The Smashing Pumpkins. I had honestly forgotten what musical geniuses they were. Unlike so much music from that time there was genuine musical talent and songwriting talent.
I am so into dark, brooding, depressed music lately. If it isn't hard pulsing electronic music beating you in the head then all I seem to be interested in is the stuff that makes grey skies welcome.
black, dark, sinister. Strike me down and watch my blood flow. pouring onto the floor, crimson pools filled with the stench of death. Oh sweet life, I taste you once again. Strike me down and take my soul. Oh sweet darkness, embrace me.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
why.. a reprise
Stuck in my head.
Time spent, it was a good deal. I don't want or need it, but desire is alive. If I had the opportunity to do so, I couldn't imagine NOT.
I don't think I could, but that doesn't change the fact that I want to try. When does it come to that point where I will finally give up?
Should I give up or should I even bother?
Time spent, it was a good deal. I don't want or need it, but desire is alive. If I had the opportunity to do so, I couldn't imagine NOT.
I don't think I could, but that doesn't change the fact that I want to try. When does it come to that point where I will finally give up?
Should I give up or should I even bother?
Friday, November 9, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Can't win for losing...
So.
A friend on preludeonline.com is selling his amplifier and I pick it up at a really nice deal. It's an older model, but I really like this particular model. Another friend in RL has a 3x10 bandpass box that he has nothing to push it with, so he let's me put it in my Tib.
Tuesday I get the amp and notice that the box is pretty beat up (thanks a lot UPS) but everything looks good. I go home and spend 3 hours in the cold running the wiring back to the hatch and end up screwing up my left rear 6x9 somehow that I have yet to determine. I get everything hooked up. I completely rewire the 3 dual voice coil subs so that I am pulling a 2.67 ohm load. I know that this is going to really be hard on the amp which is only rated for 4 ohms bridged (400 watts) But since I didn't pay much for it at all, I am not worried.
I get everything wired up and hooked up and then I fire the system up and hear nothing from the subs. I open the box back up and try connecting only one voicecoil to test and it still makes no noise. After some fiddling I discover a short in the amp under the power connection. If I nudge the power block just right I can get it to power on and work, but still nothing coming out of the sub.
Last night I disconnect the signal coming form the head unit and hook my iPod directly into the amp and test again, still nothing, so I open the box yet again and begin testing the other voicecoils.....
each sub had only one working voicecoil! I rotate the center sub so that the working coil connections are all at the bottom and I wire it up parallel. This makes the load now 1.33 ohms, I stop and consider running one sub in series to bring it back to a 4 ohm load, but decide that I am not out much at all if thing's go really south... screw it!
I hook it all up and it works! I have to rig it a bit to keep the power from shorting, but success nonetheless!
I hot the road out of respect for my neighbors and get about 2 or 3 miles from home. I'm sitting at a light at Kellog and Rock, headed east. At this point I am listening to "I'm The Supervisor" by Infected Mushroom and it comes to a particularly hard portion of rapid bass beats. As my car vibrates violently I am thinking "holy crap that amp must be getting hammered!" I notice that my headlamps are dimming with the beat, which surprised me for all the power I was pulling, but I suspect at this point the amp was severely overloaded and probably making close to 800 or so watts.
The light turns green and I take off, about half way through the intersection the bass just cuts out. I'm thinking that I probably overheated the amp and it shut off under thermal protection, that or it just shook lose the nice little rig I had going to keep the power flowing.
I pull into the Walmart parking lot and open the hatch and take a look, sure enough the power had just shorted. I get it nudged just so and start to leave, but it cuts out again :(
Now I think I am going to have to de-solder the power connector block and re-solder it to fix that problem. Hopefully that will be sufficient, but I was hoping to have everything working properly before the drive to KC Sunday.
bah.. I also have to get the left rear speaker working as well, it just sounds horrible without it. The sound stage is all screwed up and skewed to the right :(
A friend on preludeonline.com is selling his amplifier and I pick it up at a really nice deal. It's an older model, but I really like this particular model. Another friend in RL has a 3x10 bandpass box that he has nothing to push it with, so he let's me put it in my Tib.
Tuesday I get the amp and notice that the box is pretty beat up (thanks a lot UPS) but everything looks good. I go home and spend 3 hours in the cold running the wiring back to the hatch and end up screwing up my left rear 6x9 somehow that I have yet to determine. I get everything hooked up. I completely rewire the 3 dual voice coil subs so that I am pulling a 2.67 ohm load. I know that this is going to really be hard on the amp which is only rated for 4 ohms bridged (400 watts) But since I didn't pay much for it at all, I am not worried.
I get everything wired up and hooked up and then I fire the system up and hear nothing from the subs. I open the box back up and try connecting only one voicecoil to test and it still makes no noise. After some fiddling I discover a short in the amp under the power connection. If I nudge the power block just right I can get it to power on and work, but still nothing coming out of the sub.
Last night I disconnect the signal coming form the head unit and hook my iPod directly into the amp and test again, still nothing, so I open the box yet again and begin testing the other voicecoils.....
each sub had only one working voicecoil! I rotate the center sub so that the working coil connections are all at the bottom and I wire it up parallel. This makes the load now 1.33 ohms, I stop and consider running one sub in series to bring it back to a 4 ohm load, but decide that I am not out much at all if thing's go really south... screw it!
I hook it all up and it works! I have to rig it a bit to keep the power from shorting, but success nonetheless!
I hot the road out of respect for my neighbors and get about 2 or 3 miles from home. I'm sitting at a light at Kellog and Rock, headed east. At this point I am listening to "I'm The Supervisor" by Infected Mushroom and it comes to a particularly hard portion of rapid bass beats. As my car vibrates violently I am thinking "holy crap that amp must be getting hammered!" I notice that my headlamps are dimming with the beat, which surprised me for all the power I was pulling, but I suspect at this point the amp was severely overloaded and probably making close to 800 or so watts.
