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Found a USB stick with a load of files on from previous workplace.
Why is it not cathartic to clear them out ? >.<
Why is even looking at them making me feel like shit? -_-
I have been beaten to provide an edit......
It's pronounced Mello-tone
Not melotony!
Carry on >.>
On the other side of the cabinet are the mechanica-ma-bobs.
The 12 wheels are the note generators. One for each note, belt driven and geared to make sure they have the right speed for each note. Above are the ladder switches that take the 15v on each note of the keyboard, and switch the 500v that comes from the TC and voicing sections and then feed into the relevant parts of each generator.
Each generator has 2 parts. A rotor and a stator. The 500v is fed into the stator which energises each engraved sine wave. Then as the stator moves over it, it creates a variable capacitor that couples out to the amplifier, and after. To the horn speaker
Today on #JencenMakes
The Compton Melotone (pronounced like Monotony)
This example is actually a Compton 356 (I think. There's so many numbers) that has been gently transferred from its 2 manual and pedal case to this fuckin' thing.
On the rear side you have the test panel on the left. Then the boards behind that are the "Time Constant" circuits that decide the "envelope" of the sound. Think Attack/Decay.
To the bottom are the voicing resistors.
These decide which sine waves are added together to produce a complex waveform. It's pre determined on this unit instead of there being a set of stop tabs.
At the very bottom are the chassis for the power supply to provide 500Vdc to all this, the empty spot is the amplifier which is out for poking at. And then the pedal contact assembly.
With that. ASD assessment done.
If I thought the forms were hard. Having to relive in real time all the shit from the past year...... Yeah. Am fucking exhausted now.
But I am now officially diagnosed with the Tism!
And with that. Tis done!
Original power switch controls the power. Tuning indicator still moves the needle.
Little Bluetooth amp sits on a custom plate
Speakers are bolted to a wooden panel ready to be sorted properly!
Love having the laser working again >.>
Oh I need a front panel for a little amplifier?
Measure measure. Cutty cut! Done! ^_^
Rewiring the lights. Originally off the 6.3v for the valve filaments. I'm gonna be running it on 24V for the amp. So 2 12v in series should work.
Replacing a load of old rubber wires too. Because it's crumbling o.<
Testing the bluetooth amplifier and a couple sets of speakers with my customary track "Hearth's Shadow" from the outer wilds "The lost reels" soundtrack.
This one is particularly good as it starts with a nice acoustic guitar to pick up the mids and highs.... then slowly transitions into a /really/ complex descending phased bass drone with multiple frequencies going on.
If anything is going to destroy a set of speakers or an amplifier... it's /that/ part
One set of speakers couldn't do the bass despite moving the driver as hard as it could.....
The JBLs have just hit the 3A current limit on the PSU I'm using >.>
Maaaaay not be able to use those with this amplifier..... It smells..... warm >.>
They sound fucking epic though >.>
Well...
My heart is pounding a mile a minute o.<
it fucking windy here!!!!
Blew open one of the doors at the unit.....
One of the doors on the first floor (second floor for those watching in black and white)
One of the doors that has a latch, but no handle so is permanently in a closed state o.o
Either that or someone braved climbing the decking pallets outside and tried to open it with a screwdriver...... Then got crushed by the stuff I had leaning against said door >.>
Needless to say, there's now something screwed on to stop the door from opening o.o