I used to steal bags of those exact BNC connectors when I was a teen. They were found in storage rooms at most blocks of flats. I still have plenty. I was such a shame lmao
Happy New Year!! 🥳(One of my first purchased synths was the Twisted Electrons AY3 which contains two AY38910 chips. Each one gets its own output and can either behave the same or quite differently ... so sometimes they sound stereo-like and other times like two parts panned hard left and right.)
I wonder what it would be like to have a bank of several voices of them and the ability to route them between a left and right or dual output signal path. As I say that I’m thinking why wonder, why not do it.
Adding adapters is neve a good idea as it increases the leverage on the first connector joints. But that's just my opinion having had to fix units where 1/4 inch pluge had been put in to 3.5mm adapters. Buggered the 3.5mm socket.
Going from such a larger to smaller and with that extra length is definitely not something I do horizontally but on that orange amplifier I use I go the opposite way where I take a 1/8 plug on a lightweight cable and go into a 1/4 adapter vertically with the 1/4 jack on the top facing up. But I once got a free audio mixer where the problem turned out to be RCA jacks on the back needed to be re-soldered and then it worked fine. I got that in the 90s and I still have it.
It is nice the posties are back working, first week after their return, the post office box was full every day. It is a bit (-: harder losing a complete screwdriver but I still seem to be able to do it. Oh course it reappears shortly after I pick up a replacement, think it has something to do with that twilight zone episode. Like those springs for the probe tip.
most of my delayed shipments are in but I’m still waiting for one from October and one from November. At least all of the expensive items are here so if those others go missing it could have been worse. I wanted to make sure I have two dedicated different size Phillips screwdrivers for the workbench so I even allocated space on a magnetic strip mount on the shelf so they always would get placed back there and never get lost. Right now neither of them are there and I don’t know where they went.
Fun fact(s): Those screwdrivers, while colloquially are most commonly referred to as "game bit" are officially a security bit named "line bit". Most commonly known as used by Nintendo for a while, several other companies used them, including Sega, who used them as much or more than Nintendo. First known use was in a Phillips VHS player. AFAICT the OEM hasn't manufactured the bits/drivers in decades, and it is virtually impossible to find one that isn't an unlicensed knock off. I tracked down the original name and manufacturer several years ago for a video, and it was an _adventure_.
Maybe Phillips should have designed a security Phillips bit. The first time I had to extract one of these security screws, I accomplished it with an old soldering iron tip by excavating the plastic surrounding the screw. it was probably a decade before it was possible to figure out what the bit is on eBay.
I used to steal bags of those exact BNC connectors when I was a teen. They were found in storage rooms at most blocks of flats. I still have plenty. I was such a shame lmao
Happy New Year!! 🥳(One of my first purchased synths was the Twisted Electrons AY3 which contains two AY38910 chips. Each one gets its own output and can either behave the same or quite differently ... so sometimes they sound stereo-like and other times like two parts panned hard left and right.)
I wonder what it would be like to have a bank of several voices of them and the ability to route them between a left and right or dual output signal path. As I say that I’m thinking why wonder, why not do it.
Here I am waiting for the Phase effect, and dual stuff ... then nothing! More distortion! MOAR!
There will be some fuzz and more different phase in the queue over the coming mail bags.
Adding adapters is neve a good idea as it increases the leverage on the first connector joints. But that's just my opinion having had to fix units where 1/4 inch pluge had been put in to 3.5mm adapters. Buggered the 3.5mm socket.
Going from such a larger to smaller and with that extra length is definitely not something I do horizontally but on that orange amplifier I use I go the opposite way where I take a 1/8 plug on a lightweight cable and go into a 1/4 adapter vertically with the 1/4 jack on the top facing up.
But I once got a free audio mixer where the problem turned out to be RCA jacks on the back needed to be re-soldered and then it worked fine. I got that in the 90s and I still have it.
It is nice the posties are back working, first week after their return, the post office box was full every day. It is a bit (-: harder losing a complete screwdriver but I still seem to be able to do it. Oh course it reappears shortly after I pick up a replacement, think it has something to do with that twilight zone episode.
Like those springs for the probe tip.
most of my delayed shipments are in but I’m still waiting for one from October and one from November. At least all of the expensive items are here so if those others go missing it could have been worse.
I wanted to make sure I have two dedicated different size Phillips screwdrivers for the workbench so I even allocated space on a magnetic strip mount on the shelf so they always would get placed back there and never get lost. Right now neither of them are there and I don’t know where they went.
Fun fact(s): Those screwdrivers, while colloquially are most commonly referred to as "game bit" are officially a security bit named "line bit". Most commonly known as used by Nintendo for a while, several other companies used them, including Sega, who used them as much or more than Nintendo. First known use was in a Phillips VHS player.
AFAICT the OEM hasn't manufactured the bits/drivers in decades, and it is virtually impossible to find one that isn't an unlicensed knock off.
I tracked down the original name and manufacturer several years ago for a video, and it was an _adventure_.
Maybe Phillips should have designed a security Phillips bit.
The first time I had to extract one of these security screws, I accomplished it with an old soldering iron tip by excavating the plastic surrounding the screw. it was probably a decade before it was possible to figure out what the bit is on eBay.