I'll try getting a job at Soundcraft maybe I can check it 🙂
While I can't even find D Self's age or birth year, I can find that his articles in Wireless World dates from the 90's
.Baxandall's work dates from the 50's...70's
Now Elector claimed in 2012 that Linear Audio released some letters between Baxandall and D Self which is utter nonsense.I wonder what Jan has to say about it...
Baxandal was dead when that should have happened...
Other than that I can hardly imagine myself other than taking notes from D Self ."I don't agee with him" probably means "I have no f... clue what D Self is talking about because I'm a complete idiot"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Self
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Baxandall
https://www.elektormagazine.com/news/republished-baxandall-and-self-on-audio-power
While I can't even find D Self's age or birth year, I can find that his articles in Wireless World dates from the 90's
.Baxandall's work dates from the 50's...70's
Now Elector claimed in 2012 that Linear Audio released some letters between Baxandall and D Self which is utter nonsense.I wonder what Jan has to say about it...
Baxandal was dead when that should have happened...
Other than that I can hardly imagine myself other than taking notes from D Self ."I don't agee with him" probably means "I have no f... clue what D Self is talking about because I'm a complete idiot"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Self
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Baxandall
https://www.elektormagazine.com/news/republished-baxandall-and-self-on-audio-power
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The problem is just that one person can only do so much.
Next step, coming up with an idea is the easy part to be very honest.
Making that ready for production, logistics, assembly, keeping your workers happy and finding enough budget and the right people to market it all, THAT's the hard part.
I lost count of the amount of startups and even small business I have seen, going flat on their face and going bankrupt after just a couple of years. Their idea was awesome, but that was also the only thing that was awesome about it.
Lesson one I teach all my interns and students, a difficult but elegant technological or mathematical idea does NOT sell.
A good use case for a well targeted audience (hopefully a big one!) sells.
Unless your idea is totally completely new and different, in that case, don't make products, sell and license your idea.
I've heard that the best way to make a small fortune in audio is to start with a big one...
To try selling an ideea means you own a patent for it first and that costs a lot:
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From what I see Zenmod sells Nelson Pass ideas..."In oak's shadow you only see grass "
I've watched about 50 editions of the Dragon's Den and I've yet to see one where the bussiness angels offer to pay for the patent to a guy having nothing, but an ideea...Being a designer usually means you're going to sell your best ideea for monthly wages ...I did this for years while my bosses patented my work in their name...It's usual practice to sign a contract that says that your future ideas are the property of your company.If you aim at an entreprenorial job, but you can only afford one as an employee, you need to get the least creative job for just the right amount of time to devellop your concepts and raise the money and get to know all the right people that can help you make your own company or become the right part of the right company while fighting for your freedom. And there's a limited time window within you can do it cause your most creative ideas come early before you hit your 40's entreprenorial skills time. No company that is not yours will treat you right, you're the only guy who can treat yourself right so it's a very fine balance to offer your boss just the right expertise for the money you need to escape his company and make yours.I wouldn't offer any creative expertise to any employer unless I'm offered shares that can't be diluted in his company and that's impossible to get so I'll be a slave for just as much time as it needs while trying to keep my best ideas and findings to myself , cause there's no other way for an employee to get free.Most of the time the best ideas you can come up are not in the field of your company and has to do with that shamefull lateral thinking so there's no worry in signing a contract that says you're intellectual property is the company's property if you're going to change professional domain. Signing a contract with a "concepts delivery company" is a danger and you better don't sign a contract that tells anything about intellectual rights for the time outside the company even though you can fight it successfully in a court of law. Not a romanian court of law though...we have usual 5...9 years lawsuits terms...
You can consider a project based collaboration with that company though.You'll be signing lots of NDA's ... The skills you need to make the best audio product that sold so poorly can help making a fine millitary drone or laser that the saudi or the americans will pay deerly for.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/te...displacements-using-a-cds-optical-pickup-head
You need to have this attitude as a simple employee from the very first minute in the company if you dream of having your own. You need to learn how to review your own ideas yourself as well as the legal aspects atrached to your contract. There's no coincidence that Einstein worked in a patent office as a state employee with no strings attached to a private company and many inventors are from STATE academic background as your intellectual work is easier to become your property when you work in governmental jobs instead of the private sector.
Most successful small companies are academia spinouts , but once your university professor becomes a private bussinessman he must be treated as such, you can have no expectations from him to behave like a State academia. Many State professors use their students ideas for free, use students phd works in their private companies they run in parallel.Teachers do sell students work as their own work to private companies as students have no say in it.
