[sdiy] Fw: John Simonton

[jhaible at debitel.net]

I will always remember that Vocoder circuit from the US Keyboards
magazine. (I later learned that it was a Paia product.)
Using one half of a 570 compander chip for everything in one
channel except the filters was such a brilliant move at the
time (when 570 were cheap and available).

JH.

> 
> >  I don't care if John's hardware had cut corners.  It is where I 
> >started, and being able to afford the stuff on "lawn mowing money" 
> >pretty  much became the start of this EE career. 
> 
> Cut corners also moved a lot of projects into the skill set of the beginner.
> I remember being intimidated by anything with more than two transistors in
> it, once many years ago.
> 
> Unfortunately down here in Aus, I didn't get to see much of his stuff.
> 
> Ken
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