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New Camera

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Actually my first “real” camera as my old ones were not mean to be cameras. Recently acquired the Sony Cyber-Shot HX7V camera and loving every bit of it. Coming from the Android phone’s additional camera (Samsung Vibrant), this baby delivers.

Here’s a test video

I added some color correction by playing around with filters in Sony Vegas to give it the cinematic effects. Music was an old piece that I made called Y2010 (Check the player on the right hand side). Please note that I have reduced the audio from the video track because most of them you can hear me panting heavily due to my recent allergy attacks.

Here’s a test image. I was a bit late to the bird demonstration but this image clearly demonstrates zoom at it’s finest. Image was taken on Grouse Mountain in BC, Canada.

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Moving dns server!

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

The site should not be down according to plan. But if it does, it will be back within a day or two.

Thanks for your patience.

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Safehouse – Film by Ryan Braund

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

My music in the action-packed Safehouse Trailer.

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The WM61A Sound Sample

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

I noticed a few folks stumbled onto my site from google queries with WM-61a, I’m not sure if I’m providing any useful information but I believe I promised a sound sample. Here is a recording done with my guitar (I’m using guitar for most samples because it’s my current weapon of choice and I’m still learning it).

http://media.kaiyoti.com/WM61a-GuitarTest.ogg

The recording setup includes:

DIY Mic (WM-61a) ->
The Amp (from Christian’s Website) -> (using 1/4″ patch cable)
Behringer Xenyx 502 Mixer ->
Behringer U-Control 202 ->
My Sweet PC

Note that I’m not using the slot with the pre-amp on the mixer unit. The preamp on this mixer adds way to much static and interference so I turned it off. If you’re listening through headphones, you’ll notice a low volume noise which is partially attributed by my PC fans (There are 6 fans in total), that really can’t be helped. The guitar was about 3/4 of a foot away from the microphone. The amp/mic works just as well with a 1/4″ to 1/8″ convertor directly into the PC microphone port. Unfortunately, that setup does not include an attenuator, so the input is a bit loud.

You might also notice that the texture of the guitar sounds different from previous samples. This is because I replaced and readjusted both the nut and the saddle pieces to a more balanced height (weighing it against buzz amount). The previous condition was my brother’s handy work when he tried lower the actions by carving the string grooves deeper in the nut and the saddle. The poorly cut grooves resulted in more buzzing. I didn’t even realize that saddles aren’t supposed to have grooves until I saw another guitar in a store. I’ve also restrung the guitar strings to use one with a lighter sound. So the recordings will sound drastically different, and hopefully cleaner.

I’m going to work on the second mic to allow stereo recording. Will also see if I can add a potentiometer to the amp. And I actually have a drill this time to carve holes for the 1/4″ female outlet. At the same time, I’m trying different piezo elements to capture more sources for the final mix.

Paul

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If I had a Mo

Friday, December 24th, 2010

It’s times like this when I need this little fella: Mo, to clean up my house for me…, before mom’s visit.

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WM-61a Panasonic Electret Microphone Project – Gallery

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

2010-12-03 21.47.30Microphone Capsule soldered and heat shrinked

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Another shot of the prepared microphone capsule with leads

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Two is better than one, one is shorter because I didn’t take into account that the leads were twised when measuring for the second.

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This is actually the second circuit I made, the first one was horrible planned which gave me no room to fit into the enclosure. The actual schematics can be found here. I drew my own for future reference so I can plan the size of the circuit better for mark II.

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After clipping off some pc board supports, I was able to fit everything into the box with the leads soldered onto 1/4” female jacks.

2010-12-12 14.35.10
A finished product.

P.S – I will have another update with sound quality shortly.

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Hello world!

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

First post, new blog.

I aim to use this blog to reveal some of my development (both programming and music, and some other stuff…) progresses. Giving blogging another go, I’m not a blogger material so we’ll see how long this lasts.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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