Celebration of Chris Tobin

Posted on by

Alex and I attended the Celebration of a fellow engineer Chris Tobin.

I was on the TWRIT show three time I think with him.   Solid questions, great interviewer, great ethic.  I watched Many hours of him sharing wisdom with the internet.  Smart guy and busy busy busy doing the worlds most amazing project.    Some of his brilliance was captured on this week in radio tech

He was taken too soon.

 

We talked about the Emoji description protocol

Analog out… that means… what….?

Posted on by

AES – SC-05-05 – X-152 – Call for participation

http://www.aes.org/standards/blog/2020/3/new-project-x152

The goal / target / deliverable is a template that manufacturers could include in their manuals that explain the characteristics of the signals leaving devices and the characteristics of signals a device is capable of receiving. Having these parameters summarized in a consistent way will help users integrate equipment.

AES STANDARDS: SC-05-05

Working Group on Grounding and EMC Practices

Group Scope: The scope of the SC-05-05 Working Group on Grounding and Electromagnetic Compatibility Practices shall include, within the bounds of the scope of SC-05, all practices affecting usage and performance of audio hardware, with respect to the susceptibility of the signals it carries to effects such as noise and cross-talk due to the manner of its connection and construction, and the effects of its signals on other hardware and systems in its vicinity. It shall not set standards for personal safety with regard to such connections and construction but shall keep safety considerations in mind in its recommendations.

https://secure.aes.org/standards/sc.cfm?ID=49

Tool post and Holder

Posted on by

Piston Type Tool Post & Tool Holder Sets For 12″ Lathe
Complete with 5 quick change tool holders
Turning and facing: 3/16″ – 1/2″ tool bit
Boring, turning and facing: 7/16″ shank
Heavy duty boring bar: 5/8″ shank
Knurling, turning and facing: 3/16″ – 1/2″ tool bit
Easy tool set up to speed production
Weight: 5.5kg.

https://www.busybeetools.com/products/tool-post-quick-change-for-12in-lathe.html

Microphone Description Protocol

Posted on by

This is an idea about a byte efficient protocol that describes the contents of an audio channel. At first, you may laugh…

It uses UNICODE characters as a method to condense the language needed to describe something in the field. There are Emoji for so many generic audio terms.


An Emoji is 4 bytes to encode using UTF-8.

Click here for a full list of Unicode Icons and their associated Hex Values

Click here for a description on how emojis are interoperable and how they work (50 page read

Framework: Emoji followed by a description repeat. n feeds n+1

No Emoji = end of sequence

Signal Path is in the order it is displayed

To describe a person at a microphone, their role and info about the microphone and how it’s connected to the system a series of Emojis followed by text can be concatenated

EXAMPLE CONCATINATION:
🆔 PRODUCTION ID ⌚ PTP TIME STAMP😃NAME📛FUNCTIONℹINFORMATION⚠WARNING🎤MIC MODEL👻PHANTOM POWER🔌CONNECTION N🔌CONNECTION N+1🎚SENSITIVITY

Using this concatenation you can build up descriptions of the source

EXAMPLE STRING:
🆔 20191115⌚1163594296.344003000😃Axel📛Lead VocalℹBlonde hair glasses⚠Loves to grip mic🎤SM 58👻no🔌SNAKE 34🔌Channel 2🎚-60📗preset EQ

😃Security Guard 📛Position near the gate🎤SM58 👻no 🔌SNAKE 34🔌Channel 2🎚-60

Example of wireless microphone

😃📛Person 3🎤SHURE SM58📡 565.325 🔋 0:33🎚-10
📛RX Person 3📻565.325 🔌SNAKE 34-2

Example of a guitar and the cabinet
 😃Terry📛Rhythm Guitar Left 🎸Les Paul 🧲 P80📢Marshall 412🎙C414👻yes 🎚-50 🔌SNAKE 34🔌Channel 2

How to create a mix
A mix is made of a web of sources at a particular level
🎨Mix 1🕸️ Axel🎚 -10🕸️ Person 2🎚 -10🕸️ Person 3🎚 -10🕸️ Person 4🎚 -10🕸️ Person 5🎚 -10

Give that mix to someone
 🎨Mix 1🎚 -20 🎧WB13-3😃person 1
Headphones and on the person who receives the mix at a particular level

Use an EQ as a preset to insert
📗preset EQ📈 80 🎚 -2 📊 4.5k 🇶 1🎚 -2 📉 13k 🎚 -2

I did a quick test in Google sheets and it does parse the UNICODE as strings

AUDIO RELATED

DIRECTION