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Friday, April 02, 2010

Electribe Wearing a Hat

YouTube via VJFranzK — April 02, 2010 — Yes.

Harvestman - Piston Honda Expansion Install

YouTube via thedeepelement — April 02, 2010 — "http://www.trashaudio.com - Please visit here for a detailed step-by-step process of the install. I'm not responsible for any damage you inflict on your modules. Please contact Harvestman before performing the install."

Adjustment of Acidlab Miami Noise trimpot

YouTube via shagghie — April 02, 2010 — "*This voids your warranty* (no, really)
That said, overall a really easy adjustment that requires dissassembly of entire casing to access the trimpot.
Adjustment to the right increases overall noise going multiple voices, namely the Clap. As you can hear, this allows the Clap's volume level to go higher, more aligned to the rest of the other voices. Note that the Toms get a little "wooley" with excessive noise adjustment, so pay attention to those as well while adjusting.
Many thanks to http://www.intellijel.com/ for the initial post at muffwiggler sharing which pot and providing diagram.
If you try this and have notes, please share here: http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/view...
And of course thanks to Klaus too for designing what i consider to be the best sounding 808 clone to date in a compact, lightweight format. Kicks the crap out of my MFB-522 (as it should), and holds its own to the mighty TR-808 (but politely and humbly acknowledges its Ruler). Total class act."

Hoffman Theremin - O MIO BABBINO CARO

YouTube via copperleaves — April 02, 2010 — "The videos I have posted to YouTube in the past that show me playing Samuel Hoffman's RCA theremin were made when YouTube quality was not as good as it is today. Here is a theremin transcription of O MIO BABBINO CARO from Giacomo Puccini's opera, GIANNI SCHICCHI. As you can see, I have taken the doors off the cabinet so I could zoom in on the old vacuum tubes that give the instrument its distinctive voice.

Doctor Hoffman used this theremin on the soundtracks of such classic films as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, SPELLBOUND, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS and many other suspense and SciFi movies of the late 1940's and 1950's. At that time, he modified the instrument for use in the recording studio by putting special audio output jacks on it so that external speakers could be plugged into the RCA theremin amplifier. For this recording, I used a CLARATONE speaker that was specially built by Florida vintage theremin expert Reid Welch (aka "Mr. Trubble").

This speaker was designed to emulate the sound of the Jensen speaker used by the late, great theremin virtuosa, Clara Rockmore. Because Reid had been a personal friend of Clara Rockmore, he had the opportunity to study her instrument and her speaker set up. His CLARATONE has a 10 inch cone and a particularly warm, sweet and definitely human voice. Unfortunately, Reid only made a limited number of these custom speakers and I was lucky to get the very last one (which I purchased in 1998).

The speaker that is built into the cabinet of this unique theremin was placed so that it was facing away from the thereminist and on the floor. This is the very worst possible place for a theremin speaker because when you play, your speaker is the only way you can hear what you are doing. For best results, your theremin speaker should be placed at head level, behind or beside you, pointing toward you, and no further away than about six feet.

A friend of mine who was well acquainted with vintage radio technology used to call vacuum tubes 'magical Inca fire bottles'."

Thursday, April 01, 2010

MMM Complete

The final four modules for my Mattson Mini Modular arrived today. This is production prototype #1. You can see what it originally looked like, shy the four final modules, in this post. I was a little reluctant in adding the last four modules for nostalgia's sake, but I can always take them out when I get a new cab. :) That and I really needed the two extra 4x2 buffers, CV mixer and Utility 1. I also think it looks, really, really nice full. It looks complete and marks a milestone for me. These images really don't do it justice. I need an SLR and better lighting. Sometime this year... Anyway, thank you George!

BTW, don't miss the last page in this month's Keyboard magazine. It's a full page on Billy Corgan's Ichabod. If you don't know what Ichabod is, click on this Ichabod label link and scroll for tons of posts.

And remember, you don't need to build a full modular system if/when you want to get started - see this post on why.

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"South Park" meets Perrey & Countryman!

via Dana Countryman on Facebook

"Our song "Chicken on the Rocks" is used on an episode of "South Park"!
What is the world coming to???

Hey all,
The Comedy Central TV show "South Park" may be pretty crass and tasteless to some (including me), but they did have the good taste to use about 30 seconds from my 2006 track, "Chicken on the Rocks," recorded with my pal, Jean-Jacques Perrey.

The episode was officially first aired on March 31st, 2010, and is now archived here:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267110

Our song is behind dialogue between 13:35 and 13:58.

WARNING! The subject matter is not for kids, or my dad - the retired Baptist minister!

The show has never been one of my personal favorites, but I seem to like it a whole lot better when they're paying a nice chunk of cash to use a song of ours!

That's a combo of my my synthesizer playing and Jean-Jacques' Ondioline on the track, recorded here in my studio in 2006!

For reference:
http://wap.mxr.cc/ringtone:2585147/"

http://danacountryman.com/
http://www.jeanjacquesperrey.com/

And of course posts here on MATRIXSYNTH