David Fisher : What is Noise Blog

Some Saudi princes are smiling today, and the girls at Saint (Boston club) are happy about their new diamond necklaces their daddies bought them. As is anyone sitting on top of huge oil reserves. Oil prices hit an all time high today of $82/barrel.

I am very glad to not pay for heating in my apartment due to this development. Prices rose among concerns of high oil demand this winter for heating.

Tags: 82, all time high, barrel, oil, oil princes, saudi arabia, winter

While it doesn’t mean that the economy is going to take a massive upswing, the Fed has cut the rates again by .5% to 4.75%

Half point drops are big. Maybe my student loans will be able to breathe a little easier and maybe I’ll actually open those consolidation junk mails that I get since some of mine are at horrid rates.

No full press releases were out yet on this. But some information can be found on Reuters.

Tags: cut, economics, fed, fed funds, interest, loans, rate

Maybe I’m jumping the gun in putting this out there, but I think it will help hold my feet to the fire and get it done quicker. I was waiting a bit to have it a little more done to hope that others wouldn’t clone it, but if Behringer is going to steal it then they are going to do so no matter what patents are in place. Everyone else is a little more respectable.

Apologies for not having a ‘real’ website for this product yet. I will have one soon. This is even lamer since I work for a web consulting company as my day-job.

I will be releasing an Analog Multiband delay guitar pedal shortly, hopefully before 2008.

The pedal will be (tentative to change):

-100% analog BBD design
-Have three delay bands (high, mid and low)
-Have individually controllable delay times, and feedback
-Have 3 LFOs to modulate either the delay/feedback of each band
-True Bypass switching
-No cost spared in making this sound great.
-Designed around the Cool Audio 3205 BBD chips. MN3005 mod possible if you can provide 4-6 MN3005 chips.
-No tap tempo, no battery power
-Still working on figuring out the best max delay time per band. Low band will have more delay time than high/mid
-In case you haven’t figured out, this is at least 12 knobs. I am working to make sure that the pedal is not confusing however. Likely in a Hammond 1590-DD case. Maybe something just a little bigger
-Sound clips coming soon.
-All hand made, assembled in the USA.
-Through hole construction.

There are still a few surprises around the corner. There will be options eventually (working on details) for hand painted cases, vs standard cases.

The price will be more than a Line 6 DL-4 and less than a Toneczar. Somewhere likely towards the middle of that range.

If you have any wishes/wants/desires for such a pedal email me at tibbon AtNoSpam gmail.com or leave comments below.

I have no name for this pedal yet. I am open to suggestions. I will be at AES and if you are lucky (that meaning if I am done) and ask nicely, I may have a prototype with me to show.

Tags: analog, bbd, circuit design, delay, dl-4, guitars, multiband, multidelay, pedal, toneczar

We decided to test GotVMail at Jazkarta, but we did notice one major difference between GotVMail and GrandCentral.

With GrandCentral all incoming calls are free. If you use one of their services to call out, you pay.

With GotVmail, you pay for minutes on incoming calls, and don’t really use it for outgoing calls. Additionally (and the main reason we are using it) is for a phone tree for people not in the same office.

I still need to sit down with both an evaluate more.

Tags: GotVMail, grandcentral, voip

I sadly feel that I must relay the news that Robert Jordan, one of the greatest fiction fantasy writers of our time, died yesterday. He had been sick for some time and had relayed and transcribed the remainder of his final book to his wife and family to be completed.

Robert Jordan wrote many novels, most notably the Wheel of Time series which comprised of 11 completed books of an epic story in a continuation of a Tolkenesque style but original story. His 12th book will hopefully be completed and release soon.

More information can be found at DragonMount.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills…. - WoT

Tags: 12th book, died, fantasy, passed away, Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time, writer