[sdiy] Starting Point?

[Peter Pearson]

2nd (10th?) for PAIA here.  I built their theremin in high school and never
looked back.

It costs money, but I can highly recommend the tech mentoring course
offered by The Analog Lab.  Jeff (the owner) used to be a keyboard tech for
Pink Floyd during the glory days and managed their state of the art sound
system back in the day (as well as working with Vangelis).  He's been doing
synth repairs since Moogs and ARPs were new off the assembly line.  He also
helped design the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8.  A few links along those lines:

https://www.theanaloglab.com/training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrU79WWztg&t=8s

https://louderthanwar.com/the-development-of-large-rock-sound-systems-chris-hewitt-book-review/

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As an aside off topic, I would love to see a video interview with Bernie
Hutchins (or general documentary with people involved) about the genesis
and evolution of Electronotes.  Is anybody on the list able to get him on
the horn and open up about that?  The number of people that were involved
in designing synthesizers when it was the wild west aren't getting any
younger and we've already lost some big ones.  Would be good to preserve
that history!!

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kylee Kennedy <kmkennedy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe PAIA is now the longest running modular DIY company.
> That honor used to be for Blacet but I'm still waiting for Synthcube to
> re-launch his line.
> Interesting that they are both known for Frac systems.
>
> Kylee
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:47 AM David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>> Artie wrote: "In particular, PAiA has been doing this for, what, 20 years
>> at
>> least?"
>>
>> I bought a PAiA Gnome kit when I was 12 years old.  I'm 56 later this
>> month.
>> PAiA had been around for a good long while by that point as well, I think.
>>
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