Allen Sides discussion including microphone preamplifier UA610

It can be watched on youtube on A Conversation with Allan Sides by Vintage King

Watching the Stars

Remembering our origin, where we came from (Song writer Manos Hatzidakis phrase). What is important in life and free. Like watching the stars at night with or without someone. When we look at the sky we see the past. In fact we see the past on everything we look at as light takes time to travel... I am trying to remember never to exchange something precious for something of less value as Dale Carnegie sugests.

Love is in your heart

This is what Nobel physicist replied, paraphrasing, love in your heart is more important than equation in your brain. If memory is correct it can be heard on one interview of someone asking him to explain physics for his mother.

On the chords of Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime - The Korgis

In order to make it simpler to understant these so refined chords, lets's present them in the D minor key which has ony one flat ie B flat, all the other notes are natural or white at the piano keyboard. Bass D, A D F. Bass step descending to C to B natural but right hand keeps playing A and D and F! Bass B flat and code (as on Bach Bass rules pdf) becomes B6 ie Bass bB, bB D G. Repeat the 4 first chords. After "I need your loving which is bass D, A D F, F is kept and bass becomes A, so adding the usual 3rd we have bass A, A #C F, then Bass G, G bB D F then keeping right hand the same and changing only bass to C, bB D F, then the chorus, Bass A, A C E, then B7 ie Bass bB, A D F, then E7 ie Bass E, bB D G (brilliant!), ends at F ie Bass F, A C F. World class masterpiece. Actual key is #C minor (3rd) or bD minor (3rd).

Building electronic constuctions without soldering

At your risk. If this post is not mistaken NASA electronics are hardwired point to point. And we are taught to make a strong electrical, mechanical connection before soldering. Then why not just do only this and be able to build somethig even on the beach. Rescent Pleiades preamplifiers, power amplifiers have been built this way, the sound is amazing, no noise problem. See rescent posts, on using wirewrap technique, Wago connectors etc.

Why do electronics and music mate so well?

Music is really air molecules vibrating. An electronic signal is electrons vibrating. A microphone converts air molecule vibration to a corresponding electron vibration at its output cable. Welcome to the analog world!

Sound Picture Recording and Reproducing Characteristics - D. P. Lowe, K. F. Morgan - Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers

Very important paper on creatingh flat frequency respone from recird producer's brain to listener's brain