Mike's Blog » Music http://www.mikeheijmans.com A site about everything and nothing at all Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 My TalkBox Project Status http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2009/02/my-talkbox-project-status/ http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2009/02/my-talkbox-project-status/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:53:26 +0000 mike http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2009/02/my-talkbox-project-status/ A few months back I posted that I would be building my own DIY Talk Box. I have finally gotten around to doing it. I managed to pickup a PylePro PDS772 for $20 and it was still in the box. The thing has a great frequency range (500Hz to 16KHz) and is very powerful at a whopping 300W RMS with a peak of 600W. I managed to pickup all the parts I needed from Fry’s Electronics and Home Depot and cobbled it together earlier in the week. Boy, does it sound good. I am making a HowTo video to show all the steps and explain some of the gotcha’s I expierenced on the project. So that video is coming very soon. I also had a Crown D-75 reference amp tucked away that I decided to drive the Talk Box with but I wanted to switch it to Bridge Mono and the service shop said it would cost $125 to get done so I sent an email to crown asking for the service manual and within a day I had all the schematics (including all the older revisions) emailed back to me. Upon looking at the schematics I found that it was a single jumper that needed to be changed and so it took me a total of 5 minutes to switch to bridge mono. There is a HowTo video for that coming as well.

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]]> http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2008/07/slumpbuster/feed/ 0 Armor for Sleep Does it Again! http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2008/02/armor-for-sleep-does-it-again/ http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2008/02/armor-for-sleep-does-it-again/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:45:33 +0000 mike http://www.mikeheijmans.com/?p=71 For most people that know me, it is not surprising to see anything about Armor for Sleep on my blog. For the rest of you, you need to understand that Armor for Sleep is one of my favorite bands. Armor for Sleep is a large part of the soundtrack of my life and represents a lot of who I am today.

Armor for Sleep released their new album, “Smile for Them”, back in October and it is amazing. I suggest going and buying it immediately! Trust me! Anyway, today I just stumbled upon the Music video for their new single, “Hold the Door”, on Myspace. It is chilling and amazing at the same time. It truly captured the true spirit of AFS. I love the message of “Hold the Door”. I can really relate to parts. Oh, and they are playing the Fillmore on March 30 and you can put money down that I will be there.

Here is the video…Enjoy:
Hold The Door

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]]> http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2008/02/armor-for-sleep-does-it-again/feed/ 0 Media Box for Linux http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2007/11/media-box-for-linux/ http://www.mikeheijmans.com/2007/11/media-box-for-linux/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:39:27 +0000 mike http://www.mikeheijmans.com/?p=16 So, Sean, my co-worker decided that he wanted to archive all his movies in a NAS and watch them streaming through his home network. Then he changed his mind and decided that he wants it to handle downloads and I am sure the next thing is that he wants it to be like a sling box. Or at least it will be when he reads this :)

So, I am toying around with creating a software package for Linux/Mac that will allow you to manage videos, music, and photos locally and clustered to NAS arrays that will allow you to watch uncompressed or compressed on the fly movies via direct access or a web interface. It will also have a built in torrent downloader and an indexer that will allow you to quickly and easily find media on the cluster. It will also support multiple users and roles so that you can let you friends in to download and upload things with disk and bandwidth quotas.

And there you have it. Its only an idea at this point and I won’t be able to do it alone so if anyone that happens upon this blog can help, shoot me an email or IM.

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