Do It Yourself Dj Qbert Torrent
Joseph Zyiuahndy
I was watching shorte just now and her Joe Cooley tutorial. I'm not convinced she's doing it right so I thought I'd check qbert instead. He explains that the technique is chirps and swirls. I don't know what a swirl is but he describes it as a fast tear motion yet when he performs the scratch I'm certain he does something different, more similar to very fast babies. Im not so hot with names but I know the sounds and how to achieve them, and in my opinion it sounds like the explanation doesn't match what he's doing.
This is what people miss from not coming from the old skool hip hop/hip hop loving route into scratching, i reckon. Those cuts were just an intergral part of what i thought scratching sounded like when i was a young shrimp.
Joe Cooley used to do the classic "electro style" scratching where he'd do that same scratch as Howie Tee, but he'd do alternating patterns of high and low pitched chirps, single time tears, and he'd do that thing where you release the sample, pull it part of the way back, let it play part of the way forward, then pull it all of the way back.
Short-E doesn't have a clue about the originators so she listens to what ppl like Qbert say and then makes her own tutorial video based on that. The real Joe Cooley scratch can be heard in the intro on a cut called "Your Chance To Rock"
I'm clueless about the history and perhaps I'm guilty of believing what I've heard from others, factual or not, so I can't comment on origins but can anyone else confirm the clear difference in the technique explained and what is performed on qberts video?
Im sure it's not intentional on his part but for someone who is making a living out of defining scratching and teaching it, Q often says one thing and then does another. Obviously we have to take individuality into account but it can make learning (my goal) confusing.
I think you're right with your comment on youtube but it's not the worst Q-Bert tutorial I know. He always goes back and forth between insanely fast stuff. If you want to learn something that can be pretty enfuriating, especially with the material being part of the Scratch UNIVERSITY - no one teaches like that. Same goes for the Dirty Digit videos I've seen and some others. They should just do the combos cleanly and without showing off for a minute.
If you're getting paid to teach an instrument, I expect the teacher to present clearly what he wants to teach you. Variations should be shown but not just randomly thrown into the presentation. Sure, it's easier said than done but those guys are making a living off that stuff. Chile offers a lot of tutorial for free and he shows the scratch slowly and cleanly, then he doubles the tempo with animated TTM showing where you are in the combo - way better than talking about whatever, scratching for 5 seconds and probably doing something else later.
In case you've called on me to do it better: I've only made one short video showing a scratch combo and I fuck up the pick up towards the end but I just did this to ask people on here if they already know it. That's all. I'm not taking away anything from Q-Bert's skills - of course he's one of the best scratch DJs ever but his teaching is pretty mediocre.
Gotta remember on QSU that you can send videos to q bert for him to critique, making the necessity to have tutorials as clean as Chile's some what less. You could just send him a video asking him if you think you're doing it right.
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PCB has battery corrosion around the bottom left hand corner that covers about 1/4 of the bottom of the board about 2/3's the way across and about 1/4 of the way up along the edge connector. Removed the battery and sprayed the board with isopropyl alcohol to prevent further damage.
At this point I can see data there on my CRO but its just looping..OK note to self Qbert has to have the test pin grounded for the game to runGame is running great except all the character graphics are squished up. (see pic)
Game board now 100% but the sound board is another matter, the board uses some funky voltages. I attached a step down transformer to the cab yesterday so I could test the soundboard but unfortunately all I got out of it was garbage sound. I've just ordered a pair of SC-01-A Speech Chips from Kevin at www.GameRoomRepair.com so I can eliminate the speech chip before I start tearing apart the sound board. It could very well be a voltage problem also but its always a good idea to have some of these rare IC's on hand. lets face it the sound is what makes Q*bert so special.I'll update the thread on the soundboard once I've received the IC's
Decided to make myself up a quick bodgy backyarder Qbert to jamma harness so I could work on the sound board. I used a home made external AMP, the onboard amp needs 30VDC! I soldered the wire for the input to my amp on pin 9 of the qbert amp underneath the pcb.
I divided up the PCB into 2 sections 1 for speech and 1 for general sound FX.The General Sound FX were completely dead and the speech is just garbled.
Probing around I could see the sound working for the general sound FX via the outputs on the 74ls75's at U8 and U8 but the output (pin 4) on the 1408A DAC was stuck low IE Boned.Luckily I have 2 scrap bootleg Qbert. While they are both missing the Speech chip circuitry they do have a single DAC on them for the general sound FX of the game.
I'm pretty sure the other DAC (U19) is fine because I can hear the garbled voices coming out the speaker. I will look over the speech chip circuit closer tomorrow but I suspect the speech chip is screwed.
NOTEVarying clock frequency varies voice and sound effects. As clock frequency decreases audio frequency decreases and phoneme timing lengthens.Looking at the Q*bert sound board schematics to see what's in circuit on the MCRC and MCX pins we have a LM741, 1408 DAC and a couple of transistors.I socketed the LM741 and playing around with it I found I got correct sound or pretty close to it (but faint) by pulling pin 2 out of circuit. Pin 2 is connected to a variable resistor and pin 4 of the DAC which is the output.Replacing the 1408 DAC @ U19 fixed the voice so essentially both DAC's on the board dead luckily I had the 2 bootlegs with these on it.I'm relived the SC-01 on the board was ok now I have 2 spareA 7407 died along the way in this repair but replaced with a NOS 74ls07Q*bert sound is fantastic to be sure! so 80's
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