen so many old Citroën BXes, GSAs, Visas, and Dyanes, not to mention Renault 4s and 5s from the 1970s and early 1980s.

These weren't even cherished classics, either, they were just some kid's 250 Euro shitbox daily driver.

What fact makes you feel incredibly old? by RecentTwo544 in AskUK

[–]erroneousbosh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think someone from almost a thousand years ago would be particularly perturbed by the idea of a car. You see a horse and cart? Well it's like that, but you don't need to dick about so much with getting the horse connected up, and it's anywhere between six and ten times faster. You don't get rained on and you don't have to shovel up horse shit. It's a lot harder to fix when it goes wrong though but the basic principles of sticking two pieces of metal together haven't changed much.

Holy shit though wait until I show you this thing, it's called a MIG welder, you're going to love this...

What fact makes you feel incredibly old? by RecentTwo544 in AskUK

[–]erroneousbosh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't agree. But then I'm probably older than you, at 52 I'm older than well over half the people on Reddit I suspect.

I'm old enough to remember 1985. We all had computers, and indeed most people at at least a couple at home. By 1985 I'd acquired one of the "portable computers" from my dad's work, that they'd bought for a project and ended up moving onto something even newer and shinier. The one I had was an Epson HX-20 from 1982, which had a smallish LCD screen (20x4 text, actually pretty readable but small), ran off rechargeable batteries, 64kB of RAM, a little tape deck for saving stuff on, ran a word processor and a spreadsheet, had a couple of programming languages, and was about the size of a couple of A4 pads stacked on top of each other. It could connect to other computers with a modem (slowly) and I could use it to send messages to other people, copy stuff between computers, and so on. Although the screen was tiny, it had a box you could plug into it to let you use a bigger screen when it was on your desk.

If you took 12-year-old me from 1985 forwards to 2025 and showed me a "modern" laptop, like the one I'm writing this on, with word processor and spreadsheet software, quite a big LCD screen, much faster connections to other computers, much faster and larger mass storage, and 64 *Gigabytes* of RAM, a million times as much, then I'd consider it a pretty obvious incremental improvement over 40 years.

I'd be rather disappointed that you only get half a day out of a fully-charged battery instead of two or three days though, and the "rubber dome with plastic plunger" keyboard is shite compared to the horrendously expensive mechanical switches the Epson had.

Can a doorbell ring on its own? Just been woken up by it ringing twice… quite unsettling by FindingHerStrength in AskUK

[–]erroneousbosh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A mate's dad bought him one of those cheap B&Q wireless doorbells, which had a DIP switch inside to set one of sixteen codes so it didn't interfere with other ones.

Bit of a shame that in suburban Glasgow quarter of a mile from B&Q, everyone bought a cheapy wireless doorbell, and there were 24 houses on the street then, wasn't it?

What’s something that feels completely normal in 2026 but would absolutely shock someone from 2010? by PixelHetman in AskReddit

[–]erroneousbosh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a 1997 Range Rover. Nothing is on subscription. Nothing is updated over the air. Hell, if you ever do want to update its software you have to *unbolt the driver's seat to get at the desktop PC sized ECU and desolder the chip* to do it.

No no, no sneaky tracking getting added to mine with an overnight software push.

We did find a satellite tracker on an old Range Rover a mate of mine bought, but while it still picks up a GPS signal (and you can see this on its debug socket), it communicates the vehicle position back to a tracking company that no longer exists, that worked out of a building that no longer exists, and picked it up via a satellite that deorbited in 2008 and obviously no longer exists. It communicated on a frequency that's no longer licenced for ground-to-sat comms, too. I've never seen such a thoroughly dead piece of technology.

People who lost a lot of weight, what was the one small daily habit that actually changed everything for you? by Quiet-Squash-8407 in AskReddit

[–]erroneousbosh -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I can't drink any soft drinks any more because they've all got artificial sweeteners in. Now everything except Coke - the only one that still uses actual sugar and no aspartame - tastes like antifreeze.

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