I can’t leave well enough alone. I like everything to match. I like fabrication. I have a mild case of ADD. What do all of these things have to do with my synth?
Every pedal I get turns into a moogerfooger. I already posted the custom side panels I made for my Koma Elektronic pedal, but that was just wood working. This time, I took a new Dreadbox Omikron (that was a factory b stock for faulty silk screening) and made a new enclosure for it. It was small enough that I could make a patch bay for my synth, and keep it to the MF foot print.
Both of these enclosures started out as flat 16ga steel and a blank of oak.
very cool and unifying idea. Do you add CVI and CVO’s to make even more useful, or are you confinded just to implemeenting what’s in the original curcuits? I woulld love to repurpose my old box of simple 70’s stomp boxes this wayl
I didn’t modify th circuits in anyway, other than to extend the wires for the power connector and the input and output jacks, to move them to a more usable position.
My next project will be to build kind of a Pandora’s box. Stick 5 or 6 of those nano-sized guitar stomp boxes in one big enclosure, with the ins and outs wired to jacks. Then I can re-route the order of pedals, or send any combo of them into the feedback insert of the MF104m, on the fly. I thought it might be fun to strip away the provided naming when I build the new enclosure, and have all the knobs labeled based on what they do to the sound. Force myself to pre-visualize what I want, rather than just tweak until I find something I like.
Started out as flat 16gauge steel, and a vector file I built over lunch.
Then, bent it in my metal brake, and put the graphics on it.
Now an evening of soldering… I’ll make the wooden cheeks this weekend. This unit, when stacked on top of the Cp-251, is the exact same height as the moogerfoogers. The multiplier groups are to replace the section of mults that I gave up when I sold off the Korg MS-20m. Each group has 3x 1/4 and a single 1/8. So they can either get Cv from my beatstep pro and distribute it, or get voltage from any of the moog gear and covert the connection down to the smaller jacks on the dreadbox units.
The grammar joke is straight from Moog. Every Minitaur shipped with a bumper sticker that said “All your bass are belong to us” which is a genius play oh the internet joke “all your base are belong to us”. Who ever at Moog had the idea to make the stickers gets extra nerdy street-cred from me. If you haven’t seen the video this is bassed on (see what I did there?) I’ve attached it below.
Got it all wired up tonight. Holy crap soldering the mults is tedious. I’d show you the inside, but I would hate for it to come up on a google image search for “moog wiring”. This thing looks like (what I imagine) the inside of a swarmatron looks like. But everything works perfectly. By my naked ear calculations, the voltage drops from using the multipliers is negligible. I even bridged several groups together and had one source going to 6 different things, and the drop was 5-10%. Pleased.
Beautiful panel work JS. What were your plans for the MS20 's? I have a couple, and a ARP Odyssey to toss in the mix. I’m looking for some inspiration how to tie them into my Moog-complex.
I got rid of the MS-20m. It was cool, but I didn’t love it (after the honeymoon wore off). I couldn’t get use to having a high pass AND low pass filter all the time. And the synth never sounded like it had any balls. It could get “dirty” but it felt like it was putting on a show. Like its bark was worse than its bite. Maybe I’m just not a Korg guy?
I ended up trading the module for a pair of brand new minitaurs. Talk about balls. Stack them as a single bass synth, run them as two voices, or polychain them to the sub37. It’s a killer and far more versatile set up.
Yeah, I’m wondering how my two MS-20m’s manage to sound thiner than one of them. LOL The ARP though while it’s got some go, has hardwired limitations that just irk me.
Someday I’ll mod them. Until then, they don’t take up much space.
