Royal Opera House "Open Up"
I am delighted to once again be assisting the Sound and Broadcast Department of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with extensions to their Paging System, which I designed for them back in 1998/9. The equipment has played a crucial role in the day to day running of the building since being switched on in 2000, and has given exemplary service, 24/7, since then. That's some record for reliability!
Open Up is described here. I look forward to, once again, assisting ROH, and hopefully making the system ready for the next 16 years!
(I've written a piece about the design of the original system here.)
The Mighty Flea is "on hold"
About a year back I was working on a design for a very nice battery powered amplifier called The Mighty Flea, and I made a couple fo working prototypes.
Unfortunately I have come to realise that (at least for a while) I am not going to be able to see this through. There are a number of reasons for this:
- the investment in time and money to make this into a product is a lot more than I bargained on. Particularly, designing a product with a built in battery charger, and getting it through all the necessary certifications to make it legally for sale are just too much.
- the investment in marketing to get people to actually buy it was going to be even more.
- it's really hard to make a product like this in small volume at a cost that will be attractive.
Also I am far more bust with the musical side of my life than I was (and that is pretty important to me). So for now, I am not continuing with development.