DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO BRANDEIS

From the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) Eastbound: Take exit 14 for I-95/Rt 128. After the toll, keep left for 95/128 North. You will make a 270 degree loop. While on ramp, exit immediately onto exit 24 for Route 30. Bear left onto Route 30. Cross the Charles River and turn right at first traffic light. This is South Street, and Brandeis is two miles ahead on left.

From the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) Westbound: Take exit 15 for I-95/Rt 128 and Route 30. After the toll proceed straight for Route 30. Turn right at the end of the ramp, and then right again at the first traffic light onto route 30. There is a big green sign for Brandeis at this intersection. Turn left at the next traffic light. Brandeis is two miles ahead on the left.

From I-95/Route 128 Southbound: Take exit 24 for Route 30. At end of ramp, proceed through traffic light (across Route 30). This is South Street, and Brandeis is two miles ahead on the left.

From I-95/Route 128 Northbound: Take exit 24 for Route 30. Route 30 is one of several options at this exit, so follow signs carefully. Turn left at the top of the ramp onto Route 30, right at the traffic lights. This is South Street, and Brandeis is two miles ahead on the left.

From downtown Waltham: Take South Street from Banks Square (junction with Routes 20 and 117). Brandeis University is approximately 1 mile ahead on the right.

PARKING
Please Park in the Theater Lot.

When entering the university off of South Street, you will come to a gate on the main road (Loop Road) where you have the option to turn left or right. Turn left; the first parking lot you see on your left is for the admissions center and music building. Continue past this and take your next left, down to the Theater Lot (Lot).

MBTA:

The Brandeis-Roberts commuter-rail station is very convenient to the campus. Schedule is at http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/?route=FITCHBRG

The MBTA #553 bus also stops at Brandeis-Roberts: schedule is at http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/bus/routes/?route=553

Follow the blue line on the map from the station.

WALKING TO VOLEN - Walk out of the Theater Lot and cross Loop Road. Continue straight, passing to the right of the Shapiro Campus Center (the big green building). Stick to the pathway on the left of the tree cluster and merge with the path heading uphill. The Volen Center will be on your right; a lab member will be out front for assistance.

The blue lines on the map show walking routes from the Theater Lot and Brandeis-Roberts station. The red arrows show driving routes to the Theater lot.

Imagine you are a recording engineer in the late 50s, recording stereo on magnetic tape. Then imagine you are approached by a mysterious stranger, offering you a new recording system with superb fidelity, no adjustments or maintenance needed and the ability to record long uninterrupted time. Just one catch—if the power is interrupted momentarily the recording stops, but also everything you have recorded up to then is lost.

Well, that seems to be the case in many situations today.

My Tascam DR-680 8 channel recorder has that problem. There is battery backup but they only last about 4 hours. A recent firmware update states that when the battery is low, the recording is stopped (saved). Presumably that means in the older units, low battery can cause loss of recorded material.

My Tascam SS-R05 is a rack unit without batteries. I found after purchase that it does save files if the cord is pulled while recording. So it can be done.

I decided to always keep a set of batteries in the DR-680 even though I use it on AC. After its being in storage a long time I checked it and the Duracell batteries had leaked into the battery compartment. Fortunately the damage wasn't serious and the compartment looks like an easy replacement if needed.

From the Sweetwater catalog: With the Sound Devices 633, concerns about weight, battery life, power loss, and file corruption are history. A unique 4-way power supply and proprietary PowerSafe technology give you maximum runtime and safe shutdown in the event of a total power loss. $3229

In 1967 I bought an EICO tape recorder kit. It was the better of the two offered by EICO and featured electrodynamic braking for the tape reels (it was a 3 motor deck). It was extremely gentle on the tape and never wore out. I wondered why it wasn't universally used in high end tape machines. On reflection I thought what if the power failed while winding. The tape would fly everywhere and get damaged. In the case of a master tape it was unthinkable.

Using point to point wiring on terminal strips, it was the quietest tape machine I ever owned, in terms of hum.

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When collecting and plotting "noisy" data it is often useful to have Microsoft Excel plot a Trend Line through it.  If that data is to be used for further work, it may be necessary to have an X-Y table of the Trend Line. That is not easy to get and this paper will show how to do it.
Joseph DeMarinis has a new article here: Extracting Numerical Data from an Excel Trend Line