The best band ever?
I'm sitting here working on the graphics for a future AD product, and I've got my iTunes cooking, and I can't decide. Which is the best band ever? Agent Orange or Killing Joke? It's got to be one or the other. UPDATE…
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DIY '59 Bassman in a roadcase...
As the subject says. The blinding logic of this stunned me a little bit. One of the biggest pains of touring is dealing with the guitar cabs and their cases. (The biggest pain, of course, is the drum set and the…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
I'll admit that the usual suspects for Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday are a little bit too neat. Usually, the studios I put up here are on the clean side, which bodes ill for their actually being used at any point. Pictured…
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L@@K!! RARE 1951 FENDER STRAT MINT!! (NOT VINTAGE GIBSON)!
I don't normally cross-post (rather, I just post, without looking to see if the other blogs have also posted; an altogether better habit) but this one was too good to pass up. I think this may have made the rounds…
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Nice new stuff from Carl Martin...
They're not on the website yet, but Carl Martin just announced some tasty new pedals, the Crush Zone, Surf Trem, and of particular interest to us here at AI, the Red Repeat (obviously, that's what I've pictured above.)…
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Dropping vintage science...
This will probably be of interest to anyone that has a couple (or more) analog synths. If you follow this link, you'll be rewarded with a 4mb PDF, which contains the entirety of the Synthi Educational Manual, written by…
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Major collector dumping gear (you'll wanna see this...)
The only three words I can come up with to describe this guy's collection, in order, are "holy fucking shit." (That's special for MatrixSynth, where they feel I may swear a bit too much). This dude, whomever he might…
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A handy program for a spare laptop...
Some of you might recall that I used to write articles for one of the original music gear creation meta-sites, Darwin Grosse's CreativeSynth.com. That site has succumbed to entropy in recent years as a result of…
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And now we return to our regularly programmed schedule...
Back from Christmas With The Rednecks, and right in to it. Over the break, I got a letter from Michael Liero, who pondered the following: Over the last few years I have been running ableton live and reason on a very…
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Squeeze this...
You know, when it comes to guitar effects, compressor pedals are one of those things that you don't really feel you need, but once you get one, you wonder how the fuck you ever got along with out it. I spent a couple…
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New stuff from JoMox comin'
Shawn Cleary from our favorite synth store informs us, the unwashed masses, that some cool new shit is coming from JoMoX. First up, and pictured above, is the M-Resonator, which is, as far as I can tell, the filters…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Something a bit different this week. If you haven't seen this, you really need to check out Delta Lab, a studio in Copenhagen. Imagine, if you will, a coke dealer in the mid 70s. Imagine that coke dealer spending his…
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Good tidings we bring...
Schism sent me a link to this story, knowing it would incite me to rant, while small flecks of spittle formed in the corners of my mouth, and my eyes rolled back in my head. (I know that's why all of you visit this…
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Customer Service Woes, Episode 199,343
As I've often metioned, I do most of the support for Audio Damage. Mainly, this involves getting people correctly sorted out on the Windows side, or figuring out what the fuck is wrong with the operating system on the…
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All hail the mighty Variophone...
Check this shit out. The Variophone was an early-80s analog synth masquerading as a wind instrument rather than a keyboard. The synthesis method was a rudimentary physical modelling, using what I assume is a Schmitt…
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Cwejman modular???
It seems that the Cwejman site is down due to unknown Swedish troubles, but there's a Cwejman forum on Electro-music.com where Michael Cwejman posts now and again, and the above-linked thread is quite interesting. It…
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Phase Two Progress...
We've now got Phase Two running as an AudioUnit. See? All that's left now is optimizing, the manual, beta testing, and installers, and another fine Audio Damage product will be out the door. Not long now...
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It's about time! An API EQ DIY project...
In my years of watching the various sites that talk about DIY audio gear, I must have seen a couple hundred requests for an API EQ project. (I think I may have made one or two of those requests.) Now that I'm older and…
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Help!
Yesterday, during my Daily Surf, I came across a schematic for an MS-20 (Sallen-Key) filter that had been modified for 9V use as a guitar pedal. I had it in my head that it was at hammer.ampage.org but I'm obviously…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
This week, no funny business. What we have here is Rusty Insects Studio, owned by James "Carbon111" from the Analog Heaven mailing list. When I put up a studio and make fun of it, and you all go "yeah, but what the fuck…
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Nady RSM-1 Ribbon Mic
So, Santa Claus brought me one of these Nady RSM-1 ribbon mics for Christmas. I was, like, "well, how bad can a $129 ribbon mic be?" The answer is "not bad at all." I've been fooling with this thing all day, and my…
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The 4/4/4 Rule
No, it doesn't have anything to do with time signatures. Wilson inquired the following in the Sound Lab Mini Synth comments: "...how do \[you\] find time for such projects? I know you have a job, a wife, make and record…
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A reader question...
D'Macinnon writes: I'm looking for a 24/96 or better capable USB recording interface/mic pre combo that's under a grand and has good ad converters and a good sound. I need it to be somewhat portable because I'm going to…
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Novachord Restoration...
In case you haven't been following this on Analog Heaven, or one of the many other mailing lists and forums it's appeared in, Paul Cirocco of CMS just finished his complete restoration of a Novachord, and has fully…
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Sound Lab Mini Synth, Pt. 2
Quite a bit of progress on my Music From Outer Space Sound Lab Mini Synth today. I started stuffing the PCB, and after a couple hours I have all the resistors and most of the capacitors in, as well as all the sockets…
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SEMtex XL
You kids know about this thing? From Anyware Instruments of Germany, this is a 2-VCO patchable analog, in the same neck of the woods as an Oberheim SEM module (hence the name, I suppose.) It has a whole slew of MIDI- CV…
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Scanalyzer...
Sorry I haven't been in my normal posting frenzy lately, but we have a new album coming out on Positron!, and it is sucking some of my time up. On The One And The Zero is the debut full-length from Scanalyzer, which…
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New Intel based iBook for January?
Think Secret seems to think so. And there's a bigger article as well. Normally, I would never buy brand new technology from a company with a proven track-record for fucking early adopters. However, needs must when the…
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Alternate OS stuff for the MPC1000
I don't have one of these boxes so I shouldn't really care that much, but I'm always tickled when someone takes the time to make an alternate OS for something. Machinesound informs us of this site, which seems to have a…
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Phase Two Update...
