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…