Tom G.'s site down - anyone know why?

[tomg]

On 05-Aug-98, jorgen.bergfors at idg.se wrote:
>Well, I suppose he got some of us a bit suspicious by hyping his circuits a
>bit 
>too much. Like saying "WOW it's nice" about the sinewave output on the Maxx 
>VCO-4A. The sinewave converter employed is the same as in the Formant. It is 
>widely known that this circuit give a fairly crude approximation if a sine 
>wave. Several better circuits exist.
>Also that he omits temperature compensation without mentioning it (like in
the

>VCF-5A) raises some skepticism. There also are some bad design practices,
like

>in the BRM-1A where pin 13 on the CA3046 is not at the lowest potential,
which

>the National Semiconductor datasheet points out is important for proper 
>operation. I don't doubt that he has actually bulit the circuits and that
they

>do work, but things like that raise questions.
>I think if he had said up front that these are simple circuits suitable for 
>beginners and less critical applications, but have some limitations, he would

>have got more understanding and support.
>I'm thinking of building his VCO-4A as an VCLFO, by changing the timing cap.
>In 
>that case the lack of temperature compensation and crude sine wave is not a 
>problem. But on the other hand, I might as well adapt the VCO from the ASM-1 
>for LFO use instead. If I omit the tempco (which I don't think is needed in
an

>LFO) it is about as simple to build. Then of course I have to add triangle
and

>sine converters, but I have already cloned those from the Moog 921.
> 
>/Jorgen




How Nice.

-tg