Just cheap LED ring lights.
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Slowly but steadily growing…
First thing up is the room treatment and speaker placement, so I can audition everything much, much better!
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Hybrid setup always recording via Reaper. Fx from various vst’s mangling audio, compression,limiters,midi,… OT connected to Reaper in studio/cue mode via OT AB. Focusrite 6i6 main OT in, Cue out OT.
Novation Peak via Xenyx Q1002usb to Reaper record dry, wet and wet routed to OT CD. Peak receives midi from Scaler 2.
Saving up for VCV Pro to connect with OT and Peak and sample source.
Roland A-500pro and MFT for midi duties. Custom desk in rubberwood with extendable midi keys.
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This is the modular side of the studio :
I tried and kept this table free of anything but this setup, meant as a composing / live setup for a mix of electroacoustic and noisy ambientish stuffs. The Akai Force is for long samples (modular or VCV recordings and field recording), as well as master FXs.
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After a bit more than six months (see above) and a move my rack was finally rebuilt today. I no longer have a whole room for my studio, but a 1/4 of one, so things are a bit tighter now.
I burnt out an old 750w hammer drill trying to drill the concrete walls to stick the bolts in to hang the monitors off, and bought a 1500w SDS+ drill to replace it. What a joy to use - don’t hesitate to get one if you ever need to drill mature masonry or concrete.
The lights were cheap (£30) and have ratchets so they stay in position and can extend a good distance out from the wall. They are on dimmers (on the right).
(The fairy lights are from my old living room in memory of my late partner, who loved them and had them on all year round.)
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A very enjoyable day spent yesterday building this legendary module. I finished it late but didn’t dare plug it in til this morning in case I was up all night trying to fix it. All is good though and I needn’t have worried. Sounds great - especially that ping input!
Any patch tips and tricks much appreciated @pyer - it was your posts here that encouraged me to take the plunge!
Styrene caps and THAT chips (the 3 long thin ones)
Being calibrated:
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As there’s a trigger in, it’s pingable?
Yes, it’s probably what it is most famous for. Sounds wonderful.
After a few hours with it I can certainly say it is a unique circuit - managing levels is very important, that glorious pinging comes at a price - it clips normal signals very easily, I can even get it to clip the AGC input at high Q and low frequency, with the rear trimmer at maximum gain suppression. Three Sisters needs careful levels management, but nothing on this level. It may be that I don’t have it adjusted quite right and/or I need to add or replace components on the back (there is an enormous amount of discussion on MW about taming the clipping with this, that or the other component change).
All that said, with the 3 inputs, complex sounds are very easy to generate. Much to learn about how to work with it best.
By coincidence the PC blog published this a couple of days ago:
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I think it is more a case of classic Serge design, I belive it expects 5V peak to peak, and distorts easily above that… Congrats on the build, someday I hope to start doing some of that too…
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I think you’re right. Many others have reported my experience.
I did try attenuating the signal before the inputs, even though the AGC and gain controls should handle that, but I wasn’t very scientific about it. I’ll experiment more during the week. It seems to me that it is a module that is most manageable when it is fed midrange and higher frequency signals, certainly if you are trying to automate modulation over these ranges.
It self-oscillates when you patch it back into itself, and I note that the sine is slightly soft-clipped, but this sounds fine (and nothing like the buzzy hard clipped distortion when the incoming signal is too hot).
I’ve just had another couple of hours pinging it, where it only ‘misbehaves’ at very low frequencies and very high Q. Such a satisfying sound. I’ll try to record it in the next few days.
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I like how the large dual fans look like eyes on some kind of music gear based robot 
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Looks like a great space. How do you find using the Console1 ?
I would have expected the answer to be “Not any more.”
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Looks great! I second the fans looking like robot eyes. 
-Thump
love it
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Proper
You can still differentiate between leads so you’re doing way better than me.
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