Here's how you get to make it properly even if you had bad experiences in the past :
You need to learn selling every minute of your job for the best money you can get and doing it without offering the real value you are or become for monthly wages and it needs to BE selfish and LOOK altruistic cause that is the spirit of every successful bussinessman alive including your own one.
Bussiness is bussiness and there's no friendship really outhere.
When I was in the army which was mandatory I used to trade the very poor quantity of meat we got for cheese which was in abundance, but that came with a profit cause the cheese was better quality than the meat and I was in the communication's department where the meat's proteins were useless for learning morse code at high speed.I was the third in 180 people at high speed morse decoding after initial 4 months(the first two places were ocuppied by musicians in their civilian life...) and the first in 1/4th of my country's army corp where I was assigned after 9 months.I still retained the fightclub instructor badge and still had more energy than enyone else until I finished the mandatory service while doing 5 hours of physical training every single day, but the poor guys were told that the meat is the best food that gives you power...
I've watched about 50 editions of the Dragon's Den and I've yet to see one where the bussiness angels offer to pay for the patent to a guy having nothing, but an ideea...Being a designer usually means you're going to sell your best ideea for monthly wages ...I did this for years while my bosses patented my work in their name...It's usual practice to sign a contract that says that your future ideas are the property of your company.If you aim at an entreprenorial job, but you can only afford one as an employee, you need to get the least creative job for just the right amount of time to devellop your concepts and raise the money and get to know all the right people that can help you make your own company or become the right part of the right company while fighting for your freedom. And there's a limited time window within you can do it cause your most creative ideas come early before you hit your 40's entreprenorial skills time. No company that is not yours will treat you right, you're the only guy who can treat yourself right so it's a very fine balance to offer your boss just the right expertise for the money you need to escape his company and make yours.I wouldn't offer any creative expertise to any employer unless I'm offered shares that can't be diluted in his company and that's impossible to get so I'll be a slave for just as much time as it needs while trying to keep my best ideas and findings to myself , cause there's no other way for an employee to get free.Most of the time the best ideas you can come up are not in the field of your company and has to do with that shamefull lateral thinking so there's no worry in signing a contract that says you're intellectual property is the company's property if you're going to change professional domain. Signing a contract with a "concepts delivery company" is a danger and you better don't sign a contract that tells anything about intellectual rights for the time outside the company even though you can fight it successfully in a court of law. Not a romanian court of law though...we have usual 5...9 years lawsuits terms...
You can consider a project based collaboration with that company though.You'll be signing lots of NDA's ... The skills you need to make the best audio product that sold so poorly can help making a fine millitary drone or laser that the saudi or the americans will pay deerly for.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/te...displacements-using-a-cds-optical-pickup-head
You need to have this attitude as a simple employee from the very first minute in the company if you dream of having your own. You need to learn how to review your own ideas yourself as well as the legal aspects atrached to your contract. There's no coincidence that Einstein worked in a patent office as a state employee with no strings attached to a private company and many inventors are from STATE academic background as your intellectual work is easier to become your property when you work in governmental jobs instead of the private sector.
Most successful small companies are academia spinouts , but once your university professor becomes a private bussinessman he must be treated as such, you can have no expectations from him to behave like a State academia. Many State professors use their students ideas for free, use students phd works in their private companies they run in parallel.Teachers do sell students work as their own work to private companies as students have no say in it.
Here's how you get to make it properly even if you had bad experiences in the past :
You need to learn selling every minute of your job for the best money you can get and doing it without offering the real value you are or become for monthly wages and it needs to BE selfish and LOOK altruistic cause that is the spirit of every successful bussinessman alive including your own one.
Bussiness is bussiness and there's no friendship really outhere.
When I was in the army which was mandatory I used to trade the very poor quantity of meat we got for cheese which was in abundance, but that came with a profit cause the cheese was better quality than the meat and I was in the communication's department where the meat's proteins were useless for learning morse code at high speed.I was the third in 180 people at high speed morse decoding after initial 4 months(the first two places were ocuppied by musicians in their civilian life...) and the first in 1/4th of my country's army corp where I was assigned after 9 months.I still retained the fightclub instructor badge and still had more energy than enyone else until I finished the mandatory service while doing 5 hours of physical training every single day, but the poor guys were told that the meat is the best food that gives you power...
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The urge to give birth to an idea or design is a mighty one, all one can do is give birth and nature and watch it grow or falter. Just like kids. Peer review in amateur circles has not really been happening for a very long time. Feedback has become a profession, you have to give away more than you want to get that for the emotional level stuff. For money stuff, it's a perfect scene now for independent designers to use all the internet tools
Do it to step up - not to everyone, but to that one that goes woooooo!
