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marinedalek.bsky.social
I scrutinise audio, play synthesisers, build things, and take them apart.
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Just ordered a pair of unijunction transistors so I can oscillate like it’s the early ‘70s. Planning to characterize a few circuits so they can be reimplemented using a 555 timer as the hysteretic element.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

What a sad state of affairs - definitely more obscure semiconductor discussion needed on here!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky seems to be only suggesting posts from German-speaking users on the Discover tab. I guess at least it means I can’t actually understand the depressing world news posts now…

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

I’m starting to think EMS had a point with their pin matrices… this is a single patch from The Daemons, a tremolo lead. Some of the patching is to emulate an off-centre distorted sine wave for the tremolo modulation.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

A random thing that I noticed today: The musical cue that underscores the exploding helicopter in The Daemons is an overdubbed version of a sting from the prior story, Colony in Space, at 9m04 in Episode 6.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Another panel designed. Now to build the circuitry that will go behind it...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

I think it’s inevitable that I’m going to - at some point - build the majority of an EMS Synthi 100, driven mostly by the desire to reproduce ‘70s Doctor Who incidental music. Why? Why not?

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

@aliona.bsky.social Someone at Larian's probably already mentioned it, but DON'T UPDATE BG3 on your PS5. Patch 8 has been accidentally released on PS5 but will be rolled back. Any saves made on patch 8 won't work on patch 7. Your existing manual saves are still fine though.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Today's self-nerdsnipe: Using spectral analysis to work out how the Radiophonic Workshop produced the sound of Dr. Quinn's Silurian homing device. It appears to have used one of their Crystal Palace rotary sequencers, three oscillators, and three unwired plugs to allow crosstalk between inputs...

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

My first post should probably set the tone going forward. Currently trying to work out why the episode of Bergerac playing on U&Drama is 100% out of phase. Playing back from a VT copy of an out of-phase film transfer and blend deinteracing, or is it actually a film recording of such a source?

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments