John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part III

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> The package effectively precludes them from being used in the DIY world.

Why ? Because of SMD ?
SMD is real easy with a bit of practice, and a good magnifying glass.
I also do not have young man's eyesight anymore.
Ask Jan Didden. He can also solder 0603 now.

I use lots of 2145's, also the single version 2SK209 for different applications.
Source follower being the obvious one.


Patrick
 
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Markw4 said:
What if the lyrics are supposed to be unintelligible (not unusual with rock), but you jump to the incorrect conclusion that they are being ignored? Then your brain constructs a story of cause and effect that is incorrect, but that you accept without examination (because System 2 is lazy in humans)?

All you will have accomplished is the acceptance of a false belief. You probably would have been better off not to have thought about it all.
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How many existential crisis's have you had?
 
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Sorry Destroyer, In retrospect I probably should have responded in a different way. If you are right about your friend's mixing or mastering abilities, he is probably not representative of most skilled professionals. If he is a good professional, then it seems pretty unlikely your conclusions regarding cause and effect in his case are correct. Either way it didn't accomplish anything useful to throw a construction right back at you to illustrate how readily System 1 produces them.
 
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Your mind just jumped in DEEP. The reality is most amateur people working on stuff that includes their voice, are scared of their own voice. That's the biggest reason you hear a lack of good vocals in lots of amateur productions (that I know about anyways). About the only way to get them to sing so you can hear it is to turn down the monitors at a live show so they think they need to actually sing louder, then you can finally hear the character of their voice you get in conversation and lyrics you can understand.
 
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RNMarsh said:
🙂 yeah That's weird.



?? I dont think there is a MSD any more. But what would I know?







-RM
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Relcap and some other places still list it as your website.

Was poking around looking for RTX series in 100-330pf range.

Could’ve kept the domain and redirected it to your present enterprise. Or start a mattress company.

But I’m sure those motivated to find you will, and those not motivated perhaps aren’t worth the energy to solicit.
 
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Destroyer OS said:
There is talented singing, and there is fits the music singing... A lot more can make some music they can eventually work their voice into. I've been surprised what people could do with some "talent".
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You are describing vocals. Singing is a subset of vocals. Vocals is more like what I was doing on the song I posted. Many can do vocals. Few can sing. You really almost need perfect pitch to sing well. Many people with perfect pitch are not great singers because they lack vocal projection.
 
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DPH said:
My original point still stands -- you made a number of claims that would flip our understanding of basic physics on its head, sooooooo yeah. Please provide evidence.
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Directivity in at least some cables is just one observation.
I expect that my (and others) findings are not contrary to basic physics and I want such documented evidence just as much as you do, don't worry about that.
Sooner or later I will extract the digit and derive rigorous enough measurements of what I am up to, in the meantime I'm still having fun exploring all kinds of variations and applications......measurements are not critical to me at this point.

In the meantime, perhaps you can explain why removing the RG59 coax cable sheath altered the system sound.

Thanks, Dan.
 
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morinix said:
Many can do vocals. Few can sing. You really almost need perfect pitch to sing well. Many people with perfect pitch are not great singers because they lack vocal projection.
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I took a quick listen. Lots of problems there between the music, performances, mixing, etc.

I could probably teach you what to practice to make your vocals sound like singing, teach you how to sing in time with a groove assuming the accompaniment had one. And how to play a tight groove for the singer in just about any pop/rock/Latin/jazz style. Some of it would take a few years of practice to get good at, but you would keep making progress. (Classical is all quite different in many ways from what we could lump together as 'pop', of course.)

Also, could teach you how to make the vocals sound as good a possible (for pop, say) in a mix, how to fix things that can be fixed (pitch, timing, dynamics), and what to practice to focus first on the other things that can't be fixed (pronunciation, resonance, tone, etc.). Projection, per se, is not actually necessary (but controlling plosives and consonants is, at least to some extent). Some people and some styles sound better with lips and teeth barely open to get the sound out. But, the resonance inside can still matter a lot.

However, its all lot to learn. Also to some extent having musicians that can play and perform well makes everything else so much easier and less time consuming, so there are some things that can be addressed in more than one way.
 
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Markw4 said:
I took a quick listen. Lots of problems there between the music, performances, mixing, etc.

I could probably teach you what to practice to make your vocals sound like singing, teach you how to sing in time with a groove assuming the accompaniment had one. And how to play a tight groove for the singer in just about any pop/rock/Latin/jazz style. Some of it would take a few years of practice to get good at, but you would keep making progress. (Classical is all quite different in many ways from what we could lump together as 'pop', of course.)

Also, could teach you how to make the vocals sound as good a possible (for pop, say) in a mix, how to fix things that can be fixed (pitch, timing, dynamics), and what to practice to focus first on the other things that can't be fixed (pronunciation, resonance, tone, etc.). Projection, per se, is not actually necessary (but controlling plosives and consonants is, at least to some extent). Some people and some styles sound better with lips and teeth barely open to get the sound out. But, the resonance inside can still matter a lot.

However, its all lot to learn. Also to some extent having musicians that can play and perform well makes everything else so much easier and less time consuming, so there are some things that can be addressed in more than one way.
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I was in bands all through the 80’s. My father had a masters degree in music and was a session drummer here in Los Angeles. I almost have an associates in music. I was using my father’s recording studio while in those bands in the 80’s. There isn’t much you can teach me that I’m not aware of already.
 
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