janzen@pipa.DEC (Thomas E. J. LMO4/B5 279-5421 ECL Test) (03/13/85)
Last night UPS gave me my PAiA vocoder kit. It came in a funny equilateral prism cardboard box. I have built it half way. As you can see in the catalogue, it is for their larger cabs, about 17 3/4" wide, 1 3/4" high, a few inches deep. The single-sided PCB is to be mounted to 3/16" aluminum front panel, like other PAiA modules. Thus, it has no box, no power supply. The movers forgot to lose my +-15 V power supply, and I will use this for check out and initial use. There are 9 I.C.'s, about 80 caps, about 60 resistors. It is not a hard kit. I am missing 4 1nF caps, and will look for them at a store at lunch. Maybe working tonight. I still have to install 12 caps as well as the jumpers, and build the front panel. There was an etch missing, and an extra sheet with the kit instructs me how to fix it. It has two banks of eight filters, but I have not seen what their range is. It takes a mic in. If I build it right and it works, perhaps I will accept tapes of your own sounds with self-addressed stamped envelopes to show you how it sounds. This is a device that impresses the filtering characteristics of the vocal tract of the person talking into it onto any other audio input. People use it to make a synth into a cooperative back-up vocal group. It is also possible to send an electronic drum into the vocal input and impress it's power vs. frequency characteristics on the synth or other sound. Tom Janzen DEC 150 Locke, Marlboro MA Wed 13-Mar-1985 08:57 EST
keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) (03/20/85)
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Could you post the address/phone etc. for PAiA? I haven't seen
one of their catalogs for years (I thought they'd bought the farm)
and I'd like to get their latest catalog.
Keith Doyle
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