Yes, it's time for a progress report on Phase Two, the next product from Audio Damage. Yesterday we hit a rather important milestone, as we froze the DSP code. It took a little longer than we had anticipated to get to…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
I don't know whether to thank Dave Copeland for sending me such an obvious Hard Core Gear Porn link, or chastise him for looking at such a travesty in the first place. This studio, which belongs to contemporary…
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Hey, look!
It's the Apocalypse!
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Parker acoustic...
I've always been a big fan of Parker guitars, and have played them since the company started. I've owned a total of 7 different Parkers of all stripes, and currently have two. One thing I've always wanted was one of the…
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Crazy new oscillator from Cyndustries...
I've never paid too much attention to the Cyndustries stuff, because it's all Modcan format, and most of it is just other people's designs, reformatted for the Modcan system. But today Cynthia announced something really…
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An odd thing...
I have a question for you: do you think that people that learned how to engineer in a "real" studio (and by that I mean an API and a Studer A80) that have now migrated to digital are still mentally bound to the limits…
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Pyp-Bomb...
Okay, if you go over to the Pyp-Bomb website, you'll see some of the most ridiculous marketing-speak ever coined: The PyP-Bomb is truly the next generation in quality portable power amplifiers. Combining solid state…
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New BBD chips available...
I know this is probably old news to the sorts of people that pay attention to such things, but Visual Sound (the makers of the excellent H2O chorus pedal) have done a large run of BBD chips that are direct pin…
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Continuum Fingerboard MIDI controller...
And from the "Strange But True" file, we have the Continuum Fingerboard, a MIDI controller from Haken Audio. It is available in a 4 or 8 "octave" configuration. Each pad area corresponds to a MIDI note number, and it is…
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The Battle Of The Ex-Trident Engineers, Round 1 (FIGHT!)
Pictured above is the upcoming console from Toft Audio Designs, the Trident Series ATB console. The prototype was shown at the recent AES, and according to Toft personel posting on Gearslutz, it will be around $2499. As…
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4-channel AM16 clone DIY...
If you're looking to get four really nice mic pres for the cost of one, you could do worse than to score this PCB from Prodigy Pro for $100. It has space for four Langevin AM16 clones, and includes a power supply PCB…
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Pondering a new mic...
I'm in need of a new vocal mic, and the Red Type B keeps popping up in my peripheral vision every time I turn around the last few days. The price is certainly right at $450 factory direct. I like the fact that you can…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Wow. Wow. Wow. Jaysen sends me a pointer to Edmund Eagan's Twelfth Root studio in Ottawa, Canada. This fellow has a 12-panel Serge system with a custom laser-cut aluminum stand, created by Mike Adjillian. While the…
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Will someone please stop this guy?
Okay, I'll readily admit that the easiest way to avoid the articles at Record-Producer.com would be to... well... avoid them. But it's like driving past a car wreck on the highway; you just have to slow down and look…
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Making The Super Fucker, Pt. 2
Well, that was easy enough. Aside from one rather drastic mistake on my part, the Super Fucker Mk. 1 was really easy to build. The only problem I had is that I didn't leave enough clearance between the switch and the…
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Making The Super Fucker, Pt. 1
You're looking at the parts pile for today's project, the Analog Industries Super Fucker pedal. I started with the normal EH Muff Fuzz design, then made some changes to account for the vintage parts I'll be using (from…
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Edward The Compressor...
Don't know how I missed this, but I just came across the TFPro Edward The Compressor, a multiple architecture compressor for what I think is a not-too-bad price. You can select VCA, 1176, LA2A, and "Green Box" (which is…
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Back, and better than ever...
Okay, I'm back from "vacation" (and I use that term with the loosest of all possible conotations). A whole mess of DIY stuff showed up while I was gone. I've got the parts I ordered from Small Bear to build my Analog…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!! (Mini Vacation Edition)
Sorry for not having a massive Wall O' Modular today, but I'm on vacation and my priorities are all ass-backwards. However, I picked up the Oberheim Matrix 6 today, so here's a snap of my little guest bedroom keyboard…
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Behold the mighty Wurlitzer 112!!!
I'm posting from Fountain something or other, Arizona today. (It's a suburb of Phoenix. Fountain Hills? Something like that.) I drove over to my good friend Mike Fisher's house to pick up a Wurlitzer 112 electric piano…
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Vacation Time...
Well, not a vacation so much, but I'll be gone from now until Tuesday next. My wife and I are driving to Phoenix for the Thanksgiving holiday, so I'll be posting infrequently for this week. For my readers not in the…
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Here's something you don't see every day...
It seems that a new company called Bricasti Design is actually releasing a hardware reverb, the M7. It is rather unusual for a hardware 'verb to come from someone besides TC, Lexicon, or Yamaha, so I thought it worth…
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Live 5 Caveat...
Since this seemed to start a dull roar in my inbox from all my peers who think I'm hitting the pipe, let me state for the record that there is no way one could possibly record and mix "real" music in Live 5. For…
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New Metasonix Anal Tube Vortex (or something like that)
Pictured is the latest from Metasonix, the S1000 "Wretch Machine," hot from the floor of the Vacuum Tube Valley Expo. It will have an MSRP of $2500. According to the literature, it is all-tube, all discrete, Hz/V…
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DIY MIDI Controllers For Fun And Profit!
Okay, this is going to be a somewhat convoluted tale, so try to bear with me here. Our label just signed this fellow from Chicago (more on that when it is appropriate) and his prefered method of working is with Live…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
One of the AI readers, Phil Hendricks of Seattle, sent me pictures of his current rig, and as soon as I saw them, I knew my HCGP issues were solved, at least for this week. Pictured above, you can see Phil's Wall O'…
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The Long Song...
Over at Positron! Records, the parent site of Analog Industries, we do a bi-monthly podcast that usually contains either music from the Positron! Catalog or unreleased material by the various members of the Positron!…
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P2K In the Hiz-Nouse...
Got my shiney new (old) Prophet 2000 today. It is in 100% perfect working order, and is actually about 9/10 cosmetically. Since I plan to mainly use this as a controller, and not a sampler (what an old-fashioned term…
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Questions I have...
In no particular order: 1\. Who gives a fuck? They're titties. Half the human race has them, and the other half wants to touch them. Get over yourself, you prude little bitch. 2\. Why is the Sweetwater Word For The Day…
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SoundLab MiniSynth in the queue...
I know I threatened to build an MFOS Sound Lab Mini Synth several months ago, but time has not been permitting. Between FIA World Rally, Battlestar Galactica, and Rome, I've been far too busy watching TV to be bothered…
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Viral Marketing 101
So TC Electronics just put up an interview with Jon Burton, the FOH engineer for The Prodigy. If you look closely at the photo above, which heads the interview, you'll notice that what's on the screen is pointedly \…
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Audio Damage Phase Two screen-shot...
Here is a screen shot of the final UI for Phase Two. If you click here, you can see it in full resolution. As you can see, we've stayed more or less true to the original. The only difference is that instead of the "PED"…
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Anyone need something _really_ ridiculous?
From the Portland Craig's List: this ad for a Yamaha DX-5. Don't see those around too often, and this seems to be in pretty good shape. $575 and a forklift takes it home. Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind having one of…
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Lots of Logic...
Ho, ho, ho. I bet you thought I was going to go off on one of my thrice-yearly rants about Logic! No such luck. What we have here is a big fat pile of logic chips, plus a metric fuckload of germanium (and silicon too)…
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TechnoMage LIFE 2...
I assume you all remember the little LIFE gizmo that TechnoMage made a couple years back. Well, snappa just hipped me to the fact that there is a LIFE 2 in the works. I tend to start looking for the exit sign when I…
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Mmmmm, nice...
I was thinking the other day that it would be interesting to have a collection of the various 6-voice synth-on-a-chip analogs. My mental list included the SCI Prophet 600, Korg PolySix, and Roland Juno 60. (I've owned…
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New TC plugs are food for thought...
TC announced a couple new PoCo plugs today, and in doing so, also announced their new UI initiative. This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart, so I have a bit to say on the subject. (What are the odds?) When…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
This is a special edition of Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday, where we bring it on home. Yup, one of our own is featured this week. Here you see the birthplace of all things Audio Damage, the studio/office of a certain Adam…
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Great...
You'll probably only see this in the RSS feeds, but colossus.positronrecords.com, one of our two servers, is experiencing some "issues," of the sort that are probably best solved by whacking it firmly on the side. I've…
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Audio Damage Phase Two samples...
Okay, we're now in the possession of a more-or-less fully working Phase Two plug-in, just to keep everyone in the loop. I have to say that this is the most liquid-sounding phaser plug-in I've ever heard. That's not to…
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The Joy Of Being A Professional Musician...
So, I had the opportunity to pick up a contract job today for a rather largish Interweb Company. It was a bit outside my pervue (which is basically fucked-up drumbeats and modular synth squonks, for want of better…
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SCI Prophet 2000
If you recall, a couple weeks ago I was pining about my controller keyboard, and after some research/whining/pondering, had decided on an Ensoniq ESQ1 or SQ80 as a viable replacement. I've been searching for one that…
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He's Mr. Hundred And One...
Actually, it occurs to me that our foreign readers won't get the reference in the title. Neither will anyone under the age of, say, 25. So it's pointless, really. But that aside, meet Mr. Heatmiser. Above is his brain…
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The Manual Now Online...
Okay, don't say I never gave you anything. The KLF has put the entirety of their famous book The Manual (Or How To Have A Number One The Easy Way) up on their web page. Read this. Print it out and read it again…
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A (former) Competitor to Zimmerland...
Here is a Japanese site that has a mess of photos of the old Turnkey analog room in London. I'm not even going to try, really. It's too much. Here's a map of the room: That's getting in to "Holy fucking shit" territory…
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Daft vintage computer music
Okay, maybe not that daft, but at least a little bit daft. Check out the second entry on Basic Hip for an MP3-ified album from god-only-knows when. It was created by four PhD guys (two from Bell Labs) on an IBM 7090…
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A Hard-Core Gear Porn Extra Edition...
Like an onion, make you cry. This is the \ home\ studio of a certain echorec, a member-in-good-standing of the Gearslutz Krew. The pictures were posted in this thread, where you can see them in all their full-res glory…
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For fuck's sake...
I don't know who this is, or why he has so many Marshalls, but it's a funny pic. Anyone know the story on this dude?
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
For a change of pace, I thought I'd show a smaller home studio that was actually obtainable, rather than some multi-million dollar Fiesta Del Gear. The tasteful rig above belongs to Matthew Stretta, and is a good…
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907A Now available...
Just a quick note to say that the 907A Fixed Filter Bank is now available for purchase at the Audio Damage site. It is $29.00 for OSX VST/AU and Windows VST, and is the bee's knees, if we do say so ourselves. Go get…
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Some new additions to the family...
Here's a picture of the modules I completed this morning; on the right is my I/O Module, which has breakout points for my MIDI- CV interface. There are also two ins and two outs which go to an ESI 2|6, attached to a…
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Oh, Dear sweet baby Debbil
Joe Kearny writes to inform us all that either he has an active imagination, or the Wurlitzer Sideman is actually an undisclosed holding facility where Satan is kept. Truth or fact? You be the judge.
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Oh, Dear sweet baby Jeebus...
Welcome to my nightmare. That's a photo of the inside of the synth section of the Sideman. It is all point-to-point. Somewhere in that rat's nest of components is a ground loop. I think this might be a job for a…
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Battle: Ruby
Our friend inverseroom just finished his second Ruby-based amp, with blue crushed velvet, natch. I don't know if this trumps my HeatMiser model; I'll leave that to you to decide. But it is pretty fucking fly, no doubt…
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The Wurlitzer Sideman...
Now, I'll grant that its usefulness is seriously outweighed by its historical significance (I don't find myself often needing one Foxtrot beat, let alone two) but I ran across one of these today at Portland Music, and I…
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Hacking the ADA8000
There are some interesting threads over at the Prodigy-Pro forums concerning the Behringer ADA8000 AD/DA box. At around $220 street, it seems like a reasonable way to utilize those lightpipe I/O ports on your interface…
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Heater v. Guitar Amp, Round Two
Man, Tube Depot didn't waste any time getting me my speaker. High marks for them; it was the first time I'd bought anything from them, but not the last. I ordered the speaker on Friday afternoon, didn't select any…
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Alienware Shoots To Kill...
While I may use OSX exclusively for web surfing, iChatting, email, and listening to my 18-odd hours of Neubauten MP3s, when I need to play live using a computer, my HP Laptop comes out on stage with me. The reason for…
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An interesting take on things...
I was doing my morning Browse, and I took in a quick read of Craig Anderton's final AES Wrap-up, where he opines on the state of the industry. This particular paragraph caught my eye: Software companies don't have an…
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Okay, here's the deal...
In the comments section of the entry on my PCBs, Lindon ponders on the following theme: Whats that "Groove Tubes" \ thing\ in the background!?....grief and you complain about Mackie gear...I'm hoping its just some…
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Glitch This...
So I grabbed myself a demo of dblue's Glitch VST last night, in searching for drum-destroying plugins. It's been a long time since I was surprised by a plugin that doesn't model/imitate analog gear, I have to say. This…
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ph34r m4 m4d h34t3r!
Here's an image of the most awesomest heater I found that is going to be turned in to a guitar amp, as I mentioned yesterday. I ordered all the parts from Small Bear Electronics, and went with a 6" Jensen MOD from The…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Cutting a fine figure in his leather pants, Martin Hollinger, the museumsbesitzer of the Synthorama Synthesizer Museum literally chortles with amusement that all you little people could ever aspire to owning something…
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A vow...
Okay, I give up. I'm not going to slag other sites any more. There are two reasons for this course of action: (1) It's like shooting fish in a fucking barrel. That's only fun for like the first couple fish. After that…
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Pretty Cool Boards...
Got home today to find a package from Denmark in my mailbox. Turns out it was my PCBs for the GSSL and G1176 clones. These are really nice boards, well worth the money. (A total of 23 Eu. for both.) They come freeze-dry…
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Jesus H. Christ...
Just shoot me in the fucking head. Seriously. It's that bad. Don't believe me? Read this. On second though, don't. That'll be 30 seconds of your life that you'll never get back. Now, it seems I've done nothing but spew…
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Breaking news: Behringer CA16
In a stunning development, Behringer, a world leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of professional audio and musical instrument products, today announced the imminent availability of the CA-16 High Precision…
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Chandler Germanium-covered goodness...
For some reason there wasn't any press release or much talk about these at AES, so they kind of slipped through the cracks, but Chandler Limited, The Boutique Audio Company That Can Do No Wrong (how do they fit that on…
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Cheese Pt. 2
As you can plainly see, I'm now running the Specdrum inside the excellent Spectaculator emu, courtesy of shamann. This thing is the tits, really. It sounds so awfully bad it's good, you know? I'd put up an MP3, but my…
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Why I Hate Digidesign, Vol 36 rev C
My little sister could write drivers better than the absolute travesty that Digi pawns off as the Mbox driver. It's always been a problematic little piece of code, but once I finally installed OSX 10.4, it actually…
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Behold: The Power Of Cheese...
A comment in the last post got me wondering about using my ZX81 (and of course I have one; that really goes without saying) for musical endeavors, something I thought more or less impossible. And research shows that…
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Oh shit! Hold me back!
Tom from Music Thing A different Tom thought I wouldn't bite on this. He seems to think we're too high-brow over here at Analog Industries to be bothered with such mundane gear. However, I have no pride, so in the…
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All Is Quiet On The Western Front...
Man, it's been a long time since I had a whole weekend go by without finding anything new and/or interesting for Monday morning posting purposes. I guess I should point out that I had a lot to do this weekend, and thus…
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PSS Battle!
The fun continues here at Analog Industries, where (despite all evidence to the contrary) we know how to fucking party! It seems our friend J. Robert Lennon unwittingly threw down the gauntlet when he posted a link to…
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Yamaha PSS-470: Synth Of The Gods
Well, okay, maybe not "the Gods." How about Synth Of The Dogs? I came across one of these at a yard sale a couple months ago for $2.00, and I was like "hey, why the fuck not?" It sat in my workshop area until today…
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Moog Mixers...
I was browsing around the Moog Archives today, and came across these two pieces. Pictured above is the Moog 1084 mixer, which is, according to the 1971 Moog Catalog, "a signal coordinating center of moderate complexity…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Okay, so no multi-image oak and velvet Room Of Doom this week. What we have here is a prime example of why Roger Arrick sleeps well at night. This Italian fellow (who's name I am blissfully unaware of) has obviously…
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Moog 907A Fixed Filter Bank...
If you were wondering why I've been rather silent the last couple days, this is why. The next Audio Damage product, coming out some time next week, after we tidy up, is the 907A Fixed Filter Bank. Now, this is a little…
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Monster studio liquidation auction on BidSpotter...
BidSpotter is liquidating Toronto's McClear Digital, and there are over a thousand items in the auction, ranging from cheap-ass AKG headphones on up to the Studer Vista 7 console. With BidSpotter, you watch the auction…
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What's in your dream studio?
I was just wondering what the de rigeur Dream Studio was these days. I'm referring mainly to your computer/DAW/converters/summing/outboard highlights, rather than the stacks and stacks of synthesizers/guitars/sackbuts…
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New Powerbooks. Yawn.
Apparently, the above image is copped from the Apple site, where crafty folks have figured out how to get to the press releases before they have gone live. So that's what's gonna be announced tomorrow. Kind of blah, in…
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Hugh Le Fucking Caine
There are giants, and then there are BOLD ITALIC GIANTS . Hugh LeCaine is definitely of the latter group of giants. Pictured above, playing his 1945 creation, the Electronic Sackbut (sometimes this shit just writes…
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Chandler EMI Abby Road compressor for VST!
I was a little worried, but one of the Chandler Guys hopped on to the pertinent thread over at Gearslutz and said that the EMI Comp plug they're working on will be released first for TDM, with RTAS and VST to follow in…
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Homemade Mellotron w/ Walkmen
Just picked this up off of BoingBoing. Mike Walters has created the Melloman, which is fundementally the same as a Mellotron, except made with cassette Walkmen. (Yeah, technically it would be "Walkmans" but I just can't…
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The most awesomest hand-built outboard...
I don't know who the hell this guy thinks he is, but he's just making the rest of us look bad. Take a browse through his Gallery, and be amazed at the quality of the work. The site is rather thin on information, and I'm…
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WTB: Ensoniq ESQ-1 or SQ80
Okay, it's official. I'll take one. Just gotta find one, right? When I lived in Chicago, it was as simple as going to the various Music-Go-Rounds until one turned up. Now that I live about 40 miles East of Bumfuck, OR…
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Mic Pre Kit Roundup...
I was assembling a list of all the mic pre kits available on the web, and I thought it might be informative to put it up here, where everyone could enjoy it. So, what follows is a list of every single mic pre kit I…
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Compressor School...
For those of you that feel like you jumped in the deep end of the pool with all this compressor talk, I just came across this page, which is an excellent and easy-to-read discourse on the various different kinds of…
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Some really nice DIY...
If you head on over to this thread on the Prodigy-Pro forums, you can read all about David Cannikin's beautiful clone of the Gates Sta-Level compressor, pictured above. The real Sta-Level is an incredibly rare piece…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Yup, it's Friday already, and you know what that means! What follows are 3 photos that are from what I believe is the now-defunct Pacific Coast Productions. Don't quote me on that, and if I'm mistaken, I'll gladly print…
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The Most Flyest, Awesomest Keyboard Of All...