The light turns green and I take off, about half way through the intersection the bass just cuts out. I'm thinking that I probably overheated the amp and it shut off under thermal protection, that or it just shook lose the nice little rig I had going to keep the power flowing.
I pull into the Walmart parking lot and open the hatch and take a look, sure enough the power had just shorted. I get it nudged just so and start to leave, but it cuts out again :(
Now I think I am going to have to de-solder the power connector block and re-solder it to fix that problem. Hopefully that will be sufficient, but I was hoping to have everything working properly before the drive to KC Sunday.
bah.. I also have to get the left rear speaker working as well, it just sounds horrible without it. The sound stage is all screwed up and skewed to the right :(
Sunday, November 4, 2007
letting go...
It's funny. Something I have had a hard time letting go of for a very long time, has suddenly just been let go I think.
It feels pretty odd actually. I never imagined that I would just let it go, but I think I have. I know that it could change. my mind is just playing tricks on me or something... I don't know. unless something amazing happens, I don't think it will come back.
It makes me kind of sad really. Part of me WANTED that obsession. Now I don't know what to do about it. so many people know this as a large part of who I am, how can I just drop it?
Maybe I am just coming to my senses and realizing that there is no point in it anyways.
So where do I go from here?
It feels pretty odd actually. I never imagined that I would just let it go, but I think I have. I know that it could change. my mind is just playing tricks on me or something... I don't know. unless something amazing happens, I don't think it will come back.
It makes me kind of sad really. Part of me WANTED that obsession. Now I don't know what to do about it. so many people know this as a large part of who I am, how can I just drop it?
Maybe I am just coming to my senses and realizing that there is no point in it anyways.
So where do I go from here?
Friday, November 2, 2007
IT's HUGE!!
So my friend Lee and I have been hanging out playing pool almost every Thursday evening. Well, this week he brings his sub box with him because he is thinking about possibly parting ways with it. Since i was fortunate enough to get a KILLER deal on an Xtant amp from a friend on preludeonline.com I am in need of something to push with it.
So lee brings this box and I open his truck and take one look and the thing is friggin MASSIVE. It seems much larger than a 3x10 box SHOULD be, even for a bandpass box.
Well, these three 10s are all dual voice coil and apparently this box is supposed to be able to handle 1500 watts (I am pretty sure that is peak, and not RMS) and they have the drives/coils wired up to maintain a 4 ohm load (as far as I can tell) so if I am going to use it I will have to rewire for a 2 ohm load (otherwise this amp will only push 200 watts, and I think that would be a bit anemic)
But I am pretty excited to get it hooked up because I already have pretty decent low end coming from the stock 6x9s in the back and 6 1/2s in the doors. I am pretty sure I won't want this box though because I am looking for something tighter than a bandpass box can provide. That's why I am looking for 10s to begin with. If all I wanted was deep, hard, loud lows then I would get some 12s or 15s.
At any rate, this box almost entirely fills my hatch up. I can barely fit my backpack in and I have no place for my tripod to rest comfortably either... but DANG it looks good back there with the mirror and chromed baskets! woot.
So lee brings this box and I open his truck and take one look and the thing is friggin MASSIVE. It seems much larger than a 3x10 box SHOULD be, even for a bandpass box.
Well, these three 10s are all dual voice coil and apparently this box is supposed to be able to handle 1500 watts (I am pretty sure that is peak, and not RMS) and they have the drives/coils wired up to maintain a 4 ohm load (as far as I can tell) so if I am going to use it I will have to rewire for a 2 ohm load (otherwise this amp will only push 200 watts, and I think that would be a bit anemic)
But I am pretty excited to get it hooked up because I already have pretty decent low end coming from the stock 6x9s in the back and 6 1/2s in the doors. I am pretty sure I won't want this box though because I am looking for something tighter than a bandpass box can provide. That's why I am looking for 10s to begin with. If all I wanted was deep, hard, loud lows then I would get some 12s or 15s.
At any rate, this box almost entirely fills my hatch up. I can barely fit my backpack in and I have no place for my tripod to rest comfortably either... but DANG it looks good back there with the mirror and chromed baskets! woot.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
creative juice
So, I finally hopped on the bandwagon and partook of requiem for a dream. I remember when Justin told me about it back in 2000, I wanted to see it then and just never did. Well, the other night I was at walmart and they had requiem for a dream and π bundled together for only $15 so I had to.
Well, yet again a film has proven to be an inspiration, this time the specific storyline provoked a deeper sense of inspiration in me for a storyline, rather than just a general inspiration to write something.
So a few minutes ago I messaged hunz and asked for permission to use some of his older music. His stuff has always evoked mental pictures and I can almost always imagine a basic storyline coming out of it. I believe that with the inspiration I gained watching <span style="font-weight:bold;">Requiem for a dream and from hunz's music will make a big difference.
Now you all just need to get together for my birthday and get me a RED ONE! If needed I can give you the configuration I wanted. It's a very very reasonable 44 thousand
Well, yet again a film has proven to be an inspiration, this time the specific storyline provoked a deeper sense of inspiration in me for a storyline, rather than just a general inspiration to write something.
So a few minutes ago I messaged hunz and asked for permission to use some of his older music. His stuff has always evoked mental pictures and I can almost always imagine a basic storyline coming out of it. I believe that with the inspiration I gained watching <span style="font-weight:bold;">Requiem for a dream and from hunz's music will make a big difference.
Now you all just need to get together for my birthday and get me a RED ONE! If needed I can give you the configuration I wanted. It's a very very reasonable 44 thousand
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