Trionce Tech

UPDATE: Please note that my prediction about how the Puq works was incredibly wrong. The information on this page concerning piezos in general, however, is still pretty interesting. A proper review of the Puq will be linked here once it is complete. The Solomon microphone company very recently revealed a new product they're calling the 'puq'. I believe because it resembles a hockey puck. Either way, being fans of their Made In America way of doing things, I investigated and found that the Puq is designed to be used on the cajon.  Now this is cool as I, and I'm sure many (perhaps even most) other sound guys struggle with getting something decent out of a cajon. My go-to setup is a Shure Beta 52A in the sound hole and an SM57 pointed at the middle top front. It works fine but I can never seem to get it quite right. Enter the Puq. Upon looking at it, and based on past experience, it seems to be based on piezoelectric technology. I've yet to see anything th...

I got some faders! More specifically, I got the Bourns PTF01-152A-103B2 model. Basically it's 10kOhm, 100mm travel, linear, AND, most importantly, DUAL GANG. I only got 8 because yikes these things are expensive but also, I'd like to multiplex these in banks of 8 anyway so this will work fine as a starting point. But Matt! , I hear you say, you SPECIFICALLY said you wanted motorized faders in Part One. Those are NOT motorized!!! Fair point, imaginary reader, they are not. But, borrowing heavily from the Behringer X32 motor fader design, (and having a boatload of brackets cut on a waterjet...more on that in the future) this SHOULDn't be that hard of a conversion. These were ~$8 a piece and I expect them to cost less than $20 to fully transform. Why on earth then, would I not buy the pack of 5 pre-made X32 motor faders available on Amazon PRIME of all places? It's $100! That's $20/piece and it's pre-made! Simple, actually. In the first paragraph, I state...

Oh the elusive console. What so many of us wouldn't give to have some 64 channel API console chilling in a spare bedroom at home. Unfortunately, this is super impractical for any number of reasons. Firstly, I'm a college student still in student-aimed housing. So no space for a behemoth. Second, money. ...and the justification to SPEND that money, even if I had it. I suppose a good third problem would be power consumption but eh, technicalities. So what then is my goal? What is this so-called Console Project ? This, my friends, is the beginning of what will probably be the greatest electrical project I ever commit to in my life. I want to build a purpose-built hybrid console, specifically for mixing tracks. Oh and I'd like it to be 64 channels. Go big or go home...right? Let's give a little backstory. About a decade ago, I was trained on some fully analog Mackie 24 channel whose model number I couldn't hope to remember. My initiation, per the sound guy, was ...