Have to also realise that not everyone will have aptitude, intelligence and imagination on par to truly appreciate your creation. Nor will everyone have the same priorities
As I said, do it for that one that goes wooooooooooooo!
Do it to step up - not to everyone, but to that one that goes woooooo!
Have to also realise that not everyone will have aptitude, intelligence and imagination on par to truly appreciate your creation. Nor will everyone have the same priorities
As I said, do it for that one that goes wooooooooooooo!
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to the OP:
My DIY journey started a long time ago and over time I have realized that seeking affirmation can be a bad thing because instead of designing and building what YOU want, you feel pressure to please others and that results in different decisions and compromises. If you crave this kind of attention, you'll have to make such compromises until you have some success or give up trying. Your projects need to have some kind of emotional impact on your viewer, free of unnecessary or distracting elements with the main item of interest placed prominently and should be something about the design you want to say to the world.
Reaching maturity as a DIY Audio designer requires both time and confidence. And it's not something most people ever get to; it's something you have to reach by passing through the stages of uncertainty and seeking external affirmation and existential questioning of 'why am I doing this' to realize that you can only be happy if you make your best work, and you can only make your best work if it isn't a compromise. This has to be done with your heart as well as your brain, you have to care, but not care too much.
My DIY journey started a long time ago and over time I have realized that seeking affirmation can be a bad thing because instead of designing and building what YOU want, you feel pressure to please others and that results in different decisions and compromises. If you crave this kind of attention, you'll have to make such compromises until you have some success or give up trying. Your projects need to have some kind of emotional impact on your viewer, free of unnecessary or distracting elements with the main item of interest placed prominently and should be something about the design you want to say to the world.
Reaching maturity as a DIY Audio designer requires both time and confidence. And it's not something most people ever get to; it's something you have to reach by passing through the stages of uncertainty and seeking external affirmation and existential questioning of 'why am I doing this' to realize that you can only be happy if you make your best work, and you can only make your best work if it isn't a compromise. This has to be done with your heart as well as your brain, you have to care, but not care too much.
It's not just about doing the best. It's like being a scientist who is unable to get his work published and reviewed for some reason.
If you want to read one of the most amazing journeys to success imaginable, I highly recommend the book -
Brilliant! : Shuji Nakamura and the revolution in lighting technology.
This book is 15 years old, so read it as a biography of Shuji Nakamura, rather than for the technology.
Spoiler: he triumphs against all adversity in the end.
https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Nakamura-Revolution-Lighting-Technology/dp/1591024625
Brilliant! : Shuji Nakamura and the revolution in lighting technology.
This book is 15 years old, so read it as a biography of Shuji Nakamura, rather than for the technology.
Spoiler: he triumphs against all adversity in the end.
https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Nakamura-Revolution-Lighting-Technology/dp/1591024625
It may feel like that, but there are always reasons. If you are new and want research published maybe get a well established scientist to sign on as a co-author. As first author it is understood that the work is primarily yours. Also, you should understand what type of journal would be the best fit for your work. Don't expect to be published in Science or Nature first time around. Probably not going to happen.
If you want to be known as an audio designer, there are some parallels. What type of people or market segment do you want acknowledgement from? The high volume consumer stuff that that gets attention from impressive measurements? The high end audiophile crowd that cares more about how a device sounds and how it appeals to the eye as a piece of art? In other words, who's attention do you want? What typically gets their attention? Are you good enough yet, experienced enough, etc.? If you don't know, maybe you could build a piece and ship it around to a group of people to review and see how they like it. Each person keeps it for a week or whatever then sends it on the next person. Maybe you start a thread to talk about it?
Keep in mind that this is entertainment, not dialysis.
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Being the hobbyist, my balance sheet would be very red. I don't smoke, drink (helps the wife doesn't too), we don't have kids unfortunately, so barring the job and chores my time is a constant effort to fill with fun for the mind and body. If I fix anything for friends then that's a plus and typically that's cost of components etc but that wouldn't even pay for a bottle of wine. Being a hobbyist I'm attempting to keep away from making a job out of something I find fun. Would I like to be a well known and respected designer - sure, but on my own terms isn't going to be feasible.
However I also have dreams of creating beautiful craft work, in glass, in metal etc etc.
However I also have dreams of creating beautiful craft work, in glass, in metal etc etc.
For a hobby to be successful it needs to be treated as a bussiness too.NP never made a distinction between hobby an bussiness as it helps a lot treating a hobby in the most professional way.You need serious money for the 24k gold plating of the usual "high end" stuff....
I don't know if it's even possible. I've never sold a thing in my life except my working time.