iMic: it so wonky! but...

[solarbird]

Interesting issue one: the digital pre-preamp on the toy is very noisy. Do not use. That's okay, because i don't have to use it.

Interesting issue two: I already know I'm RF-active; I affect analogue radio receivers and some small electronics. It's occasionally annoying. It's less of a problem with digital receivers, so doesn't come up often. But I'm apparently also RF-active enough that I can be picked up by said digital pre-preamp.

It would be nice if I could faraday cage myself.

Interesting issue three: The editing software suffers badly from the "if you don't use it the way we use it, random things happen, because we have no test team" problem. However, it is possible to use it the way they use it; then it works. If you don't, then you may find slices of music moved around at random, and you may find yourself completely unable to remove the first part of a sample segment because they didn't think of that and it doesn't work, or they did, and it's a selection bug that was too hard to fix. Also, the waveform display may vanish completely. It's hard to say!

Still, it seems to have worked. So that's cool! Now I can make digital noises out of analogue sources. This is Good.

(Self ref: master db+10, standard input (no RIAA override), "Dual 1228" eq. scheme.)

Comments

[shadarack.livejournal.com]

Being a bit RF reactive myself(mostly as an enhancer, oddly enough! If I touch a TV antenna, reception improves up to 300%!), I havn't thought to experiment with it yet, but have you considered getting a static discharge band? I dunno if it would work, but it might help? Dunno. As to a faraday cage, isn't that just a cage of good-conductive metal, like copper? Idea - don't faraday cage yourself, faraday cage the mic!

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Dara is in need of a copper mesh suit. Then she could be like something out of a 70's anime. :-)

[solarbird]

That would be COOL. I AM T3H ANIM3 CH1XX0R!

[solarbird]

I do that, but I also do annoying things like shift broadcast frequencies. I know, that makes NO fucking sense, but it's true. This makes tuning some analogue receivers - well, most of them, but particularly cheap ones - an exercise in frustration. Touch the dial, frequencies shift, station's locked in; step back, frequencies shift back, static. So I have to guess at the offset and hope that I can guess where the station is and keep trying until I get lucky, or just keep the radio within a couple of feet of myself at all times.

Presumably, I'm affecting the radios in question, and not the actual broadcast signal. But either way, it's really annoying.

Natural broadcaster?

[(Anonymous)]

May be body capacitance and not active radio transmission..of course, you could test yourself with a field strength/frequency meter,find out if you're transmitting,and on what frequwncy you're strongest. Go for silver mesh..better conductor than copper. Scott