The legend of the Klon Centaur guitar distortion effect pedal, which debuted in the mid-’90s, has taken on a life of its own as one of the most collectable effects pedals of all time. It got fame because it was used and liked by such players as John Mayer, Nels Cline and Joe Perry (to →
Bang on design and use! ‘Forbidden reach around’ Tell people – just because it fits you should not plug it in. Did you know that figure 8 power cable plug (IEC 60320 type C plug also known as IEC C7) fits into XLR make connector? If it’s round outside, don’t plug an AC cord in, →
Over-under coiling is the way to go. This video we will cover the proper method for coiling cables. It allows the cable to lie flat when uncoiled, and makes for easier and faster work. Over-Under cable coiling is a technique for winding up your cables and wires in a way that extends their longevity and →
This is a neat trick to get strange sounds out of your audio mixer. This video shows the spectacular world of using no-inout-feedback-mixing to turn a mixer into a synth. You can get many possible sounds from just an old analogue audio mixer and an aux cable. Truly astonishing squirrrklly tones! Have you tried it? →
I bought this VGA signal generator module years ago from some web shop in China. It is designed to easily test your VGA monitor(s) (VGA/SVGA/XGA) with this handy tool. It can be also used as a general purpose video signal source when testing other video equipment that take in VGA signal (like video switchers, converters, →
When gamer kids generation really hits audio engineering there will be huge market for this kind of RGB light gadgets? Neutrik etherCON® and XLR Halo Connectors are chassis connectors that incorporate a halo light ring and assymmetric ESD safe push tab. This design allow for standard XLR connector cutouts in the chassis without the need →
Here is a computer music history story. It has some background history and details on the parts I had something to do. This story of history of computer music starts from 1951 when the first computer music recording was made using a Ferranti Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester. That computer played God →
The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is held every year in Las Vegas. The world’s biggest annual consumer technology show is ready and raring to welcome back thousands of exhibitors and media to Las Vegas in the first week of the year. CES 2023 will host around 2,400 exhibitors. CES is typically where many of →
What do Foo Fighters, Slipknot and Wintersun have in commo? The common thing are guitar and bass effect boxes come from Finland. Finnish Darkglass Electronics and Neural DSP export state-of-the-art instrument technology to the world. Neural DSP is developing technology to advance the state of the art in the music industry – mainly effect plug-ins →
Star quad cable is a type of balanced audio cable that specializes in reducing electromagnetic interference. Quad cable is better at rejecting external noise than an equivalent single pair cable. Star-quad cable is a four-conductor cable that has a special quadrupole geometry which provides magnetic immunity when used in a balanced line. Four conductors are →