Okay, persuant to our conversation of yesterday, here is the result of my extensive research in to what would constitute the best keyboard to control Nuendo, Photoshop, \ and\ 3D Studio Max. This is the single most…
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AD: Phase Two update...
Adam just sent me a working (mostly) iteration of the upcoming Audio Damage plug Phase Two, our clone of the Mutron Bi-Phase. No UI yet, and some of the features aren't working, but let me just say that it sounds good…
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A New Controller...
Okay, my keyboard controller (which is a no-name 4-octave thing) is not fitting in to the New Plan, and I'll tell you why. For some reason I can't fully explain, and thus won't bother, I use a controller which is…
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Chock full of synthy goodness...
Back when I was a whippersnapper, knee-high to a short goat, I got a spankin' new Atari 2600 for Christmas. Little did I know this would be my initiation in to the endless cycle of product upgrades and system flame…
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Putting my money where my mouth is...
So, today I ordered PCBs for the Gyraf clones of the SSL 2-buss compressor and Urei 1176 compressor. I figured if I was gonna talk all that shit about people being better off going DIY for certain pro audio needs, I…
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The Hunt...
Dear Lazyweb: Is there some sort of keybed that can be switched so that it has key markings for Discrete 3DS Max, Photoshop, and Nuendo? I could get just a Cubase/Nuendo keyboard, one that only does Photoshop, and one…
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And the finished product...
For both of you waiting with baited breath to see the results of The Big Console/Desk/Whatever Building Project, well, here you go. The new hub of my analog/digital hybrid lifestyle. Yes, I know I have Events when I…
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And from the WTF files...
I literally stumbled in to the Sintefex Audio page on accident. I meant to click one Google link, and clicked a different one by mistake. I feel like I accidentally walked in to the ladies restroom, inasmuch as it's…
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AES: Rumors and shit...
There are a couple unsubstansiated rumors about this product and that seen at AES. Of course, if I had have gone, they wouldn't be unsubstansiated, because I'd substansiate them. But since I didn't, and thus can't, I…
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DIY Day pt. 2 - Carpentry 101
Here we see the console I started last weekend. As you can see, it is pretty much done. All I have left to do is bore the holes for the cables of the various items that live on its surface (e.g. monitors, speakers…
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DIY Day pt. 1 - Modular Madness
I'm calling Sunday DIY Day, for today at least. Time to update on my recent projects. I finally finished my second DIY module for my Blacet modular, a Digital Noise module from CGS. In the picture, you can see my snazzy…
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AES: Roll Music Super Stereo Compressor
This is one I've been waiting to see. There was a "coming soon" on the Roll Music page for ever and a day about this box, and lo and behold, it dropped at AES. It is quite obvious that it can trace its lineage from the…
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Ludicrously good channel strip roundup...
Since I was being all snarky yesterday about input chains, I thought it might be an interesting exercise to have a look at the top end of the input strip market. An input strip, in my mind, contains everything you need…
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AES: Toft 8-buss console preview
Well, truth be told, I don't know if this is actually \ at\ AES, but the Toft fellows said they'd be showing it there. (Just wait 'til winter NAMM, because I'll actually be there, and thus won't be sitting here typing…
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AES: PreSonus Inspire
PreSonus just dropped a spanner in the FW interface market with the INSPIRE 1394, which has mic pres, instrument inputs, and phono (!) inputs 'round the back. The big news is that it retails for less than $200. Why am I…
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AES: Princeton Plate Reverb for VST
The Princeton Digital Stereo Room Reverb is my favorite native reverb plug, hands down. I use it on everything. It is a VST implementation of one of the three reverb types in the 2016 hardware unit they sell through…
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AES: Free compressor plug from SSL!
SSL just dropped this bad boy, a free VST/AU clone of their famous listen-mic compressor. You can grab it here. Mac only, sorry to say.
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
I know, I know. "Chris," you say, "how the fuck are you gonna top last week's Zimmerfest?" Well, the truth is, I can't. You'll have to go through life knowing that it will never get better than that. Our friend Don over…
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And while we're on the subject of sexy...
I don't normally like to cop material from other music blogs. I figure that you're all just like me and read all of them. However, Matrixsynth, the final arbiter of all things Analog, just hipped me to this site, a…
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It's the new style...
I guess cute little recording concoles are the Next Big Thing in the boutique world. Hot on the heels of the Wunder Audio announcement last week, we have this little beastie from Tonelux. This is more a…
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And another thing...
AES starts Friday, and I just want to jot a quick note to major manufacturers: don't send me your fucking press releases. I don't know how I got on your Big List Of Shills, but I only talk about things that, like, don't…
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And now for something completely different...
Since it seems the entire music industry blog-o-sphere is all a-titter with giggly schoolboy glee over Amplitude 2, as endorsed by the lead guitarist of the Italian metal band Cameltoe, it begs the question: are there…
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URS compressors!
The URS equalizers are pretty much the bomb, as far as software equalization goes. I'm a big fan, and you'll find an A-series on just about every track on every project in my system. URS just dropped a bombshell…
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Central Station...
Got myself one o' them there Central Stations today, with the nifty little remote control thingamajig. This bad boy is definitely the new hub of my Analog Lifestyle. What it is, for those not in the know, is basically…
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Mystery solved...
Okay, we've found out about the Radio Shack Ring Of Death. The creator is one Toby Paddock, who, aside from being obviously deranged, took the time to pen this missive: Each reverb have an added delayed-only signal…
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Wunderful...
Okay, here's the deal: I have a platinum record. And a gold one. I'm, like, quasi-famous and stuff. So I think, because I'm even more quasi-famous than most of the people that endorse products (and thus get them for…
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Master Control Center 102
Some progress on the Master Control Center today. One point to remember during all of this is that I live in the Pacific Northwest. What that means, for readers from outside the United States, is that it rains pretty…
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The Final Sign That The Apocalypse Is Upon Us...
I was browsing through the Flickr gallery of the Pacific Northwest Synth Meeting, and came across this gem. I don't know who it belongs to, but this... uhhhhh... array? of nine (9!) Realistic Electronic Reverbs is like…
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Building an SSL Compressor Clone...
I've mentioned the Gyraf SSL clone several times on this blog as a good starting point for someone interested in trying their hand at doing some high-end DIY. I just came across this page where this guy has documented…
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Audio Damage Update...
