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Subject: [oldsynths] Re: NAMM 04

From: KA4HJH <ka4hjh@...>
Date: 2004-01-22

>Hi Marvin and all,
>
>Speaking of Metasonix, I just built his sheet beam modulator from the
>schematics at http://www.cgs.synth.net/
>
>The hardest parts were drilling a 3/4" hole for the tube socket, and
>remembering to respect 150v! :)
>
>It's a fun module, though it doesn't respond in much of any
>predictable way that I can discern yet, as far as the controls go. It
>responds differently to each signal I send through it, and to how hot
>that signal is. It crushes drums, makes guitar sound nice and warm
>and clear, and acts like a waveshaper or wavemangler on monosynths.
>It can also make a horribly cheesy Elka Compac Piano sound like a
>buzzy, envelope-followery harpsichord.
>
>Next up are some tube oscillators...

Here's a write-up on Eric's latest tube module, the Sonic Agonizer:

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=1337

--

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"By the end of Chuck Statler's 'Rock Videos' of Devo we agreed that even if
Devo did not take the stage it was still the best concert any of us had
ever attended." --Kim Thayil (Soundgardern), 1995