[sdiy] Spouse Gating

[allenre at umich.edu]

Doing something that shows that your electronics skills are actually useful once
in awhile is a big plus.  For instance, I was planning on putting a switch on
the smoke alarm because it goes off every time we cook, and removing the
batteries requires getting a step ladder, taking the thing down, ...

My fiancee has used my soldering iron for art projects a few times as well.

Ryan

> 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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