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    RIP Eric Toline

    That was a lovely read, I'm sorry for your loss man. Those little stories are pure gold. The cat reply is brilliant!
  2. If the pinouts are known, why not? I like this idea. The impedance thing might be a thing, but for a measly 12" run it might not be.
  3. That's really interesting, thanks for posting. As a child I would play my dad all the time, except that I called it chest ha ha!
  4. Well I'm convinced, sign me up to record ant farts! I really enjoyed reading this thread, thanks for posting all that great information everyone!
  5. That's what hipped me to it, although I had heard of it before. That's insane about the ET woman. Now they could just do a deep fake.
  6. Paul F that is AWESOME!! What great stories. I cannot believe you have that whole session. Is it true that no one really knows who that voice actor was?
  7. We all need some "It depends..." t shirts! Glad he's upright! Dan Izen
  8. DEERRRRRRR Of course this must be where that 1kHz comes from - intelligibility! Which are those hissy sibilant consonants, not the main fundamental freqs of the voice. Thanks everyone for chiming in! Dan Izen
  9. So we all have this idea that around 1 kHz is the average freq for human voice. Maybe it's between 800 and 2,000 Hz? I've read how our hearing is particularly attuned to those frequencies because of this. My recent activities have brought this into question. I just got a free phone app called Pano Tuner, which features an active, moving note-and-frequency display. I've been experimenting with trying to hold pitches and guess at notes (learn perfect pitch), which is super fun. My lowest note is about 96 Hz in between A and G flat. (Throat singing can bring that down to about 56 Hz.) My absolute highest pitch is around 1446 Hz, between F and G flat. (But I have pretty epic squealing and falsetto ability haha!) But DAMN 1K is super high! My voice doesn't go NEAR that frequency unless I'm squealing, not even falsetto singing gets anywhere near that high. I spoke into the app and used a "high voice" and that was only about 300 Hz. My very surprised "what are you talking about?!" tone goes up to about 500 Hz. My regular speaking voice freq range is only around 120 - 300 Hz. I realize I am a male but I do not have a particularly deep voice, and even if I speak in a high voice the frequencies are still way under 1K. What am I missing? How did that number come into being? Just put this in the "random musings while I wait out the strike" category. Dan Izen
  10. Wow I love those! What a cool sound. I'm surprised metal dudes haven't gotten hip, they could SHRED with one of those. Great thread Mono!
  11. I used to worry about this a lot. Then I did this, and those fumes are sucked right out of the house. A pal gave me a 6" duct fan and it works! I never want to have to deal with lead-free solder! (Black bag is for cat-proofing the heat shrink! Bunsen the cat loves to chew that stuff.)
  12. Was all of the sound on that also AI generated?
  13. Inductors! Haha! I only understand their principles, I haven't gotten to them in my extremely slow paced self learning. Thank you! I still don't get what those inductors and capacitors do. Dan Izen
  14. Turns out I had two of these cables from the old days, so I butchered one of them to try and find out the values. Holy crap it's a maze! There are two caps and two resistors. My ability to read the value code of the resistors is shameful, so I metered them both at exactly 1 ohm. EDIT - these are inductors not resistors! Cap 1 is labeled "102 A54" and the capacitance meter said .28 nF. Cap 2 is labeled "026 AHH" and metered at 1.28 nF. Here's what I saw. XLR Pin 1 cap 1 jumped to pin 2 jumped to pin 3 XLR Pin 2 cap 1 jumped to pin 1 cap 2 jumped to pin 3 1 ohm (EDIT) inductor --> 1/8" tip XLR pin 3 cap 2 jumped to pin 2 jumped to pin 1 1 ohm (EDIT) inductor --> 1/8" ring and shield The XLR pin one is not connected to a wire, only jumper to its neighbors. The 1/8" connector is a TRS style, but the sleeve and the ring are connected. The white went to pin 2, and the red and shielding went to pin 3. So, everything is connected together and I am thoroughly confused! I would love it if some smarty-pants could explain what the electrons are doing.
  15. That is crazy but I have seen it often. I don't understand it either. Have you tried it with whips? Or maybe even just one whip on each? I chalked it up to internal component tolerance differentials, but that's a completely uneducated guess.
  16. I'm not sure if you're aware of how much of a belligerent tone you keep having. It's not helping you. I don't think you're a mean or belligerent person, just seems you are taking idle comments personally and then attempting to respond in a neutral way. Philip was using a phrase, not projecting your personal reaction. Then he was using a real life example as evidence, which somehow you took personally. "Oh please" is condescending. You have entered a community of sound people. That means many of us know each other and our posts don't just disappear. Many discussions take place over the years with the same people. Please be aware of this and be nice.
  17. That's a BADASS tone there, jeez! Hits my ears like a sonic tidal wave. Duane Eddy is brilliant! I recently read an interview with Poison Ivy of the Cramps and she said her two greatest influences were Dwayne Eddy and Link Ray. Dwayne Eddy loved the single notes and link loved the chords. Also Dick Dale admitted that he watched Dwayne Eddy as a kid and was super into him, the influence of which is obvious in DD's style. I am still working on my surf demos. I got the drums and bass done, but gosh darn it I am struggling to get my guitar chops good enough to record!
  18. What temp? I bet I made the mistake of thinking one temp is the best for everything. I made up a bunch of XLRs and TRSs today and at 750 it was so slow! So I went back to 840 and it was much better. But that may be way too hot for those tiny TA5 cups and those hairs they call wires inside a COS?!
  19. A video would be very helpful. Or if you could elaborate on the eraser part. I get using a razor instead of a stripper, I do that all the time. But getting those tiny hairs of copper separated from the tiny fibers so a solder connection is possible, I am lost. I've tried a lighter to burn off those fibers, but that didn't really work. How does an eraser get rid of those fibers?
  20. You know, I like to use 840F so perhaps I just used too much heat! I too have decent soldering skills and this is the method I used. The solder stuck, but no sound came out so I gave up. Yes please post a video!
  21. The hardware store has air conditioning filter material that works almost as well as real hog's hair, and with a few layers of that around the mic you'll stop hearing drips. I have also left mic in pouring rain in a zeppelin + windjammer and the mic and connector were dry as a bone. I guess Amazon has it also, about 1/10 the price of hog's hair. Aqua-Flo roll You'll only need a few feet. This is also useful for loud drops in puddles that become distracting. That's pretty cool - recording sounds for sleeping! I've often thought about a recording project that would be for changing your awake world - 16+ hour recordings from different interior environments that people live. For example, a Brooklyn apartment near the window, or an ocean house, or a house in the desert. If those existed I'd play them at home and see what it felt like. Dan Izen
  22. Man I would love to see a well documented video of somebody wiring this crap. Those damn fibers and the fact that there are so few wires has made it utterly impossible for me to have any success. What is the purpose of those fibers anyway?
  23. Welp, in my world that would lead to many broken lavs. Most people just don't understand how to be gentle. Just get a mixer who is trustworthy. This reminds of all those warning labels that didn't exist for decades and now are seen everywhere. Why? Because people have gotten a lot dumber.
  24. All the places around me to stop taking batteries, so the only thing I can do is throw them in the trash. Kind of makes me sick. Two nine year old NPs just decided to completely die. Left on the chargers for hours and still zero lights. What a bummer.
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