Playlist:
1. HARVEZI HAZZE + Drums & Synth (no talk demo by SOMA)
2. HARVEZI HAZZE + Guitar & Bass (no talk demo by SOMA)
3. HARVEZI HAZZE (SOMA Labs)
"Harvezi Hazze — a versatile and quite unique distortion pedal with a wide tonal palette.
The heart of Harvezi Hazze is a waveshaper designed around a unijunction transistor, a relic from the early days of the semiconductor industry.
The unique properties of the unijunction transistor allow one simple component to replace a number of complex devices: depending on the operating mode, we can get a distortion, a limiter, a waveshaper and a generator — with a smooth transition between them.
The signal chain of the unit consists of an optical compressor with fixed parameters; a dual-mode distorting amplifier with either softer or harsher clipping; a waveshaper built around a unijunction transistor; and a tone stack section trying to tame all this mess.
Harvezi Hazze works perfectly with guitar, bass, drums and synthesizers.
The net price (without VAT, shipping, customs, money transfer expenses): 290 Euros.
HARVEZI HAZZE will be available for purchase in January 2025."
"You have never heard a sample library like this before. Instant, Cure, Smiths, Cocteau, Lanois, Eno, Edge, Steve Reich vs Pat Metheny under your fingertips. An homage to great British guitar beds from shoe gaze to stinking student union bars in the north of England to the pristine layers of Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Construct endless layers of interweaved guitar parts that become a highly controllable sonic weapon that goes from elegant to pure filth in no less than a turn of a dial.
Join the minds (and fingers) behind this; Christian Henson and Theo Le Derf on the beginning of your Hive journey. This is the gift we all wanted this Christmas."
Press release follows:
EDINBURGH, UK: The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of FILTH - GUITAR HIVE — heading up its FILTH sub-range of products produced and recorded at the Annex in Edinburgh, Scotland, its self-styled safe house packed with vintage equipment, rarified instruments, synths, processing, and potential, with the main emphasis being on creating more experimental sample projects that think out of the box and are the very antithesis of virtual instruments; in this case, guitar performances on a limited-edition Fender Telecaster by Theo Le Derf, D.I. (Direct Injection) recorded via a pristine Thermionic Culture The Rooster Valve pre-amp with EQ & attitude and mixed through countless processors to give users control over the uncontrollable, ultimately providing what all at the music-making community tools-maker collectively yearn for in the process... utter filth — as of December 18…
Now knowing what FILTH - GUITAR HIVE is positioned as being, best to take a function-highlighting, whistle-stop tour of its clearly considered UI (User Interface) implemented to take that mission statement to the musical masses, filthy or otherwise. On the face of it, the front panel-dominating ‘Obutsu!’ is basically a ‘filth’ dial, allowing users to effortlessly transform their sound with three simultaneous signals — from tasteful and pure D.I. to a crunchy deluxe amplifier, all the way to overdriven feedback and tempo-synced tremolo; SHIMMER is a dual-direction granular pitch shift fed into a massive reverb chamber, creating a cascading, shimmering veil of tone; DRIVE is an unmistakably distorted, crunchy signal, modelled after a tube amp that has been utterly misused; ECHO is a tape-based, multi-tap echo/delay that syncs to the host tempo — an associated speed control determines what subdivision of the beat the repeats play at; and SPLOSH is a suitably reasonable decaying reverb for anyone’s roomy needs.
"Every year I write a piece of holiday themed music and they're kind of my musical Christmas card to everyone in an attempt to spread a little magic and joy. I'm slowly creating enough to put out a record of them but here's number 5 for now, along with my mostly performance video showing the gear and the parts. I guess when I do put them out as a collection, I'd better find proper names for each tune, huh.
Hope you enjoy a little taste of the season that's not the standard Jingle Bells and such (although I do use some jingly hand percussion)."
"It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or an expert, we hope you'll find something interesting among those simple but useful tricks that can help you create new exciting patches with your Xaoc Devices Odessa oscillator!
00:00 - Intro
00:05 - 1. Saw & Square
00:51 - 2. Supersaw
01:07 - 3. Easy Chords
01:28 - 4. Phasing & Flanging
01:52 - 5. Through Zero FM
03:14 - 6. Tame The Fundamental
04:10 - 7. Extreme Settings
05:00 - 8. Slow Down!"
"To round off a cracking 2024 in the world of music tech, we asked a few of our staff and some good friends of the store to pick their favourite pieces of gear of the year.
All the gear mentioned is available to buy or pre-order here:
You can listen to them in high resolution (24bit 96kHz PCM WAV masters, FLAC encoded) at https://synthnyc.com/ (optimized for Chrome on MacOS and Windows).
"We received a number of requests for "glitchy" patches, which can mean any number of things! Here's one of the things it could mean.... plus, some thumps! Can you outsmart Reklaw as he tries to figure out why the thumps aren't knocking right?
Extended patch outtakes made from other Reels as follows:
"Here is my deeper Review about the Black Corporation ISE-NIN 8 Voice Polyphopnic Analog Synthesizer. Together with the Original famous Roland Jupiter-8 and a bunch of other gear. The Intro Song was only made by the ISE-NIN."
"This electrifying Grasshopper design was originally created for the SYNTH Art Show by Jenny Fares of Sound Mind Creative. The original design has been updated by the artist and now features a golden grasshopper playing a red and gold Minimoog synthesizer.
This classic fit short-sleeved t-shirt is available in sizes S-3XL.
Preshrunk 60% cotton 40% polyester
Seamless collarette
Double-needle stitching on neck, sleeves, and bottom hem"
