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I entered a scoring competition put on by Spitfire Audio and HBO. They made a clip (without any music) from this seasons Westworld available, I imported it into Logic and it was off to the races. It took a couple of weeks to create my entry and win or loose, I learned a lot and enjoyed the experience.

She was just so two dimensional that night.

You're totally ignoring Joni Mitchell, behind you. Just rude.

That's a different Avishai Cohen, Jose, but I'll check him out. The other Israeli jazz musician of the same name plays trumpet and has a big beard.

^ About Avishai Cohen

So this guy posted these with the caption, “Do I have a problem?” I responded with, “only if you can’t reach everlything.”

Cool album with a very cool jazz take on Teardrop by Massive Attack

Last Night Now

Was lucky enough to see Ian Mcdiarmid (Emp Palpatine - as above) in his own version of Dr Faustus (Faust X2) in a tiny theatre called The Watermill near Newbury UK (one of our favourite local theatres). A couple of years ago. https://www.watermill.org.uk/faust_x2

Yeah he has a problem, there's still room for some more!

This a dozen times.

Thanks!!!! My fault…. I was like crazy looking for that album in the bassist's discography. 🙄

Unrelated, Japanese ska.

I've been listening to her without watching her all day, and I think I figured it out. Her silent motions are the visual portion of the performance, because her playing is so meticulous that she imparts no personality onto the music (and that’s a good thing). You know how when you hear Keith Jarrett or Brad Mehldau (or more obviously, Miles Davis or David Gilmour), you know immediately who's playing? Not with her, I can't. She lets the (beautiful) music speak for itself. I would love to hear her play some Schubert or Bach, or any other kind of music that "plays itself". So her movements at the bench are the visual portion of the performance. Or maybe she just can't help herself, maybe she's just that moved by the music. Oh well, don't know, don't care, I enjoy, and she obviously does too, and that's all that matters. On the bright side, she does Pictures -- one of my favourite pieces for piano, EVAR -- her performance of it might have just zoomed into the top spot for me. Thanks for reminding me of her. By the way, I had heard her before, in a collaboration she did with Ólafur Arnalds, The Chopin Project, which I also enjoyed. Really wish I was paying more attention at the time, would've seen her live. That was 5 years ago. Unrelated-- jazz:

Reunited after 26 years, each of the members of the original Joshua Redman Quartet are too big to play under that name any more. Looking forward to the full album in July, but checking out a couple songs available.

I adjusted the trimpot to nullify DC on input board outputs, before the servo opamps got installed. For the ceramic cap I used this - https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/81-RDEC71E476MWK1H3B

Take me away Herbie (please - just for a bit)

Time to order some parts.. Thanks Michael.

As many of you know, I for one have stopped releasing all new designs for a few years now after I got fed up with people building crap and claiming it was somehow connected to Kevin or I. Now this also means I don't release the PCB's for many of the older projects as I want to change something and often... make them smaller. So this hasn't stopped people selling crap with our circuits but at least they don't get any of the updates. Now here is an amp I saw come up for sale in Japan a while ago. The new owner contacted Kevin to try and trouble shoot it but yeah, we don't offer any real help with these things. Something about the PSU did peak my interest so when it popped up again for sale for not a whole lot of money, I snapped it up. So here it is: Standard KGSSHV here with some version of the offboard PCB's but the build... it is just so bad. All the wires are the same color which is just nuts. Also just cheap PVC China wire and I'll check if it is actually real copper in there. Here are some of my favorites: Support the sinks properly... that is for suckers. Also I don't know why the volume extender is wrapped in Kapton tape... The amp shipped like this, the sinks are just attached by the components. It takes no for to bend them like that. I think this is some form of the GRLV but shit is is cheaply made. Transformer wires thinner than 24AWG... yeah pure quality there. Terminal blocks clearly cost too much but stuff like this at +580V can arc over. Last but not least, no repairs are possible.... What I find truly fascinating about this thing is the PSU board as... well... they cloned my smaller KGSSHV design. That one was never released into the wild but I have posted plenty of high res pics of both sides and they seem to have made a new board from those. See this: Now all the written markings or most of them, look real. What is not real are all the part numbers as Rxx or Cxx is not a system we use. The packages are all also a bit wrong so the board is clearly a clone. I'll dig it out and post some pics next to the real thing. More coming as I strip it down.