>From: "David Bivins" <dbivins@...>
>
>Are there plans for a vanilla micro VCA? I could really use some more VCAs,
>and I'd rather not build an equal number of ring modulators (and use up that
>valuable rack space).
I seem to remember some talk here recently about a 1u hi-fi VCA. I too
could use a few more VCA's...
>
>Also, who's been using their ring mod? I'm almost (but not quite) ashamed to
>say that I haven't yet found good settings for it with my current gear. I
>prefer the <ducks> ring mod in my Zoom 1201. I just wonder if I'm doing
>something wrong or if it works ∗really great∗ with those oscillators I don't
>have so I'm missing out. They require a pretty hot input, don't they?
>
I think you really need the 300 VCO's, or at least other VCO's that have as
strong an output as the 300. If I'm trying to ring-mod other sources, I've
been running them on an aux send from my mackie, cranked way up. I recently
ran a mix of a sludgey metal tune through 2 ring mods, modulated by
slightly out-of-tune 300's, add a nice grind that, mixed in the background,
was just the thing. IMO, the MOTM ring-mod sounds really clean and hard,
good for harsh and clangorous sounds. I also have a Craig Anderton-designed
ring mod, from the Electronics Projects for Musicians kits from PAIA, that
sounds much warmer and "rounder", if that makes any sense. Both sound
great, and have their own personalities.
Anybody compared the Blacet ring mod to the MOTM? I've got space for one
more Blacet module in my frac-rac, and am considerring the ring-mod. I just
built the Blacet mixer-processor, and it's a handy little module: a 3-input
mixer for both audio and CV, + another channel that is a simple
gain-control and inverter. Very cool little piece.
I've been getting into doing a bit of dance-ish stuff using the MOTM, I've
been listenning to a lot of really minimal Porter Ricks/Richie Hawtin stuff
lately, and the modular seems like a good tool for those kind of slowly
evolving sounds. I'm sure that my tracks would clear a dance-floor in
seconds, though...
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"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
-Sun Ra
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