Strangely Perfect

Garrett Lisi’s Campervan Theory of Everything I love the way he’s freed his life of encumberances to allow himself time to think…. Garrett’s mind seems to hinge on symmetries and the resolution of everything into clearly recognisable patterns, which, as he states with his Galileo reference, harks back to earlier times and theories. He’s wrapped [...]

In a little book called “Quotable Nichiren: Words for Daily Life“, published by World Tribune Press for SGI, I found this little definition of Evil, which I’ve scanned for you. It’s something I’ve been pondering for some time. Most people have their own idea of good and evil, one being the opposite of the other, [...]

Paul. This scan is from my old ETI Circuits #2 from the 70′s.  It’s about the best op-amp info you are likely to find.  With a bit of knowledge, these six circuits are an instant ready-reckoner and allow you to do almost anything! If you’ve no knowledge, they’re just squiggles on paper.  But then so [...]

Hey man, hope all is good Do you recommend any effects processors? I’vebeen looking at either the the Lexicon MPX 110 or the Midiverb 4 Also im on the lookout for some type of analogue synth Something quite cheap that i can play around with but also process external sounds with Let me know if [...]

Don’t let Sarah Palin’s obvious organisational ability and her successful prosecution of a hunt against corruption fool you into believing that she is anything but a nutter.  Two rights do not make a thousand wrongs.  There are many brave people around. Buddhism says that anyone has the Buddha nature within them, at all times.  Simultaneanity [...]

Extreme and risky action the only way to tackle global warming, say scientists in the Guardian’s article tonight.  In it, they argue that because nowt is happening anywhere in the world to stop the warming trend, individual scientists and organisations should take action themselves, like blotting out the sun or seeding the ocean to make [...]

I had a message from Doomage recently which allowed me to update some biographical information on the Crawling Chaos website here, http://crawlingchaos.co.uk/myths/people, but also he expressed his disappointment about the online sound quality. Needles to say, I agree with the sentiment but am forced into this mode by the technical limitations of the medium. But at [...]

In a typical piece of reporting designed to highlight bad news and add spin to boring statistics, the recent news that half the British armed forces are pissed off and would rather stop shooting and dodging bullets in preference to looking for jobs in a decreasing jobs market is not surprising. At first glance, from [...]

Mixer Pictures from Paul Front Panel Back Panel Main Board These are the best pictures Paul can get. I just received them today. But what does it all mean? This is my appraisal. It’s a very simple four channel mixer. It doesn’t appear on the Studiomaster website, so it must be quite old and obscure. [...]

re: Scott Walker. If you were familiar with those pieces of his work, you would understand Just amazing lyrics, songwriting and the composition is amazing I carried out some subjective experiments with my mini studiomaster mixer the other night. After sending my line level out from Emu to mixer with all gains maxed on mixer [...]

Microsoft has today been fined a record amount by the EU for being tight wads about releasing hooks into the windoze operating system for other companies to latch onto. Maybe this has some connection to the recent declaration by Micro$oft that it is planning to increase it’s inter-operability; or am I being cynical? My comments [...]

Have you bought it yet? It should have more than enough analogue sound to satisfy any man!

(This posting amended and added on 24/10/2008) Paul Here’s the headphone amp (picture link gone) circuit. It’s from this old ETI mag thing I’ve got. The headphone amp was used in the Crawling Chaos studios as it could drive 5 pairs of headphones connected in mono simultaneously!!!) Also, I’ve got a little Class A amp [...]

Hiya again Paul I’m looking at this kind of this for some hardware inputting. They seem clean enough sound-wise and robust enough physically. They come with quite a few (cut-down) pieces of software. What do you think? What’s the pros and cons of doing it this way that you’ve heard? And I don’t want the [...]