Strangely Perfect

I’ve been thinking about the perilous mentality of the 52% of Americans who think torture is all fine and dandy.  And then I saw a neat little video piece on the BBC this morning which casts a few French people in the exact same spots in June 1944 and now.  It’s here: D-Day in France: [...]

The Triumph of Wishful Thinking over Common Sense The recent previews of the Microsoft Vista replacement with it’s unreliable “hands on” dragging experience (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7695933.stm) are another reminder that desires aren’t always satisfied and that designers don’t always design what people actually want for their daily work. PCPro Magazine have duplicated the recently banned Apple iPhone [...]

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 [...]

After a few prods from the universe that the electricity system is man-made and thus prone to failure :), I’ve taken the steps to buy and install a backup supply and surge limiter thingy from http://www.EBuyer.com It’s called an “APC Back-UPS RS 800VA USB/SER 6 Outlets With AVR & Surge Protection” and seems to work [...]

I’ve got a few tunes from Waqqaz streamed today since Mr Compy is up and running. .. I’ve done: Bosumptwi Comrade Dolhpin, the reprise version Curling Sandwiches So in a way these are all reprises. It’s some time since these were done and it’s nice to twiddle the sound(s). Why? – because I can! The [...]

Hey man, hope all is cool. Hows the new studio going? Thought this could benefit others, so Ill post here. Am about to build myself a computer based on these.. http://www.autdirect.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Intel_Core_2_Duo.html http://www.dv247.com/configure/8 http://www.sub.co.uk/index.php?sec=proddetails&pcode=PACK00000001116 Im going to try and source the parts as I dont want to spend more than £350. Wondered what your thoughts were. [...]

This site, by Mark Ayres, gives a description of the Doctor Who theme as it was created by Delia Derbyshire from the Ron Grainer score. In conversation with Paul yesterday, I was recalling how I started music by recording short or medium wave radio tuning, heterodyning and interference sounds onto a cassette and then chopped [...]

Ableton Live, Reaper, Dreamweaver demonstration

What’s it all About? Me I’m Martin Rees, a founder member of the innovative and gifted post-punk 1980′s band The Crawling Chaos from the North-East of England. Martin Rees Create your badge Purpose: Original Originally, this website was set up as a place for stuff that didn’t fit into the main Crawling Chaos body.   Then [...]

Thanks Paul. I made a headphone amp for a few quid. It was capable of driving up to 10 headphones for the studio monitoring and was short-circuit-proof as well. I thought I’ve still got the circuit; I’ll scan it for you: Rees

The word on the street is you need a decent headphone amp to get the best out of the 990. As of mine they are open back, so its a lot better for longer use. I have a pair of beyerdynamic DT250s which are very accurate, but they are closed and not too comfortable for [...]

Hi. I’m looking to mix with these which have a nominal freq respponse 5Hz – 35kHz and weigh 270g and block out all sound. They should be good. I like Beyer. I used to use a Beyer M501 ribbon mike by them which could pick up flies sniffing with a cold and was hypercardiod to [...]

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 [...]

Hey Martin, hope you had a good week. Here is the link for some of the stuff I want to eventually DIY http://www.fivefish.net/diy/default.asp Check out Neve 1272 Urei 1176 SSL Compressor Pre 10 48 API pre amp Tell me what you think? I noticed the oscilloscope, that I guess is used to see problems in [...]