For those following along, work proceeds on the Mutron Bi-Phase clone, which we've imaginatively named Phase Two. (Our marketing department, me, in other words, decided that it was wise to harken to the original in the…
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Master Control Center 101
Since I'm about to start accepting commercial clients in my (thus far private) studio, it is time to address the issue of my desk/console/whatever. The current Rube Goldberg assemblage of Metro Shelving and Quick-Lok…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Okay, it's the moment you've all been waiting for. Now, let me state from the outset that these photos have appeared on the internet before. They were put in the MOTM Yahoo group for a brief period, but they were…
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Wow^2
Pictures of this bad boy were floating around the Intardwebs not too long ago, courtesy of our friends at Analog Haven, but now it is up on the 'bay. In a nutshell, it is a 606 where every possible mod has been done to…
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Auction-o-rama...
If you're an auction-a-holic, you probably know about this site, but for those of you that actually \ don't\ have all the free time in the world on your hands, this is kind of fun to browse. GL is one of the several…
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New boutique audiophile quality microphone!
The web page says it all: "HIGH ROLLER" microphones are sonically right at home when used to record drums regardless of the type of preamplifier utilized in the process. these hi definition microphones boast an…
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It's got salsa, rhumba, cha-cha, disco...
Man, my mom cracks me the fuck up. I go over to her house today, and she presents me with a Casio CTK-411, which is your typical home keyboard drum-n-chords magical music machine. Now, I have to preface this with a…
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Man, oh, man...
I almost can't wait until Hardcore Gear Porn Friday, because I have a special feature. An unknown person provided me with pictures of the most ludicrous modular synth setup you'll ever see. The problem with putting…
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Okay, this is silly...
I'll readily admit that I'm a glutton for punishment when it comes to sound-generating equipment. I'll happily spend 3 hours trying to get an SE30 running UpBeat to sync with my main Nuendo box, so I can get it to make…
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Keepin' it real...
Dangerous will be releasing this bad boy at AES; it's called Monitor. There will be two parts, the Monitor ST (which is stereo), and the add-on Monitor SR (which makes it surround.) It has the most bad-assest of all…
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A bit of a scoop...
Here's something worth talking about, right here. A fellow on the OSX Audio newsgroup posted a letter he received from Sony, as follows: The current versions of the Oxford plugins for the Powercore platform, (EQ…
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These are sum of my favorite things...
Okay, all heated debates about the relative merits of various summing mixers (or lack thereof) aside, here's the first glamour shot of the new Neve box, and I'm sorry, but that shit looks fine. Here is the full-size…
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Hey, wanna see what fraud looks like?
Ebay has been alerted, and this will almost certainly be taken down, so get it while you can. This auction is some yahoo-address-having fraudster basically re-auctioning this beautiful Jupiter 8. Check the pics. The…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!! Round 2
Just kill me now. I came across this rig today, and since it is still Friday, I figured we'd go for the double whammy. This Serge/Doepfer/MOTM modular belongs to one John Duval, who is apparently one half of the…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Yup, it's Friday, and that can mean only one thing: hardcore gear pr0n. Now, I don't know if this place is even still around, but I've slobbered over this guy's collection, monikered the Audio Playground Synthesizer…
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I've got it!
I've now figured out how to take advantage of the marketing hype, depsite the fact that our DSP, by and large, contains little that is tube-like. I'm going to put a small window in all future UIs, where you can see the…
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ENOUGH!!!
My feelings on tubes have been posted here and other forums enough to where you have probably got a good idea of my maxim: if there's a window so you can see the tube, the tube's inclusion in the product is as a gimmick…
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Utterly pointless waste of time...
...which makes it banner headlines here at Analog Industries! This site has a rather extensive list of quite a few home and toy keyboards, and how their sound is generated. Handy to know which of these is "analog," and…
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Well, we're really quite big in Japan...
I don't know what it says, but I'm sure it's very polite. "Look what these gai-jin put together. Maybe they aren't so stupid after all." Go there and see for yourself.
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OhBoy
I've got an odd question. Is anyone aware of a VSTi or AU instrument that emulates the GameBoy audio hardware? And I don't mean some dumb-ass SynthEdit sample-fest, either; I mean a VSTi that uses the audio engine from…
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Freak it like this...
Sorry I didn't post anything on Monday, but I was busy as all get-out. Finished up a contract job for \[ redacted \], then actually made my otherwise quite-powerful PC (AMD64, doncha know?) whimper like a little girl…
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A warm fuzzy feeling...
The Audio Damage site has gotten a complete top-to-bottom facelift, courtesy of my loving and talented wife. Aside from the obvious, some back-end changes were done to enable better delivery of upgrades. However, the…
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The Scoop On The Neve...
As you can see, we have a (sort of) picture of the Neve 8816 summing mixer now. KMR Audio put it up in their new products blog; the text is the same that you've seen elsewhere, but this is the first time an image has…
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A large diaphragm...
With that title, you no doubt have a mental image of a fat chick pre-coitus, and who can blame you? But actually, this is a reader-requested column on large diaphragm condenser microphones. The nice thing about…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
It's Friday again, and that means hard-core gear pr0n! We're kicking an ironically minimalist tip today. Now, you'll notice the beautiful bent-birch desk holding up the Sony DMXR100, and the clean-as-a-whistle layout of…
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Sum This (Summing mixers, Pt. 2)
Okay, time to address this tardiness issue. I really feel that if I smoked more cigarettes, my productivity would increase. I suppose the only way to know for sure is if I tried. Anyways, back to the summing issue…
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Get yer 1176 here!
Building your own high-end gear is always something I recommend here at Analog Industries, and I attempt to bring you the easier-to-build stuff when I come across it. In that light, this site may be of interest to you…
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Nice...
Man, don't know how I missed this one. The Signal Arts MAP is a pretty sophisticated "analog" sequencer, with a whole slew of MIDI- CV features. A little pricey at $850 (you could get two Mobius.. uh... Mobii?) for…
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Okay, then...
Sorry I wasn't the normal content provider you know and love this weekend, but I was up to my nipples in work. I still owe a couple Summing Mixer articles, and a special request for a large diaphragm (now, that's just…
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w00t.
The Great Mutron Bi-Phase hunt is now over. Thanks to everyone that wrote to help. We don't actually have it in our greedy little hands yet, but it is bought and paid for and on the way. Now to turn theory in to…
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Gear Porn Friday!!!
Okay, this is one of the more ludicrous pictures I've come across. This Doepfer/Analog Solutions/Analog Systems/Wiard/Blacet/et al system comprises 27 (!!?!!) 3U racks of Euro and Frac-Rack modular. That's right. You're…
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Feedburner...
