Cheers — I'm not actually trying to bend it (more trying to avoid that!). I'm making a Hurdy Gurdy, and the aluminium shaft will stick out about 1cm from the end, so I want to avoid it bending. As soon as I can access a more powerful lathe, I'll make a stainless steel shaft, but for the moment ally'll have to do.

yea you can bend it with a hammer. If you want precice bends, I would suggest wraping one end in a thin cloth [to prevent marring, if you care about that], then put it in a vice and bend it.

Depending on what kind of alloy. Hammertaps for sure, only problem with Aluminium is that it gets harder when deformed, so do it right the first time.

Materials 2x 33 K resistors 2x100K resistors R2,R3_____68K 1/4W Resistors R4,R6 _____ 280K C1,C2,C6_________4µ7 25V Electrolytic Capacitors C3,C7___________22pF 50V Ceramic Capacitors "No los puse" C4,C5,C8_______220µF 25V Electrolytic Capacitors

IC1__________NE5532 Low noise Dual Op-amp

J1____________3.5mm Stereo Jack Socket

SW1____________SPST Slide or toggle switch

B1_______________9V PP3 Alkaline battery

Clip for PP3 Battery

hey, I've got a prototype for an audio amplifier with a NE5522 op-amp- here is the link. http://www.forosdeelectronica.com/f31/amplificador-auriculares-9v-instrumento-18231/ the final circuit is here: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5063/head9vawa.gif its in spanish but if you're interested we can chat about it. I made the protoboard and its pretty cool. You can add to the signal an audio input plus the signal from a electric guitar or bass.

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hey Im trying to add #piwik to my POD https://redblack.me and in the application.yml what should I put? where url I put my piwik site piwik.redblack.me and on the id I put 1 since is the only site I have..

no pictures or anything of these said niche ecards?!

Okay, I am posting. No what?

TBH I quite like it :) — if nothing else, the music is extremely successfully written, as it is highly catchy.

"like"

That's funny! Though please don't hate me if I say I rather like West Side Story, dated though it is.

Yeah,, html5 beta on youtube is working but just barely.

@MFPA 'fraid not, no :( One of the problems is the requirement of vorbis encoding — I'm not sure all YT videos come in that flavour. The youtube 'html5' beta thing is adequate, but not great.

safari extension which converted any YT video to HTML5

I don't suppose you know if there is an extension for Firefox to do that?

"I don't know, dad. Seemed a little bigger than that."

"Wha? Well, right...right. Um...it was just one of those laboratory numbers. You know the ones..."

The "flashed" messages you get when signing in, editing stuff, removing stuff, etc…

That'd be the ones. They're small and animated and pop down from the top when you share with someone.

Probably talking about the yellow notifications that appear when you log in ("Signed In Successfully").

@Tag All you say is true, and I can't see this approach working well for the majority of bands either, TBH. But note that neither myself nor SoH are advocating the ditching of properly recorded CDs (there'd be nothing to copy!) — I suspect that a significant proportion of their revenue comes from record sales. The point I'm making is more that, if people are giving you free promotion through gig videos and pirated copies, why try to stop them, provided it's not having a large impact on earnings?

It's an interesting case study, regardless of feasibility for the rest of the industry. It would be interesting to see live/record earning breakdowns for some more prominent bands and artists.

That model works for live bands, but not everyone is a live band. While I believe some major changes need to happen in the music industry, I think it would be sad for it to go in this direction. Some music is best recorded in a studio. It's an environment where a performance is perfected and creativity abounds. A classic example is The Beatles. Their best music came from when they camped in a studio and quit touring. Under the new live model, that couldn't work.

And that's just regarding the artists. There are people behind them who make the recordings possible. I'm studying to become an audio engineer. It's not a lucrative business as it is and if the live model were to become the norm, I can only assume I would have to find a new job. Free recordings, for the most part, would be done by amateurs. Only the biggest live acts could afford a high quality recording, and even then it would just be treated as an advertisement for their concert, not a work of art. My point is not that the recording business should exist for the sake of jobs (obsolete jobs should disappear), but that it is difficult to imagine a model of free recordings. More than just the bands make their living from recordings, too. In a free model, they disappear and recorded music will, in a word, suck.

The music business needs to adapt, but I don't think abandoning the recording business and simply accepting piracy is the answer.

That's my two cents.