Germanium Pre-amp

Hey man, hope all is well with you and your family.  Have you checked out my website videos yet? Well the mixer is on hold indefinitely Picked up a Soundcraft Folio for now The studio is but a few weeks away from semi completion. Just painting(not sure what color)and sound proofing I’ve added a pic [...]

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Standard Operational Amplifier (op-amp) Circuits

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 [...]

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Studiomaster 16-4-8 latest on 14 October 2008

Gonna get on with the mixer tomorrow Im just gonna plug in one channel to stip, but do i still need to connect the monitor channel also which has a ground strip to earth?  (this would usually be the last channel in the chain of multiple strip) thanks paul

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Studiomaster 16-4-8 latest on 13 October 2008

Hey man, hope you had a great weekend did you see the weston beach race? or did you stay at home and enjoy the weather? ive taken on the job of Mixerlock Homes and trying to disyfer/dysifer(check spelling on that ONE) the mixer schematic and pcb trace on the PSU schematic it reads +15vB? what [...]

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Studiomaster 16-4-8 latest on 6 October 2008

Hey man hope all is well Used that RTA software today to check out mixer, here are the results For each channel i used the line and then out of direct out I sent various signals through from a 20HZ – 20000HZ sweep to a 500HZ square wave Channel 1 & 7 were dead Channel [...]

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Audio Test Probe

Hey man, is this one of those probe things that you were telling me about for checking circuits? http://parts.digikey.co.uk/1/1/483535-kit-logic-probe-diy-digital-tw-diy-5024.html i think you said i could make one would that help me to find problems on my mixer? thanks paul

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Studiomaster 16-4-8 restore

Hi, so I’ve just picked up an old Studiomaster 16-4-8 in great condition. Its just a bit noisy, Id like to recap it and mod it. I have some info such as: I went through a few of these around 20 years ago. Installing local .1 uf bypass caps on the power rails does help. [...]

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Probable DDOS attack Using SQL Injection on my Websites

Over the last day, my sites have been really slow and twice to my knowledge have tripped out.  I’ve been getting a mysql error message like so when I try to resolve the problem in phpAdmin; MySQL: ERROR 1040: Too many connections I tried hosting chat support (as I’m in a hurry) but the connection [...]

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studiomaster diamond compact 4-2

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. [...]

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Mini Studiomaster Mixer

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 [...]

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Mini Mixer Question etc

Question about the inputs and outputs on a simple cheap mixer

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Seck 1882

Hey man, hope all is going well with your visitors this week (editors note: SGI USA visitors to set up SEIN network) I have attached the service manual for the Seck 1882, let me know what you think Also here is a link for already partially built PSU http://www.fivefish.net/diy/default.asp I know there are for outboard, [...]

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Buddhists and Mixers, mix

Had a fantastic little meeting tonight between Paul, Dave and myself.  I was the middle man arranging a Seck mixer that Dave offered to Paul after I saw it on Dave’s wall round at his neat studio.  Dave was in several bands from his Essex days, “Broken Clocks”, “The Church” and he’s given me CDs [...]

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