Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funk Box

Published on Jan 28, 2016 Bimini Road

Playlist:
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funk Box TR77 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox TR-808 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox TR-909 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox Rhythm Ace Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Korg iMS20

"This is a demo of the now legendary, long-out-of-circulation Endangered Audio Research AD4096, with the Funk Box TR77 running through it. Very few videos show what the AD4096's Infinity Mode is useful for, which is crazy to me, because I feel like that's the best, most unique part of this pedal. Infinity Mode can be tuned to creep on the edge of self-oscillation in a really organic way. New signal pushes old signal out - and in that way it's almost like a looper, or even a tape bleed emulator.

Although a guitar pedal, mixing artists contact us all the time to tell us how they use the AD4096 on drum busses - especially for dub music! I think the AD4096 is killer on drums. You can get a really loose spring-reverb-like tone from short delays.

The Momentary Expand switch shorts the Depth pot and sends it into self-oscillation - the faster the clock speed (the Time knob turned to the right - "backwards" of how most pedals work), the faster it will run wildly into speaker-blasting range. However, with Infinity Mode engaged, you don't get the ever-louder-and-louder signal - it's "limited" because the new incoming signal pushes out the old. Also, if the Depth is turned all the way down, it becomes a momentary off switch.

The Delay line is a more traditional dark, fat analog delay sound, whereas the Echo line has a elevated, rarefied glittery tone. It's almost like an LPF and an HPF line. It also arrives just barely later than the Delay line. It overdrives beautifully, and thanks to its FET transistors, it has an almost tube-like breakup. The combination of these characteristics, along with the totally unique Infinity Mode, makes this the most tonally flexible and musically useful analog delay pedal ever made.

We get almost daily emails about these pedals at Endangered Audio Research. This unit is going to be donated to Oberlin College's TIMARA program when I'm done making demo videos for it, so don't bother trying to buy it from me. We are going to add more delay time with an aftermarket mod that will be available to the public, but first, I'm making a bunch of videos with different sound sources to show what the original sounds like.

EAR is also making a new, updated version of this later this year with expanded functionality, but gotta love the original unit - named one of the best 30 guitar effects in the world by Premier Guitar Magazine.

I don't deal in unprocessed, "clean" demos, because I don't believe it shows you more about the effect you're using. Nothing exists in a vacuum, especially music.

Signal Chain:
iPad - AD4096 - Universal Audio Apollo 8 Duo - Neve 1073 Unison Preamp - Studer A800 - Ampex ATR-102 - A.O.M. Invisible Limiter

http://www.biminiroadelectronics.com/...
http://www.endangeredaudioresearch.com
http://www.timara.oberlin.edu/

Contact me at mark@endangeredaudioresearch.com to reserve a new version of the AD4096, or to inquire about the aftermarket added delay time modification.

By the way, if you're a hater who thinks $375 is too much for 300ms of delay, you should get a digital delay and run it through a LPF. This pedal is not about time - it's all tone, baby.

Here's a link to Funk Box - a total must-have iOS drum machine. It's a fully featured drum machine with a bunch of different sounds from all sorts of classic analog and digital drum machines. It's only $5, and you are fooling yourself if you think the "real thing" sounds better.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funkb..."

Akai AX80 Vintage Analog Synth

Note: links to listings are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via this auction

CLICK FOR MORE »

E-mu Morpheus rare zplane synth

Note: links to listings are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via this auction

CLICK FOR MORE »

VERBOS Amplitude & Tone Controller // MAKENOISE René // HARD & SOFT

Published on Jan 28, 2016 LESINDES

"Further explorationsof the screaming LoPass Gate VERBOS AMPLITUDE & TONE CONTROLLER with MAKENOISE RENÈ and ENDORPHINES FURTHRRRR GENERATOR + MUTABLE CLOUDS."

Korg Minilogue - Synthesizer Review - MIDIVERSE - TV

Published on Jan 28, 2016 MIDI-VERSE TV

minilogues on eBay | Korg minilogues on Amazon

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS - Album Teaser

Published on Jan 26, 2016 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith

"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith will release EARS, her newest album of vibrant synthesizer explorations mixed with orchestral instruments and vocals, April 1st on Western Vinyl.

'In recording Ears, my intention is to take listeners on a sonic motion ride through a futuristic jungle. I am inspired by the works of Moebius and Miyazaki - in particular the film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – and I wanted to play with visceral sounds that pull one between feelings of beauty and dissonance, chaos and order. My hope is that, on a straight through listen, in a darkened room, on a loud stereo, Ears will inspire a rich visual narrative in listeners' minds.'

Pre - Order:
on iTunes
Western Vinyl
Bandcamp


www.kaitlynaureliasmith.com

Video by : Eran Hilleli http://eranhill.tumblr.com/"

You might remember Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith from previous posts here on MATRIXSYNTH. According to Kaitlyn, "My primary instrument is the buchla music easel, I also used on that track - an arp 2600, synthi, OSCar."

NAMM 2016 Roundup from CatSynth

CatSynth's final roundup of NAMM 2016 has gone up. You'll find it along with the rest on CatSynth here.

Pictured to the left is Make Noise's new little desktop synth. I had a chance to check it out myself at NAMM. It felt solid and as expected was making all sorts of sonic mayhem. Definitely one of the top tempting little boxes at NAMM.

It as well as other eurorack products at NAMM made me think of how overwhelming the modular world can be. Smaller systems like this are a fun way to hone in and focus on just what a cool little configuration can do. You can block everything else out and just get lost in the magic of that one little device, and when ready you can of course integrate it with a larger system through all the patch points.

Looking back at all the synth related gear, we are truly in a golden age of synthesis. It's pretty amazing.

Studio Electronics SE-1 Monophonic Analog Synthesizer

Note: links to listings are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via this auction

"This is a fully analog monophonic synth that uses VCOs (much fatter sounding compared to DCOs or modeling and is what the real MiniMoog uses) it has three oscillators and features a Moog style 24db filter for those thick and creamy basses and leads. It also has a 12db filter for Oberheim SEM sounds."

CLICK FOR MORE »

OBERHEIM OB-XA Custom Patches 2016 part 1

Published on Jan 28, 2016 Superfunk Synths

"OBERHEIM OB-XA Custom Patches 2016 part 1

order here : http://analogsynthmuseum.free.fr/shop..."

Update:

OBERHEIM OB XA Custom Patches 2016 part 2

Published on Jan 28, 2016

Intellijel Cylonix Rainmaker in full random mode

Published on Jan 28, 2016 intellijel

"A constant sinewave is fed to the Rainmaker from an Atlantis module and then the wet/dry is turned up to full wet. I then trigger via the red button and by the external jack (using the mod vco on the Atlantis) to start randomizing all the parameter values on the Rainmaker. Later I change the randomize destination to different subsets.

There is a whole universe of sound to discover this way!! Be warned that you could get sucked into a time vortex."