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[phantom309]

Barkley McKay wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 15:22

I'm sure you can recognise some of the goodies here David! Synth pictured went caput and was replaced by a Minimoog.

keyspring on the MS-10 broke?  I don't know what it is with those little Korgs...I broke middle C on an MS-20 and played it with a popsicle stick glued on there for years. A Korg vocoder also had a broken key when I sold it years ago.

Why the wedges instead of the studio monitors?

[Barkley McKay]

phantom309 wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 22:30

Why the wedges instead of the studio monitors?

They wanted it loud and open and the PMC's just flapped when pushed.

We tried cans at first but they couldn't give the grunt of the bass end nor the body punch of the drums as we setup the drummer in the big room with room mics.

Believe it or not, there is a singer as well in the corner out of shot. He had cans, and was performing his parts live through Ableton Live.

It made them happy and me deaf.

The Korg actually started producing other tones on the keying off part, so not sure what was going on there.

They are all jazzers, but it was a Death Metal/Punk Jazz suite of six songs, chronicling the agony of having "lovers balls" at Bilbao Airport and not being able to relieve yourself, with a slight dig at Scientology thrown in. Very funny stuff.

http://www.myspace.com/bilbaosyndrome

more of my mess in the drum room:



Mastered by Jon Astley of The Who fame.

[phantom309]

What's in the kick?

[Barkley McKay]

phantom309 wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 23:24

What's in the kick?

Beyer M88 in close to the beater, and a home made sub kick from an old Panasonic HiFi cabinet that I pulled from the local dump. Leatherman's are really very handy sometimes!

I find it really overloading most times, but for this it was perfect.

Barks

[mgod]

phantom309 wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 14:00

mgod wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 10:26 A lovely little box of 3 E-mu modules. Would like to acquire those. DS Cigar to the man. Emu Universal Active Filter (most extreme Q  with no feedback on earth), Envelope Follower and Potpourri.

Cigar feh! Send me the box - THAT I can use.

DS

[phantom309]

mgod wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 17:14

phantom309 wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 14:00 mgod wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 10:26 A lovely little box of 3 E-mu modules. Would like to acquire those. DS Cigar to the man. Emu Universal Active Filter (most extreme Q  with no feedback on earth), Envelope Follower and Potpourri. Cigar feh! Send me the box - THAT I can use. DS

Want to build some? We still have all of the art/schemes/PCB photos etc.  I could probably point you to a guy that would tackle that project. The UAF submodule is a notorious bastard to build though. Some of the Emu stuff is also problematic because they use non existent SSM chips for VCAs and VCFs. Ron Dow originally spec'd the SSM line FOR Emu systems before their use in the SCI instruments.

[mgod]

phantom309 wrote on Sun, 30 November 2008 16:41

Want to build some? We still have all of the art/schemes/PCB photos etc.  I could probably point you to a guy that would tackle that project.

This we must discuss!

DS

[phantom309]

Jarrod Sterling drumming for Calm Asa Coma

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewpro file&friendid=300872916

[mdbeh]

Hi Dave,

In the first picture, that's a DSI Evolver on the left, correct?

Given the other keyboards you have at your disposal, I'm curious what your take on it is.  How does it compare to the classics?

[phantom309]

mdbeh wrote on Thu, 11 December 2008 18:29

Hi Dave, In the first picture, that's a DSI Evolver on the left, correct? Given the other keyboards you have at your disposal, I'm curious what your take on it is.  How does it compare to the classics?

I LOVE the Polyevolver! I was speaking with Dave at a NAMM while hanging around the Buchla booth a few years ago and he had just debuted that very instrument. We had a long talk about his philosophy about his new designs and how much they are informed by the old SCI line. In short, in my opinion, he paid attention to the right genomes when bringing things forward. It's amazingly flexible, great building blocks in the quality of sound from the oscillators and filters, very  clever modulation schemes/routing and it's built to take abuse. So far, not a single problem and the updates couldn't be easier.

It gets a LOT of use here.

[mdbeh]

Good to hear!

I gravitate to the sound of a lot of older gear, but I'd really rather get new stuff if it's up to the task.  There are practical reasons -- support, parts, etc. -- but there's also something appealing about buying the piece that might be 'vintage gear' in 30 years, rather than getting things are considered that way now.

[Podgorny]

I've got your du jour studio shot.

[phantom309]

Podgorny wrote on Thu, 11 December 2008 21:15

I've got your du jour studio shot.

Cool. So what's that sound like?

[Podgorny]

Honestly, it sounds a bit like this:


http://www.myspace.com/dolphinspeer

[phantom309]

Fun with marching percussion today.