i shall be circuit bending a seal! (cheers phil!)

no seals were hurt/damaged during the making of this clip… and before i get any comments about animal cruelty, i wouldn’t even get it past customs shoved down my pants in the first place, unfortunately. ;O)

although i am intriegued as to what the fuck they do with the blow torch in the dying seconds of the clip!

sorry about that folks, but we’re back in action now…

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some thoughtless tweaking…

well they are finally here, check them out.

well, i have a fair few things on the old bread boards just now, and lots to build for various folk, here’s a quick run down of whats coming up.

analogue dub siren – 555′s just dont cut it and seem so very popular for these things for some reason, god knows why. anyway, the pcb’s are off for fabrication as i type, so kits and units will be ready in the next month.

amdek pck100 clone – the pck100 is a wonderful little analogue drum/percussion synth, and with a few mods it really kicks out some nice sub bass noises with huge decays!

roy gwinns guitar effects processor – throbbing gristles chris carter made this schematic hugley popular and was part of their signature sound, but again, why just clone it when you can modify it! the bread board prototype is great, and with the use of a wave shaper lfo instead of the original lfo from roys schematic, it really cranks out some cool sounds. (mervyn, i’ll have this finished for you soon, i promise!)

pattern synths – the first batch are being finished this week and should be ready for sale, and samples, videos and a whole page of their own is coming. some of jamie and lenny’s tunes with these things are fricken quality and should be out on industrial strength records at some point.

sequencers – a simple and effective way of building sequencers for resistance controlled oscilators, such as the simple oscillators in the synths section and the weird sound generator by ray wilson. 4, 8 and 16 step versions planned with forward/reverse and pseudo-random counts, which can be easily adapted for control voltage.

and if all thats not enough, an open source, arduino based modular midi controller.

why are there only 24 hours in a day, and why do i have to work for 8 of them?