quad rotor flying camera platform

I saw this on the great dSLR blog Cinema5D a while back: It may be hard to tell from this picture, but that is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II shooting HD video from a remote controlled, microcontroller stabilized quad-helicopter. This particular platform is by Perspective Aerials, who are doing some very impressive things with […]

My First Music Demo, 1988

These are my very first 4-track recordings. I made them in the spring of 1988, then dubbed and distributed a bunch of demo cassettes under the name M. Scott. Eden in the Rain01-Eden-in-the-Rain.mp3 Predestination02-Predestination.mp3 The Rush of My Heart03-Rush-of-my-Heart.mp3 You Deny04-Simple-Man.mp3   Equipment used: Roland Jupiter-6 : all the “analog” sounding stuff. Strings and bass, […]

DIY Oktava 319 Mic Mods – Part 1, introduction

More than a year ago Jess and I purchased a pair of Oktava 319 microphones with the express intent of having them modified by Michael Joly at Oktavamod.com. Several years ago Guitar Center was blowing these out at $89 each. They currently go for about $300 new. We found them on Ebay for less than […]

DIY – Classic studio compression

I’ve seen plenty of preamp kits and microphone mods in Tape Op and on the internet. It’s relatively easy to find complete kits to build your own Neve or API preamp clone. There are several tube preamp kits around as well. Only recently have I come across DIY plans for the next link in the […]