Acid Front 303 - Acid Jam in beautiful Bavaria!

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Recording an Acid Track in Cubase with a Modular Synth

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"Some gear I use:

Bass Bot TT-303
Drum Drone TT-606
Eurorack
Doepfer
AJH MiniMod
Tiptop Drums"

"Modular Highway Patrol" on Modular Synthesizer

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"I made this track when playing around with the lovely Noise Engineering Cursus Iteritas module."

Roland SH-101 Synthesizer SN 281054

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"As you can see, it’s in fantastic shape. It sounds amazing.

Integrates with the modular / CV based setup effortlessly. On-board sequencer is super simple, but also very effective. With all the menu diving and complex onboard sequencing on synths these days, it’s a rare treat to have something immediate that gets results quickly and without much thought at all. With the 101, the real beauty is getting lost in your creativity – not having to think about which button gets you to which menu blah blah blah. It’s all right in front of you here – immediate results. There are lots of tricks to discover that arise from its CV inputs / outputs and Clock In, but that’s for your to discover – I won’t spoil it.

All sliders / pots in tip-top shape, and the slider moves around like it just came out of the box – I’ve seen so many of these units over the years take a beating – broken sliders, missing buttons. That’s not the case with this particular unit – when not in use, the unit has always been turned off and covered to keep dust off the key contacts and also to prevent buildup in/around the sliders. Also included pics of the battery compartment - this can be a major disaster if batteries have leaked out over the years. I’ve never put batteries in this unit, and I don’t believe the previous owner did either."

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Darrel Johansen - Snapshots of Early Serge History

"1107 1/2 N. Western Ave. Serge's Hollywood factory. The door is just to the left of that brown sedan, to the right of the wig store. This is just a few yards north of Santa Monica Blvd."



"A test station in the Hollywood factory where transistors were matched for Serge's low-noise, high-gain VCAs."



"An assembly station, with circuit boards in rails so that multiple boards could be assembled at once. The styrofoam on the left was used to cover the boards which could then be turned over to be soldered. The styrofoam kept the components in the board when the whole assembly was flipped over. Some finished panels are on the shelves up on the wall."



"Someone's wooden Serge unit on the floor. The broom was used to sweep up the clipped metal leads that would cover the floor as PC boards were assembled. It was also used to sweep up when the ceiling collapsed --causing pigeon quano to rain down over the assembly stations during a disaster that took days to clean up."



"The Haight Street facility in San Francisco in 1980. This is in the lower Haight, and right next to the "Gentleman's Social Club" on the bottom left. Eric Drew Feldman wrote a song for Butch the dog, the club's mascot, who was usually hanging on the street with the mostly older 'gentlemen.' They looked with amusement at the young white people coming and going to Serge's."



"A look up the street. If you travel past the shop on the right (the brick structure with bay windows just beyond the church), you go up the hill to "upper" Haight, the more famous part of the street, adjacent to Golden Gate Park."



"My front office, with bay window to my back. This is on the second floor. Serge lived on the third floor, and the first floor, which was a shop at one time, was mostly vacant."



"My test station."



"A look down the shop and assembly stations. The face panels were developed with a photographic process on the right."



"Panel assembly station in SF."



"PC board assembly station. Note the styrofoam was replaced with these velcro'd panels with foam rubber --causing the resistors and capacitors to acquire fuzzy heads as the heat melted the some of the foam on the components. The two Anchor Steam bottles, I think, are evidence of Paul's station."



"Another angle of my front office. Very cold in winter."



"zero case system"



"zero case system"



"When I was teaching at The Evergreen State College, I assembled this new electronic music studio."



"Chas Smith in his recording studio, with his Serge - circa 1980"


Update via Kevin Fortune in the comments: "Interesting to see those old photos. I started working with Serge in Newhall before that first photo. I built those worktables and just about everything else in there. When we first got to the L.A. shop in '76 or '77 the shops next door were a little different... If you were coming down Western Ave (from the right in the 1st photo) and read the shop signs from top to bottom they read: Live Nude Hamburgers Wrestling. Later I came up to Haight St to help him get started renovating the building. Check out "The Mighty Serge" photos in my Facebook page. I built it in '77 and finished in april '78. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1038349981&ref=profile or www.kevinbrahenyfortune.com

I go to do engineering at Sound Transform in Wisconsin every few months. We've upgraded the components and the grounding and the audio quality is superb! Orders of magnitude above what we were making back then."