Collaborate Disseminate
The study of audio technology has a lot of fascinating branches, and one or two of them even take the curious engineer not into electronics but into architecture. There’s the …read more Continue reading The Most Famous Room In Rock-n-Roll You’ve Never Seen
We’re so used to reverb effects being simply another software plugin that it’s easy to forget the electromechanical roots of the effect. Decades ago, a reverb would have been a …read more Continue reading It’s a Microphone and a Spring Reverb all in One
What do you have cooked up to scare trick-or-treaters this Halloween? We humbly suggest adding in some type of noise box, especially one like this offering from [Paisley Computer] that …read more Continue reading Spooky Noise Box Plays War Drums
The acoustic properties of a room have a surprising impact when you want to use a microphone. [RayP24]’s son was trying to make his bedroom into a better recording studio, …read more Continue reading DIY Acoustic Panels Or Modern Artwork? Can’t Tell
For the past few years, many have become used to having virtual meetings in their homes. Spaces like kitchen tables, couches, spare bedrooms, and hammocks in the yard have all …read more Continue reading Taking the Bark Out Of Reverb With Wood Scraps
There’s a certain elite set of chips that fall into the “cold, dead hands” category, and they tend to be parts that have proven their worth over decades, not years. …read more Continue reading Classic Chip Line-Up Powers This Fun Dub Siren Synth
Church organs may be mechanically complicated and super old-school, but they share something in common with the earliest computer sound chips. In theory, and largely in practice, they produce very …read more Continue reading The Sixtyforgan Proves That Church Organs Are Definitely Chiptune
They say the best things in life are free, but we would loudly argue that a dollar can go a long way, too. It all depends on what you do with it. When [lonesoulsurfer] saw this busted-up handheld racing game …read more
Continue reading Racing Game Crashes Into Its Next Life as a Sound Bender
These days, if there’s a chip worth using, there will be a cheap pre-built module on eBay to make using it even easier. It’s a great time saver, and projects that used to take a couple of weekends can now be completed in a rainy afternoon. [lonesoulsurfer] knows how it …read more
The guitar ‘Toing’ sound from the ’70s was epic, and for the first time listener it was enough to get a bunch of people hooked to the likes of Aerosmith. Reverb units were all the rage back then, and for his DSP class project, [nebk] creates a reverb filter using …read more