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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Summer of Synth-DIY: week 6
Not a lot of progress on the Synth-DIY front, but there was a little motion.
Went to Electronoize Playshop on Saturday, where we breadboarded Smokey/Little Gem style amplifiers.
On Sunday, I picked up some more cigar boxes from the cigar store ($1 each – bargain!), and mounted my amp in one:
So I at least got something sorta synth related done… If nothing else, it’s good to have another battery powered amp around. The battery compartment on my Marshall is strangely loose now, and I have to shim the battery in with cardboard.
Press The Button Podcast for June 25, 2008
First hour was kind of unstructured. Noisy stuff, a little Belgian New Beat action, the usual.
Second hour used this raw recording by shortwavemusic, as well as some numbers stations and atmospheric phenomena. Perhaps a blueprint for something else I’m working on? Time will tell.
Perhaps both of these were loosely based on my DJ sets at Scorched Nuts last weekend?
Summer Of Synth-DIY: Week 5
As I’ve mentioned, this was kind of another busy week, as I ran off to Scorched Nuts, so no news on the synthesizer front. Things are somewhat less hectic now (no long journeys in the near future unless you count the primer in mid-July), so I can hopefully get things back on track now.
Unless of course, I start building tons of radio gear for September, because I think I want to do a radio-centric theme camp at Recycled Rainbow proper. But I’m all about sampling shortwave and atmospheric noises, so that’s almost like building synthesizers, right?
Press The Button Podcast for June 18, 2008
Press The Button Podcast for June 18, 2008. Show notes are available at http://www.glacialcommunications.com/news
Summer of Synth-DIY: week 4 (almost completely off-topic)
As I predicted last week, I don’t have much progress to report this week – we spent approximately 30 hours in the land of the Bacon Maple Doughnut for the destination wedding of some friends – we would have stayed longer, but my wife had to be back at work today. FWIW, I did see some of these wondrous doughnuts, but couldn’t quite go for the instant heart attack of the Bacon Maple. The peanut butter and Oreo was quite good, though.
I did get a number of interesting ideas from the electro-music forums, though.