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  • Synth DIY UK 2013

    Room bookings are now open for this year's Synth DIY event in Cambridge, on the weekend of 26th-28th July: Room booking form

  • Oscillator Linearity

    Linear oscillators are readily available. But how well do they work in musical applications? This page looks are linearity as a measure of how well they can play notes on an exponential musical scale.

  • Electronic Noise

    Noise in electronic circuits is usually not wanted. I put this page together while I was designing some low noise analogue circuits and needed a quick reference on resistor thermal noise and how it relates to op-amps.

  • A Mixer Rebuild

    I decided to upgrade my rather basic Phonic "toy" mixer with something a bit more, well, interesting...

  • Some Thoughts on Test Equipment

    Electronics engineers can get a bit fetishy about test equipment. I've added a page with some of my thoughts on the matter.

  • SSM2164 Power Failure Investigation

    Oscar Salas and myself have been investigating a rather unfortunate failure mode of the SSM2164 quad VCA. But after some experimenting involving the sacrifice of some chips we have come up with a neat solution.

  • Jen SX1000 Talk slides

    On 23rd April 2009 I gave a talk at Anglia Ruskin University about my modifications to the Jen SX1000. You can now download the slides (PDF, 1.7MB).

  • Siel Opera 6 Re-Engineering Project

    After many years of neglect I have finally started my restoration and re-engineering project of this Italian analogue polysynth.

  • Frankie's W30 site back online

    The site for SDiskW and SMFW30 is back online here:

    http://w30.svetlik.be


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