alma cogan

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Member Since: 10/5/2005
Total Mixes: 23
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The Regulator M100

Artist Song
Barry White  Oh Love, Well We Finally Made It 
Sylvia Striplin  You Can't Turn Me Away 
The Neville Brothers  Yellow Moon 
Selda  Ince Ince 
Amalia Rodrigues  Povo Que Lavas No Rio 
Electric Prunes  Holy Are You 
Ijahman  I Am A Levi 
Cornell Campbell  My Confession 
Chic  My Forbidden Lover 
Lovin' Spoonful  Coconut Grove 
Clarence Carter  Slip Away 
Mos Def & Ron Isley  Beauty In The dark 
Ambrosia  You're the Biggest Part Of Me 
Klaxons  As Above So Below (Justice Remix) 
Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show  Mr Joy 
The Penguins  Earth Angel 
Can  Spoon 
The Monks  Cuckoo 
The Hollies  I'm Alive 
Boney M  Heart Of Gold 
Nicolette Larson  Lotta Love 
Roberta Flack  The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 

Comment:

The Regulator M100 is is a vintage scanner, and as it is a pre-SMD scanner, it's not a big deal to add a discriminator output.

The discriminator IC is an unknown 18 pin DIL IC. It is stamped 'Regency 600-565'.

Using an oscilloscope, pin 10 of this IC appears to contain the unfiltered baseband signal. A solder point next to pin 10 appears to be connected directly to the IC. A 10k resistor is soldered to TP5. The resistor can be mounted vertically.

Because the discriminator output contains a slight IF component at 455 kHz, the other lead of the resistor is connected to a grounded 2.2 n capacitor. This creates a simple RC lowpass filter with a cutoff frequency of about 7 kHz. The IF signal is suppressed effectively. The ground lead of the capacitor can be connected to the shield of the IF coil nearby.
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Feedback:

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musicgnome
Date: 10/24/2007
friggin awesome
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tornadoZ
Date: 10/24/2007
hot damn. any experimental mix that opens with Barry White and ends with that Roberta Flack song... well, it goes straight to #1 on my charts.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 10/24/2007
Jesus. The sweltering steaminess of this mix is overwhelming... in a good way. Any chance of a link, good sir?
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doowad
Date: 10/24/2007
All kinds of treats here for the Halloween season. I second Rob's comments as well.
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 10/25/2007
Digging the Barry White, Neville Bros, Lovin Spoonful, Mos Def, Can, Hollies and Roberta Flack and of course, all vintage scanners, although I am partial to the Uniden Bearcat Pro PC78LTW, myself.
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Salman1
Date: 10/25/2007
This is pretty cool.
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SteveRaglin
Date: 10/27/2007
The opening track by Love Unlimited is a fave and I suppose giving producer Barry White credit is deserved -- love those ladies' voices!
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Cow Macy
Date: 10/28/2007
Love that bugged out version of Mr. Joy... and Boney M's finest moment, at long last, though it ain't no saturday seven.
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jonpoi
Date: 10/28/2007
Pre-SMD is so cool.