Cher Epp Nin

As an update to this post, I saw this picture of Serge Tcherepnin [see above for pronunciation] and noticed the cabinet he is leaning on. I have decided that as he looks so pleased with it I will base my design on his, and I will keep you posted on my progress. Actually, I am going through my system and making notes of any things that need sorting before it gets put into a new box, such as fixing the sequencer LEDs, mending two of the filters and one of the Negative Slews

Terhill Sessions

Me and Dave drove down to Sid's new house in Terhill, Somerset this weekend for a bit of an Oblong writing session. We managed to get a few things done in between walking and drinking and Scrabble [SLANTY is a word, particularly when it's on a triple word score...] Sid's place is really lovely, a beautiful old cottage filled with arts and crafts stuff and his well-chosen music gear. Here's my Roland SH101 and RS09 and the door to the garden

By the way, I've gone over to soundcloud for music clips....

  Terhill 3 by zagoba

Triple Roland

A great looking Roland 100M just sold on the bay [in Devon]. It reached £6000 with 26 bids. Here's the module list:

112 dual oscilator
112 dual oscilator
112 dual oscilator
121 dual VCF
121 dual VCF
130 dual VCA130 dual VCA
140 dual envelope
140 dual envelope
150 ring modulator
131 mixer
132 dual mixer voltage processor
172 phase shifter / delay / gated delay
182 8 step sequencer
150 clock / LFO

Serge Patch

Here is a large Serge Modular patch. First some pics of the bananas, then a low res vid, then a 9 min mp3 which was the patch running with some manual tweaking of various parameters such as VCO freq and filter freq

Pad About

Wooden Boats

I'm planning to make a case for my Serge Modular panels. Ideally I would like something along these lines

From the Crowd 2

Here's another video taken by Brian from the Metamatic forum. The sound isn't great, he had a HPF on the audio recording so there's no bass...

80's Neve

There's a cool looking Neve console on the bay today. Its an 8128 made in 1984. After the glory days of the 70's Neve went all IC-based and brightly coloured plastic, and it seems the jury is out on the sonic quality of the 81 series. Some people think the eq's are the best Neve ever made [the V series followed on directly from them] but maybe it's let down by the mic pre's. Everyone seems to agree the routing matrix is a compromise and a major source of pain. It looks like a McDonalds cash register. Having a penchant for everything early 80's I would love to get my hands on one. The flying faders in the vid were an option, not fitted on the one on ebay. Images from here and here where you will find a treasure-trove of Neveness. This one is near LA and has a BIN of $12500 [£8.5k]

UPDATE: Here is the front cover of the 8108 brochure

UPDATE 2: Here are some more pictures, this time of the actual console for sale. The more I see the more interesting I think these 'forgotten Neves' look

From the Crowd

The John Foxx gig was last night. Here is a amazingly low quality video from the front of the stage, the first time I've seen it from that POV. Thanks Dan for sending it, and everyone else for coming along!

In da Roundhouse

Me and Steve D'Agostino set up the synths in the Roundhouse today in preparation for the John Foxx / Maths gig on Saturday. This is us testing the CV/Gate connections between the 808 [master clock], Dotcom modular, Roland100M, SH02 synths

Also in shot are the following: Roland SH101, Korg Monopoly, Simmons SDS5, another Roland100M, Korg 700, Roland VP330, Korg Lambda, Yamaha CS5, ARP Odyssey, Minimoog, Juno-60, Roland Space Echo 301