After walking through the trade-offs of microphone preamp design last issue, this time Andy Szikla jumps in head first and designs one of his own. Many years ago my drummer's parents threw a dinner party for the band, because they wanted to meet the scumbags who were leading their son into a life of sin. To ease the initial awkwardness I launched into the tragi-comic tale of one Olive Gherkin, a high-school chum of the mother of a friend of someone I knew. Young Olive had a headache in class, and excused herself to the school nurse, who quickly concluded Olive was having the sort of challenges that come to a girl on a regular basis. She supplied Olive with a bit of intimate apparel with strings to fix it in place, but the poor girl had never seen one before, and having a headache turned up back in class with the thing tied to her head.
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