I'm an author!

[Mark Hammer]

Joel Korte of Chase Bliss got asked by Premier Guitar magazine to write a piece on bucket brigade chips, and very generously asked me if I would be interested in doing it.  He served as go-between with the mag editor, I had some back and forth with Shawn Hammond (the editor), and the article just got posted.  Shawn "punched it up" a bit in places, but it's mostly me. 

Longtime members here will probably already know much of what is included, and truly knowledgable folks will probably grumble about what's left out, but those starting from scratch will benefit.  For your reading pleasure:

http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/25035-behind-the-bucket-brigade?page=2&utm_campaign=PGN+-+010717&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=PG+Weekly

[Rob Strand]

Very cool Mark, congratulations!

[stallik]

Good read Mark. Well done and thankyou

[armdnrdy]

Great read Mark!

I recall you writing articles for another publication some years ago...slips my mind at the moment.

[radio]

Love Premier Guitar , glad you are now part of it!

[phaeton]

Awesome, Mark!  Congratulations!

[vigilante397]

You're famous! Very cool, great read. Thanks!

[armillary]

Thank you Mark! Very useful information!

[bool]

Now that you're famous, can we now get your autograph, please?

... heh ... heh ...

[GibsonGM]

Awesome, Mark!  Congratulations! 

[StephenGiles]

Super read Mark!

[Kipper4]

Congratulations Mark. Nice one..

[rutabaga bob]

Two thumbs up!  Hope this is just the first in a successful series!

[R.G.]

Mark, you're one of the few people I can think of who really ought to write a lot for publication, and doesn't yet.

Good on you for it!

And where's the next one? What's the hold up?   

[potul]

Cool!   
I have some reading for today.

[Mark Hammer]

Thanks for all the positive vibes, folks.  Much appreciated.

Larry, apart from some letters to the editor in Vintage Guitar, and my two paragraphs on the Guild Tri-Oct as one of the "25 weirdest guitar effects ever" in VG, the last thing I had in a music publication was an article in the last issue of Craig Anderton's DEVICE newsletter in 1979.  Prior to that it was a VERY long letter about violence in rock that got split into two consecutive pieces and inserted into the editor's column in Hit Parader magazine in 1968.  I like to space things out a bit, and let people build up an appetite.

Mark, you're one of the few people I can think of who really ought to write a lot for publication, and doesn't yet.

Good on you for it!

And where's the next one? What's the hold up?   

I sent the editor an idea for a column that I think might be good for a year.  So we'll see.  I'm retiring in the fall, so I'll have more time for this stuff.
I forget, how long did your own column in PG go for?  I seem to recall it was for about a year or so.

[wavley]

That's awesome!!

I'm hoping a paper I wrote is soon to be published in Transactions on Microwave Theories and Techniques.  It's out for IEEE peer review now with it's very exciting and enticing title "A Cryogenic Low Noise Amplifier Optimized for Phased Array Feeds."  Not really our field, but it is a summary of the last two years of my day job life: designing, modeling, mechanical drawings, PCB layout, prototyping, revising, and building 20 dual channel amplifiers for the Green Bank Telescope.

I read so many fantastic posts around here from folks, I would love to see more of them get published kind of demystifying and de-mojoing pedals, proving to regular folks that it's not magic, it's knowledge and experience based with a really good helping of trial and error.

[armdnrdy]

the last thing I had in a music publication was an article in the last issue of Craig Anderton's DEVICE newsletter in 1979.

That was the one I was thinking of. "The Intelligent Guitar" article.

[Mark Hammer]

That's awesome!!

I'm hoping a paper I wrote is soon to be published in Transactions on Microwave Theories and Techniques.  It's out for IEEE peer review now with it's very exciting and enticing title "A Cryogenic Low Noise Amplifier Optimized for Phased Array Feeds."  Not really our field, but it is a summary of the last two years of my day job life: designing, modeling, mechanical drawings, PCB layout, prototyping, revising, and building 20 dual channel amplifiers for the Green Bank Telescope.

Now THAT's a publication.
After Mike Biegel shut down Musitronics in the 70's, he went on to publish stuff like that, primarily focussed on things like remote sensing of animals, if I'm not mistaken.

[wavley]

That's awesome!!

I'm hoping a paper I wrote is soon to be published in Transactions on Microwave Theories and Techniques.  It's out for IEEE peer review now with it's very exciting and enticing title "A Cryogenic Low Noise Amplifier Optimized for Phased Array Feeds."  Not really our field, but it is a summary of the last two years of my day job life: designing, modeling, mechanical drawings, PCB layout, prototyping, revising, and building 20 dual channel amplifiers for the Green Bank Telescope.

Now THAT's a publication.
After Mike Biegel shut down Musitronics in the 70's, he went on to publish stuff like that, primarily focussed on things like remote sensing of animals, if I'm not mistaken.

I'm often very impressed with the lives of folks outside of this place when they give us little glimpses.

Lots of big brains around here, I've always included you in that bunch.  Your posts are informative and great at explaining things in a way that makes things click for me.  I'm pretty jealous of the folks can explain concepts around here on the fly in post form that I never can really seem to do.