I just added AI to the Feedburner service, so if that's your poison, here's the link. I'll have my webmistress put one of those stupid little chicklet things in the sidebar, just as soon as she's done cooking me dinner…
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A little bit of summing, Pt. 1
As the Great Mutron Bi-Phase Hunt continues, I suppose I should spend a little quality time with some other subjects. I've noted that, due to my repeated mentioning of summing mixers and summing in general on this site…
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RSS...
For the many folks that have written to say the RSS feed doesn't work in \[insert reader here\], go ahead and give it another try, as I believe it is fixed. But don't forget to come and click a Google ad or something…
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ePray...
This kind of shit cracks me the fuck up. What we have here is a "vintage" (and by that I mean the Webster's definition, "really fucking old and busted") RCA broadcast console up on eBay. It clearly says in the auction…
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Wanted...
We're looking for a Mutron Bi-Phase in good working condition, for not a metric fuckton (1.3 imperial fucktons) of money. Or one we could get on extended loan. Drop me a line if you have a line on something of this ilk.
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Echo Fiesta...
Here is a cool site that has pictures and brief descriptions of a bunch of '60s delay units of various flavors. I'd like one of each, please, but especially that Baby Binson pictured above. UPDATE: Okay, I should have…
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While we enjoy this brief respite...
Since it's a Slow News Day, I'm of the considered opinion that you should check this shit out.
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A bit OT, but...
One of the members of AI's parent site, sistermachinegun.com, has put up a lengthy account of his time in New Orleans, before, during, and after the hurricane. Makes for some interesting reading, and is one of the only…
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WOW! GREAT NEWS FROM ROLAND!
Sonic State is reporting that Roland has instituted a top-down restructuring, spinning off the BOSS group in to its own semi-autonamous entity, and... Oh, right, I forgot that nobody fucking cares. I am now firmly…
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Open-Architecture hardware round-up...
For some reason, I've lately (like in the last year) turned away from pre-patched synths, and towards more open, customizable solutions. I'm of the considered opinion that one piece of DSP is pretty much like another…
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Gear Porn Friday!
Okay, rather than a ludicrous wall of gear, today I'm giving up a ludicrous \ rack\ of gear. I copped this off the Waveterm page. What you're looking at is a fairly complete version of what was, for all intents and…
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Free Anechoic chamber...
If you live in or near Boston, you might be interested in this, a CraigsList posting for a free anechoic chamber. What would you do with it? Well, if you tracked guitars, you could put a little amp in there, crank it up…
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Am I Bloo?
There are few tools you actually \ need\ to create music, but a good compressor, a good mic pre, and a good mic are the three things you should spend money on. For everything else, you can either do it in your computer…
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Okay...
I'm going to attempt to make an entry here, even though it's difficult to think about gear while watching my country come apart at the seams. I just want to warn you from the outset that I'm in a really shitty mood, so…
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New Orleans...
I have plenty of thoughts on New Orleans, of course. It is one of my favorite cities in the world, and certainly my favorite in North America. If you're curious, you can head over to my other blog at the Sister Machine…
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New Unit from ElectroKraft...
Just got word from Tony at ElectroKraft that his new product, the Lunar Module, is now available. This little guy (or big guy; hard to tell from the picture) is the MIDI Controller Of Doom. Tony sez: "I have created an…
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AvrX update...
You might recall me talking about the AvrX synth on the old site. You might also recall that I mentioned that the inventors might make a kit available. I've just received an update e-mail from them regarding the status…
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More on the Crumar GDS...
I've always wanted a Synergy, but truth be told, I couldn't really illustrate why . Just one of those obscure and hard-to-use things that I desire, more or less just because it is obscure and hard to use. This GDS makes…
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And we have a confirmation...
On our Friday gear pr0n picture, I was unsure of what this unit was, and postulated that it might be a QASAR M8, the fore-runner to the Fairlight CMI. However, Todd Fletcher writes in to say: The thing in question is a…
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Digital Jimmyhat?
This is a pretty funny page. I quote: Being a jazz diva requires more than a sultry voice, a drinking problem and a tendency towards self destruction these days. You have to use every advantage you can muster - falling…
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DubStation now available...
The most awesomest plug-in from Audio Damage yet, DubStation is now available for purchase in the AD store. It is VST for Windows, and VST/AU for OSX, and is US$39.00 for direct download. Not to be cocky or anything…
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Here's something you don't see every day...
Now, here's a sexy animal, right here. A PPG modular synth, half model 100 and half model 300. It's on German eBay right now, with a minimum of over $16,000 with no bidders (I wonder why...) The auction will probably be…
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Summing mixer for electronic musicians...
I've been in the market for a summing mixer for a while, since I ditched my console. (For the record, the Soundcraft Digital328 is the biggest pile of shit ever to grace the pro-audio section at Guitar Center. Don't say…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Bet you thought I forgot, huh? No such luck. Here we have one of my favorite gear pr0n pictures of all time, of Klaus Schulze live in concert in Linz, Austria in 1980. We can plainly see a pair of MiniMoogs and the…
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Tunafish...
Sequencers are a dime a dozen these days, but check out this uber-simple VST host and semi-audio sequencer from Brambos. I've tried out the demo, and it definitely has potential. A lot of VSTs by commercial developers…
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Good mic cable deal...
I just got my monthly spam from Vintage Microphones, and they've started carrying the Blue mic cable series. Now, I know this isn't a sexy item. Quite frankly, I hate spending money on shit like this. But these are…
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Rub a dub dub...
You can always tell when Audio Damage is nearing the end of a release cycle, as I hardly ever post. That'll continue to be the case for the next couple days, so sit tight...
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A New High In Low...
Tacky, tacky, tacky. Open Labs, makers of the NeKo OpenSynth (you know, that honkin' big AMD-based computer with a keyboard built in) have been sending this press release around. I don't normally print press releases…
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Resistance Is Futile!
Now, I'm not a fan of Digidesign. I've managed to release 11 full-length albums and twice that many singles never having used ProTools to record even one song. I've done session work that involved PT, and of course…
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Whoops.
Sorry it's been slow today, but I'm busy as a motherfucker. After observing the mandatory day of silence for the passing of Dr. Moog, I was going to post all kinds of fun shit. However, Matters have reared their ugly…
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R.I.P. Dr. Moog...
The impact of your inventions on the world of music (and thus on the world at large) will be felt for decades, if not centuries, to come. Maybe other people invented the concept of electronic music before you did, but…
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the_box
I normally don't go in for these Creative Solutions For Breaking Down The Barrier Between Performer And Audience (anyone that has ever played a rock show for 5000 people knows that barriers, or barricades more…
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O-Scope Fiesta...
