What're you up to this weekend?

I'm going to tinker with different soundcards I have, USB and PCI to see which is better at storing and playing audio from old vinyl records that I have.

What do/don't you have planned?

electronicbiker over 2 years ago in reply to anniel747

I use an old auto-changer with a BSR Monarch deck and a crystal cartridge, it's good enought for most of the ex-juke-box gramophone records I get these days. The equalisation for the cartridge is a 470K resistor in series. I've also used it for 78RPM shellac records, one of which was labelled '80 RPM' but it sounded ok to my old ears. Another of the 78's tried to take the cartridge right to the centre due to an over-enthusiastic run-out groove so I had to edit a slow fade to zero at the end.

For 33.333 LP's I use the 'line output' on the hi-fi set-up in the living-room with the original magnetic cartridge, so I don't need to bother with external equalisation units.

I have a Word table with the details of each track (about 6,500 now). This was started several years ago, it didn't add much more time because the records had to be played in real-time anyway so I had about 3 minutes per track to do it. This data, via a Raspberry Pi, enabled me to add the meta-data to each digitised track in seconds. I still like watching the data on the display scrolling forwards and backwards while an old 78 complete with pops, clicks, oodles of stereo surface hiss plays through, high-pitched wobbly voices sounding as if the singers each have a plum in their mouths... Little things, etc.
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dang74 over 2 years ago

Went to Ham-Fest and bought some historic electronic devices....
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DAB over 2 years ago

I will be building timelapse videos from my timelapse still images.

This week generated some great sunset images with lots of color.
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Jan Cumps over 2 years ago in reply to anniel747

newer TTs have the RIAA built in. It's also possible to filter in Audacity.
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anniel747 over 2 years ago in reply to cstanton

RIAA?
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beacon_dave over 2 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

Well, I think that was the easy bit...

"I am just going outside and may be some time."

PS Project 14 idea - garden automation
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Jan Cumps over 2 years ago

I forgot do disclose that I was also going to do precision sampling with the Renesas RX23E-A microcontroller from a previous roadtest (/products/roadtest/rv/roadtest_reviews/1705/renesas_solution_starter_kit_for_rx23e-a_out_of_box_experience).
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michaelkellett over 2 years ago

Started by picking blackberries.

Then talked to joiner/handyman about making a new garden gate and some other work on the house.

Came to work and re-issued a proposal I did yesterday for a customer because I thought of a MUCH better way to do it while picking blackberries.

Now thinking of what to do with the 3/4 of a weekend I have left - probably design a front panel board for the GPIB bus analyser project.

MK
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dougw over 2 years ago in reply to cstanton

I tried Octoprint - I didn't like the extra time it takes and my prints weren't great (extra stringiness)

I might be able to improve the quality, but not the speed, so I am trying something more radical..
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Jan Cumps over 2 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

Flea market this morning. A concert tonight. Drink coffee ...
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