Xtreme DIY ftw...

Sometimes you see a DIY project and you’re just like “are you fucking kidding me? This is one such, for sure. This dude’s MIDIbox SID is a DIY synth the way that an Aston Martin Vanquish is a car. I mean, like, fuck. Eight (as in “the number after seven”) 6582 SID chips for four stereo (as in “mono times two”) channels of audio, a nice FPE panel, and the same number of LEDs as any random sign in Times Square.

The posting on the MIDIbox site is here, wherein you will find many more pictures, and some construction details from the maker, one Wilba. There is more technical info than you could possibly need (unless you were building one) here, and god bless if you’ve got something like this in the oven. For those of idle curiosity, Wilba says he spent just shy of US$700 making this unit. I’ve spent much more money on way shittier pieces of hardware (hello, Soundcraft, I’m talking about you!) but even so, this one is over my head. All that said, kind of a shame that it probably sounds like eight SID chips.