[sdiy] Blind Luck with Noise Generator?

[Andre Majorel]

On 2002-08-07 09:55 -0700, patchell wrote:

>     I can't believe the luck I just had.  I was working on my
> synthesizer
> 
> http://www.silcom.com/~patchell/smb1/smb.html
> 
>     Spent the morning Tuning the VCO's.  When I completed that, I
> decided to get the noise source working.  Literally picked a 2n3904, at
> random, selected a bias resistor, again, more or less at random...gain
> values for the amplifier more or less at random...hooked it up (well,
> soldered them into the board), and bingo...what sounds like nice clean
> white noise (clean noise...?).  Maybe I better go out and buy a lottery
> ticket.  Never had a noise source that worked right off the bat before.

There was a sportsman who said something to the effect of "the
more I practice, the luckier I get".

-- 
André Majorel <amajorel at teaser.fr>
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/