Savage is angry now! What will he do next? Keep tuning in to find out!
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I received the new parts to complete my power supply the other day and today I finished that part of the build. After I soldered the last few parts, I hooked it up to the meter to see if I was getting the right voltages from the output. As you can see from the picture, It’s nearly spot on for the +12v and I’m just as close on the -12v side. As far as my little multimeter can detect, I’m not seeing any noise which is a good thing. Hurray for stable power!
I think that working on this a bit each week is the right thing to do. I no longer feel rushed about the whole thing and I get to have little moments like these where I feel like I’ve accomplished something. I really need to hook up my little MIDI to CV converter to the power supply to make sure that all works. Fun times!
As a kid, I recorded a ton of stuff with my Dad’s tape recorder. There was something magic about playing a particular sound back at will. In a way, it was like a time machine for sound and that thrilled me. I always wanted to find a way to easily recapture that feeling but it would never turn out the way I hoped it would. As of last week, that has changed.
After I ended up signing on to help a friend work on her film, I knew I would need some type of self contained field recorded to use on location. After doing some research, I ended up buying a Zoom H2N which is a quite fabulous piece of equipment. It does everything that need: It records sound, it can record in stereo, it’s batteries last up to twenty hours and it uses SD flash cards.
I’ve started to spend some time working with the H2N recording a number of different things. The first thing I did was to take a walk around my neighborhood with it running to see how well it picked this up. You can hear a portion of that recording by clicking here. All in all, I’m quite satisfied with the results that I got and these recordings are actually quite useful for a number of different things for sound design and all sorts of other things. Using it sure does bring back that childhood feeling and that’s something you can’t put a price on.