So this town I live in (population c. 1000 or so) has an anual "Dog Dayz" yard-sale kind of thing which takes place today. Lisa and I were making the rounds and at our last stop, I came across an old Bell & Howell…
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Linux woes...
Okay, so I did something kind of dumb. I decided to give that OSx86 install everyone is doing a whirl on my HP laptop. To make a long story short, that didn't work, and obviously I completely hosed the hard drive in the…
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386 DX Is The King Of The World...
386DX isn't just a musician. He's more like a lifestyle choice. At his site, you can listen to his most excellent renditions of The Hits, including this amazing version of California Dreamin'. You can see pictures from…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Okay, this is kind of a gimmee, because anyone who is in to synths at all and has been on the internet for more than, like, 3 hours or so knows about Çikira and her gear. But for both of you that haven't seen this site…
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A turn for the worse...
Bob Moog isn't doing too well, as you no doubt know. The hospice page put up for checking his condition was updated today, and seems to not really have any news that could be described as "good." The site is here, if…
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The Best Free VST/AU Ever?
Well, I don't know about all that, but as free VST and AU plugins go, the Luxonix LFX1310 is one of the best. It's a multi-effects unit about on par with an SPX-90 or thereabouts. It's been available as a PC VST for…
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Coming soon to a DAW near you...
Our new baby is definitely Getting There. All my previous screenshots of DubStation (either here or OSXaudio) have had the AU version. As you can see, it is now running happily in Nuendo on PC. We had a bit of a problem…
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BREAKING NEWS: Entire Music Industry Shuts Down!
Man, I'm sorry about no posting, guys, but there ain't fuck-all happening out there. I haven't found anything interesting to talk about in nigh-on 24 hours or so. Although, I'm secure in the knowledge that I'm not…
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Schumman, Joy Of Man's Desiring...
Heavy gear-lust here. The Schumman PLL is a member of the same family that the Electro-Harmonix MicroSynth heads up. It may cost twice as much, but it looks ten times cooler, doesn't it? This is \ almost\ made of…
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The Hip Hop, it don't stop...
I have to confess that I Don't Get It. ModernBeats has announced a free VST package (free as in "buy $200 worth of shit from our site, and get this package free") which is, to quote directly from them, "5 innovative…
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An ass like BLAM...
Now, this is a good lookin' microphone, make no mistake. LeWilson Microphones also puts them out in green and orange. Don't know nothin' about them except that they're damned easy on the eyes, and have a tube in them…
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Space*Synth update...
As a bit of an update to my Tiny Digital roundup of last week, Tony from ElectroKraft dropped me a line to let me know that the reason no more Space\ Synths were available is because they require a specific chip, the…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
This absolutely ludicrous wall of outboard and synths belongs to some studio called "Cosmos," I think. I could make a feeble attempt to Trainspot all the gear on this wall, but I think that the phrase "two of…
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Well, that didn't take long...
Hardmac is reporting that OSX Intel has been hacked to run on any PC. There are two videos on the site of a run-of-the-mill PC laptop booting OSX. Of course, this was going to happen; I'm surprised that it happened so…
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Alice mic kit...
This is kind of nifty. It's a DIY small-capsule condensor microphone called "Alice." Judging from the sound clips, it compares favorably to other mics of its ilk, and is somewhat cheaper. I kind of like the copper tube…
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Big Trouble In Little... uhhhh... Japan...
There's an interesting AP wire article out today that details a bit of drama concurrent with the launch of iTunes in Japan last week. It seems that Sony hasn't yet done a deal with Apple, so there are no Japanese Sony…
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Hey! Wanna see a trainwreck?
Well, on the one hand, you have to admire us Americans. When we're not busy spreading Freedom at the point of an M-16 or complaining about the French, we sure are a crafty bunch. We can figure out how to make money on…
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The ultimate in vintage hybrid synths...
Back in my day, we walked three miles to school in eight feet of snow (or was it eight miles in three feet of snow?) and we couldn't afford a fancy digital-analog hybrid like the Evolver. We had to make do with what we…
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Tiny Digital Roundup...
It's Wednesday, and that means it's time to send in the Rodeo Clowns, because we're having a round-up! This week, we'll have a gander at all the little digital synths that make life worth living. The first contender for…
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New ShinyBox ribbon mic...
ShinyBox has released another cheap-ass ribbon mic, the ShinyBox model 46. This one is even cheaper-asser than the last one I mentioned a couple weeks back, at only US$150.00, versus the US$165.00 of the somewhat larger…
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2/3 of the way to being a rock star...
Here's a progress report on the Great Kay Refinishing Pageant. All the StupidBurst paint was easily removed, as it was a rather thin coat. Took me about 45 minutes total of sanding. I then hand-sanded the body to within…
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Oh, that's Creative...
Let me just point out, before getting off on a rant, that if you're even remotely interested in using a computer for making/editing music, your sound I/O should be nowhere near the computer itself. The inside of a…
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Welcome (again)...
As you can see, we're kickin' it nu-school now. Special thanks to my lovely wife Lisa for making it much nicer than it was, and to Mark Beeson at Heluna for writing the awesome posiNET back-end in the first place. Now…
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Good idea? Maybe not...
So Peter over at the Create Digital Music blog came across this site, where this guy rack-mounts an NES. This, in and of itself, is kind of, well, not that cool. However, Peter made what is perhaps a mistake. He said…
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1/3 of the way to being a rock star...
At least, that's what you're led to believe when you don't know any better. I found this Kay acoustic at a yard sale yesterday for $10. (When I got it, it was strung up, and had a bridge, if you were curious.) It…
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New Jomox product in the pipeline...
The XBase 999 is apparently coming down the pike. Seems to be a logical extension of the Xbase 09. Real analog for the kick, snare, low tom and high tom, samples for everything else. Improvements over the Xbase09 are as…
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OSX Audio back on line...
Sort of. Seems to be a bit iffy at the moment; some graphics aren't getting served. But those blessed forums are back on-line, and that's all that matters, right? Go forth.
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Yard Sale Woes...
So, I learned a couple valuable lessons today. I was cruising the yard sales today, and came across a fellow selling a Farfisa Fast 3. Now, this isn't the Score Of The Century or anything, but I go to enough yard sales…
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Hardware Sequencers...
For some reason, in the last week I seem to have been bombarded with references to hardware sequencers. Adam is currently designing a pretty nifty one for his modular, and the Analog Heaven mailing list has been chock…