(a little proof, for good measure)
Its only taken a year and a half, but, the recordings are finally all online, too.
]]>The novel feature of SpaceyDelayer is that the offset time between taps in the delay is configurable - in a typical multitap tape delay, the user can specify the time between the initial playback and the first delay, but with SpaceyDelayer, the interval between the plugin’s 3 delay taps is also configurable.
Nonlinear waveshaping and bandpass filtering round out the “tape” sound, emulating saturation and the frequency response weaknesses of these older devices.
All of the DSP “guts” are contained within SpaceyDelayer.cpp and DDLModule.cpp - in each file’s respective ProcessAudioFrame() function. The real magic is the getPastSample() function, which allows me to pull an arbitrary sample from the delay line without inserting a new sample (since we pull multiple taps within a single sample period).
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Do a little scaling and summing to allow for wetness values and to avoid clipping, repeat more times if needed for other channels, and you’ve got the gist of it.
]]>Barry Manilow - Lay Me Down
Chick Corea - Spain
George Benson - Unknown Song
Skip Clarke - Sweet Loveliness
Stan Kennedy - Yesterdays
Unknown Composer - Come Back to Me
]]>What’d I come up with?
The box was very compact, took a LAB 12 driver, and simulated really well (as evidenced by the plots below):
Time to build! The parts collection was indeed simple, which was perfect! A half-sheet of MDF was plenty, and since this was going into a car, MDF was a fine material, we didn’t need the birch plywood the Dual LAB got.
Unfortunately, I never got a picture of this one when it was all built. We finished the cabinet in your standard “rat fur” black carpet, and it still sits happily in the trunk of that Honda Civic. Maybe you’ve heard it if you’re in north Pinellas County.
]]>There is a complete writeup on the project (complete with schematics and simulations) available here.
]]>The concert opened with an original staging of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, recorded into MAGIX Seqouia through a Yamaha DM-2000 console’s preamps and RME HDSP MADI interface at 24bit/96khz. Microphones were a 50cm spaced pair of DPA 4051, suspended roughly 12 feet above and 3 feet behind the conductor.
After the above Copland performance, the Mancini Institutes’s big band took the stage, for a performance of the complete Duke Ellington Nutcracker (music by Tchaikovsky, arranged by Ellington for big band).
The big band consisted of 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 woodwinds, piano, drums, and bass. Microphone selections consisted of Neumann KMS-105s on trumpets and snare drum, Neumann TLM-103s on trombones and baritone sax / bass clarinet, Schoeps CMC 6xt5g on all other woodwinds, AKG C414 EBs on piano, a Sennheiser MD-421 on kick drum, DPA 4007 drum overheads, and a DPA 4099 on string bass. The string bass was equipped with a pickup, run though a Summit Audio variable impedance tube DI. An additional solo mic (Neumann U-89i) was placed in the trombone section for use as needed.
1 - Overture
2 - Too Toot Tootie Toot
3 - Peanut Brittle Brigade
4 - Sugar Rum Cheery
5 - Entracte
6 - Volga Vouty
7 - Chinoiserie
8 - Dance of the Floredores
9 - Arabesque Cookie
The entire Nutracker Suite in one file:
Enjoy!
]]>A few pictures from the construction process…
After caulk and foam, before the drivers go in:
Note that the lid of the box makes up the top wall of the top port, also. The port design was intended to keep things as simple as possible internally.
At the first sound check…
Drivers are wired in parallel, and the box eventually was finished in a thick black outdoor deck sealant, with a 14ga steel grille from Parts Express.
What can it do?
Pretty good.
If you want the full design documents or CAD files, send me an email!
]]>First, I set up the Clearstick in it’s NAT operation mode, rather than IP passthrough. This let me use the Clearstick as a traditional modem, where the modem assigns an IP address to the router via DHCP. In the Clearstick’s configuration:
Modem IP: 192.168.1.10 (for the Clearstick)
Host IP: 192.168.1.40 (for the router)
A few kernel modules are required to get the Clearstick recognized by the router. You’ll need the following files:
mii.ko
usbnet.ko
cdc_ether.ko
rndis_host.ko
You can get these from the “extras-mips” tarballs from whatever the latest build available is here: Shibby’s Tomato Site
The best place to put these files is in the router’s JFFS partition, so they’re available to you even after reboots of the hardware. Google around for a tutorial on setting that up, there are plenty available.
Once you’ve got the kernel modules onto the router, insert them in the order they are listed above like so:
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After that is done, check to see that all the right modules are loaded:
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In the router’s configuration menu, set the DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 - this isn’t really required, but I’d rather use Google’s DNS than Clearwire’s.
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FFilter.zip (contains both project source code and paper)
Full codebase on GitHub: FFilter
]]>(This post references an old version of Boosterworks - a complete rewrite of the software, using Ruby on Rails, is underway prior to a real public launch as a SaaS product.)
BoosterWorks is a piece of software that is designed to help parent booster organizations schedule volunteers for their events more efficiently, while increasing accountability and reducing event coordinator workloads. Currently, BoosterWorks is entering its second year of use with the Tarpon Springs High School Band Boosters.
The program is free (both to use and to build upon) and will run on just about any web server with a recent version of PHP (5.x or higher) and a database server like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
If you’d like a custom feature or set of features added to BoosterWorks, please email me and we’ll discuss how this might could be done. Requests that are general enough to be put into the main program can be done for free. A request that either isn’t general enough to be put into the main code, or that is specific to your group (including visual changes to match your organizations colors and style) can be performed for a reasonable fee. Please email to get a discussion going!
Don’t have time to set it up, or don’t know how? If the included documentation isn’t enough (see the INSTALL.txt file), I can perform the installation and configuration for you for a small fee to cover my time.
No package releases are available at this time, pending the software leaving the beta test phase.
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