[sdiy] some great noise sources to try

[Michael Bacich]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 1:39 PM, david wright wrote:

> http://ve3hls.tripod.com/noise/rfihome.html
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> "that thing sounds like sh__, put a mic on it"

Two comments:

1.  I think it's humorously ironic that ham radio operators, of all  
people, would be complaining about noises that interfere with their  
reception.  I grew up in a ham radio household, as did many of my  
friends.  Our stories are all the same: everyone in our neighborhoods  
HATED our parent's transmitters.  Nothing within a block or so was  
immune to RFI from my dad's 2kW linear amp.  Not the radio, the TV,  
the telephone, not my Fender Twin, my Leslie 122, or my Minimoog (the  
RFI FM'd the VCOs)... I even heard the sound of his transmissions  
coming from the heating coils in our TOASTER.

2.  Many of those noise recordings you linked to are awesome.  I have  
already nicked my favorites and will be using them at some time or  
another in my music.  Thanks!

P.S.  --  as an aside, regarding growing up around ham radio:  I  
never caught the bug myself -- you can only get excited about asking  
someone "how's my signal now?" so many times before the novelty wears  
off -- but hanging around my dad and his soldering iron definitely  
paved the way for my entry into electronics.  I certainly had no  
interest in learning Morse code, and neither did my friend Chris  
Stevens, who has played drums and percussion in several of my bands  
through the years.  Both of Chris' parents were also ham operators,  
and he tells me that they had a infuriating habit of talking to each  
other in Morse code, whenever they wanted to discuss something that  
they didn't want the kids to hear.  Ouch.
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