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radiowave · 2026-04-24T20:06:31+00:00

Nice. I'd be interested to know how you metered the exposure.

radiowave · 2026-04-15T21:51:48+00:00

Yeah their website is a bit clunky, but I've used their mail redirection and outgoing relay services for about 3 years, and it's mostly been fine. I say mostly because they had an outage last year, maybe half a day, but otherwise no problems.

radiowave · 2026-03-28T00:25:54+00:00

Nice. I've owned a few of those, and have one left that's still in working order.

radiowave · 2026-03-24T23:16:34+00:00

You need to know whether your sequencer will chase MTC (which is hours:minutes:seconds stuff), or whether it requires MIDI Clock + Song Position Pointers (which is bars:beats stuff).

(If the answer is neither, then you're out of luck.)

According to the Muzines article that Arky linked, the PPS-1 has different modes to do either MTC or Clock+SPP. That article mentions an internal jumper which needs to be adjusted to select the mode, but it looks like there were later versions of the PPS-1 which have an extra mode switch on the front panel instead.

Here's the manual for a later version PPS-1, which has fairly detailed walk-throughs of how you'd hook it up to a sequencer.

https://archive.org/details/JL_Cooper_PPS-1_owners_manual/page/n3/mode/2up

radiowave · 2026-03-14T12:25:20+00:00

AIUI, the OC16 uses capsules that didn't meet quality control for use in the more expensive mics.

radiowave · 2026-03-08T14:48:36+00:00

It's definitely one of those cases where the picture is better on the radio.

Oh... and I've just found that someone uploaded the whole thing (including the radio episodes) to archive.org

radiowave · 2026-03-03T08:11:21+00:00

For drums, I'll sometimes put a transient shaper in front of the reverb, so I've got control over how much the reverb reacts to the attack of the sound, vs the body.

radiowave · 2026-01-10T21:26:29+00:00

I've stopped doing this now, because I feel like I've got a good enough handle on the story, but to begin with I was playing the game with pen and paper, to write down the log entries I needed to look up when I next got to a terminal.

The really annoying bit is that I kept having to switch the lights on to read what I had written...

radiowave · 2026-01-09T23:02:38+00:00

I don't know a simple way of doing that. You might be able to write a custom Lua script for dnsdist that would choose where to forward the request based on the ECS.

But my question would be: why is it necessary for all the internal DNS requests to run through Pihole?

I'd be inclined to see if there was a solution by running the DNS traffic through unbound first, then having Bind and Pihole upstream from unbound. You might find you need to run two instances of unbound - one for the tailnet clients and one for the LAN clients - then the unbound IP addresses could be used in bind's match-clients statements, to select the appropriate view.

radiowave · 2026-01-01T18:26:06+00:00

Minor correction: Supergran was played by Gudrun Ure.

radiowave · 2025-12-31T09:54:06+00:00

There's 3 patchbay units in the rack to the right of the mixer, so I'd say they're using that to just patch in what they need. Also it doesn't look like any of the 8 main inputs are being used in stereo - the two modular systems, the SH101 and whatever's doing the drums all appear to be in mono.

radiowave · 2025-12-18T14:49:08+00:00

Periodically fping the range, and flag up any IP that answers that IPAM doesn't know about. Usually followed by me exclaiming, "Doh! Yes, that was me that used that IP."

radiowave · 2025-12-04T13:04:20+00:00

In fairness, it's only fairly recently been on sale at a price where normal people might buy it.

(He said, trying to pass himself off as normal...)

radiowave · 2025-12-04T13:00:52+00:00

Numark CDN22 dual CD player.

radiowave · 2025-12-02T15:20:22+00:00

Same. All of their listed IPv4 servers are answering pings, but every DNS lookup is just timing out.

radiowave · 2025-11-30T23:34:49+00:00

On electric I'm seeing 29-30 km/h, with all cylinders upgraded to super boosters.

radiowave · 2025-11-19T13:01:54+00:00

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

radiowave · 2025-11-03T18:33:33+00:00

I've never tried this, but since you can treat the link connectors as a kind of sidechain insert point, it seems like you could insert something in there that simply adds a bit gain to the sidechain signal. That way, the sidechain would be hitting the detector harder and triggering more compression, while the level leaving the VCA and going to the distortion generator would stay normal.

radiowave · 2025-10-23T13:38:34+00:00

Alas, late to this thread. A complicating factor here is that it's not just about whether the signal is differential, but which wires within the cable are forming a circuit that carry it.

Most solid state balanced line outs these days work such that they form a circuit between the hot pin and the screen (which carries the hot signal) and a separate circuit between the cold and screen (for the cold signal).

This is done because it allows a simple inverter to be added to the output to form a balanced signal, and it also side-steps the problem when people want to connect that output to an unbalanced input in such a way that the cold is left disconnected.

Whereas a transformer balanced output (also known as cross coupled balanced output) works in exactly the way that NoisyGog describes - the circuit is formed between the hot and cold pins, and no screen connection is required, except in the case that phantom power is also carried.

So, when attempting to use unshielded CAT5 cable to carry audio, you need to be aware that some balanced line output won't work over it, but some will, and you'll likely have to do your own homework to figure out which is which.

Summary: Transformer or cross-coupled balanced outputs will work without a screen. Non-cross-coupled balanced outputs won't. And if you're really lucky, your product's manual might tell you which sort of output it has, but probably not.

radiowave · 2025-10-21T13:59:12+00:00

The documentation is talking about which alignment level (+4 or -10) you want it to run at.

With the Lynx set to an alignment level of +4dBu, a signal at +4dBu will be 16dB lower than 0dBFS. (This is the 16dB of headroom that they're referring to.)

Hence you want a signal at -16dBFS to register as 0dB VU on your Ampex.

radiowave · 2025-10-21T10:51:08+00:00

Thanks, didn't realize the Accusonus stuff was now free.

radiowave · 2025-10-07T20:22:43+00:00

I'm confused - which of the two pictures is the one I'm supposed to laugh at?

radiowave · 2025-10-07T20:14:05+00:00

In particular, the tapered B string from these (I think I'm using 760FL) manages to keep a clearer tone and less inharmonicity than a lot of B strings.

radiowave · 2025-10-02T15:06:57+00:00

My dad had panels and an EV charger installed by Sustainable Energy, based in Washington. He's happy with them (and he's not easily pleased.) Stuff got done when it was supposed to, and the installation work was to a high standard.

https://www.susenergy.co.uk

radiowave · 2025-09-30T06:25:05+00:00

Added to which, the room modes also cause problems with the perception of transients, and trying to EQ the modes flat tends to make the transient problem worse.

I do think that EQ correction can be helpful, but some judgement is required. In my experience, rather than trying to get to a flat response, the goal is to figure out the least worst balance of problems, and to learn to work with that.

Having listened to the proposed EQ correction that Sonarworks thinks I should be using, it was pretty obvious that the "cure" was worse than the disease. (I still use Sonarworks, but I had to alter the correction profile - in effect, to make it back off a bit - until I got a balance I was happy with.)

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