[net.music.synth] vocoder completion

janzen@pipa.DEC (Thomas E. J. LMO4/B5 279-5421 ECL Test) (03/15/85)

It works.  I do not have any experience with vocoders, but have heard them
on radio science-fiction shows ("Ruby") and used by Laurie Anderson.
It seems to be about the same quality of sound.

problems:

the four 1 nano-farad polystyrene caps were missing.

Screws were too short I felt for the switches that didn't have threaded holes.

I had to cut off the nibs off the potentiometers to fit them to the panel.

There no mounting holes in the panel (although mounting to the PCB is shown
	in an illustration)

Many of the jumpers' lengths, given in the text, seemed to be in centimeters
	rather than inches; they are very wrong.

The etch was a little loose and easy to detach when it's hot.

The 5" inch bare wire on page 8 is really supposed to be 3.5 inches.
The wire on AU is a little short.

Tom Janzen
DEC Marlboro MA 

Thu 14-Mar-1985 09:45 EST