Gauging Interest - Inexpensive Electronic Det Cans
01-27-2010, 11:06 PM
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On the other hand, I don't want you guys to lose faith in what I'm trying to do here or think that I've dove in over my head (I just don't have professional quality recording equipment
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01-28-2010, 06:50 AM
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Sounds like a good idea. I don't need a sound clip as much as the testimony of a few reputable members saying they work.
No hurry though, car wont be out for a month or two anyways.
No hurry though, car wont be out for a month or two anyways.
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01-29-2010, 06:56 PM
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All of the components for the first batch have been ordered. I'm 99.999% sure this should all be rolling by next Monday as long as customs doesn't hold me up (some parts are coming in from Canada.) As soon as they are all assembled and tested, I'll post the official for sale thread.
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02-03-2010, 10:15 AM
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Attention K-mart shoppers.
Components started showing up yesterday. EVEN MORE GOOD NEWS: I think I figured out a good permanent mount solution, and in fact, if it works as well as I hope it will, I might even make it the default instead of the removable clips.
Components started showing up yesterday. EVEN MORE GOOD NEWS: I think I figured out a good permanent mount solution, and in fact, if it works as well as I hope it will, I might even make it the default instead of the removable clips.
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02-04-2010, 04:55 PM
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(EDIT: no homo*)Enclosures, jacks, and all of the cable came in today. Now I'm just waiting on the PCBs (******* slow *** canadian post) and the power cords. Hopefully everything will show up by monday and I can fire up the soldering iron.
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02-04-2010, 05:21 PM
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In theory...I could start building them tomorrow. In practice... I'm concerned over the fact that I cant seem to get a clear recording from my detcans. Everything sounds fine when you listen through headphones or when you plug into your stereo, but when I put them into my laptop I just can't get seem to get a nice clean sound clip.
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02-04-2010, 05:40 PM
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Gospeed81 will (hopefully) be posting knock recordings as soon as I get the first one built and shipped out to him. Its not that I "just can't get a clean recording" so much as "Everything sounds fine live, but all I hear is useless bullshit when I record and play it back." The recording sounds absolutely nothing like what you hear from headphones, so I'm 99% sure its my laptop being a piece of **** (its a $200 dollar netbook, not a professional piece of recording equipment).
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