via Brian Kehew
"My friend found this in some surplus yard near the Bay Area. It's a CV-controlled quad audio box of some kind, with joystick control. Missing most of its guts and no labels. Obviously not a production unit. Wonder if it's related to the Grateful Dead concerts in quad?"
Anyone have any ideas?
Update via Cooper Sloan in the comments: "Looks buchla... Besides proximity to Berkley and aesthetics the blue pcb is a clue."via Brian: "Not Buchla from the people I've asked, and the connectors etc are different. But it seems so similar in style, so maybe a related copy. He had a lot of people work for him that could have built this as well."
via Dennis Matana on the AH list: "Looks like something from Elektor. They also used blue pcb's...and the connectors look similar. I'm restoring a Formant at the moment and also the vocoder from Elektor."Update via gchang (Gary Chang) in the comments: "The obvious Buchla nod is the jack selection - using banana jacks for the cv inputs, but none of the layout is at all similar to Buchla devices, who rarely created anything with conventional VCAs.
My guess is that it is a custom quad locator made for a studio that had a Buchla system as the main unit of the room... "
looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteLooks buchla... Besides proximity to Berkley and aesthetics the blue pcb is a clue.
ReplyDeleteNot Buchla from the people I've asked, and the connectors etc are different. But it seems so similar in style, so maybe a related copy. He had a lot of people work for him that could have built this as well.
ReplyDeletePaia used blue pcbs like that in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteThe panel does look very Buchla 100 style. Maybe you should shoot him an email and see if he knows anything about it?
ReplyDeleteI bet for PAiA, not the whole thing, I'm only talking about the blue PCB.
ReplyDeleteElektor wasn't popular in US as PAiA, also the 'art drawing' of the pcb definitly is not Elektor, also the PCB numbering I can barely see in the upper-left corner is more PAiA than Elektor.
The obvious Buchla nod is the jack selection - using banana jacks for the cv inputs, but none of the layout is at all similar to Buchla devices, who rarely created anything with conventional VCAs.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that it is a custom quad locator made for a studio that had a Buchla system as the main unit of the room...