- #Monacor pa 900 manual dexterity generator#
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As always, I welcome and appreciate your thoughts on this project. If all goes well with this round of prototyping, hopefully I'll have a kit to offer very soon. Circuit boards are already on order for the new design outlined above.
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The new working schematic, with colour modules placed in series with a single input drive control. Putting the modules in series makes Colour sound and behave more like a true recording chain. Indeed, part of the art of being a tracking engineer is combining complementary pieces of gear into a signal path. Rather the harmonics generated by the preamp are modified by the compressor, which are then further tempered by the tape. When a microphone signal travels through a preamp, and compressor to a tape machine, the coloration from those devices is not applied in parallel. This approach is taken directly from real-word recording practice. I've also reworked the circuit from the ground up, putting the colours in series rather than parallel and adding a master input drive control. Rather, it's something that we should be able to switch into the signal chain with a press of a button, nod with satisfaction, and move on.Ī mockup of the current interface with bypass switches instead of individual volume controls for each colour.
#Monacor pa 900 manual dexterity generator#
This jives with my original intuitions about Colour: that, like a preamp or tape machine, a harmonics generator is not a piece of gear people want to spend significant time tweaking. This interface trades a little control for a lot of ease and simplicity. So I decided to substitute the individual colour volume controls for simple in/out switches. What I did find myself doing was turning individual colours up and down quickly to hear what the signal sounded like with them bypassed. While the idea of having control over the amount of each colour is tempting on paper, in practice I found that I didn't want to be bothered. One of the first things I knew I wanted to do was simplify the interface. So I went back to the drawing board, this time with some real mixing experience in hand. The most recent physical prototype (#4) with JFET, tape, and Cinemag colours installed. In retrospect, this makes sense, as the colours themselves are tuned to impart only subtle distortion, the way a colored preamp or compressor might. I found that in almost every application, I was keeping the colours cranked all the way up and turning the dry signal all the way down. In summary, after doing some mixes with the most recent prototype pictured below, I became dissatisfied with the current approach of feeding the dry signal to the colours in parallel and controlling how much of each is mixed in with the dry signal.
#Monacor pa 900 manual dexterity driver#
At a tiny 1.4" x 1" (25 x 36mm), the boards are also intended to be small enough to retrofit into your consumer-level, unbalanced gear.īalanced Line Driver PCB Once I have received and tested the boards, PCBs and parts kits will be available from the store. Both boards are based around THAT Corp's state-of-the-art integrated circuits (but also pin compatible with offerings from TI and Analog Devices) and include noise filtering, DC-offset protection, and power supply bypassing.
The first two off the bench are balanced input and output boards.
These PCBs will also enable DIYers with only a circuit block level of understanding to put together their own circuits. The idea here is to provide a set of cheap and simple shortcuts to make building, modifying, and prototyping audio gear more painless. While I wait for yet another round of Colour prototypes to arrive from the PCB fab house, I've been keeping myself busy laying out little PCBs to perform common "housekeeping" tasks in audio circuits.
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