MOTM

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "elle_webb" <elle_webb@h...> wrote:
> A new year makes you consider weighty, lofty things....like what
> you're going to add to your synth this year?

A plank'o'wood with some metal strings attached, lengthwise!  And some
other stuff, below...
 
> What are your synth plans for this year?

Well, I had a 190 and 890 sitting in boxes, unpacked, for MONTHs. 
Finished the 890 over the weekend, and the 190 last night.  So I'm off
to a good start.  I started building a Klangwerk last night, and
there's a Time Machine which needs completion someplace in the dusty
boxes in the studio / storage area.  I need to get on the horn with
Mouser / Digikey and order up some parts to kit them to MOTM front
panels for the afore-mentioned and a Miniwave.  If I don't chicken out
of this process, and they're still available, I'd like to order up
another Time Machine.

Given all that, I sure could use another 6 or 7 850s and complimentary
pedals.  And a nice, big, honkin' box to shove them all in.
 
> I've got to finish up a few projects before I can buy any more:

Oh, projects, yes!  I've discovered the wild, wild, wild world of tube
amps.  I have two old Ampegs in need of repair-- a completely dead
Reverberocket, and a shocking Gemini 15-22.  After that, I'd like to
build a P1-- a ~5-8W single-ended class-A tube amp highly tuned for
power amp distortion, see http://www.ax84.com-- from scratch.  Ooh,
the lofty goals!

And the apartment is being, er, redecorated... but that's GOOD!  I get
practically a whole bedroom / loft all to myself.  As it stands, I
need to hop over several boxes and work in a dimly lit, dusty
quasi-storage area, or work in a 1'x2' desktop area in from of the
computer monitor.  But that's my own damned fault for not taking care
of business and keeping the studio in good shape.  If I'm a very good
boy, this move will greatly facilitate in building, repairing, and
general noise-making.  My wife will rue the day.  Mwah-hah-etc.

Of course, I don't just get to suddenly HAVE the old bedroom.  We're
repainting a wall, cleaning out the old studio, insolating it,
lighting it, and moving the bedroom in there.  Then, the studio goes
upstairs, to the old bedroom.  And we need a bunch of new furtinure--
the glass-topped coffeetable is threatening concrete-floored-suicide
on a daily basis now.

Oops, can't forget to install the garbage disposal and get my wife's
engagement ring repaired.  And... oh, wait, we were talking about
synths, weren't we...?
 
> I'm really looking forward to the Fixed Filter Bank, Wavewarper, and
> the Cloud Generator. Can't wait to hear more samples of these in
> action!

I'm super-mega-mega-stoked about the 510 and the Encore Electronics
Freq. Shifter.  I would LOVE to hear progress on the triple-preamp,
but I'm going to try to design MOTM-signal-compatibility into the
amps.  At this point, the MOTM will primarily serve as the glue
holding everything together:

The ultimate goal is to play with a guitar into a tube amp head
preamp, effects routed into the MOTM/Blacet/Encore beastie, back to
the head for power-amp, out to a 2x12 or 4x12, all controlled via a
gigantor pedalboard or switches and pedals.

Oh yea, and I should learn to play guitar, too.  Lest all this come
out a REALLY FRICKIN' UGLY.

BTW, this is Paul B., formerly posting as noise@....  I was laid
off back in... October, and promptly went to England for a 2 week
vacation.  Luckily, I managed to find another job BEFORE leaving, and
have been happily employed since returning from vacation.  Damn, but
what are the chances of THAT happening in the software industry?  I'm
pretty much the luckiest sod this side of... anywhere.  I'm starting
to get back to the MOTM group, but I'll likely jump emails again
before long.

Thanks for listening to the ramble, and greetings to all!