[sdiy] I have seen the light (litteraly)

[Thomas Hudson]

That light bulb came on for me about six years ago. I can't believe I 
spent so many years without a scope. Now more than ever I use my scope 
not only as a debugging tool, but as a learning tool. I've gotten into 
guitar amp construction and instead of posting on amp building boards 
speculating about a schematic ("That third gain stage is a clipping 
stage", "No, with no bypass cap it is not going into cutoff, just 
adding compression", "The distortion is coming from the power tubes 
first"), I put my scope on each stage and know exactly what is going 
on.

Tomy  "Pry that scope and Weller soldering station from my cold dead 
hands"

On Jan 21, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Mikael Mørup wrote:

> Sorry for these rambelings, but i just had to share this with someone.
>
> I have just, for the first time ever, used a scope. And for the first 
> time ever
> seen the result of hooking up a synth to a scope.
>
> This was a highly educating, almost religious experience. The 
> squarewave of my
> SH 101 is actually square :-) Just watching what the filter cut of 
> freq. and
> resonance does to a waveform is totally awsome. Add fltermodulation to 
> that and
> i freaqued out totally. I tried to convince my teenage daughter that 
> this is
> more interesting than watching the 5. rerun of Friends on TV, but she 
> didn't
> quite share my entusiasm.
>
> Now i suddently understand the experienced guys on this lists claim 
> that a scope
> is a bare nessecity.
>
> Highly recomendable - Don't have scope ? GET ONE ! mine is simple and 
> cheap, but
> it's like getting an extra sense you can actually see sound :-)
>
> Sorry have to go - must calibrate my first DIY VCO.
>
> Mikael (one more rat in the trap)
>