A Productive Time

I'll be posting on 2 new cheap n cheerful dub sirens very soon. Whole projects and samples. In the mean time I need to drop an output to line level. Heres a link to a tutorial on building a 40dB attenuator pad.

Contact Mics

Happy new year, here's a link to help you build your own contact microphone.

This documentary on Radio 4 regarding recording the sound of wind passing through wires is fascinating and most inspiring.

More links

Its been busy at the towers this weekend, just finished sanding down the wooden box i've picked up to house my percussion synth.

Found this very nice website this evening, also been looking at trying the Posc Kit

I've been researching the tools i'll require to create my cases, mainly drill bits:

• Mini Pots: 8mm diameter (case hole) 6mm diameter (shaft)
• Pots: 10mm diameter (case hole) 8mm diameter (shaft)
• 1/4 Jack (metal type): 9.5mm diamater case hole
• 1/4 Jack (plastic type): 10.5mm diameter case hole
• Mini Jack (plastic pcb mounted type): 6.3mm diameter case hole

These titanium coated step drill bits might just do the job

Long winter nights

Looking for more fun with electronics I've been searching the internet for more projects. Here's a link to a great article for those of us who are new to electronics.

Links:

Siren kits at affordable prices. These could be modded with pots to vary the tone generated

Tube preamps

Atari Punk Dub Console

DS 7 DS 8 Drum synth clone PCB