Adam Savage Nerds Out Over Vinyl Record-Making with Jack White
Take a trip to Detroit’s Third Man Records as Adam records a song, talks with Jack White, and then tours his pressing plant.
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Creating a Sonic History of Women Around the World
Ms. Soli Tii started the World Women Project as a way to document and celebrate the sound of women speaking their native languages.
Technology Is the New Rock and Roll at Bilbao Maker Faire
Spain’s first featured Maker Faire is going to rock!
How-To: Low Cost Acoustic Wall Panels
This article from seasoned acoustical engineer Eric Wolfram of AcousticsFREQ.com may be short on flashy pictures, but it is long on technical info and great practical advice from someone who obviously knows his business.
Tin can contact microphones
If you’re into lo-fi sound, this is a pretty cool trick. What’s more, it’s super easy to DIY. If you’re as busy as I am, though, and you still want to experiment with a tin can mic, it’s hard to argue with the $7 price tag on these from the guys who run getlofi.com. I like the fact that they leave the original labels in place, and that they use 1/4″ jacks. It would also appear that they have some clever trick for resealing the empty can in a good-looking way. At first I thought they were actually using a can sealer to close them back up, but close inspection of the photographs makes me think they probably open them with a side-opening can opener (Wikipedia) and then glue or solder the original lids back in place. Still cool, though.
The worlds only working pallophotophone
A while back Schenectady Museum curator Chris Hunter came across some old pallophotophone recordings from radio station WGY. “What’s a pallophotophone?”, you might ask. Also known as the RCA Photophone, it’s an early recording device developed by GE researcher Charles Hoxie. GE Engineer Russ DeMuth, recreates a pallophotophone from Hoxie’s original design and manages to extract some rather interesting recordings.
How-To: Bass drum microphone shock mount
Instructables user brainparts built this acoustically-isolated microphone mounting ring for his kick drum using bungee cords and a short slice of 6″ aluminum pipe, all for about $20. He says if he were to do it again, he’d just use PVC pipe for the ring.
