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    Onboard sound system

    in Gadgets and Electronics

    Posted

    A sound theatre is different from a sound studio. A studio would be where you lay down tracks by recording foley / dubs etc which would then be edited. The sound theatre is essentially a high-end cinema with no seats. Instead it has a huuuuuge mixing desk where the audio is mixed to match the video. All the compression gubbins is factored in (obviously!) but doing it in a nice big acousticaly tuned room is better than doing it in some pokey little edit suite. It's called a sound theatre because (I assume) it is a theatre, sound mixing for the use of. If none of that makes sense, then bear in mind that this is an industry in which a senior technician is called "The Best Boy!" :-/

    Onboard sound system

    in Gadgets and Electronics

    Posted

    Question: In these days of limited decibel levels allowed at flying fields to avoid upsetting the neighbours and loosing yet another flying site, is it wise to fit a loud speaker to a model aeroplane for the purposes of making noises of a volume and pitch that are designed to carry over the engine and prop noise and travel a fair distance to the observers on the flight line? "The other is mechanical, when the coil detaches from the diaphragm because it tries to move too much air too fast...........most likely if trying to create loud gun shots." Almost totally unrelated factoid: Whilst mixing the recent Transformers movie, the sound guys managed to blow every highly expensive, state of the art speaker unit in the theatre it was being mixed in.

    Greetings and salutations

    in Why Not Say Hello....

    Posted

    Bit 'o both, really. But as I am now 100% skint, forking out for bits to build a model and get all my existing gear back up to scratch may cost more than buying a simple foam job that will bounce rather than crumble when I tent-peg may be the better economy. Besides, aeromodelling = all things related to model aeroplanes, building or flying.

    2.4 GHz tranny black ribbon

    in General Radio Discussion

    Posted

    Terry Whiting wrote: "As youself I visited a club, this one was holding an electric flight open day. On arrival I was asked if I was participating in the flying, if so please hand my transmitter in at the transmitter pound tent. At the tent I handed my transmitter to the pound official, "What's this" he snapped, "my transmitter" says I, " I know it's a transmitter, wheres your b****** black ribbon" I Another flyer offered a ribbon but I declined his kind offer, as I was going to give that pedantic pillock the benefit." If that rude man had said this to me, I'd have tied the ribbon around his bludy neck! On a different note: Surely one of the points behind having a ribbon tied to the tip of one's ariel acted as a warning flash. Accidents do happen all over the shop, and nobody wants an ariel poking them in the eye whilst peering into a flight box. In fact, I'm surprised that we aren't required to have a sponge or ping-pong ball in the appropriate colour firmly attatched over the ariel tip. Also, black is quite a visible colour (in daylight), that's why the RAF paint their Hawk and Tucano fleets black.

    Greetings and salutations

    in Why Not Say Hello....

    Posted

    Thanks guys. My plan of action is to take a closer look at the kit (I gave it the once over last night) and see what needs doing.

    The radio kit should be okay as I disconnected the power supplies before going away. So, will bin the nicads and I suppose strip the Nicad from my glow driver and fit a new one depending on BWC. Not sure what to do about the Lead Acid motorbike battery I used for my starter.  I may try charging it at the far end of the garden!

    Once I've investigated the engine and checked my spare glow plug hasn't rotted away (no reason it should have, I never took it out of the packet) I will fuel up (with new fuel - my old stuff is sort of green and sludgy) and test run with a new prop. Would you trust a prop untouched and uncleaned for 12 years? I wouldn't!

    Then it's fiding a club near me (hopefully Elmbridge will be accepting newbies by  now. Hint, hint if anybody from EMFC is reading this!)

    Then to rebuild the Fly Boy from the original plan. However, being an inveterate twiddler and designer by trade, a few changes may creep in, but nothing too drastic.

    And then it's off into the wild blue yonder. Huzzah! But, Eric, not with a nice new 2.4 GHz set. I've spent 8 years as a student, some things can not yet be justified!

    I may even start a blog thread about all this, with photo's 'n' everything!

    Releasable Cable Ties

    in Scale and Semi-Scale kits

    Posted

    bob cotsford wrote (see)

    As for the releasable cable-ties, there's no reason they should be more expensive, as standard ties already have a ratchet built in - it just needs a longer 'tongue' on the ratchet that would be easier to release.  Standard ones can be reused by inserting a jewellers screwdriver under the locking tongue to release it.


    Or do what I do and use a paperclip or long pin.

    Greetings and salutations

    in Why Not Say Hello....

    Posted

    Birdy, is that witrh reference to the modelling, or the drinking and dancing!

    I will deffo be getting a trainer because I'm so out of practise. The Wot 4 or Panic can wait! Due to limited funds I'm trying to decide between the following:

    a) Buy an artf trainer.

    b) Buy a kit trainier.

    c) Design and build my own trainer.

    d) Dig out the Fly Boy plan and rebuild from that.

    I think probably option d, but if anyone has any thoughts, they will be welcome as long as the trainer will go with my OS 15. DAvid, would ny radio gear really be u/s? I assume I could send it back to HiTec or someone similar for a spring-clean.

    Greetings and salutations

    in Why Not Say Hello....

    Posted

    Hello everyone!

     Right, where to begin? I'm 31 and last picked up a model aged 19. It was a Precedent Fly Boy I built myself, with HiTec radio gear and an OS 15 max. I massively enjoyed the build and getting to know the radio and engine. I went along to my local club, it was flown a few times by the club maestro, and I had a spot of stick twiddling and managed to keep it airborne.

     Then I went to university and spent most of my twenties drinking and dancing to loud, repetative music.

     Recently I was rooting through some old stuff at my parents, and found my trainer which had been dumped by an irresponsable and uncaring parent to one side, thus giving it a severe case of hanger rash: broken off tail feathers, punctured solafilm, warped to resemble a banana, covered in dust and filled with dead spiders.

     Oh, dear.

    I then found my old tranny and growler and a stck of old mags... and began to think 'Hmmm. Why not...?'

     So, here I am. I think my ancient nicads are beyond saving (although I have not yet tried charging them) and my airframe is too abused to save (although I'm amazed it flew in the first place. I design for a living and I blush to look back at the bodges I made then!) so It is now hanging from my ceiling. The OS was oiled and vacumn packed for storage so should be okay. All I need to do now is find some time and money, throw a trainer together, join a club and get my sorry backside on the flightline.

     Simple as.

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