[sdiy] Spouse Gating

[Scott Stites]

Well, your method is quite sound, because it certainly has worked out in your favor.  I can't imagine having a wife that takes an active interest in these sorts of things (and also performs with you - music, that is).

Cheers,
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
Sent: Jun 7, 2004 3:07 PM
To: Scott Stites <scottnoanh at peoplepc.com>
Cc: allenre at umich.edu, "R. D. Davis" <rdd at rddavis.org>, 
	"synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Spouse Gating

LOL I'm glad I read this post.  I thought that "spouse gating" was showing them the
door when they didn't work out...  something I've done a few times :^P

H^) harry

Scott Stites wrote:

> Congratulations Ryan; not married yet, but you have already been introduced to the concept of 'wife gating'.  This is a term Larry Hendry and I coined a while back through an email exchange.  To be fair, the term should be changed to spouse gating, to cover that .01% of husbands who have wives that are into Synth DIY.
>
> The concept is this:  you are the envelope generator, your wife is the VCA, or low pass filter, or low pass gate, depending on her personality.  If she's a bandpass filter, you may be in real trouble, depending on her Q.
>
> Anyway, the idea is favors, money, attention, repairs around the house, etc. replace voltage as the medium of control. The goal is that you generate a long, sustained, life-long note.  You apply the bias ("Here honey, I thought you'd like this new set of diamond earrings" or (to be fair) "Oh look honey, here's a special on chrome wheels for that lovely hopped up and still-not-too-rusty 1980 Toyota pickup of yours").  This opens up the spouse gate, and lets the signal (IE parts purchases, junky rooms, weird noises, etc.) pass through unattenuated.
>
> Some people don't quite get the hang of spouse gating.  They're like Morton Subotnick on a Pixie-Stix(TM) binge and fire off a series of rapid, short blips of bias.  Not good.  You wind up with only brief periods of contiguous Synth DIY time, and forget that Batz room.  You want a nice, flowing Tomita attack with a very high sustain and infinite decay.  This keeps the good stuff coming.  Until of course, the electric company (read credit card company) pulls the plug on both the EG *and* VCA.  So be careful about that.
>
> A real-life example of spouse gating:  My wife has been on an extended return home to VN.  She took X amount of dollars with her.  Vietnam is still a fairly inexpensive place to be (it's getting more expensive) but she took plenty of dough.  I get a call the other day..."Honey, I'm out of money can you send me some?".  That's the trigger.  I could have easily inverted the envelope by exclaiming "What??!!!"  (that's all it takes, you know), but sweetly it was "How much and when, honey?".  This will allow the ex-post-facto purchases I've made in her absence pass through, though maybe still with a bit of high end clipping.
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
> > I'm not married yet, but my fiancee has told me that I can have a room of
> > music/electronic stuff (the basement, I'm guessing) if she can have a room
> > dedicated to shoes.  See, it's all about compromise. ;)
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> > > Definitely!  Just curious about something though... something that
> > > some other bachelors are perhaps also wondering about: Those of you
> > > who've gotten married, and kept all of your valued posessions, how did
> > > you do it?  Those of you who've gotten married and had to get rid of
> > > valued posessions, what early warning signs should we be on the
> > > lookout for before it's too late?  Such vital information needs to be
> > > passed down to others in the best intersts of mankind and SDIY.
> > >
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> > other animals:
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> > >                                her other creatures, using dogma
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> > human cruelty.
> > >
> > >
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