Custom effects
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Custom effects
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.
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.
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Re: Custom effects
Very nice. I wish I had your skills jsharpphoto!
Re: Custom effects
Wow, clean work on those re-panels!
MemoryMoog Plus (with Kenton Midi Upgrade Kit) MF-101 Lowpass Filter, MF-102 Ring Mod, MF-103 Stage Phaser, MF104M Delay, MF-105M MIDI MuRF, MF-107 Freq Box, MF-108M ClusterFlux and CP-251 Control Processor.
Re: Custom effects
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
VoyagerEB, Minitaur, LittlePhattyII, 4xSlimPhatty, Sub37, MF[2x101,2x102,103,104M,105,105B,105M,2x107,108M], 3xCP251, XV351, MP201;
2xMother 32, DFAM, Subharmonicon;
System 55 and Minimoog clones with lots of mods.
2xMother 32, DFAM, Subharmonicon;
System 55 and Minimoog clones with lots of mods.
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Re: Custom effects
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.
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.
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Oberheim OB-6
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Moog Subsequent37
Oberheim OB-6
Sequential Rev2
Re: Custom effects
I can imagine how much fun you would have with a Matrix Mixer using all of those pedals!
MemoryMoog Plus (with Kenton Midi Upgrade Kit) MF-101 Lowpass Filter, MF-102 Ring Mod, MF-103 Stage Phaser, MF104M Delay, MF-105M MIDI MuRF, MF-107 Freq Box, MF-108M ClusterFlux and CP-251 Control Processor.
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Re: Custom effects
Today I decided to build this.
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.
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.
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Sequential Rev2
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Re: Custom effects
Very Cool! The bad grammar reminds me of Metasonix or something . . . maybe you should start designing pedals.
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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.Croyote wrote:Very Cool! The bad grammar reminds me of Metasonix or something . . . maybe you should start designing pedals.
http://youtu.be/qItugh-fFgg
I'd love to have a very small business making one-off pedals or synth gadgets, but I don't think there would be enough interest.
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Re: Custom effects
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.
Now I just need to make the wood sides.
Now I just need to make the wood sides.
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Model D (2016)
Moog Subsequent37
Oberheim OB-6
Sequential Rev2
Model D (2016)
Moog Subsequent37
Oberheim OB-6
Sequential Rev2
Re: Custom effects
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.
VoyagerEB, Minitaur, LittlePhattyII, 4xSlimPhatty, Sub37, MF[2x101,2x102,103,104M,105,105B,105M,2x107,108M], 3xCP251, XV351, MP201;
2xMother 32, DFAM, Subharmonicon;
System 55 and Minimoog clones with lots of mods.
2xMother 32, DFAM, Subharmonicon;
System 55 and Minimoog clones with lots of mods.
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Re: Custom effects
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?MRNUTTY wrote: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 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.
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Moog Subsequent37
Oberheim OB-6
Sequential Rev2
Model D (2016)
Moog Subsequent37
Oberheim OB-6
Sequential Rev2
Re: Custom effects
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.
Someday I'll mod them. Until then, they don't take up much space.
VoyagerEB, Minitaur, LittlePhattyII, 4xSlimPhatty, Sub37, MF[2x101,2x102,103,104M,105,105B,105M,2x107,108M], 3xCP251, XV351, MP201;
2xMother 32, DFAM, Subharmonicon;
System 55 and Minimoog clones with lots of mods.
2xMother 32, DFAM, Subharmonicon;
System 55 and Minimoog clones with lots of mods.