Week 2 Forum - Input and Output


I found this weeks soldering frustrating. My lack of patience is not a good mix for what we needed to do. My soldering necklace will be going on eBay in a couple of weeks. You can get in early for a special price of $5!




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Incase you didn't know what soldering was. . .



This weeks exercise was to solder a piezo microphone onto some wire and then solder the other side to a TS connector (jack). The hardest part was stripping the wire plastic cover off the piezo wires. This is because they were so tiny and I kept snipping the wire. Also the wires connected to the actual piezo mic were very fragile and I had to resolder them back on a few times.[2]




My piezo. . .



I ended up plugging the piezo straight into my laptop input and recording the sounds into my computer.


Piezo Recordings
Piezo Sound 1
Piezo Sound 2
Piezo Sound 3

These were recorded on the dining room table. . .




Recording my piezo into Logic. . .



[1] wikipedia. 'Soldering', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldering (Accessed 7/8/7)

[2] Christian Haines. "Music Technology Forum: Semester 2 - Week 2 - Input & Output". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 2nd August 2007.