A little curious as to what everybody is listening to while doing pcb drafting, schematic capture, parts shopping, running spice, doing math, assembly and test..etc.
Or do designers generally work in silence?
Here's some stuff I listen to while doing electronics design. Infected Mushroom
Local Right Wing Talk Radio, Fox News, Mozart ;-)
...Jim Thompson
At one job I spent more time listening to a client on the phone whine about when their project will be done (even though it wasn't overdue), more than the music in the background.
I do.
John
I do that a lot... forget to turn on the radio in the morning and don't notice till mid-afternoon ;-)
...Jim Thompson
Me too. If I need to drown out somebody yattering in the background, I put on the Anonymous 4 or the Hilliard Ensemble.
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
Found some Anonymous 4 to listen too..Miracles of Sant'lago Damn... :P Can't pronounce the song titles.. Laaa llaaa llaa laaa laaa llaaa Fk the electronics.. I feel like getting in a bubble bath surrounded by candles and putting some cucumbers on my eyes :P That or start an evil fanatical cult. :P
Good music for the 'The circuit doesn't work.. Don't freak out' situation. :)
D from BC British Columbia Canada.
Classical, because classical music makes you smarter, and I need all the help I can get.
Baroque concertos or, for the tough days, polyphonic masses and motets (Byrd, Tallis, and that crowd).
Other than Gregorian Chant and some classical, I simply don't like music, so it's total silence for me. God knows how anyone can focus with head phones pumping heavy metal into their ear'oles :)
The headphones at least prevent the heavy metal - lead, Pb, from getting pumped into their ear'oles in the shape of solder splashes!
I do need silence, I just cannot work without it. Nor if there is someone else hanging around. I guess this is one of the reasons why I got into the habit to work roughly starting at 4 PM until 4 AM...
I either listen to music or work, I guess I am pretty thorough with either :-).
Dimiter
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:21:44 -0800, in sci.electronics.design, D from BC primped and preened:
T-Bone Walker Buster Benton Little Walter Big Walter Horton Lonnie Johnson John Lee Hooker Axel Zwingenberger Juke Boy Bonner Gatemouth Brown ...
With some obnoxious individuals, I'd like to pump some Pb in their ear'ole via a .38 slug ;)
Tim Wescott wrote:
Well, perhaps...
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger.
Eno's Ambient stuff works for me: "Music For Airports," "Music For Films," "Plateuax of Mirror," "Apollo," the Fripp-n-Eno "Evening Star." If I'm really productive, I put on "Here Come The Warm Jets" or "Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)."
If I'm stuck in a rut, I pick a card from the Oblique Strategies deck that lives on top of the computer monitor. Today's Oblique Strategy: "Honor thy error as a hidden intention."
-a
Rage Against The Machine.
Beat that computer! :)
One of my favorites.. 'Renegades of Funk' Rage Against the Machine + Crystal Method
Nice toroid winding music.
D from BC British Columbia Canada.
D from BC British Columbia Canada.
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